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English: Shields (coats of arms) from British destroyers that took part in the battles outside Lofoten.

HMS Hardy was a Royal Navy destroyer flotilla leader of the H Class destroyers. She was named, like the other HMS Hardys, after Thomas Masterman Hardy Captain of Victory at Trafalgar.

On 10 April 1940 in Ofotfjord, Narvik, Norway, Captain Warburton-Lee on Hardy led a flotilla of five destroyers in a surprise dawn attack on German destroyers and merchant ships in Narvik harbour during a blinding snowstorm, resulting in the First Battle of Narvik. A torpedo from Hardy blew off the stern of the German flagship Wilhelm Heidkamp and killed the German flotilla commander, Commodore Friedrich Bonte. A second destroyer was sunk by two torpedoes and three others were damaged by gunfire. Six of the eight German merchant ships present were sunk.

As the British destroyers withdrew they were engaged by five more German destroyers, during which Captain Warburton-Lee was mortally wounded by a shell which hit Hardy's bridge. Hardy and Hunter were both badly damaged during this stage of the battle: Hunter sank in the middle of the fjord, while Hardy was beached at Vidrek by Pay-Lieut. G.H. Stanning (Captain's Secretary). Stanning ordered the 140 surviving men to abandon ship, using one of the still working stern guns to return German fire. Captain Warburton-Lee was brought ashore but died after an hour from his head wounds. Hardy was lifted off the beach at high tide and drifted to the head of Skjomen fjord where she capsized in shallow waters. Stanning was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for his actions while Captain Warburton-Lee was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.

(Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hardy_(1936) )

HMS Hero and HMS Foxhound participated in the Second Battle of Narvik. (Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Narvik )

Photo taken in 2008 at the Lofoten War Memorial Museum (Norwegian: Lofoten Krigsminnemuseum), a World War II museum in Svolvær, Norway exhibiting a large collection of uniforms, mostly from Third Reich era Germany, and smaller items related to the German occupation of Norway 1940–1945.
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