On the afternoon of the 9th April 1940, Captain Warburton-Lee led his five ships up the fjord and on reaching a pilot station at Tranhoy, landed Lieutenant Heppel and Stanning, seeking information ...
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 battles ...