The Capture of The Lauenburg
At around 7pm on 28 June, a lookout aboard HMS Tartar sighted the Lauenburg off Jan Mayen, and Tartar began firing. The Lauenburg's crew quickly abandoned the ship in two lifeboats. Minutes later, Tartar steamed alongside and a boarding party seized the Lauenburg. A large amount of material was collected and transferred to the Tartar. The allied warships then fired on and sank the Lauenburg.
The recovered material allowed further understanding of the Enigma codes and resulted in faster decoding of encrypted messages, as well as providing an up-to-date set of codes.
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