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World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat.
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Battle of the Atlantic
Attempt by Germany during World War II to cut supply lines to Britain
The Battle of the Atlantic, the longest continuous military campaign in World War II, ran from 1939 to the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, covering a major part of the naval history of World War II. At its core was the Allied naval blockade of Germany, announced the day after…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
HMS Venturer (P68)
WWII V-class submarine operated by the Royal Navy
HMS Venturer was a Second World War British submarine of the V class that sank two German U-boats and five merchant ships during the war. Following the war, the boat was sold to Norway and was renamed HNoMS Utstein. She was scrapped in 1964.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sinking of U-864
1945 sinking of a German U-boat by a British submarine
The German U-boat U-864 was attacked and sunk on 9 February 1945 by HMS Venturer, a V-class submarine of the Royal Navy. Venturer was patrolling the waters around Fedje Island, off the Norwegian coast in the North Sea. The sinking remains the only incident in the history of…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
German submarine U-864
German World War II submarine
German submarine U-864 was a Type IXD2 U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine in World War II. On 9 February 1945, she became the only submarine in history to be sunk by an enemy submarine while both were submerged. U-864 was sunk by the British submarine HMS Venturer, and all 73…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Fedje
Municipality in Vestland, Norway
Fedje is an island municipality in the Nordhordland region of Vestland county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Fedje. The traditional economic activity of the inhabitants is fishing.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)