HNoMS Uredd (P-41) - Career

Career

She was transferred to Norwegian command on 7 December 1941. She served mostly as a patrol craft off the coast of Nazi-occupied Norway, eventually completing a total of seven successful missions for the Royal Norwegian Navy, sinking several German ships. She was destroyed by a minefield in February 1943.

In February 1943 she was assigned, under the presumed command of Rolf Q. Røren, to drop off five Kompani Linge Special Agents at Bodø as part of Operation Seagull - and then proceed to Senja to pick up two French submariners that had been left behind by the Junon.

In 1985, HNoMS Tana discovered the wreckage of the Uredd southwest of Fugløyvær and confirmed that she had hit a German minefield laid by the German minelayer Cobra - killing 34 crew and six Special Agents. The following year, King Olav V unveiled a memorial to those lost aboard the Uredd, located in Grensen.

The wreck is officially a war grave.

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