Royal Navy
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(113)1939
September
- 06
- Friendly fire in the first days of the warOn 6 September 1939 Spitfires shot down two British Hurricanes over Essex, and on 10 September the submarine Triton sank the British submarine Oxley.
- The Admiralty introduces convoysOn 6 September 1939 the first British convoys and the Northern Patrol set out. A day earlier U-47 had sunk the freighter Bosnia, the first of its kind.
October
- 14
- Orzeł reaches BritainOn 14 October 1939, after six weeks at sea, with no charts and a damaged radio, ORP Orzeł reached Scotland. The British had given her up for lost.
- The sinking of HMS Royal OakOn the night of 13–14 October 1939 Günther Prien’s U-47 slipped into Scapa Flow and sank the battleship Royal Oak. 833 or 835 men were killed.
November
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April
- 10
- The sinking of the KönigsbergOn 10 April 1940 Skua dive bombers from the Orkneys sank the German cruiser Königsberg at Bergen, damaged the day before by a Norwegian coastal battery.
- The first Battle of NarvikAt dawn on 10 April 1940 five British destroyers surprised a German flotilla at Narvik. Each side lost two ships, and both commanders were killed.