The Channel Dash
Bill McNaught
- Region:
- South East
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Retirement hobby
- Fee:
- Paid: £45 plus modest travel expenses
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 9th August 2018
- Tagged:
- Military History | Ww2
The German Kriegsmarine’s ‘Operation Cerberus’ prepared to enable two German battleships to breakout of the French port of Brest and sail up the English Channel to return to their home port in Germany. One of Britain’s major failures of the war, when both the Royal Navy and the RAF failed to inflict any serious damage to the German fleet that reached its homeport largely unscathed.
Much of the Navy’s response was co-ordinated from HMS Forward, a maritime intelligence centre, buried deep under the South Downs just outside Newhaven.
Views: 1243 | Enquiries: 4About Bill McNaught
I started work in 1961 as a Westland Helicopters engineering apprentice spending 25 years with the company before moving on to manage a number of other aviation and defence companies. I retired in 2008 and started giving talks as a hobby. My talks are all the result of extensive research of the subject and I try and include as many pictures and film as possible. I particularly like ‘fascinating historical characters’ .
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