Operation Seagull

For the Operation Seagull involving the Abwehr, see Operation Seagull (Ireland).

Operation Seagull was a British action during the Second World War to destroy several Nazi-controlled industrial targets including a smelter at Arendal, with the help of Kompani Linge agents from Norway.^[1]

Operation Seagull
Location At sea Result German victory
Belligerents
Norway	Nazi Germany
HNoMS Uredd	Cobra
Casualties and losses
42 lost, including strike team HNoMS Uredd sunk	None

On 10 February 1943^[2] the Norwegian submarine HNoMS Uredd was transporting the six-man sabotage team to Bodø when she hit a minefield laid by the German minelayer Cobra and sank, killing all 35 crew and the 7 agents.^[3]

In 1987, King Olav V unveiled a memorial to those lost aboard the Uredd, located in Grensen.^[4]

Team

• Lt Per Getz
• Sub-Lt Tobias Skog
• Sgt Thorlief Daniel Grong
• Cpl Sverre Granlund (also served as a commando during Operation Musketoon)
• Pte Eivind Dahl Eriksen
• Pte Hans Rohde Hansen