Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Daring Rescue of Prisoners of War - Norway 1940 Documentary" video.

  1. In summer it was shipped through the Baltic from Swedish ports like Lulea. These ports were icebound in Winter, hence the use of Narvik.
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  2. She was renamed Uckermark, and was a supply ship for Scharnhorst & Gneisenau during their Atlantic operation of January-March, 1941. On September, 1942, she sailed for Yokohama with a cargo of vegetable oil and fuel, and actually got there on 24 November. On 30 November, 1942 she was ripped apart by an internal explosion which destroyed her, the raider Thor, and the captured liner Nankin. It appears that a repair crew attempted to carry out welding repairs in a fuel tank recently emptied of gasoline, which really was not a good idea. 53 of her crew were killed in the explosion, and most of the rest were embarked on the blockade runner Doggerbank, which sailed for France, but on 3 March, 1943 was torpedoed by U 43. Of 365 aboard, only one survived.
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  3. Your grasp of International Maritime Law as it applied in 1939-1940 is clearly somewhat lacking.
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  4. Are you suggesting that Germany would not have invaded Norway if the Royal Navy had not acted as it did? I fear you will struggle to make such a case.
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  5. Which members of the crews of the merchantmen sunk by Graf Spee were 'nationals of a neutral state?' Perhaps you should read article 5 again.
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  6.  @TheEulerID  Which merchant seamen aboard Altmark, or Graf Spee for that matter, had given such a written undertaking?
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