Erich Giese - Z 12
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Under
the second naval battle for Narvik 13.April 1940, British
destroyers attacked the ships in Narvik harbor, and came
in contact with the German Kriegsmarine forces. The German
destroyer Erich Giese tried to slip out from the harbor,
but was spotted and put under a ferocious fire from the
British ships. The British force consisted of the
destroyers Bedouin, Hardy, Punjabi, Cossack and the
battleship Warspite. She scored a torpedo hit on one of
the British destroyers, but was herself heavily hit by
grenades from HMS Bedouin and HMS Warspite. After more
than twenty hits by enemy fire, orders to abandoned ship
was given. 83 men of the crew perished in the fight.. The
wreck rest today outside the marina at Ankenes on a depth
of approx 60 to 70 meter.
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| 68° 25' 51 N, 17° 20' 53 E  Picture: Erich Giese Originally from skovheim.org Last updated: January 2018 |
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