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.
A convoy under protection.
Münsterland and her close escort left Brest on 22 October. Five German torpedo boats followed to provide an outer screen, protecting the convoy’s coastal passage.
This German naval account comes from a British intelligence report compiled after the war from captured records.
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