This consisted of Captain BAW Warburton-Lee's five 'H' class vessels ... and sunk near Narvik, while a French cruiser was seriously damaged. A total of seven British destroyers was lost, plus ...

Outcome: Ten German destroyers and six merchant ships sunk. Of the German forces in Narvik, only U-51 survives by escaping out to sea. Warburton-Lee is killed and his flagship sunk. Two naval ...

Five smaller British H Class destroyers were sent up the fjord in retaliation by the Allied forces, with little knowledge of what to expect. On April 10, the first battle of Narvik began.

They were on their way to Narvik which lay further up the fjord to destroy the 8 German destroyers and any other shipping left after the first Battle of Narvik, on the 10th April, when both sides ...