Battle of Narvik 1940

[Dick]

The youtube film from 0:41 to 0:48 shows a brief glimpse of Warspite but given the neutrality stripes on B turret is presumably pre-war stock like the initial few seconds.

[ap1]

Originally Posted by BlackBat242

-5%, spelling (great)

Not really upset about the occasional typo!

It is when it comes to titles of threads which, maybe searched for in later times.

I'm sure we would'nt allow a title "The Battle of Doggy Bank".......go uncorrected, or would we?

[greendragon]

The Dickens' book has given me a chance for some consideration.
It says that HMS Punjabi was hit five times with 5in shells, lost some 25% of her crew and was damaged quite severly. It forced her CO CDR Lean to get away from the action - "I damned sorry, I have to come out of it" - message was sent to ADM Whitworth (1400hrs).
At about 1500hrs HMS Punjabi was back in action with "two boilers, three gun mountings and all fires out" and was sent to Rombaks fiord together with three other destroyers, to finish the job.
In the Falklands War HMS Brillant was hit with just one 20mm cannon shell that put out of action most(all?) of her weapon systems to the extent that her CO in his memories remarks they were left with just couple of HMG because also two additional 40mm Bofors "improved" with malfunctiong electric trigger system were unable to fire a round and thus reduced the fighting capabilities of the ship to nil.
I have no doubt that the very brave CDR Lean turned in his grave hearing this.

If we bridge Nelson times to nowadays state of art ships and their sophisticated equipment/weapons one would notice that from the sail ships which poured on themselves tons of iron and were still able to fight even when reduced to the status of wooden shattered boxes, across WW I, WWII when ships that sometimes suffered incredible losses and huge damages and still were fighting we have reached the bottom when something a little bigger than .45 put out of action the warship.

Regards

[christay]

Thank you so much for posting this map. My Grandfather was aboard HMS Hotspur during this Battle and unfortunately was one of the (from memory 13) who died when it was hit and badly damaged. I can now include it with the very few items we have of/for him.