The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets - The Fall of the German Navy by Robert L. Drake
page 57 of 250 (22%)
page 57 of 250 (22%)
![]() | ![]() |
|
To bombard vicinity of Zeebrugge--Monitors Erebus and Terror.
To attend monitors--Termagant, Truculent, and Manly. Outer patrol off Zeebrugge--Attentive, Scot, Ulleswater, Teazer and Stork. At Dunkirk--Monitors for bombarding Ostend: Marshal Soult, Lord Clive, Prince Eugene, General Sraufurd, M-24 and M-26. For operating off Ostend--Swift, Faulknor, Matchless, Mastiff and Afridi. The British destroyers Mentor, Lightfoot, Zubian and French torpedo boats Lestin, Capitaine Mehl, Francis Garnier, Roux and Boucier to accompany the monitors. There were in addition to these, three American destroyers--the Taylor, the Alert and the Cyprus. Eighteen British motor launches for smoke screening duty inshore and rescue work, and six for attending big monitors. Four French motor launches attending M-24 and M-26 and five coastal motor boats. Navigational aids having been established on the routes, the forces from the Swim and Dover were directed to join Admiral Keyes off the Goodwin Sands and to proceed in company to a rendezvous, and thereafter as requisite to their respective stations. Those from Dunkirk were given their orders by the commodore. |
|