Poob yeej. Thib ob Sib ntaus sib tua ntawm Narvik
Kev sib ntaus sib tua kawg ntawm Bey's destroyers nyob rau hauv ib daim duab los ntawm Adam Werk.
Thaum sawv ntxov lub Plaub Hlis 10, 1940, British destroyers Hardy, Havok, Hotspur, Hostile thiab Hunter nyob rau hauv cov lus txib ntawm Comm. Bernard Armitage Warburton Warburton-Lee tau tawm tsam hauv Ofotfjord, los ntawm txoj kev mus rau Narvik, qhov chaw tseem ceeb tsis muaj dej khov. Nws yog los ntawm nws cov hlau ore raug thauj los ntawm Sweden, nrog 10 tus neeg tua neeg ntawm tus thawj coj Friedrich Bonte, uas tau xa cov tub rog Wehrmacht mus ntes lub nroog, uas kuj tshwm sim nrog tsawg heev los ntawm Norwegians. Raws li qhov tshwm sim ntawm kev sib tsoo, Hardy thiab Hunter tau poob, thiab Wilhelm Heidkamp thiab Anton Schmitt, ob peb lub nkoj hauv Narvik tua thiab 5 ntau tus neeg tua neeg raug puas tsuaj rau sab German.
Tom qab ntawd hnub ntawd, nyob ib ncig ntawm tav su, Havok, Hotspur, thiab Hostile rendezvoused nyob rau sab hnub poob Fjord nrog lub teeb cruiser Penelope thiab yim destroyers. Pab pawg no yav dhau los yog ib feem ntawm Renown thiab Repulse line cruiser insurance thiab tam sim no raug txib los ntawm Penelope, Tus Thawj Coj. Gerald Douglas Yeats tau saib xyuas cov dej ntawm Westfjord nrog rau txoj haujlwm ntawm kev cuam tshuam ntxiv German units mus rau Narvik. Qhov kev saib xyuas no, raws li tau pom hauv qhov piv txwv ntawm Rauenfels cargo steamer (8 brt), uas tau nqa riam phom thiab khoom siv rau cov tub rog German hauv Narvik thiab tau poob rau lub Plaub Hlis 8460 ntawm qhov nkag mus rau Ofotfjord los ntawm CDR cov neeg tua neeg. Warburton-Lee tsis ua haujlwm zoo. Tshaj tawm los ntawm cov neeg tsav nkoj ntawm cov nkoj uas tseem muaj sia nyob ntawm 10 flotilla ntawm Warburton Lee cov neeg tua hluav taws txog qhov xwm txheej hauv Narvik, Yeats, muaj nyob ntawm nws lub nkoj pov tseg thiab 2 tus neeg tua neeg (tsis suav Havok, Hotspur thiab Hostile), tuaj yeem sim tawm tsam cov German Pab neeg no rov qab rau hauv Ofotfjord, ntxiv rau, lub sijhawm no nrog qhov zoo dua thiab rov ua kom zoo dua ntawm kev xav tsis thoob. Hmoov tsis zoo, nws tsis tau coj kom zoo dua ntawm lub sijhawm no, raws li nws tau xav txog cov lus qhia ntawm vadmas. William Jock Whitworth (nqa nws tus chij ntawm Lub Hwjchim ci ntsa iab) muab qhov kev txiav txim kom tawm tsam tsuas yog thaum tsim nyog.
Txawm li cas los xij, cov tub ceev xwm Askiv hauv Westford ua rau raug ntes ntawm German freight steamer Alster (8514 88 BRT). Lub nkoj thauj tom ntej no nrog cov khoom siv (xws li 9 lub tsheb thauj khoom, phom tiv thaiv dav hlau, cov khoom siv dav hlau, cov mos txwv, cov khoom siv xov tooj cua, coke thiab ... quav nyab rau nees) rau kev tsaws hauv Narvik tau tshawb pom lub Plaub Hlis 10 los ntawm Norwegian-Syrian patrol, leej twg kom lub nkoj nkag mus rau hauv Bodø (Bodo). Txawm li cas los xij, tom qab kev sib cais ntawm qhov chaw, cov Germans tseem caij nkoj raws li txoj kev npaj. Tom qab ntawd Alster tuaj hla lwm tus neeg saib xyuas Norwegian, Svalbard II, uas qhia nws rau Yeats 'pab pawg. Thaum sawv ntxov lub Plaub Hlis XNUMX, ntawm Bodø, Alster tau nres los ntawm British destroyer Icarus. Qhov no mus rau sab ntawm lub nkoj, cov neeg coob uas tau lees paub, qhib lub kingstones, sim ua.
yog li ua rau nws cov tub rog poob, tab sis cov khoom plig xa los ntawm Icarus cawm tus neeg thauj khoom thiab coj nws mus rau Tromsø. Lub nkoj thauj thib peb mus rau Narvik, lub steamer Berenfels (7569 BRT), tau kawm txog qhov xwm txheej tsis zoo rau lawv nyob rau sab qaum teb Norwegian dej, raug yuam kom mus rau Bergen hauv central Norway, qhov chaw nws nkag mus yam tsis muaj teeb meem rau lub Plaub Hlis 10. Tau nyob hauv. Vestfjord thiab German submarines, uas U 25 tau tawm tsam cov British destroyers Bedouin thiab Eskimo thaum yav tsaus ntuj ntawm lub Plaub Hlis 10, thiab U 51 lwm tus neeg tua neeg tom qab me ntsis, tab sis cov Germans tau tua tag nrho 6 lub torpedoes tsis raug lossis tawg ntxov ntxov. Thaum Lub Plaub Hlis 12, German chav nuv ntses trawler Wilhelm Reinhold (259 brt), uas nkag mus rau hauv dej ntawm Vaagsfjord (sab qaum teb ntawm Ofotfjord), tau ntes tau los ntawm Norwegian patrol nkoj Thorodd thiab coj mus rau Harstad nyob ze.
