The Obrestad line

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  1. Ken Moore

    Ken Moore Member

    Simple question, what was The Obrestad line (used for deploying Subs in the North Sea) and where was it? (start end points or area covered etc)

    Thanks in anticipation
     
  2. davidbfpo

    davidbfpo Patron Patron

    Try: 'The Gathering Storm: The Naval War in Northern Europe September 1939 - April 1940' By Geirr H. Haarr. It can be searched via Google Books and Obrestad appears five times. See: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edit...="Obrestad+line"&pg=PT384&printsec=frontcover

    A 2001 St Andrews PhD thesis refers to Montrose-Obrestad Line,; the format is awful to read and it may appear elsewhere:
    NORTH WESTERN APPROACHES : OPERATIONAL ASPECTS OF SCOTLAND'S MARITIME ROLE IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR by Andrew Jeffrey
    See: https://research-repository.st-andr...d=B47159130A842D89E7FB9194D52EDD6D?sequence=3

    It appears from numerous naval references the Obrestad Line (was named after the Norwegian town of the same name).
     
  3. Ken Moore

    Ken Moore Member

    Many thanks. I spotted the Norwegian town but had no idea which way or area it went. Great help.
     
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  5. Ken Moore

    Ken Moore Member

    I have been reading it, great thanks.
     

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