Operation Wilfred

Operation Wilfred was a British plan to send, English troops to Norway and to provide the body of water between the Norwegian mainland and its islands with sea mines to prevent German shipments of valuable iron ore from Sweden by neutral Norwegian waters. The plan acknowledged that this action by the German Wehrmacht would not go unanswered and with a German response plan R 4 should enter into force, which provided for the Allied invasion of neutral Norway.

On April 8, 1940, the ambitious plan was put into action a short time later but again stopped when the Germans began with the invasion of Norway and then it came to the first direct confrontation between German and British troops.

Participating associations

Task force -WV (mouth of vestfjord )

  • HMS Renown - battlecruiser Renown class
  • HMS Glowworm - Destroyer of the G-Class
  • HMS Greyhound - Destroyer of the G-Class
  • HMS Impulsive - British destroyer
  • HMS Esk - British destroyer
  • HMS Icarus - British destroyer
  • HMS Ivanhoe - British destroyer
  • HMS Hardy - Escort Destroyer
  • HMS Havock - Escort Destroyer
  • HMS Hotspur - Escort Destroyer
  • HMS Hunter - Escort Destroyer

Task force WB - ( Bud headland )

  • HMS Birmingham - light cruiser of the Town - class
  • HMS Hyperion - British Destroyer H-class. First part of the Renown Monitoring Association
  • HMS Hero - British Destroyer H-class. First part of the Renown Monitoring Association

Task force WS ( from Stadtlandet )

  • HMS Teviot Bank - 5,087 tons of auxiliary minelayer
  • HMS Inglefield - British destroyer
  • HMS Imogen - British destroyer
  • HMS Ilex - British destroyer
  • HMS Isis - British destroyer
HMS Renown (1916) HMS Hunter (H35)
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