Operation Seagull

{{For|the Operation Seagull involving the Abwehr|Operation Seagull (Ireland)}}

Operation Seagull was a British action during the Second World War to destroy several Nazi-controlled industrial targets including a smelter at Arendal, with the help of Kompani Linge agents from Norway.{{cite web |url= http://www.csn.ul.ie/~dan/war/codes/talliedframe.htm |title=Allied codenames - sorted by theatre of operation |work=csn.ul.ie |year=2005 |accessdate=4 March 2013}}

{{Battle

| conflict = Operation Seagull

| place = At sea

| casualties1 = 40 lost, including strike team

HNoMS Uredd sunk

| result = German victory

| combatant1 = Norway

| combatant2 = Nazi Germany

| combatant1a = HNoMS Uredd

| combatant2a = Cobra

| casualties2 = None

}}

On 10 February 1943Believed mined about the 10th, Royal Norwegian Navy officially declared her lost on the 20th, the Royal Navy on the 28th. the Norwegian submarine {{Ship|HNoMS|Uredd|P-41|6}} was transporting the six-man sabotage team to Bodø when she hit a minefield laid by the German minelayer Cobra and sank, killing all 34 crew and the six agents.{{cite web |url= http://www.patriotfiles.com/archive/navalhistory/xDKCas3000-Norwegian.htm |title=Royal Norwegian Navy casualties - World War II |first=Don |last=Kindell |work=patriotfiles.com |year=2013 |accessdate=4 March 2013}}

In 1986, King Olav V unveiled a memorial to those lost aboard the Uredd, located in Grensen.{{cite web |url= http://www.dundee-at-war.net/ambrose.htm#epm1_5 |title=What Did You Do In The War, Dundee? — HMS Ambrose |work=dundee-at-war.net |year=2011 |accessdate=4 March 2013}}

Team

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  • Lt. Per Getz
  • Sub-Lt. Tobias Skog
  • Sgt. Thorlief Daniel Grong
  • Cpl. Sverre Granlund (also served as a commando during Operation Musketoon)
  • Pte. Eivind Dahl Eriksen
  • Pte. Hans Rohde Hansen

References

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