An item reported that the ice at Archangel/Divina River had an average thickness of 2 feet, in the White Sea and Gorlo (passage White Sea-Arctic Ocean) 20 inch thickness and the packed ice even several feet. The ice extended 60 miles outside the entrance to the Gorlo. The result was that 2 ice breakers needed 10 days until 5 January to bring a convoy of 12 ships to the edge of the ice. The congestion at Archangel caused sending incoming convoys towards Murmansk.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 12 January 1942 No. 33
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