Convoy PQ 2 was the third of the Arctic Convoys of World War II by which the Western Allies supplied material aid to the Soviet Union in its fight with Nazi Germany. The convoy sailed from Liverpool on 13 October 1941 and arrived safely at Archangelsk on 30 October 1941.

Ships

The following information is from the Arnold Hague Convoy Database for the British ships.^[1]

Merchantmen

Name	Flag	Tonnage (GRT)	Notes
Empire Baffin (1941)	United Kingdom	6,978
Harpalion (1932)	United Kingdom	5,486
Hartlebury (1934)	United Kingdom	5,082
Kheti (1927)	United Kingdom	2,734	Ammunition carrier. Did not proceed beyond Scapa Flow in PQ 2.
Orient City (1940)	United Kingdom	5,095
Queen City (1924)	United Kingdom	4,814
Temple Arch (1940)	United Kingdom	5,138

Escorts

Name	Type	Flag	Duration of escort
Bramble	Minesweeper	Royal Navy	17–30 October
Eclipse	Destroyer	Royal Navy	17–30 October
Gossamer	Minesweeper	Royal Navy	29–30 October
Hussar	Minesweeper	Royal Navy	29–30 October
Icarus	Destroyer	Royal Navy	17–30 October
Leda	Minesweeper	Royal Navy	29–30 October
Norfolk	Cruiser	Royal Navy	18–30 October
Seagull	Minesweeper	Royal Navy	14–30 October
Speedy	Minesweeper	Royal Navy	14–30 October
Uritski	Destroyer	Soviet Union	29–30 October
Valerian Kuybyshev	Destroyer	Soviet Union	29–30 October

References

^ "Convoy PQ.2". Arnold Hague Convoy Database. Retrieved 15 October 2013.

Woodman, Richard (1994). Arctic Convoys 1941–1945. John Murray. ISBN 0-7195-5752-6.
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Arctic convoys of World War II

1941

Outbound	Dervish PQ 1 PQ 2 PQ 3 PQ 4 PQ 5 PQ 6
Homebound	QP 1 QP 2 QP 3

1942

Outbound	PQ 7a PQ 7b PQ 8 PQ 9 PQ 10 PQ 11 PQ 12 PQ 13 PQ 14 PQ 15 PQ 16 PQ 17 PQ 18 Operation FB JW 51A JW 51B
Homebound	QP 4 QP 5 QP 6 QP 7 QP 8 QP 9 QP 10 QP 11 QP 12 QP 13 QP 14 QP 15 RA 51

1943

Outbound	JW 52 JW 53 JW 54A JW 54B JW 55A JW 55B
Homebound	RA 52 RA 53 RA 54A RA 54B RA 55A RA 55B

1944

Outbound	JW 56A JW 56B JW 57 JW 58 JW 59 JW 60 JW 61 JW 61A JW 62 JW 63
Homebound	RA 56 RA 57 RA 58 RA 59 RA 59A RA 60 RA 61 RA 61A RA 62 RA 63

1945

Outbound	JW 64 JW 65 JW 66 JW 67
Homebound	RA 64 RA 65 RA 66 RA 67

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Prelude	Africa Asia Khalkhin Gol Europe Operation Himmler
1939	Poland Phoney War Battle of South Guangxi Winter War Atlantic First Battle of Changsha 1939–1940 Winter Offensive
1940	German invasion of Denmark (1940) Norwegian campaign German invasion of Luxembourg Netherlands Belgium France Battle of Zaoyang–Yichang Battle of Britain North Africa West Africa British Somaliland Hundred Regiments Offensive Baltic states Eastern Romania Indochina Greece Compass
1941	Battle of South Henan Battle of South Shanxi East Africa Yugoslavia Shanggao Greece Crete Iraq Soviet Union Summer War Finland (Silver Fox) Lithuania Syria and Lebanon Kiev Iran Leningrad Gorky Moscow Sevastopol Pearl Harbor Hong Kong Philippines Second Battle of Changsha Malaya Borneo (1941–1942) Greek famine of 1941–1944
1942	Burma Third Battle of Changsha Java Sea Coral Sea Gazala Dutch Harbor Attu (occupation) Kiska Zhejiang-Jiangxi Midway Rzhev Blue Stalingrad Singapore St Nazaire Dieppe El Alamein Guadalcanal Torch Chinese famine of 1942–1943
1943	Tunisia Battle of West Hubei Kursk Smolensk Gorky Solomon Islands Attu Sicily Cottage Lower Dnieper Italy Armistice of Cassibile Gilbert and Marshall Islands Burma Northern Burma and Western Yunnan Changde Bengal famine of 1943
1944	Monte Cassino / Anzio Narva Korsun–Cherkassy Tempest Ichi-Go Overlord Neptune Mariana and Palau Bagration Western Ukraine Tannenberg Line Warsaw Eastern Romania Belgrade Paris Dragoon Gothic Line Market Garden Estonia Crossbow Pointblank Lapland Philippines (1944–1945) Leyte Syrmian Front Hungary Budapest Burma (1944–1945) Ardennes Bodenplatte Dutch famine of 1944–1945
1945	Vistula–Oder Manila Iwo Jima Project Hula Western invasion of Germany Okinawa Guangxi West Hunan Italy (Spring 1945) Berlin Czechoslovakia Surrender of Germany document Borneo Taipei Naval bombardment of Japan Manchuria Atomic bombings Debate South Sakhalin Kuril Islands Shumshu Vietnamese famine of 1945 Surrender of Japan Potsdam Declaration document End of World War II in Asia

64°33′00″N 40°28′48″E / 64.5500°N 40.4800°E / 64.5500; 40.4800

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