The courage of the wounded was particularly noteworthy. For instance, Able Seaman Bailey, halt "frozen with cold and with a'hand shot off, sat for one and a half hours and never once murmured, Some of the wounded were taken in an ambulance to a small town fifteen miles away, Others were lashed on a sledge and ragged into town over a road which, for greater part of the way, was nothing but aw rutted take fil of En route to the town, the survivors met British seamen from. merchantmen which had been captured by the Germans and who were released during the action. The survivors were taken off on April 13 by: His Majesty's Ivanhoe after the Warspite and other British ships had accounted for the whole German naval forces in Narvik The Hardy led the third attack, but as she withdrew from this she and Rombaks Fyore.—Reuter. sighted three large German destroy~ fers steaming towards her from the direction of Rombaks Fjord. A Signal to withdraw was immediately made, and her speed was increased to 30 knots. At the same time, the Hardy opened fire on the leading JGerman ships. These were fung at the Hardy.
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