Word: trondheim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Monday morning the British destroyer Glowworm was proceeding with her flotilla to lay mines off the Norwegian coast when she lost a man overboard. Delayed in picking him up, the Glowworm was hurrying to overtake her companions when, northwest of Trondheim, she sighted a strange destroyer. "What ship is that?" she blinked in English. The answer was gunfire. After announcing that she had engaged an enemy destroyer, the Glowworm never reported to the Admiralty again. Several days later German sources told how the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper had come down and sunk her during the battle - she had stumbled upon...
...Bremen's feat of eluding the British blockade, slipping safely down through Norwegian coastal waters into the Baltic and "a home port," from Murmansk. The 8,000-ton Johannlschulte, one of 16 other German refugees at Murmansk, was less lucky. In a blizzard and raging sea somewhere off Trondheim, she lost her propeller, foundered. Her crew of 36 was rescued by the Norwegian Queen Maud...