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MAPS
INDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations
Achates, HMS
engagement with Admiral Hipper
sinks after engagement
Admiral Graf Spee
Admiral Hipper
captains’ meeting
crew
engagement with British destroyers
engagement with HMS Achates
engagement with HMS Bramble
engagement with HMS Jamaica
engagement with HMS Obedient
engagement with HMS Onslow
engagement with HMS Sheffield
after engagement
damage from first salvoes
entertainment aboard
war service
Admiral Scheer
Aisthorpe, Lieutenant H.C., RNR
Altenfjord
Ark Royal, HMS
Ashanti, HMS
Austen, Lieutenant-Commander N.H.G., DSO, RN
Ayreshire
Ballot
Barents Sea, conditions on board ship
Belford, Smith
Bermuda, HMS
Berwick, HMS
Bismarck
Blankney, HMS
Bonaventure, HMS
Bramble, HMS
British Expeditionary Force
Bulldog, HMS
Burnett, Rear-Admiral Robert
Calobre
Chester Valley
Chiddingfold, HMS
Churchill, Winston
memo to General Sir Hastings Ismay, 17 May 1942
minute from Admiralty, 22 November 1942
cable to Stalin, 24 November 1942
Circe, HMS
City of Flint
convoy escort, life aboard Royal Navy ship
convoys
Excess
JW51A
JW51B
31 December 1942
attacked byützow
JW53
JW55B
PQ1
PQ8, 9, 10 and
PQ16
PQ17
PQ18
PQ19
QP14
RA51
Russian
SLS64
WS5A
Cripps, Sir Stafford
Cunningham, Admiral
Daldorch, SS
Denmark, invasion of
Destroyer Flotilla, 5th (laterh) (German)
Destroyer Flotilla, 17th (Royal Navy)
situation at.30 hrs, 31
December 1942
Deutschland seeützow
Doenitz, Admiral Karl
Dogina, Nurse Antonia
Dombass
Donovan, Connie
Donovan, Enid
Donovan, 2nd Lt (later Lieutenant-Commander) John Patrick ‘Paddy’, MBE, RN
Donovan, Mick
Donovan, Tim
Dover Hill
Duke of York, HMS
Dunedin, HMS
Edinburgh, HMS
Emden
Empire Archer
Empire Emerald
Enigma codesee also Ultra decrypts
Executive
Fiji class cruisers
Finland, surrender of
Flower class corvettes
Force ‘H’
Force ‘R’
engagement withützow and Admiral Hipper
Fraser, Vice-Admiral Sir Bruce
Friedrich Eckholdt
engagement with HMS Sheffield
Geneva conference 1927
Gloucester, HMS
Glowworm, HMS
Gneisenau
Goeder, Dr Martin
Goering, Reichsmarschall Hermann
Graph, HMS
Hall, Coxswain Daniel
Hamilton, Rear-Admiral
Hanko Peninsula
Hartmann, Kapitän zur See Hans
Hengel, Johann
Herschelb, Kapitänleutnant Karl-Heinz
Hess, Engineering Lance Corporal Heinz
Hitler, Adolf
belief that heavy ships should be scrapped
intentions for German fleet
launches Operation Barbarossa
Home Fleet battle group
Hood, Lieutenant Maurice
Howe, HMS
Hutton, Midshipman (later Captain) Michael, OBE, RN
Hyderabad, RIN
Illustrious, HMS
Jamaica, HMS
engagement with Admiral Hipper
war service