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 ...

Less than six weeks later, De Wolf repeated his success with the Elbings when he drove an enemy Narvik class destroyer on to rocks and left her burning. On June 23 he sank a submarine, prompting ...

Ninety-seven Polish mountain troops and 59 sailors from destroyer ORP Grom are buried at Narvik and nearby Hakvik. Sandvik said the lesson of 1940 was that “cooperation and friendship must again ...

HMS Hunter was one of two Allied destroyers lost during the first Battle of Narvik - the Germans lost four destroyers. The 1,880 tonne H-Class Destroyer had a crew of 145 - 110 of whom were killed ...

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 ...