Russian Arctic Convoy Exhibition - Aultbea, Wester Ross
We, as a family, have spent a lot of time in this part of the world over the years, so we were well aware of the Russian Arctic Convoy story. Daisy actually completed her history project on this very topic last year, and I was surprised to learn that it was an event in history that her history teacher (in a Scottish school) wasn't familiar with. It seems that these incredible heroes and there stories are only really coming into the collective consciousness in the last few years. The Arctic convoys of World War II were oceangoing convoys which sailed from the United Kingdom, Iceland, and North America to northern ports in the Soviet Union – primarily Arkhangelsk (Archangel) and Murmansk in Russia. There were 78 convoys between August 1941 and May 194, sailing via several seas of the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, with two gaps with no sailings between July and September 1942, and March and November 1943. About 1,400 merchant ships delivered essential supp...