Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipping of Norway is by no means in the hands of the enemy. Even while the invasion was going on in Norway, the Norwegian Government threw the whole Norwegian merchant fleet into the fight on the side of the Allies. Germany was able to seize only 20% of this fleet, about half of which [20%] were only small coastal craft unfit for the high seas. By royal decrees of April 22 and May 18, 1940, the Norwegian Government requisitioned all Norwegian ships of more than 500 tons...
Ever since the Battle of the Atlantic began, a large part of the Norwegian fleet has been trading in the North Atlantic. . . . It has been estimated that Norwegian tankers are transporting some 40% of the total supplies of oil and gasoline to Great Britain and the fighting front. On April 9, 1940, when Norway was invaded, a total of 6,097,130 d.w. tons were under the control of the Norwegian Government; two years later 4,486,063 d.w. tons still were in operation and aiding the Allied cause...
This major contribution to the war of transportation has been costly for Norway. About 250 Norwegian ships with a total tonnage of approximately 1,600,000 tons d.w. have been lost or captured, and some 1,500 lives were lost...
...Royal Norwegian Embassy...
...Angry Norwegian protests that the convoy, aside from being ill-advised by the British, had been trapped through Nazi spy work led investigators to Svanberg. But a terse official announcement that a Nazi spy ring was believed broken up did not tell the whole story. Short-wave equipment capable of sending information on ship movements "halfway around the world" was confiscated and dozens of arrests made. British and Norwegians said a "bitter blow" had been struck at the U-boat campaign in the North Atlantic...