A ceremony was held on Sat 20 August 2011 at the Wester Ross memorial, above Loch Ewe, north-west Scotland mainland to mark the 70th anniversary of the first Arctic convoys. Operation Dervish, which ran from September 1941 to December 1944, saw ships gather in Loch Ewe before setting out to Murmansk and Archangel.
More than 3,000 seamen lost their lives to the freezing conditions and attacks by German submarines and aircraft.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-14587976
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