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The Dover Patrol and later known as the Dover Patrol Force was a Royal Navy command of the First World War, notable for its involvement in the Zeebrugge Raid on 22 April 1918. The Dover Patrol formed a discrete unit of the Royal Navy based at Dover and Dunkirk for the duration of the First World War.
On 25 July 1917, ships of the Dover Patrol, supported by the Harwich Force, laid a mine-net barrage off the Belgian coast between Nieuport and Zeebrugge. [51] A group of six British destroyers led by Faulknor exchanged long range gunfire with four German torpedo boats during the operation. [52]
The Zeebrugge Raid (Dutch: Aanval op de haven van Zeebrugge; French: Raid sur Zeebruges) on 23 April 1918, was an attempt by the Royal Navy to block the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge. The British intended to sink obsolete ships in the canal entrance, to prevent German vessels from leaving port.
P&O European Ferries (formerly Townsend Thoresen), a division of P&O Ferries, was a ferry company which operated in the English Channel from 1987 after the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster, when Townsend Thoresen was renamed P&O European Ferries, until 1999 when the Portsmouth Operations became P&O Portsmouth and the Dover Operations were merged with Stena Line AB to make P&O Stena Line.
Dover-Zeebrugge Cairnryan-Larne Sold to Sungi Budi 7204291 Pride of Ailsa (1992–1996) Pride of Sandwich (1987–1992) Free Enterprise VI E (1987) 1987 1996 12,503 1,035 Dover-Zeebrugge Cairnryan-Larne Sold to El Salam Maritime. Lost 2005 7010509 Pride of Hythe (1988–1993) Free Enterprise V E (1987–1988) 1987 1993 5,044 1,132 Sold 6728563
Warwick commissioned on 21 February 1918, joining the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla, part of the Dover Patrol, seeing action in the last months of the First World War. [9] She took part in the raid on Zeebrugge on the night of 22/23 April, the attempt by the RN to blockade Germany's U-boat force stationed in Flanders , acting as flagship of Vice ...