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.
Names remembered ashore.
Charybdis graves in Howard Davis Park, St Helier, connect Jersey to the loss. The association’s record describes this place of burial and remembrance.
These are Jersey graves. The Guernsey funeral took place on a different island. Dated photographs help keep the places and their histories distinct.
The war cemetery in Howard Davis Park, St Helier, Jersey, where men from HMS Charybdis are buried. Photographed in 2011.
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