GERMAN PRISON SHIP
A SECOND ALTMARCK [FJtO.U OUJt OWN CORKESI'ONDENT] LONDON, April *2O When the British destroyers Hardy, Hunter, Havoc, Hostile and Hotspur dashed into Narvik Fjord in their epic battle a German whaling factory ship lay securely moored in the harbour. Deep down in the suffocating holds of this whaler—like the notorious Altmurck —were more than 200 British sailors who had been taken from merchant vessels and who wore intended for German internment camps. The arrival of the Hardy and her fellowdestroyers blew the Nazi plan sky high. It is stated that although the Germans had 110 notion that the presence o! British sailors in the prison ship was known, the Navy had the information before "the raid began, and the destroyers went in under orders not to shell the floating gaol. It was these released prisoners who seized rifles, revolvers and ammunition and armed the Norwegian people ashore. Then, joining up with the Hardy men, they became the "advance party" of the British Expeditionary Force in Norway.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23662, 22 May 1940, Page 10
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