Royal Navy - Arctic Operations

HMS Britomart

 
27.8.1944: Accidentally sunk by allied aircraft off Le Havre, France.

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Type

Class

Britomart

J22

Minesweeper

Halcyon

Built:

1939

Lost:

27.8.1944


 

Operation

Date

Location / Other

Name unknown Oct. 1941

Reconnaissance of Spitzbergen. Bansö
Returning from Archangel, the Admiralty had ordered 4 minesweepers to investigate an intelligence report that the Germans had landed at Longyearbyen.

 

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