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On 7 July 1942, the Hartlebury sailed from Sunderland, England, then Reykjavik, Iceland, to northern Russia with convoy PQ-17. At 6:35 pm and 6:37 pm, she was torpedoed by U-335. At 6.45 pm, she received her coup de grâce and sank by the bow in 10 minutes 17 miles (27 km) from the Britwin lighthouse, Novaya Zemlia in the Barents Sea, position 72°30'N/52°00'E. Six sailors were killed in the first attack. Of her crew of 58 men, 38 lost their lives. The survivors were picked up by a Soviet surveillance vessel and transferred to the British corvette HMS La Malouine (K45), which landed them in Archangel, Russia, on 25 July.
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Page 161 of the Merchant Navy Book of Remembrance.
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