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Re: DRONNING MAUD/HAGA
Posted by: Platon Alexiades (IP Logged)
Date: May 01, 2005 07:26AM

Hello Jean Michel,

The Norwegian DRONNING MAUD (acting as a hospital ship) was badly damaged by He 111 of LG1. Later beached and total loss.

The Swedish HAGA was not sunk by a mine from MTB NARWHAL (I assume that this refers to the British minelaying submarine NARWHAL which laid mines near Skagen). Actually HAGA appears to have been lost on a minefield laid by the German minelayer PREUSSEN and others on 30 April. I do not know the exact position of HAGA's sinking but we have a rough idea because U 30 (KL Lemp of ATHENIA's fame and later of U 110) picked up 13 survivors of HAGA (the war diary mentions HAHA but this is obviously a typo) at 1030/3 May in Quadrat AN 4625 (about 58.03 N/03.12 E), the nearest minefield is PREUSSEN's, of course there is also a possibility that she hit a drifting mine from the German Mine Declared Area but I think that NARWHAL's minefield can be discounted. Sorry but I d not know the name of her captain.

Best regards,

Platon



Subject Written By Posted
  DRONNING MAUD/HAGA J MICHEL 04/30/2005 10:55PM
  Re: DRONNING MAUD/HAGA Platon Alexiades 05/01/2005 07:26AM
  Re: DRONNING MAUD/HAGA J MICHEL 05/02/2005 09:04PM
  Re: DRONNING MAUD/HAGA Lois Daron 01/10/2006 02:23PM


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