Falke
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Falke was the sixth and last Type 23 torpedo boat built for the German Navy. The boat made multiple non-intervention patrols during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. During World War II, she played a minor role in the Norwegian Campaign of 1940. Falke spent the next several months escorting minelayers as they laid minefields and damaged heavy ships back to Germany before she was transferred to France around September. She started laying minefields herself that month and continued to do so for the rest of the war. After a refit in early 1941, the boat was transferred to the Skaggerak where she was assigned escort duties. Falke returned to France in 1942 and was one of the escorts for the capital ships sailing from France to Germany through the English Channel in the Channel Dash. She helped to escort blockade runners, commerce raiders and submarines through the Channel and the Bay of Biscay for the next several years. The boat attacked Allied ships during the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944, but was sunk by British bombers that same month.
Wikidata
speed 33 knot, length 88.5 metre, speed 33.6 knot, draft 3.65 metre, length 89.25 metre, beam 8.25 metre, beam 8.43 metre,
Kriegsmarine, Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven,
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Location: 49.4667, 0.15, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
8 places
| Type | Subtype | Date | Description | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| event | armed conflict | 1057 | Battle of Varaville | battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1415 | Battle of Chef-de-Caux | France, Kingdom of France, Republic of Genoa, County of Flanders, Kingdom of England, Crown of Castile, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, naval battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1415 | Siege of Harfleur | siege, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of France | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1759 | Raid on Le Havre | France, Kingdom of Great Britain, naval battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1798 | Action of 30 May 1798 | France, naval battle, Kingdom of Great Britain | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1940 | Operation Cycle | naval battle | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1944 | Battle of Bréville | battle, United Kingdom | Wikidata |
| event | armed conflict | 1944 | Bombing of Le Havre | airstrike | Wikidata |
| object | watercraft | Falke | Type 23 torpedo boat, torpedo boat | Wikidata | |
| object | watercraft | Priarial | Pluviôse-class submarine, submarine | Wikidata | |
| object | watercraft | SM UB-26 | Type UB II submarine, U-boat | Wikidata | |
| object | watercraft | USS Miantonomah | ship | Wikidata | |
| object | watercraft | USST 488 | preserved watercraft, tug | Wikidata | |
| object | watercraft | 1943 | HMS Pylades | minesweeper, Auk-class minesweeper | Wikidata |
| organisation | factory | Chantiers et Ateliers Augustin Normand | shipyard, shipbuilding | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Batterie d'Ecqueville | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Hennequeville Battery | coastal battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Houlgate Battery | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Mont Canisy Battery | artillery battery | Wikidata | |
| site | artillery battery | Vasouy Battery | coastal battery | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | HNoMS Svenner | S and T-class destroyer, shipwreck, destroyer | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | SS Galeka | ocean liner, shipwreck | Wikidata | |
| site | shipwreck | 1911 | HMHS Salta | shipwreck, hospital ship | Wikidata |
| site | tower | tour François Ier | fortified tower | Wikidata | |





