The Rescue Ships and The Convoy's mug maritime historian

maritime historian

Bamse's memory has been kept alive both in Norway

The plight of those in Murmansk and Archangel who benefited is know well known

After Norway fell to the Germans in 1940

Before America entered World War II

The Rescue Ships and The Convoy's mug maritime historianThe Rescue Ships and the Convoys tells the history of one of the least known aspects of Second World War maritime history. Despite the threat of heavy losses of ships and lives, no hospital ships, which had to be lit, could accompany the convoys as they would betray a convoys position. The solution was to create a fleet of 30 small Merchant Navy vessels of about 1,500 gross tons, mostly from coastal trade. These Rescue Ships, commanded and manned by