Battle of the Sharnhorst (Part 1 of 3)
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Battle of the Sharnhorst (Part 1 of 3)
Anyway, I went on watch on Boxing Day, this was ‘43, were we?
We were ‘43... Interviewer: That's right.
And I had, I was on watch and, and I did the cypher which,
from Admiralty, which stated that, "The Admiralty appreciates
that the Sharnhorst is now at sea," that's exactly what the
message said. It must have come from some coast watcher on the
coast of Norway to, you know, London and then Admiralty sent it
out to the fleet. Anyway that went on and the, the Sharnhorst did
was in fact out, and it was but the submarine had picked up the
convoy so they knew where it was. I was on watch and then I was
off watch, on breakfast, we went to action stations after
breakfast and stayed there all day but a relaxed one, it wasn't,
wasn't close up really. And, but early in the morning the
destroyers, Norfolk sighted the Sharnhorst, and the, it was quite
a far, quite far north towards Bear Island, which is sort of
north west of Iceland, and then the Belfast, the Norfolk and
some other, one of the other cruisers tackled the Sharnhorst but
then there was a scuffle, but the Sharnhorst was speedy and got
away and the, and headed for the convoy, I guess.
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