Ok, i must resume.
First contact was made with group of kap. I ranga Guskov (10 MO, 3 MBK), which go to Bierke to land reconnaissance team. Fight was short and soviet boats soon retreat under cover of smoke. Flagman MO-106 recieved 3 hits, MBK-503 and 505 - 1 each. Damage was not serious.
Then T-boote search from distance coast of Bierke and headed back. Then came second fight - with screen of Narvi landing force. Their boss, kap III ranga Osipov, who send one after another 2 group of TKA (TK-53, 63, 152 - kap-leit. Usch'ev) first, and second (TK-41, 101, 103, 111) - later, when splashes of very first fighting was seen. Both groups attacking altmost simultaneously. Germans think, there was 15 TKA! But attack ended without result for both sides. TK-63, 101 and 103 recieved hits, but damages was light, except TK-63, which after 40 min was dead on water. Boat was towed to Seskar and after 2 days was again battleready.
T-boote then go NW, but there was no 3 MS-Flotille, as expected. There was only one way back - on old course, near Narvi. T-boote go there and met wuth another 2 groups of Osipov's force - more 7 TKA. This time, ulike first straight strike, one group divided in two and attacks with outflanking. This group recieved hit on T-31. There was 2 candidate: TK-37 (st. leit. Tronenko) and TK-60 (leit. Bushuev, with group commander, kap. III ranga Tichonov on board). For some reason i think, that hit was from TK-37.
I make very simple scheme of operation, just to image, how T-boote go.
- narvi scheme
- Narvi.JPG (29.09 KiB) Viewed 780 times
