Basic Overview
Date: 30 November 1943
Scope: Minor
Nature: Sea, Special forces
Status: Projected
Scope: Minor
Nature: Sea, Special forces
Status: Projected
Operation Details
'Cutlass' (i) was a British unrealised operation by the Special Operations Executive to to intercept a German prison ship in the coastal waters of German-occupied Norway and release the 30 members of the resistance who were being transferred from Narvik to a concentration camp (autumn 1944).
,The plan was for four motor torpedo boats to intercept and halt the ship of Rørvik. SOE agents were also to have gone on board the ship at Sandnesjøen to assist or to force the ship to sail for the UK if this failed.
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