HMT Gaul
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Gaul
was requisitioned by Royal Navy at the outbreak of Second
world war and refitted as an anti uboat trawler. After the
German invasion of Norway in April 1940, the Allies sent
troops to help Norway in their struggle against the German
invasion, but attempts to repulse the German advance
didn't go very well. 28. April General De Wiart was
ordered to evacuate his forces at Namsos. Here HMT Gaul
was attacked by German Heinkel 111 bombers 1.May 1940 and
was so severely damaged she had to be abandoned. She sank
close to shore in Krokvika. In the 1950`s the ship bell of
HMT Gaul and HMT
Aston Villa were raised, and in 2001 they were
handed over to the local community house in Namsos. In the
last half of the 1960`s the remaining depth charges on the
wreck went of during work on the wreck, and she relocated
to deeper waters. The wreck rest today upside-down on a
depth of approx 55 to 65 meter.
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