Word: narvik
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...British minelayers one morning sowed three great fields along Norway's rugged coast, in Norway's territorial waters, minefields to drive German-bound ships with Swedish ore out into the open sea where the British Navy could get them. At one stroke this paralyzed ore shipping from Narvik, far north in Norway, where eight ore-laden German steamers were blocked in by the minefield in West Fjord...
...longer restrained by international law protecting Norway's neutral territorial waters, it is possible that the British will be even more successful in stopping ore ships from passing between Narvik and Germany than they would have been if Hitler had held his hand...
They decided intervention was out. To get a sufficient force-say 80,000 men-into action would be an extremely slow process. Even if Scandinavia permitted transit, they would have to land far north, either at Trondhjem or Narvik in Norway...
...freighter City of Flint, tempest teapot of the war's sixth week, when she was taken captive by Germany, later freed from a Nazi prize crew by Norway, sailed at last out of Narvik for home with a cargo of iron ore. Leaving the harbor in a fog, she whanged into a British freighter, had to put back to repair damaged plates...
...contract for British coal. With German manufacturers offering more & more ersatz materials, Sweden was glad to shift to British textiles. Britain was glad to buy Swedish timber (cellulose for explosives) and the high-grade hematite ore which Sweden used to barge to Germany from the Norwegian port of Narvik (now subject to the Allied blockade...