Never to Return - Convoys to Russia in the Second World War book B’ e co-ogha dha mhàthair

B’ e co-ogha dha mhàthair a bha ann an Daibhidh

and he makes plain that the British contribution to the aid effort was greater than generally acknowledged

revealing that the contest was more evenly balanced that previously thought

Royal Indian Marine

A volunteer crew reboarded and Speedwell took the wounded ship in tow

Never to Return - Convoys to Russia in the Second World War book B’ e co-ogha dha mhàthairNever to Return tells the story of the Russian convoys and the heroes who sailed in them with particular focus on HMS Achates. Roderick G Maclean has gathered primary and secondary source material to give a detailed and illuminating analysis of the Russian Convoys. He tells of the commodores who came out of retirement, risking their lives to navigate convoys to Murmansk and Archangel; the doctors who diced with death, jumping from one ship to another