VESSELS AND CRAFT TAKING PART IN THE SIMULTANEOUS BLOCKING OPERATIONS AT ZEEBRUGGE AND OSTENDE

The Zeebrugge Enterprise

(a) Special services during the oversea voyage

Aerial Escort:

61st Wing of Royal Air Force.

Other services:

Special service vessel Lingfield. Motor Launches Nos 555, 557.

(b) Offshore Forces

Outer Patrol:

Scout: Attentive

Destroyers: Scott, Ullswater, Teazer, Stork.

Long-range Bombardment:

Monitors: Erebus, Terror.

Destroyers: Termagant, Truculent, Manly.

(c) Inshore Forces

Flagship:

Destroyers: Warwick (Flag of Vice-Admiral R. J. B. Keyes).

Blockships:

Light Cruisers: Thetis, Intrepid, Iphigenia.

Storming Vessels:

Light Cruiser: Vindictive.

Special vessels: Iris, Daffodil.

Attack on Viaduct:

Submarines: C1, C3, and one picket boat.

Aerial Attack:

Aircraft: 65th Wing, Royal Air Force.

Other Operations:

Destroyers: Phoebe, North Star, Trident, Mansfield, Whirlwind, Myngs, Velox, Morris, Moorsom, Melpomene.

Motor Launches: Nos 79, 110, 121, 128, 223, 241, 252, 258, 262, 272, 280, 282, 308, 314, 345, 397, 416, 420, 422, 424, 513, 525, 526, 533, 549, 552, 558, 560, 561, 562.

Coastal Motor Boats: Nos 5, 7, 15, 16A, 17A, 21B, 23B, 24A, 25BD, 26B, 27A, 28A, 30B, 32A, 35A.

The Ostende Enterprise

(a) Bombarding Forces

Monitors: Marshal Soult, Lord Clive, Prince Eugene, General Craufurd, M.24, M.26, M.21.

Destroyers: Mentor, Lightfoot, Zubian.

Motor Launches: Nos 249, 448, 538, and three others.

French Destroyers and Torpedo Boats: Lestin, Roux, Bouclier, and Torpedo Boats Nos 1, 2, 3 and 34.

French Motor Launches: Nos 1, 2, 33, 34.

British Siege Guns in Flanders.

(b) Inshore Forces:

Blockships:

Light Cruisers: Sirius, Brilliant.

Destroyers:

Swift, Faulknor, Matchless, Mastiff, Afridi, Tempest, Tetrarch.

Motor Launches:

Nos 11, 16, 17, 22, 23, 30, 60, 105, 254, 274, 276, 279, 283, 429, 512, 532, 551, 556.

Coastal Motor Boats:

Nos 2, 4, 10,12, 19, 20, 29A, 34A.

Covering Squadron for both Enterprises

Forces from Harwich:

Light Cruisers, seven.

Leaders, two.

Destroyers, fourteen.