Word: fjord
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...version was that Norway's customs authorities at Bergen went aboard the Altmark but, honoring her service flag, did not search her. Norwegian officials claimed that the ship was stopped first outside of Trondhjem Fjord, did not call at any port. A Norwegian gunboat was assigned to escort her through Norway's territorial waters as she made for her home port, Hamburg...
Whether they are official or not, the British Navy has sharp-eyed friends in Norway. The Altmark had not proceeded more than 100 miles south of Bergen, closely hugging the craggy, fjord-bitten coast, before three big British reconnaissance planes swooped low over her. Soon after, with express Admiralty orders to do so, into Norwegian waters from their stations on North Sea patrol raced a British cruiser and five destroyers. The destroyer Intrepid halted the Altmark, but while Captain Philip Louis Vian of the senior destroyer Cossack had words with the Norwegian gunboat's commander, the Altmark slid into...