How Pub Talk Almost Cost Us ; Ray Marshall Describes How the Germans Attempted a Raid On a British Battleship in the North Sea

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WE have heard stories before of how much the Germans were out of tune - or is it out of Toon? - with their intelligence on Tyneside during the Second World War, but this story really takes the biscuit, and cost the Kreigmarine two badly-damaged cruisers to boot.

It was a cold December night in 1939 when a small fleet of German warships ploughed through the windwhipped waves of the North Sea and slipped unnoticed into the approaches of the River Tyne.

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How Pub Talk Almost Cost Us ; Ray Marshall Describes How the Germans Attempted a Raid On a British Battleship in the North Sea

Covered by three cruisers, five destroyers laid a carpet of mines. Although things were hotting up at sea, on land this period was known as the phoney war, with the German Army still entrenched behind the Siegfried Line, the British Ar...

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