Convoy PQ.16

Convoy PQ.16

 

Departed from Reykjavik May 21, 1942
Arrived Murmansk May 30, 1942
No. of vessels (Hague) 36
No. of vessels accounted for here

36

Vessels lost from convoy

8

Note: STEEL WORKER hit a mine shortly after arrival in Murmansk.


Vessel
Tons
Built
Notes
ALAMAR (Am)
5,689
1916
sunk in PQ.16 (aircraft)
ALCOA BANNER (Am)
5,035
1919
 
AMERICAN PRESS (Am)
5,131
1920
 
AMERICAN ROBIN (Am)
5,172
1919
 
ARCOS (Ru)
2,343
1918
 
ATLANTIC (Br)
5,414
1939
 
BLACK RANGER (Br)
3,417
1941
Oiler
CARLTON (Am)
5,127
1920
sunk in PQ.17 (U-88)
CHERNYSHEVSKI (Ru)
3,588
1919
 
CITY OF JOLIET (Am)
6,167
1920
sunk in PQ.16 (aircraft)
CITY OF OMAHA (Am)
6,124
1920
 
EMPIRE BAFFIN (Br)
6,978
1941
 
EMPIRE ELGAR (Br)
2,847
1942
 
EMPIRE LAWRENCE (Br)
7,457
1941
sunk in PQ.16 (aircraft)
EMPIRE PURCELL (Br)
7,049
1942
sunk in PQ.16 (aircraft)
EMPIRE SELWYN (Br)
7,167
1941
 
EXTERMINATOR (Pan)
6,115
1924
sunk in QP.13 (mined)
HEFFRON (Am)
7,611
1919
sunk in QP.13 (mined)
HYBERT (Am)
6,120
1920
sunk in QP.13 (mined)
JOHN RANDOLPH (Am)
7,191
1942
 
LOWTHER CASTLE (Br)
5,171
1937
sunk in PQ.16 (aircraft)
MASSMAR (Am)
5,828
1920
sunk in QP.13 (mined)
MAUNA KEA (Am)
6,064
1919
 
MICHIGAN (Am)
5,594
1919
 
MINOTAUR (Am)
4,553
1918
 
MORMACSUL (Am)
5,481
1920
sunk in PQ.16 (aircraft)
NEMAHA (Am)
6,501
1920
 
OCEAN VOICE (Br)
7,174
1941
sunk in QP.14 (U-435)
PIETER VAN HOOGH (Du)
7,168
1941
 
REVOLUTSIONER (Ru)
2,900
1936
 
RICHARD HENRY LEE (Am)
7,191
1941
 
SHCHORS (Ru)
2,770
1921
 
STARY BOLSHEVIK (Ru)
3,974
1933
 
STEEL WORKER (Am)
5,685
1920
sunk in PQ.16 (in port - mined)
SYROS (Am)
6,191
1920
sunk in PQ.16 (U-703)
WEST NILUS (Am)
5,495
1920
 


50 escorts were associated (at least in part) with convoy PQ.16.


ACHATES    ALYNBANK    ASHANTI    BLANKNEY    BRAMBLE   
DUKE OF YORK    ECLIPSE    FAULKNOR    FURY    GARLAND   
GOSSAMER    GROZNI    HAZARD    HONEYSUCKLE    HYDERABAD   
ICARUS    INTREPID    KENT    KUIBYSHEV    LADY MADELEINE   
LAMERTON    LEDA    LEDBURY    LIVERPOOL    LONDON   
MARNE    MARTIN    MAYRANT    MIDDLETON    NIGERIA   
NORFOLK    NORTHERN SPRAY    ONSLOW    ORIBI    RETRIEVER   
RHIND    ROSELYS    ROWAN    SEAGULL    SEAWOLF   
SOKRUSHITELNY    ST. ELSTAN    STARWORT    TRIDENT    VICTORIOUS   
VOLUNTEER    WAINWRIGHT    WASHINGTON    WHEATLAND    WICHITA   
                   
                   
                   

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