Convoy PQ 9/10
WWII UK Arctic convoy to aid USSR
Convoys PQ 9/10 (1–10 February 1942) was an Arctic convoy sent from Britain via Iceland by the Western Allies to aid the Soviet Union during the Second World War. The departure of Convoy PQ 9 on 17 January had been delayed after the Admiralty received reports of a sortie by the German battleship Tirpitz.
Delays and other problems affected the ships due to form Convoy PQ 10 and rather than wait for the convoy to assemble, the freighter Trevorian sailed with Convoy PQ 9, which was renamed Convoy PQ 9/10. The convoy comprised three British, four Soviet, one US, one Norwegian and one ship registered in Panama.
The convoy was escorted from Iceland by three trawlers, then the light cruiser HMS Nigeria and the destroyers HMS Faulknor and HMS Intrepid. Close escort was by the Norwegian armed whalers HNoMS Hav and HNoMS Shika. On 7 February two Royal Navy minesweepers joined the convoy, which arrived safely in Murmansk.
Background
Lend-lease
After Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the USSR, began on 22 June 1941, the UK and USSR signed an agreement in July that they would "render each other assistance and support of all kinds in the present war against Hitlerite Germany". Before September 1941 the British had dispatched 450 aircraft, 22,000 long tons (22,000 t) of rubber, 3,000,000 pairs of boots and stocks of tin, aluminium, jute, lead and wool. In September British and US representatives travelled to Moscow to study Soviet requirements and their ability to meet them.
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