SS Uhenfels
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SS Uhenfels was a German-built heavy-lift ship that was launched in 1931 for DDG Hansa. She was captured by the Royal Navy in 1939, two months after the start of the Second World War. The UK Ministry
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HMS Hereward, which captured Uhenfels in November 1940
Force K
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Force K was the name given to three British Royal Navy groups of ships during the Second World War. The first Force K operated from West Africa in 1939, to intercept commerce raiders. The second Force
SS Uhenfels
…being fined, they were interned in South Africa for the duration of the war. Uhenfels reached the Atlantic, but there she ran into the Royal Navy's Force K, which had been deployed in search of the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee. The force included the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal, whose aircraft had…
HMS Renown was part of the first Force K
HMS Aurora in 1938
HMS Lance entering Grand Harbour, Malta
HMS Cleopatra (photographed in 1945 IWM FL 5210)