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  • Thumbnail for Cape Nordkinn
    Cape Nordkinn (Norwegian: Kinnarodden or Northern Sami: Gidnegeahči) at 71°8′2″N 27°39′0″E / 71.13389°N 27.65000°E / 71.13389; 27.65000 is the northernmost...
    5 KB (456 words) - 13:55, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Scandinavian Peninsula
    Peninsula lies north of the Arctic Circle, its northernmost point being at Cape Nordkyn, Norway. The climate across Scandinavia varies from tundra (Köppen: ET)...
    15 KB (1,846 words) - 18:00, 1 August 2024
  • of Horseshoe Shoal. Phantom  United Kingdom The ship was wrecked near Cape Nordkyn, Norway. Her crew were rescued. Titania New Zealand The 54-ton steamer...
    32 KB (617 words) - 18:04, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arctic naval operations of World War II
    Mayen. 29 April 1943: Soviet submarine S-55 sank 708-ton Sturzsee off Nordkyn 17 May 1943: Soviet submarine S-56 sank tanker 1118-ton Eurostadt off Kongsfjord...
    48 KB (5,376 words) - 05:31, 6 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Dr. Heinrich Wiegand (1938)
    Greenland to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, she caught fire off Cape Anguille, Newfoundland, Canada. Her 24 crew and a passenger were rescued...
    10 KB (803 words) - 08:58, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMCS Alberni
    tanker British Workman that was torpedoed and sunk by U-455 southeast of Cape Race. This was followed by a minor refit in May 1942 where her boilers were...
    20 KB (2,356 words) - 00:00, 9 July 2024
  • the island and discovered Cape Ingrid. They also found and named Cecil Cave, a sea cave which indents the southern part of Cape Ingrid on the west coast...
    11 KB (930 words) - 01:00, 7 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Flower-class corvette
    Norwegian Navy as HNoMS Buttercup. Bought in 1946 by Norway and renamed HNoMS Nordkyn. 1956 sold and converted to diesel-driven whale catcher Thoris. 1969 scrapped...
    161 KB (5,324 words) - 18:48, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMCS Sackville
    Woodruff Zinnia  Royal Netherlands Navy Friso  Royal Norwegian Navy Andenes Nordkyn Eglantine Montbretia Polarfront II Potentilla Rose  South African Navy...
    23 KB (1,894 words) - 15:26, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Dianella
    of the war HMS Dianella had escorted seventy two convoys from the North Cape, the northernmost point of Europe (71°10′21″N) to Freetown on the west coast...
    10 KB (983 words) - 07:34, 9 August 2024
  • "Royal Navy casualties, May 1942". naval-history.net. Retrieved 16 May 2020. "Cape of Good Hope". Uboat. Retrieved 27 March 2012. Mitchell, WH; Sawyer, LA (1990)...
    179 KB (3,681 words) - 03:04, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMCS Snowberry
    to relieve the 40th Escort Group which was undertaking a U-boat hunt off Cape Ortegal. The warships of both groups were attacked by 14 Dornier Do 217s...
    12 KB (1,052 words) - 02:50, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Asphodel (K56)
    HMS Asphodel was escorting convoy SL 150 with combination of MKS-41 off Cape Finisterre. German submarine U-575 launched a torpedo which struck the Asphodel...
    6 KB (584 words) - 11:56, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMCS Regina (K234)
    survivors of the American merchant SS Alexander Macomb which was sunk east of Cape Cod. In September she was assigned to Operation Torch, the Allied invasion...
    11 KB (1,012 words) - 07:43, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Sunflower (K41)
    loss. On 17 October U-631 was sunk in the North Atlantic, South-east of Cape Farewell, Greenland, by depth charges from Sunflower. On 29 October 1943...
    12 KB (1,353 words) - 16:30, 14 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMCS Calgary (K231)
    to relieve the 40th Escort Group which was undertaking a U-boat hunt off Cape Ortegal. The warships of both groups were attacked by 14 Dornier Do 217s...
    12 KB (1,136 words) - 00:21, 31 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for HMCS Moose Jaw
    which had been torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U-207 east of Cape Farewell, Greenland. In total, the convoy lost eighteen ships. Moose Jaw...
    13 KB (1,358 words) - 17:40, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMCS Morden
    North Atlantic about 440 nautical miles (810 km; 510 mi) west-south-west of Cape Farewell in position 57°41′N, 31°30′W. On 12 May 1943 she picked up 40 survivors...
    9 KB (847 words) - 03:37, 30 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for HMCS Nanaimo (K101)
    merchant Port Nicholson that was torpedoed and sunk by U-87 northeast of Cape Cod. She was transferred to W-7 in April 1944 and remained with them for...
    10 KB (849 words) - 02:57, 30 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMCS Weyburn
    from the British tanker Athelsultan that had been torpedoed southeast of Cape Farewell. She arrived in the United Kingdom in October and went to Liverpool...
    11 KB (958 words) - 03:59, 2 June 2023
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