Premier seemed to have laid up around the Clyde after it arrived from its last convoy duty :
<table class="style1" align="center" border="1" width="444"><tbody><tr bordercolor="navy" class="style1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><td width="234">Departed from Kola Inlet</td> <td width="294">April 29, 1945</td> </tr> <tr bordercolor="navy" class="style1" bgcolor="#ffffff"> <td>Arrived Clyde </td> <td class="style1">May 8, 1945</td></tr></tbody></table>
http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/russian/convoy1.php?convoy=RA.66 Quote:
| Russia/UK Convoy RA66, the Last Convoy Battle of the War - Kola Inlet bound convoy JW66 (22 ships) arrived safely on the 25th with escort carriers "Premier" and "Vindex", cruiser "Diadem", Home Fleet destroyers and the 8th and 19th EGs all under the command of Rear-Adm A. E. Cunninghame-Graham. Return convoy RA66 (24 ships) set out on the 29th with JW66s escort, some of which went ahead to clear the 14 U-boats waiting off the Inlet. Frigates "Anguilla", "Cotton", "Loch lnsh" and "Loch Shin" of the 19th EG accounted for "U-307" followed by "U-286", the last U-boats sunk by warships of the Royal Navy. In the action, frigate "GOODALL" of the 19th EG was torpedoed by "U-968" and went down with heavy loss of life. She was the last major warship of the Royal and Dominion Navies lost in the war against Germany. RA66 arrived safely in the Clyde on 8th May |
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