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HMS Gazelle was a Catherine-class minesweeper of the Royal Navy (the Catherine class was the British designation for the United States Navy's Auk-class minesweepers).[2][3]
In May 1945, as the war drew to a close, a flotilla of eight minesweepers including Gazelle took part in "Operation Cleaver" to clear the German mine barrage off the Skagerrak, making way for a squadron led by the light cruisers Birmingham and Dido with four destroyers to return the Danish government-in-exile to Copenhagen and take the surrender of German warships in Danish waters. The force reached Copenhagen on 9 May, taking control of the German cruisers Prinz Eugen and Nürnberg after their surrender.[4]
References
- ^ "HMS Gazelle (J342) ex-BAM-17". navsource.org.
- ^ "HMS Gazelle (J 401) of the Royal Navy - British Minesweeper of the Auk class - Allied Warships of WWII". uboat.net.
- ^ "BAM-17". navsource.org.
- ^ "Cleaver – Operations & Codenames of WWII".
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