On 8th April 1940 the Norwegian Fishery Protection Vessel Nordkapp suffers an engineering casualty and returns to port .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNoMS_Nordkapp
The Kriegsmarine supply tanker Kattegat sails undisturbed
"Kattegat was one of two naval tankers the Germans intended to use in order to quickly refuel the ten destroyers of the Narvik task force, enabling them to escape back to Germany before the Royal Navy could trap and sink them. ". ( Wikipedia )
Given the timing of the first battle of Narvik I suspect the Germans
destroyers would still have been caught but a lack of fuel influenced their actions so the presence of another tanker may have changed their responses .
As long as they got the fuel off Kattegat and she didn't get sunk in the initial attack . The Germans second tanker Jan Wellem wasn't sunk until the second battle of Narvik .
How may the Germans reacted differently with access to more fuel ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNoMS_Nordkapp
The Kriegsmarine supply tanker Kattegat sails undisturbed
"Kattegat was one of two naval tankers the Germans intended to use in order to quickly refuel the ten destroyers of the Narvik task force, enabling them to escape back to Germany before the Royal Navy could trap and sink them. ". ( Wikipedia )
Given the timing of the first battle of Narvik I suspect the Germans
destroyers would still have been caught but a lack of fuel influenced their actions so the presence of another tanker may have changed their responses .
As long as they got the fuel off Kattegat and she didn't get sunk in the initial attack . The Germans second tanker Jan Wellem wasn't sunk until the second battle of Narvik .
How may the Germans reacted differently with access to more fuel ?