Royal Navy Forces (RN)
2nd Destroyer Flotilla
Captain Bernard A.
W. Warburton-Lee
DD Hardy (F)*
Captain Bernard A. W. Warburton-Lee
DD Hotspur
Commander Herbert F. N. Layman
DD Hostile
Commander J. P. Wright
DD Havock
Lt. Commander Rafe E. Courage
DD Hunter*
Lt. Commander Lindsay de Villiers
German Naval Forces
Narvik Destroyer Invasion Force
Kommodore F. Bonte
(aboard Wilhelm Heidkamp)
DD Wilhelm Heidkamp (F)*
Korvettenkapitan Hans Erdmenger
1st Destroyer Flotilla
Fregattenkapitan F.
Berger
DD Georg Thiele
Korvettenkapitan Max-Eckart Wolff
3rd Destroyer Flotilla
Fregattenkapitan Hans-Joachim
Gadow
DD Hans Ludemann(F)
Korvettenkapitan H. Friedrichs
DD Hermann Kunne
Korvettenkapitan Kothe
DD Diether von Roeder
Korvettenkapitan Erich Holtorf
DD Anton Schmitt*
Korvettenkapitan Friedrich Bohme
4th Destroyer Flotilla
Fregattenkapitan Erich
Bey
DD Wolfgang Zenker (F)
Korvettenkapitan G. Ponitz
DD Bernd von Arnim
Korvettenkapitan Curt Rechel
DD Erich Giese
Korvettenkapitan Karl Smidt
DD Erich Koellner
Korvettenkapitan A. Schulze-Hinrichs
U-Boats
U25 Korvettenkapitan Schutze
U46 Kapitanleutnant Sohler
U48 Kapitanleutnant Schultze
U51 Kapitanleutnant Knorr
U64 Kapitanleutnant Schulz
Whaler/Tanker Jan Wellem
Several German merchantman in Narvik Harbor were also sunk by the British destroyers.
*Sunk in this action.
Sources:
1. ‘Chronology of the War at Sea
1939-1945’ by J. Rohwer & G. Hummelchen
2. ‘Hitler’s Naval War’ by C. Bekker
3. ‘Narvik; Battles in the Fjords’
by Capt. P. Dickens
4. ‘Sea Battles in Close-Up, WWII,
Vol. 2, Narvik’ by E. Grove