history · 04 October 1940 · 84 years ago
Operation Lucid: British tankers War Nizam and War African, filled with oil and gasoline and to be used as fire ships, departed Sheerness and Harwich with 11 destroyers, 6 minesweepers, and a number of torpedo boats in escort. They were dispatched to destroy ports on the English coast that housed German invasion barges, but rough seas caused the mission to be canceled shortly after commencing.
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