Barents Sea submarine campaign (1941)

Barents Sea submarine campaign in 1941
Part of the Arctic naval operations of World War II of the Eastern Front of World War II
HMS Trident
Date 22 June 1941 - December 1941 Location Barents Sea Result Allied success
Belligerents
Germany	Soviet Union United Kingdom
Strength
Anti-submarine forces	23 Soviet submarines 4 British submarines
Casualties and losses
1 minesweeper damaged 2 submarine chasers sunk, 1 damaged 1 tanker sunk 11 freighters sunk, 1 damaged 2 fishing vessels sunk	none

The Barents Sea campaign in 1941 was a submarine operation in the Arctic waters of the Barents Sea during World War II. It was a combined Soviet and British campaign, with boats departing from Polyarny to harass German shipping along the Norwegian coast.