that night he received word to expect an attack the following day by british capital ships escorted by a large number of destroyers and supported by carrier aircraft. "erich giese" reported that she was only capable of , although her torpedoes had been replenished from the damaged destroyers. the battleship and nine destroyers duly appeared on 13 april, although earlier than commander bey had expected, and caught the germans out of position. the five operable destroyers, not including "giese", charged out of narvik harbor and engaged the british ships. the ship did not have enough steam raised to participate and remained in the harbor. she attempted to leave the harbor after the british had driven off the other german ships, but her port engine seized up and left her almost dead in the water at the mouth of the harbor. while attempting to repair her engine, "giese" was approached by the destroyers and which fired five torpedoes at her. all of them missed and "giese"s torpedoes were equally unsuccessful. she did hit "punjabi" with six or seven 12.7 cm shells which holed the ship several times just above the waterline, wrecked her fire-control system, severed her main steam line and started several fires. casualties aboard "punjabi" were seven killed and 14 wounded. in the meantime, "giese" had managed to repair her engine after ten minutes of work and limped forward at her maximum speed of to engage the remaining british destroyers. "bedouin" closed to point-blank range and had her forward gun turret knocked out by "giese", but the latter was hit at least 20 times and reduced to a blazing wreck that finally sank shortly before midnight. eighty-three of her crew were killed outright during the battle, but the destroyer did rescue 11 men, although two subsequently died of their wounds. surviving crew members later testified that they had been fired upon while drifting in the water. the ship's remaining crewmen managed to get ashore one way or another.