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| Description | Lot 11559-13: Atlantic Convoys. Convoy to Russia with a British Cruiser. A fast Royal Navy cruiser sets out to rendezvous with a convoy of merchantmen, some of them Russian, heavily laden with arms for the Red Army. The crew receives an issue of Arctic clothing. The convoy escorted by British minesweepers is met in the dark. For the rest of the voyage, they remain in the dark, for those latitudes the sun is not seen for three months in winter – an hour or two of dawn, then twilight, and night again. The temperature as they near the coast of Russia, registers 52 degrees of frost – the metal on upper deck and guns “burn” to the touch. For days, the carefully planned zigzag course is followed, the cruiser circling, shepherding, scouting, until the Russian port is safely reached. The photograph shows the signal bridge snowed up. Office of War Information photograph, 443-ZB. (2016/01/29) |
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| Author | National Museum of the U.S. Navy |
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