Season: 3 Episode: 39

HMS Glowworm was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1930s. Under the command of Lieutenant Commander Gerard Roope, she found herself in a situation where she was outgunned, outnumbered and alone.

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SOURCES

www.hmsglowworm.org.uk

Western Daily Press - Friday 12 April 1940

Shields Daily News - Wednesday 17 April 1940

Imperial War Museum

Western Daily Press - Saturday 01 June 1940

Western Gazette - Friday 13 July 1945

The German Invasion of Norway, April 1940. Naval Institute Press. Geirr H. Haarr  (2009)

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