Across a narrow sea.
A story that reaches further.
Discover where the ships sailed, where the attack unfolded, and where communities remember. Choose a place to connect the landscape with the people and events.
Both ship models, geographic terrain and a playable interpretive sequence.
Choose a marker or a place below. The shaded sea area is approximate; it does not locate the wrecks or plot the ships’ tracks.
Coastline: Natural Earth, public domain. A modern, generalised outline; place markers give geographic context.
The port they sailed from.
Force 28 left Plymouth at about 19:00 on 22 October. Charybdis led six destroyers into the Channel. The surviving ships returned at about 10:00 the next morning, carrying men rescued from both lost ships.
For the survivors, returning to port began another part of the story.
Shopping among temporary stalls and sheds in bomb-damaged Plymouth, May 1943—the city from which the October operation would sail.
History and geography, together.
The map introduces the Channel setting. Read the full story and the original sources for the ships’ reported movements, timings and the human experience of the night.
Read the full history