4 FW200's attack Isbjorn & Selis 31May42

[andy bird]

These Norge Icebreakers were part of Operation Fritham - Looking for any details of this attack, for a piece on F/L Dennis Healy.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Best regards

Andy Bird

[Rainer]

Hi Andy

The two vessels were not icebreakers: SELIS was a seal catcher of just 166 grt and ISBJØRN was an old coastal steamer (built 1894 of 437 grt) that had been captured during an earlier raid on Spitzbergen. There is some more information about these ships and their loss on warsailors.com:
http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/isbjorn2.html
http://www.warsailors.com/freefleet/...ts2.html#selis

[Chris Goss]

Andy
I have the reports on these attacks from the German perspective & is covered in some detail in my forthcoming book on Fw 200. I did ask a question on 12 OCH recently-search Op name

[andy bird]

Originally Posted by Chris Goss

Andy
I have the reports on these attacks from the German perspective & is covered in some detail in my forthcoming book on Fw 200. I did ask a question on 12 OCH recently-search Op name

Cheers Chris,
many thanks for the heads up,
Andy

[andy bird]

Originally Posted by Rainer

Hi Andy

The two vessels were not icebreakers: SELIS was a seal catcher of just 166 grt and ISBJØRN was an old coastal steamer (built 1894 of 437 grt) that had been captured during an earlier raid on Spitzbergen. There is some more information about these ships and their loss on warsailors.com:
http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/isbjorn2.html
http://www.warsailors.com/freefleet/...ts2.html#selis

Hi Rainer,

Likewise thank you for enlightening me to their true identity, want to get the piece as accurate as possible as the published pieces I've read say 'icebreaker's'

Cheers
Andy

[James A Pratt III]

The book "Wekusa" by Klington and Selinger which deals with Luftwaffe weather ops and first posted on this site by me has an account of this operation and the loss of these two ships.