lanakila lanakila. Kaua ʻelua o Narvik
ʻO ke kaua hope loa o nā mea luku a Bey ma kahi kiʻi pena a Adam Werk.
Ma ke kakahiaka o ka la 10 o Aperila, 1940, ua lanakila na mokukaua Beritania Hardy, Havok, Hotspur, Hostile a me Hunter malalo o ke alakai ana a Comm. Ua kaua ʻo Bernard Armitage Warburton Warburton-Lee ma ka Ofotfjord, ma laila ke ala e hiki aku ai i Narvik, kahi awa koʻikoʻi me ka hau ʻole. Ma o ia i lawe ʻia ai ka hao hao mai Suedena mai, me 10 mau mea luku o ka luna koa Friedrich Bonte, nāna i hāʻawi aku i nā koa Wehrmacht e hopu i ke kūlanakauhale, ʻo ia hoʻi me ka liʻiliʻi o ke kūʻē ʻana mai nā Norewai. Ma muli o ka hakakā ʻana, ua piholo ka Hardy a me Hunter, a ʻo ka Wilhelm Heidkamp lāua ʻo Anton Schmitt, ua pohō kekahi mau moku ma ka hoʻouka kaua ʻana o Narvik a me 5 mau moku luku ma ka ʻaoʻao Kelemania.
Ma hope o kēlā lā, ma ke awakea, ua hui ʻo Havok, Hotspur, a me Hostile ma West Fjord me ka moku holo māmā Penelope a me ʻewalu mau mea luku. ʻO kēia hui ma mua he ʻāpana o ka Renown a me Repulse line cruiser inikua a ua kauoha ʻia e Penelope, Commander. Ua mākaʻikaʻi ʻo Gerald Douglas Yeats i nā wai o Westfjord me ka hana o ke keakea ʻana i nā ʻāpana Kelemania hou e hele ana i Narvik. ʻO kēia mākaʻikaʻi, e like me ka mea i ʻike ʻia ma ka laʻana o ka mokuahi ukana ʻo Rauenfels (8 brt), e lawe ana i nā mea kaua a me nā lako no nā koa Kelemania ma Narvik a hāʻule i ʻApelila 8460 ma ke komo ʻana i Ofotfjord e nā mea luku CDR. ʻAʻole maikaʻi ʻo Warburton-Lee. Ua hoʻolaha ʻia e nā luina o nā moku e ola nei o ka 10th Warburton Lee mea luku moku kaua e pili ana i ke kūlana ma Narvik, Yeats, nona ka moku holo moku a me 2 mau moku luku (ʻaʻole i helu ʻia nā Havok, Hotspur a me Hostile), hiki ke hoʻāʻo e hoʻouka i ka Kelemania. Ua hoʻi hou ka hui i Ofotfjord, ʻoi aku, i kēia manawa me ka pōmaikaʻi a me ka pōmaikaʻi o ka pīhoihoi. ʻO ka mea pōʻino, ʻaʻole ʻo ia i hoʻohana i kēia manawa kūpono, no ka mea, ua manaʻo ʻo ia i ke aʻo ʻana a nā vadmas. Hāʻawi ʻo William Jock Whitworth (e lawe ana i kāna hae ma ka Glory) i ke kauoha e paʻi wale i ka wā e pono ai.
Eia naʻe, ua alakaʻi ʻia nā mākaʻi Pelekane ma Westford i ka hopu ʻia ʻana o ka mokuahi ukana Kelemania ʻo Alster (8514 88 BRT). ʻO kēia moku kaʻa aʻe me nā lako (me nā kaʻa he 9, nā pū anti-aircraft, nā ʻāpana mokulele, nā mea kaua, nā lako radiotelegraphy, coke a me ... mauʻu no nā lio) no ka pae ʻana i Narvik i ʻike ʻia ma ka lā 10 ʻApelila e ka mākaʻi Norwegian-Syrian. nāna i kauoha ka moku e komo i Bodø (Bodo). Eia naʻe, ma hope o ka hoʻokaʻawale ʻana i nā ʻāpana, ua hoʻomau ka poʻe Kelemania e holo e like me ka hoʻolālā. Ua ʻike ʻo Alster i kekahi kanaka kiaʻi Norewai, ʻo Svalbard II, nāna i hōʻike iā ia i ka hui ʻo Yeats. I ke kakahiaka o ʻApelila XNUMX, ma Bodø, ua pani ʻia ka Alster e ka mea luku Pelekane ʻo Icarus. Piʻi kēia i ka ʻaoʻao o ka moku, ʻo ka poʻe o lākou, ʻoiaʻiʻo, wehe lākou i nā pōhaku aliʻi, e hoʻāʻo ana e
no laila e hoʻopololei i kona pūʻali, akā na ka pūʻali makana i hoʻouna ʻia mai Icarus i hoʻopakele i ka ukana a alakaʻi iā ia i Tromsø. ʻO ke kolu o ka moku lawe kaʻa e holo ana i Narvik, ʻo ka mokuahi Berenfels (7569 BRT), ua aʻo ʻia e pili ana i ke kūlana maikaʻi ʻole no lākou ma nā wai o Norewai akau, ua kauoha ʻia e hele i Bergen ma waena o Norewai, kahi i komo ai me ka pilikia ʻole i ka lā 10 ʻApelila. Vestfjord a me Geremania mau moku luu, a o U 25 i hoouka aku i na moku luku Beritania Bedouin a me Eskimo i ke ahiahi o Aperila 10, a me U 51 kekahi moku luku ma hope iki aku, aka, ua ki aku na Geremania i ka huina o 6 mau torpedoes me ka pololei ole a i ole pahū koke. Ma ka lā 12 o ʻApelila, ua hopu ʻia ka mokuahi mokuahi Kelemania ʻo Wilhelm Reinhold (259 brt), i komo i ka wai o ka Vaagsfjord (ma ke komohana ʻākau o Ofotfjord), i hopu ʻia e ka moku kiaʻi Norewai Thorodd a lawe ʻia i Harstad kokoke.
