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 islands that gave the battle its name.
Sept-Îles is an island group off northern Brittany. The fighting took place in the waters to the north. German shore radar helped track the British approach.
The islands locate the encounter in the wider Channel; the photograph shows the landscape in a later period.
Île aux Moines and Île Bono in the Sept-Îles archipelago off northern Brittany. A modern view of the coastal setting near the 1943 action.
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