Royal Navy Forces (RN)
Vice Admiral W. Jock
Whitworth
BB Warspite (F)
Captain Victor A. C. Crutchley
DD Bedouin
Commander J. A. McCoy - Senior Destroyer
commander
DD Punjabi
Commander J. Trevor Lean
DD Eskimo
Commander St J. A. Micklethwait
DD Cossack
R. St V. Sherbrooke
DD Hero
Commander Hilary W. Biggs
DD Forester
Lt. Commander E. B. Tancock
DD Foxhound
Lt. Commander G. H. Peters
DD Kimberley
Lt. Commander R. G. K. Knowling
DD Icarus
Lt. Commander C. D. Maud
German Naval Forces
Narvik Destroyer Invasion Force
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
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 (sunk
by Warspite’s aircraft)
* 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