Rashin nasara. Yakin Narvik na biyu
Yaƙin ƙarshe na masu lalata Bey a cikin zanen Adam Werk.
A safiyar ranar 10 ga Afrilu, 1940, 'yan Burtaniya sun halaka Hardy, Havok, Hotspur, Makiya da Hunter a karkashin umarnin Comm. Bernard Armitage Warburton Warburton-Lee ya yi yaƙi a cikin Ofotfjord, inda hanyar ta kai zuwa Narvik, tashar jiragen ruwa mai mahimmanci mara kankara. Ta hanyarsa ne aka yi jigilar baƙin ƙarfe daga Sweden, tare da 10 masu lalata kwamandan Friedrich Bonte, wanda ya ba da sojojin Wehrmacht don kama birnin, wanda kuma ya faru da danniya daga Norwegians. Sakamakon rikicin, Hardy da Hunter sun nutse, da Wilhelm Heidkamp da Anton Schmitt, jiragen ruwa da yawa a cikin harin Narvik da wasu masu lalata 5 sun lalace a bangaren Jamus.
Daga baya a wannan rana, da tsakar rana, Havok, Hotspur, da Maƙiya sun sake komawa West Fjord tare da jirgin ruwa mai haske Penelope da masu lalata takwas. Wannan ƙungiyar a da ta kasance wani ɓangare na inshorar jirgin ruwa na Renown da Repulse kuma yanzu Penelope, Kwamanda ne ke ba da umarni. Gerald Douglas Yeats ya yi sintiri a cikin ruwa na Westfjord tare da aikin datse wasu sassan Jamus da ke kan hanyar zuwa Narvik. Wannan sintiri, kamar yadda ake iya gani a misalin jirgin Rauenfels cargo steamer (8 brt), dauke da makamai da kayan aiki ga sojojin Jamus a Narvik kuma ya nutse a ranar Afrilu 8460 a ƙofar Ofotfjord ta hanyar CDR masu lalata. Warburton-Lee bai yi tasiri ba. Sanarwa daga ma'aikatan jirgin ruwa na tsira na 10th Warburton Lee halaka flotilla game da halin da ake ciki a Narvik, Yeats, da ciwon a hannunsa wani cruiser da 2 halaka (ba kirgawa da Havok, Hotspur da Makiya), na iya yunƙurin kai hari Jamus The tawagar ta dawo a Ofotfjord, haka kuma, wannan lokacin tare da fa'ida kuma sake fa'idar mamaki. Abin takaici, bai yi amfani da wannan damar ba, kamar yadda ya yi la'akari da koyarwar vadmas. William Jock Whitworth (dauke da tutarsa akan Glory) yana ba da odar bugawa kawai idan ya cancanta.
Duk da haka, sintiri na Birtaniyya a Westford ya kai ga kama wani jirgin ruwa na Jamus Alster (8514 88 BRT). Wannan jirgi na gaba na jigilar kaya tare da kayan aiki (ciki har da manyan motoci 9, bindigogi masu saukar ungulu, sassan jirgin sama, harsashi, kayan aikin rediyo, coke da ... hay don dawakai) don saukarwa a Narvik an gano shi a ranar 10 ga Afrilu ta hanyar sintirin Norwegian-Syrian. wanda ya umarci jirgin ya shiga Bodø (Bodo). Sai dai bayan rabuwar sassan Jamusawan sun ci gaba da tafiya cikin ruwa kamar yadda aka tsara. Daga baya Alster ya ci karo da wani dan sintiri dan kasar Norway, Svalbard II, wanda ya kai rahotonsa ga tawagar Yeats. A safiyar Afrilu XNUMX, a Bodø, Icarus na Burtaniya ya dakatar da Alster. Wannan ya haura zuwa gefen jirgin, wanda ma'aikatan, sun yarda, sun bude dutsen sarki, suna ƙoƙarin yin haka.
Ta haka ne ya nutsar da tawagarsa, amma tawagar kyautar da aka aika daga Icarus sun ceci mai ɗaukar kaya kuma suka raka shi zuwa Tromsø. Jirgin jigilar kayayyaki na uku da ke kan hanyar zuwa Narvik, jirgin ruwan Berenfels (7569 BRT), bayan ya sami labarin halin da suke ciki mara kyau a arewacin ruwan Norway, an umarce shi da ya je Bergen da ke tsakiyar Norway, inda ya shiga ba tare da matsala ba a ranar 10 ga Afrilu. Vestfjord da jiragen ruwa na Jamus, wadanda U 25 suka kai hari ga mahara Birtaniyya Bedouin da Eskimo a yammacin ranar 10 ga Afrilu, da kuma U 51 wani mai rugujewa kadan daga baya, amma Jamusawa sun kori torpedoes 6 ba daidai ba ko kuma sun fashe da wuri. A ranar 12 ga Afrilu, wani jirgin ruwan kamun kifi na Jamus Wilhelm Reinhold (259 brt), wanda ya shiga cikin ruwan Vaagsfjord (arewa maso yammacin Ofotfjord), jirgin ruwan sintiri na Norway Thorodd ya kama shi a can kuma ya kai shi zuwa Harstad da ke kusa.
