 Despite a U-boat concentration off the Kola Inlet in Northern Russia, convoy JW 62, consisting of thirty merchant ships, arrived safely in the Kola Inlet on 7 December and the White Sea portion on 9 December.He served aboard HMS "Cassandra" during Operation Acumen, which was the suppression of submarine attacks on convoys in the Atlantic supplying the USSR.The return convoy, RA62 (28 ships), left the Kola Inlet on 10 December.