Arctic Warriors: A Personal Account of Convoy PQ18
Arctic Warriors: A Personal Account of Convoy PQ18
Pen & Sword | 2013 | 214 pages | ISBN: 9781783030378 | ePub (e-book) | 8 MB
In mid-1942 Alfred Grossmith Mason became Navigation/Gunnery Officer on SS Empire Baffin, a 6,978 ton cargo ship assigned to carry essential war supplies to the hard pressed Soviet Union. Fortunately he compiled this remarkable diary of the dramas and disasters that befell the ill-fated Convoy PQ18. This inspiring story follows the movement of his ship and the other merchantmen together with their Royal Naval escorts from the mustering point at Loch Ewe to their destination Archangel.