Altmark Incident

When

16 Feb 1940

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

58.32° N, 6.34° E

Description

1940 WW II naval incident between British and German ships

War

World War II

WWII incident between British and German ships

The Altmark incident was a naval incident of World War II between British destroyers and the German tanker Altmark, which happened on 16–17 February 1940. It took place in what were neutral Norwegian waters. On board the Altmark were roughly 300 Allied prisoners, whose ships had been sunk by the pocket battleship Graf Spee in the Southern Atlantic Ocean.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “WWII: Altmark incident – British destroyer Cossack F03 pursues German tanker Altmark into the neutral waters of the Jøssingfjorden in southwestern Norway and…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Das deutsche Frachtschiff Altmark wird mit 303 gefangenen alliierten Matrosen an Bord vom britischen Zerstörer Cossack in norwegischen Hoheitsgewässern…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “incident de l’Altmark”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ノルウェー領海でイギリスとドイツが軍事衝突（アルトマルク号事件）”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• World War II1 Sep 1939 · World war · Deaths 75,000,000