HNoMS
UREDD
(1941
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1943)
UREDD (Ex-HMS P41) (Lt.Cdr RQ Roren) left Lerwick for her eighth war patrol on 31 January 1943. She was to land commandos under the codename Operation SEAGULL in the vicinity of Noviken. The commando’s mission was to use explosives to destroy the power-station supplying the ore-mines in Sulitjelma with power. An agent was also to be landed in Mefjord (Operation UPSILON II).
She was supposed to return to Lerwick on 19 February, but was lost off Norway in an unknown minefield southwest of Fugloyv in the Fugleoy fjord, southwest of Bodo in position 67 05’N, 13 31’E.
The minefield had been laid by German minelayer, Cobra. It is probable that UREDD was lost on or around 10 February 1943. She was officially reported overdue on 26 February 1943.
UREDD was relocated in 1985 and declared a war grave on 13 March 1986. A memorial of a Dolphin was raised at the roadside, to the south of the site of her sinking; it was unveiled by HM King Olav V on 18 June 1987.
(Source: uboat.net)
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My father should have been onboard Uredd on that last patrol.
Half an hour before leaving dad was told that the gunnery course he wanted to go on had come up and this man was his replacement. Dad went round Uredd saying a hasty goodbye to the crew, then watched them leave. He wasn’t to know then, but his “replacement” was one of the commandos being taken back to Norway. There wasn’t any spare space for extra people.
Dad was delighted when they found the wreck, though he thought they should have found it earlier.