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Convoy QP 11 : ウィキペディア英語版 | Convoy QP 11
Convoy QP 11 was an Arctic Convoy of World War II, made up of merchant ships returning from the Soviet Union to Britain after delivering their cargo to the Soviet Union. The convoy consisted of 13 merchant ships, escorted by 18 warships. The convoy was attacked by German destroyers and submarines, suffering the loss of one merchant ship as well as the light cruiser HMS ''Edinburgh''. The German forces lost the destroyer Z7 ''Hermann Schoemann''''.'' == Ships == QP 11 consisted of 13 merchant ships, mostly British or American, including five ships that had been a part of Convoy PQ 13. The convoy sailed from the Soviet port of Murmansk on 28 April 1942. The convoy was escorted by the light cruiser HMS ''Edinburgh'', the destroyers HMS ''Amazon'', ''Beagle'', ''Beverley'', ''Bulldog'', ''Foresight'', and ''Forester'', the Corvettes ''Campanula'', ''Oxlip'', ''Saxifrage'', and ''Snowflake'', and the armed trawler ''Lord Middleton.''〔 ''Edinburgh ''was not only serving as an escort, but was also carrying $20 million in gold, a payment from the Soviet Union to the United States.〔
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