HMS Somali overwhelmed the armed trawler Krebs after a brief, one-sided exchange and rescued its surviving crew. The captured Enigma rotors and codebooks then supplied useful cryptographic material to Bletchley Park. HMS Bedouin sank a coastal ferry whose German passenger had forced its captain to ignore orders to stop, then rescued both men. HMS Tartar destroyed coastal shipping and the 9,780-ton refrigerated factory ship Hamburg, unaware that a naval demolition party hoped to seize that valuable vessel for the voyage home.
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Somali's gunfight yielded Enigma material
The raid's only naval firefight captured Enigma rotors and codebooks, while other destroyers intercepted or sank German-controlled shipping.