Kukunda kwakarasika. Hondo yechipiri yeNarvik
Hondo yekupedzisira yevaparadzi vaBey mune pendi naAdam Werk.
Mangwanani emusi waKubvumbi 10, 1940, maBritish vaparadzi Hardy, Havok, Hotspur, Hostile naHunter pasi pekuraira kwaComm. Bernard Armitage Warburton Warburton-Lee akarwa muOfotfjord, kuburikidza nemugwagwa unoenda kuNarvik, chiteshi chakakosha chisina aizi. Yakanga iri kuburikidza naye iyo ore yesimbi yakatakurwa kubva kuSweden, nevaparadzi gumi vemukuru Friedrich Bonte, uyo akaendesa varwi veWehrmacht kuti vatore guta, izvo zvakaitikawo nekupokana kushoma kubva kumaNorwegian. Nekuda kwekunetsana uku, Hardy naHunter vakanyura, uye Wilhelm Heidkamp naAnton Schmitt, zvikepe zvakawanda muNarvik kupambwa uye vaparadzi vashanu vakakuvadzwa kudivi reGerman.
Gare gare zuva iroro, nguva dzemasikati, Havok, Hotspur, uye Hastile vakasangana muWest Fjord neine cruiser Penelope nevaparadzi vasere. Chikwata ichi chaimbova chikamu cheRenown and Repulse line cruiser insurance uye zvino chave kurairwa naPenelope, Commander. Gerald Douglas Yeats akatenderedza mvura yeWestfjord nebasa rekutora mamwe maGerman akananga kuNarvik. Iyi patrol, sezvinogona kuonekwa mumuenzaniso weRauenfels cargo steamer (8 brt), iyo yakanga yakatakura zvombo nemidziyo yevarwi veGermany muNarvik uye yakanyura muna April 8460 pamusuwo weOfotfjord nevaparadzi veCDR. Warburton-Lee yakanga isingashande. Kuziviswa nevafambisi vezvikepe zvakasara zve10th flotilla yeWarburton Lee vaparadzi nezve mamiriro muNarvik, Yeats, aine yake cruiser uye 2 vaparadzi (tisingaverenge Havok, Hotspur uye Hostile), vanogona kuedza kurwisa ChiGerman Chikwata chadzoka muOfotfjord, zvakare, panguva ino nemukana uye zvakare mukana wekushamisika. Sezvineiwo, haana kushandisa mukana uyu, sezvo aifunga nezvekuraira kwevadmas. William Jock Whitworth (akatakura mureza wake paKubwinya) anopa rairo yekurova chete kana zvichidikanwa.
Zvakadaro, kutenderera kweBritish muWestford kwakakonzera kutorwa kwechitsiga chekuGerman cheAlster (8514 88 BRT). Ichi chikepe chinotevera chekutakura chine michina (inosanganisira marori 9, pfuti dzinorwisa ndege, zvikamu zvendege, zvombo, radiotelegraphy michina, coke uye ... uswa hwemabhiza) yekumhara muNarvik yakawanikwa muna Kubvumbi 10 neNorwegian-Syrian patrol, uyo akarayira chikepe kuti chipinde Bodø ( Bodo ). Zvisinei, mushure mekuparadzaniswa kwezvikamu, maGermany akaramba achifamba nechikepe maererano nehurongwa. Alster akazosangana nemumwe muchengeti wekuNorway, Svalbard II, uyo akamumhan'arira kuchikwata chaYeats. Mangwanani aApril XNUMX, kuBodø, iyo Alster yakamiswa nemuparadzi weBritish Icarus. Uyu akakwira parutivi rwechikepe, vashandi vayo, chokwadi, vakavhura matombo emambo, vachiedza
nokudaro vakanyudza boka rake, asi boka remibayiro rakatumirwa kubva kuIcarus rakaponesa mutakuri wacho ndokumuperekedza kuTromsø. Ngarava yechitatu yekutakura yakananga kuNarvik, mutyairi weBerenfels (7569 BRT), yaziva nezvemamiriro ezvinhu asina kunaka kwavari kuchamhembe kweNorwegian mvura, yakarairwa kuenda kuBergen pakati peNorway, kwayakapinda pasina matambudziko musi waApril 10. Vestfjord neGermany submarines, iyo U 25 yakarwisa vaparadzi veBritish Bedouin neEskimo manheru eApril 10, uye U 51 mumwe muparadzi zvishoma gare gare, asi maGermany akadzinga zvachose 6 torpedoes zvisina kururama kana kuputika nguva isati yakwana. Musi waKubvumbi 12, ngarava yekuGerman yekuredza hove inonzi Wilhelm Reinhold (259 brt), iyo yakapinda mumvura yeVaagsfjord (kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero kweOfotfjord), yakatorwa ipapo nechikepe chekuNorwegian patrol Thorodd ndokuendeswa kuHarstad iri pedyo.
