Never to Return - Convoys to Russia in the Second World War Clothing David Kenyon explores the story

David Kenyon explores the story of the war in the Arctic

As a naval officer he saw from sometimes uncomfortably close range the excesses of war and astounding technological advances witnessing huge shifts in the geo-political landscape

The scale of the installation was intended to reflect the magnitude of such an important centenary and create a powerful visual commemoration

Men perished one by one in lifeboats

All Midshipmen kept a journal

Never to Return - Convoys to Russia in the Second World War Clothing David Kenyon explores the storyNever 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