Action off Lofoten information

The action off Lofoten was a naval battle fought between the German Kriegsmarine and the British Royal Navy off the southern coast of the Lofoten Islands...

World War I Kaiserliche Marine Royal Navy Indecisive 9 April 1940 Action off Lofoten World War II Royal Navy Kriegsmarine Indecisive 3 July 1940 Battle...

April 1940. The Gneisenau and the Scharnhorst were engaged during the action off Lofoten by Renown in very bad weather and disengaged after Gneisenau was damaged...

HMS Renown at the Action off Lofoten on 9 April. Of the two Deutschland-class heavy cruisers, Lützow had been torpedoed and would be out of action for months...

Oscarsborg Fortress sink the German heavy cruiser Blücher 9 April Action off Lofoten German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau engage British battlecruiser...

Stavanger and Oslo. German forces captured Arendal and Egersund. The Action off Lofoten was fought. Vidkun Quisling spoke on Norwegian radio and ordered his...

British/Norwegian commando raid on the Lofoten Islands of northern Norway during the Second World War. The Lofoten Islands were an important centre for...

commando raid on Vågsøy, Norway Anklet (1941) – raid on German positions on Lofoten Islands, Norway Banquet (1940) – Reallocation of RAF training aircraft...

a special service ship. Her first major action in her new role was Operation Claymore, a raid on the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway. On 22 February...

21 of the 34 isolated transports. Tirpitz returned to Altafjord via the Lofoten Islands. Following Rösselsprung, the Germans moved Tirpitz to Bogenfjord...

Maelstrom, about ocean whirlpools; the Gulf of Corryvreckan in Scotland, Lofoten and Saltstraumen in Norway; with Prof Tsukasa Nishimura of Tokyo University...

his wife Jensine Petrine Arentzen in Flakstad in present-day Moskenes in Lofoten, Birger Eriksen left home early, at age 12, to go to Kristiania (as Oslo...

Commando. No 6 Commando saw action in Norway in December 1941. Both Nos 3 and 4 Commando were involved in the raid on the Lofoten Islands in Norway in March...

a special service ship. Her first major action in her new role was "Operation Claymore", a raid on the Lofoten Islands in northern Norway. On 22 February...

the previous twelve months, including the Type VIIC U-boat U-771 off Norway's Lofoten Islands on 11 November 1944, some 7 nautical miles (13 km) east of...

assist Glowworm, was in action with the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau 80 mi (70 nmi; 130 km) west of the Lofotens. Although damage was inflicted...

Narvik, whilst Scharnhorst and Gneisenau took a position South of the Lofoten in the Vestfjorden to cover both landings. Early on 9 April, the two ships...

Temperature anomalies found in coastal locations are exceptional, with southern Lofoten and Bø having all monthly means above freezing in spite of being north...

organisations established at Stavanger and Kirkenes, followed by Fliegerführer Lofoten who was charged with the defence of Norway and offensive operations against...

gun turrets. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had reached a point north-west of Lofoten, Norway, by 12:00 on 9 April. The two ships then turned west for 24 hours...

Retrieved December 3, 2021. DuClos, Bernard (1993). Fair Game. Svolvær, Lofoten Islands, Norway: Mondo. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-312-92905-3. Gilmour, Walter;...