PQ17 Losses
Special thanks to http://www.uboat.net/ for the table & information below.
The Losses
All
in all 24 ships were sunk out of the 33 which made up the convoy. 153
merchant men lost their lives, of those only 7 had perished before
the convoy was scattered. The loss of material was extremely heavy;
22 merchant ships had been lost for a total of 142,518 tons of
shipping and with them 3,350 motor vehicles, 430 tanks, 210 bombers
and 99,316 tons of general cargo including radar sets and ammunition
to name a few.
Additionally the Soviet tanker Azerbaijan had lost her cargo of linseed oil and much of Winston-Salem's cargo had also been jettisoned in Novaya Zemlya.
* Found afloat and deserted 8 days after being bombed by the Luftwaffe. 3 men from the U-boat boarded her and examined her to see if she could be sailed to Norway but found that impossible and Kptlt. Reche put a torpedo into it.
3 more losses took place when 3 of the 11 surviving ships from PQ-17; Silver Sword (sunk by U-255 on 20 July, 1942 for her 5th victim from the PQ-17), Bellingham and Gray Ranger were sunk on the return voyage from Russia in the next home bound convoy.
Luftwaffe flew 202 sorties against the convoy and lost 5 planes for the 8 ships they sank.
Ships
lost from the convoy
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Date |
Ship |
Weight |
Country |
Sunk by |
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4 July |
Christopher Newport |
7,191 |
US |
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4 July |
William Hopper |
7,177 |
US |
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5 July |
Navarino |
4,841 |
UK |
Luftwaffe |
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5 July |
Carlton |
5,127 |
US |
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5 July |
Fairfield City |
5,686 |
US |
Luftwaffe |
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5 July |
Daniel Morgan |
7,177 |
US |
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5 July |
Empire Byron |
6,645 |
UK |
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5 July |
River Afton |
5,423 |
UK |
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5 July |
Earlston |
7,494 |
UK |
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5 July |
Honomu |
6,977 |
US |
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5 July |
Peter Kerr |
6,476 |
US |
Luftwaffe |
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5 July |
Washington |
5,564 |
US |
Luftwaffe |
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5 July |
Bolton Castle |
5,203 |
UK |
Luftwaffe |
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5 July |
Zaafaran |
1,559 |
UK |
Luftwaffe |
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6 July |
Pan Atlantic |
5,411 |
US |
Luftwaffe |
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6 July |
John Witherspoon |
7,180 |
US |
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7 July |
Alcoa Ranger |
5,116 |
US |
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7 July 0600 |
Pankraft |
5,644 |
US |
Luftwaffe |
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7 July 1600 |
Aldersdale |
8,402 |
US |
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7 July 2000 |
Hartlebury |
5,082 |
UK |
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8 July |
Olopana |
6,069 |
US |
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10 July |
El Capitain |
5,255 |
Panama |
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10 July |
Hoosier |
5,060 |
US |
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13 July* |
Paulus Potter |
7,168 |
Dutch |
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