The Channel Dash / Operation Cerberus - How to win through refuge in audacity

Well yes this was supposed to be the end of the year video before real life events moved forward but hey it's the new year so let's do a new year's video and I thought we'd do something a little special , a historical account of a navy. Participation has been done before and will be done again on this

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grow substantially. We know a five-figure level of subscribers and we pass. I've recently published my 100th guide and have literally years of content requests lined up thanks to all your feedback and of course our ancestors' ability to craft warships like they're going out of style, so today we're going to take a look. a good look. in Operation Cerberus aka the channel, in a somewhat special format, let me know what you think the format might come back in the future for some other major battle narratives, although it obviously won't be an everyday feature because this took Anyway, there was a lot of work, enough to make fun of the canal, or as we said, Operation Cerberus arose, due to two independent missions, the slightly successful Berlin

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, in the spring of 1941, where both Scharnhorst class ships They broke into the Atlantic trade convoys that some had had. successful, but also ran into a pair of convoys escorted by Revenge and Queen Elizabeth class battleships and had to turn back due to mechanical problems, as they had finished their mission sailing towards the occupied French port of Brest, which had a significant naval shipyard infrastructure. . that would allow the ships to be repaired in late 1941, Bismarck's first and last voyage had left her accompanying heavy cruiser and Prince Aegon somewhat at a loose end as she herself was developing engine problems.

She had also managed to speak in Brest for the same reasons, partly thanks to everyone else being distracted by the Bismarck and then having to return home for fuel and therefore unable to chase the Prince organ. The heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper had also ended up in a similar situation in early 1941, before the Scharnhorst s- - arrival and, despite five weeks of RAF bombing, had been able to return, cause further damage and then return to home by a reverse route to that later taken by the Bismarck, with tens of thousands of tons of shipments sunk by service traders.

Understandably, collecting chest and maintaining assault forces directly in the Atlantic was not pleasant to the British who had formed 19 Group, a Coastal Command division with multiple reconnaissance squadrons and some strike-capable units specifically for guard the port, plus this time Winston Churchill directed the British war effort specifically against any German assets capable of being used against convoys, so the Shawn horse would be on the receiving end of over a thousand bomber missions in its first months in the port between bad weather and the early hours of the morning. war problems with accuracy, there were no direct hits, but when Ginoza NOAA was going to pump out her dry dock to work the engine in April, they found a large unexploded bomb just below the ship, which had missed her by a very narrow margin and had settled to the bottom. of the dry dock during a night raid they very carefully refilled the dry dock and removed the ship so that the device could be deactivated, but constant photo reconnaissance missions detected that the ship was now temporarily out of dock and exposed while it was a tanker, so The next day, the Beaufort torpedo boats came racing through the morning fog and managed to hit the starboard side of the ship with a torpedo, although it was a fairly close race, as the successful Beaufort exploded on impact. direct heavy anti-aircraft fire at virtually the same moment that the torpedo exploded.

Ginoza's gnat began to list heavily and under normal circumstances could have been a fatal blow, but with rescue boats available, the damage was successfully controlled and the ship was moved back to her dry dock and now with even more damage. . To correct the estimates, about six months were estimated only for the weather to improve slightly, resulting in the next RAF raids seeking direct hits and two near misses. Fortunately, one of the hits was a miss, but the others would get stuck in the deformation of the front super-firing turret. The armored deck burned about a third of the crew quarters and damaged the artillery control systems, the most critical of all.

The kitchens and bakery were blown to pieces. A moment of silence please, as this left the crew to subsist on local French cuisine without so much as a sausage or sauerkraut leaf in sight. With this near war crime complete, the RAF then dropped some bombs on the Scharnhorst and It also failed, but managed to blow up several pieces of dock machinery that would further delay its refitting. Between this and a backup right that ceded the port with mines, there was no doubt that the ship was ready to withstand the Bismarck's voyage, so that when Prince Oigan showed up, it was simply a matter of lining up for repairs.

In the summer of 1941 the chest area became a sort of experimental free fire zone, as the RAF would try all sorts of new and inventive ways of blowing things up. New four-engine heavy bombers periodically appeared in small groups to try their luck, among other things, and in response the Germans installed hundreds of anti-aircraft guns of various types. However, the bombers found their target and in early July a direct attack front put Prince Aegon out of action for another three months. Shaun Horst, however, was luckier. and finally became

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al again at the end of July and quickly sailed further south to a port near La Rochelle / safety, the Germans did not want months of hard work to be undone again in a single night and this also ruined a complicated plan of the RAF to sink the harbor with bombs, however the new heavy engined bombers also had the range to hit Horst's new home and, despite significant losses to anti-aircraft and fighter defences, the RAF was bombarding both ports within days.

Scharnhorst would be hit five times in an orderly line on the starboard side. Two hits were high-explosive bombs and three were heavier armor-piercing weapons. Fortunately for the Scharnhorst, none of the Hill party exploded, two of them passed through the ship and one left an interesting puzzle for the bomb disposal teams as they reached deep inside. the hull, but between the effects of the exploding HG bombs and the holes left by the AP bombs, the ship was forced to return to the repair yards with 3,000 tons of unwanted water on board and 2/3 of her main battery not operational along with about half the anti-aircraft battery, although the ship and her escorts managed to shoot down a torpedo boat on her way to Brest, thus avoiding even more trouble, several thousand more sorties were flown due to a combination of bad weather and the improvement of German defenses meant that only slight damage was done. was further inflicted on the ships, mostly unfortunately upon the kinesin or that she would end up in the hands of the Shipyard a total of four times during her stay after the initial repairs were completed;

However, casualties among personnel in the shore barracks were becoming worrying enough that for a time they were actually taken out of the city at night and some of the more experienced crew were taken overland to crew others. ships and replaced by new recruits who would train on the ships in port while they were repaired. Additionally, the dock doors were damaged by a bomb. It struck at a point that trapped the Scharnhorst in the dock walls, the surrounding dock area was repaired and the city was beginning to make a creditable impersonation of the moon and as 1941 turned into 1942 it was clear that the longer the ship remained , there were more possibilities there.

It was another hit that delayed their ability to navigate and the next major AP bomb hit might not be a failure, it was at this point that salvation came from the most unlikely of sources, proving that even a completely crazy broken clock still can give the correct time twice. one day the Savior of the ship would be none other than the adult Hitler, through a combination of 11th dimensional thinking and luck he provided the basis for one of the most audacious plans in history, albeit in typical Hitler style, but almost all the wrong reasons the German Navy sees.

The High Command preferred to send the ships into the Atlantic and retreat through the Denmark Strait back to Germany via Norway, a route that several ships had handled before; However, this was now a plan because of the considerable risk that the British were watching chests like hawks and could easily get heavy units of the Home Fleet to isolate the Germans in a second battle in the Denmark Strait long before the Germans could get there, so Hitler suggested that they should go up the English Channel. Grand Admiral Rayder said this. For me it was impossible, good and valid reasons, the British would still see them leaving.

British intelligence would be sure to learn of the preparations and intensify the bombardment before the ships left and would have everything waiting for them. The channel was covered with hundreds of aircraft, dozens of submarine destroyers motor torpedo boats radar aircraft land-based radar secure weapons batteries minefields and other fun stuff sending the ships there would be downright suicidal against a prepared British defense effort, plus , the bombing of Brest was diverting hundreds of RAF bombers from the German industrial heartland and could still cause considerable damage. The Commerce rating if they were based on the French Atlantic coast. That clearly, the solution was to not tell anyone, not even the ship's crews, what was going to happen and then wait for a bad weather moment when our damn air plane. could not see the harbor without flying low enough to be shot down and then sending the ships in without warning or training and simply fleeing, he further reasoned that the RAF would bomb Germany again once the ships inevitably suffered serious damage. and that in any case the ships were necessary together with the more modern booty of the Tirpitz to form a powerful fleet for defense against the inevitable Allied invasion of Norway.

Yes, Hitler was completely convinced that the Allied plan was to launch a counter-invasion of Norway and then march his armies through Sweden to cut off Germany's supply of raw resources. The only problem with that is that no one in the Allied High Command seriously considered doing it, possibly in part because it would end up sharing a land border with Finland. and everyone had seen how well the USSR did a few years ago, as well as trying to supply hundreds of thousands of men and tanks in some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world, right in the path of every submarine. were able to gather some kind of fact, weren't they thinking a little but convinced that a Nazi Allied ragnarok was something Hitler ordered the plan to be made and Vice Admiral Otto Silex decided to please the Führer with a plan that caused the ships to leave ? at night and passed through the narrowest and most heavily defended part of the channel, the Strait of Dover, in broad daylight, he further noted that the Luftwaffe would need to provide at least 250 fighters to keep the RAF at bay; the Luftwaffe quickly refused citing the fact that it did not have 250 fighters operational in northern France on any given day let alone be in a position to guarantee combat operations from all of them in one location to the exclusion of virtually everything else.

Hitler, of course, declared that he loved this plan and that he would do it anyway and would blame the Luftwaffe if they could not create the necessary aircraft. Oh, also to Admiral Silex, since you were the one who came up with a detailed plan that shows how brilliant my idea is and how it will work. you can be in charge of everything, I'm sure he was excited, however, Silex was not an officer who would let a small thing like seemingly impossible tasks deter him and he set out to make the best of the situation. He worked closely with Admiral Tsar Factor.

Destroyers and torpedo boats were taken in the opposite direction of Brest to provide an escort screen. Submarines were taken out of offensive operations to serve as mobile weather reporting stations. The best route to navigate at high speed was plotted andminesweepers to clear routes through known British minefields where they overlapped with the preferred route, things like the cycle of the moon were even observed to identify the longest possible period of darkness and navigation was planned around a rising spring tide down the channel, which would give the ship a little more speed and possibly even lift them above any mines the minesweepers might have missed. operation sea lion were stationed along the coast of France every part of the kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe that was not in Brest practiced their duties gained the ships themselves did tests in the port approaches everyone in the city could tell that the ships were were going and so tropical helmets were brought on board and locals were ordered to carry mysterious packages labeled for use in the tropics on board the sins, obviously neither the canal nor the waters near Iceland were especially warm, clearly not They couldn't be going anywhere near there, the Luftwaffe at this point was still refusing to accept the ball completely, but someone decided to put Adolf Galland in command of the air operation and decided to work with Luftflotte 3 and mobilize their training units to make up the numbers, as a large number of fighters from that particular formation had been diverted. to the campaign in Russia, which is why the number of fighters was much smaller than the previous year, he also worked on new jamming techniques that attempted to reduce the range of the British coastal radar and the specially equipped Dorniers to 17 Beyond countermeasures electronics.

In his efforts, he even managed to persuade Fleeca Corpse 9 to attack RAF bases to try to reduce the number of nearby aircraft that would be available. A continuous system of fighter patrols was established to ensure that between 16 and 32 fighters were over the ships at any time. Overall, it was an impressively detailed amount of work for something that most of the officers involved were pretty sure would fail spectacularly, and for a large number of them probably fatally. The British, on the other hand, had not been idle, crazy and suicidal sailing upwards. the channel perhaps, but the British weren't exactly strangers to pissing me off and doing suicidal work, so they were prepared for such an attempt, rather than risking everything on a single roll of the dice, they planned a continuous massive assault to wear down the Germans and basically create so many chances of causing damage that, statistically, something would have to happen to achieve this end: the submarines were stationed off the coast of Brest, followed by no less than five travel lines made up of reconnaissance aircraft patrols The idea was that once detected, dozens of torpedo boats and motor gunboats would launch a massive torpedo assault followed by waves of light and medium torpedo boats, then heavy coastal batteries, and then attacks. new waves of destroyers, bombers and minelayer planes would harass the Germans all the way to the North Sea;

One hundred bombers and more than two dozen fighter squadrons were on alert along with Royal Navy torpedo bombers and Coastal Command and constant efforts were being made. It was done to reinforce minefields and lay new ones and this was being carried out with multiple aircraft as well as specialist minelaying cruisers, so it seemed that the British had done everything they could to counter any operation preparations. German or not when February 1942 arrived despite her best efforts. German plans began to become apparent thanks in part to the breaking of the Enigma codes by Bletchley Park, who noted that Silex had boarded Sean Horst and minesweepers were sweeping the channel.

This, combined with reconnaissance photographs, showed that the ships were in the water, not at the dock. and that they had increased the number of escort ships, clearly something was about to happen in case the Germans headed towards Italy, for some reason, the battleship Rodney, as well as the entirety of Force H, were ordered to enter the Atlantic from Gibraltar on February 10 with torpedoes. The bombers approached the coast and Bomber Command moved two hours ahead of the previous four hours. The submarine HMS Sea Lion kept a close eye on Brest and a broken communication referring to captured letters gave away the route.

Therefore, everything was prepared. To make this operation the worst naval disaster in the history of the Kriegsmarine, on February 11, as the sun set, Operation Cerberus began. The sea lion is waiting outside the port of Brest. The German forces are supposed to set sail at dusk to give them maximum time. In the dark, then the RAF appears, lads, there are a lot of Jerry boats down there, even more than last week, let's send them some explosive gifts, we should keep them bottled up for a while. Come on, there are so many down there that we can't. possibly I miss you all firing it seems that all the gentlemen are fine bring the torpedo nets and let's get moving we are already late The HMS sea lion sees nothing but some pretty explosions and returns to sea to recharge his batteries while a British agent in Brest is frantically signaling the Germans' imminent departure, but the Germans are blocking all radio frequencies and his message cannot get through.

The fleet gathers on the high seas, unknowingly near the path of the patrol, a radar-equipped Hudson bomber that is the first of five airborne tripwires. the first plane is already southwest of the fleet as it heads north and heads further out to sea despite a radar range of 13 nautical miles the next plane flies within nine nautical miles without noticing anything the screens are clear I guess Joey will stay put for the night he probably won't be able to find his way out of port terribly awful weather this is the fleet approaching a line to the southeast the next tripwire only there are no planes there damn ruined radars flashing again first head on Home the boys to the west haven't seen anything anyway the fleet is still west of the Harbo patrol line, which is still operating normally at its forward speed, they will be detected soon. control message that Fox predicted that he will return home soon.

They have been called to land before it really hits us. I can't land these old boxes blind. It's very quiet out here. Where did they all go, firing recognition flares and lowering their wings in salute? The first of Galan's fighters roared over the German fleet before taking to the sky to begin its daytime RAF radar warnings for German aircraft. flying over Lahav and considering them at first as air and sea rescue vessels, meanwhile the fighters patrol at dawn the fourth tripwire flies from Ostend to the mouth of the some but still finds nothing the German ships are still too far to the west the operators of the RAF notice something a little rough those rescue planes have been circling for an hour and a half and have been moving northeast gradually at about 25 knots, either it's a damn persistent swimmer who doesn't want to be rescued or something's wrong here, better send a couple of Spitfires to check it out RAF Fighter Command receives word that radar jamming started an hour ago and that coastal radar stations were detecting a formation of surface ships while in the air , yes, certainly, some drums down there, but do we want to leave it?

Come on, we can see it better, no. I'll tell the boss when he gets back to base. Telle ho. Oh, some Brits, our brains finally not, over here, are you half mixed up in the Messerschmitt? Now they are running away. Goering would give it to any idiot. the keys to a plane these days no wonder they didn't send that one to the Eastern Front it's nice and sunny here going around and around in circles come on god I hope I don't get dizzy two other RAF pilots decided at random We shot at German bases in France today and ran into the approaching fleet on its way to the French coast.

I say that there are many Germans. Too bad we can't sink a battleship. Wait a minute, there are a couple of fighters there. Let's try it, take this crazy German, oh hello, nice to see you, let me introduce you to the rest of the squad. Crikey, there are a few more who I thought would be better off leaving, let's hope they don't follow me through theirs. a cat, yes, and move away, finally there is something to do. Oh, black domed fire, come on, it's something, hey, you smell like chewing boxes. Cologne, come back here and fight me, hey, fine, run away, let's see if I care, let the Recon Spitfires land and report on a German flotilla and radar.

The stations have already resolved at least two large ships in this flotilla. 20 minutes later the second pair of pilots land and confirm the sighting in detail. Alarms and alerts begin to spread along the English coast incredibly as defense plans finally begin to come together. Get going the messages that are going out are telling everyone that not only has the German fleet been detected with air cover but that it is already entering the Strait of Dover at the eastern end of the English Channel. 250 bombers have been ordered to make preparations to fight, but the first 100 are preloaded. with semi-armor piercing bombs needing to reach 7,000 feet to gain enough speed to function properly and the cloud cover drops to 700 feet, the bombs are changed to high explosive bombs, the damage would only be superficial effects of the explosion, but the hope is that this will kill or suppress enough anti-aircraft gunners and distract the enemy fighters long enough for the torpedo boats and motor torpedo boats to make their run across the southern coast wake up and mechanics begin overhauling their planes the German fleet enters the narrowest part of the Dover Strait, 6 inches, 9.2 inches and 14 supercharged ensure that the batteries begin to explode, but fog limits visibility to about five miles, well below the German line of advance, they fire from all modes in the hope that their new radar would clearly establish the German positions would also allow them to detect the projectile flashes and correct them.

Unfortunately, this early war raid is not capable of such high resolutions and the cannons fire without correction haha, look at all the pretty water stains that your or a year doesn't take, I said. They shouldn't go there to collect all the fish you are measuring towards the end of the barrage. The German coastal guns on the French coast also begin a sporadic bombardment of the British guns, offering further distractions. Six Fleet Air Arm swordfish torpedo boats took off. For the attack led by one of the officers who have been part of the wave of attacks that crippled the Bismarck the previous year, located, we have been open for ten minutes and only one damn escort squad showed up.

I can see Jerry from here. do your best haha ​​and see you this time, all the fighters take out their squads with their fist for the homeland, yes, very smart, because since Petrak can sink me, obviously, never mind the damn biplanes, see what they did to him to Bismarck's anti-aircraft batteries? salted fish I don't want to go broke Looks like I've caught a case of German anti-aircraft fire Looks like people aren't coming back for tea and biscuits for the fifth time All the swordfish are destroyed although the Germans were astonished by the ferocious hits they received earlier After falling, Esmond's plane apparently refused to go down despite being on fire and badly shot up until a large shell, possibly a main shell from Scharnhorst, blew away almost the entire lower half of the plane, some torpedoes reaching the water, but they were easily They prevented five motor torpedo boats from making an attacking run but found their path blocked by a dozen boats.

They fired their torpedoes at maximum range and fell back to the motor gunboats which prevented a Narvik-class destroyer from attacking the last motor torpedo boat and two more arrived from Ramsgate. a little later, but it's too late and I can't prepare for an attack, several whirlwind fighters run completely unaware of what is happening and run into the German fighter escort and become entangled with them meanwhile, Beaufort's and his fighter escorts that they actually went looking for. the Germans get lost they find nothing and decide to return home several formations from Beaufort and Hudson meet with fighter escorts the Hudsons are a distraction to allow the torpedo boats to attack but both groups think that the other group is supposed to be in the lead and They spend the next hour and a half chasing each other in circles around the airfield before most of them land whenthe fuel begins to run out.

Some get fed up and leave on their own initiative. The German fleet is passing through a swept channel in a minefield, but the minesweepers have lost at least a figure of all the things that hit us and actually ran into something, fortunately, after a short stop time , were able to get underway again at 25 knots after resetting the Shawn horse's electrical system and pumping out some of the water that had left her three feet deep in the bowels, Admiral Silex transfers to the z29 to keep up with the rest of the operation, although this is the perfect time to attack an easy target, the British pilots are unaware of the situation and instead head to the main formation a few miles ahead, the lost Beauforts are He tells them where they really needed to look and two of them head back towards the fed up Beauforts and some Hudsons arrived sporadically along with waves of 73 Halifax heavy bombers from Manchester. and Sterling appeared in the first wave, followed by one hundred and thirty-four aircraft in the second wave, but rain and low clouds obscured the targets enough that only a few dozen managed to launch their munitions, resulting in no results. impact and the loss of 15 bombers to fire, all flying out to sea in fog with 20 more damaged during this period Shawn Horst fires so many AAA guns continuously that the guns are red hot by the end and one of the twenty millimeter guns explodes by the strain of six destroyers of The Noor command sails south for three and a half hours or make radar contact after one of them abandoned due to engine trouble about ten minutes later, they emerge from the Fog and are immediately attacked by the Germans in the In the midst of all this, the previously lost Beaufort appears flying through a confusing anti-aircraft screen and launches two torpedoes, both of which miss.

The Destroyers press their 3000 yard sister attack, HMS Worcester, taking hits from the German capital ships, but their attacks also fail, although Prince Aegon has to take violent evasive action to avoid an incoming torpedo the last Beauforts gain 35 more RF Baba appears little by little, but the clouds and darkness gathering means that the young hits are commensurate with the continuous German anti-aircraft fire having survived the seemingly random attacks during the day and now. Under the cover of night, the Germans appear to have a clear race to safety, however, by the time the defeat became clear thanks to enigmatic interceptions, Bomber Command had laid more mines in the swept Channel and now it comes, or now you can overcome them and take that entire block. and run some punch you need to get that issue back online ASAP after about half an hour the ship was underway again however the Scharnhorst arrives what a happy time to be you are mine hello , big strong helmet, you come here and let me hug you I'm sure we have chemistry SR Vassa I'm ore from a smart meter handsome doctor didn't that sound like acting a code dizzy for Tom friendly bushmaster tackle eyes loser say fix after about an hour without engine direction? or fire control Scharnhorst moves away at 12 knots the main armament and most of the 150-millimeter guns are jammed Ginoza now and the trace organ reached the Elbe andAfter having been diverted from Kiel due to thick ice on the canal, Ginoza now quickly encounters a submerged shipwreck.

The ship is then taken to a floating dry dock. Sean Horst arrives at Ville Helms Harvin waits for the ice to clear and enters the dock where he stays for two days before being sent to Kiel for further repairs on another floating dry dock, no wonder the whole situation has caused a huge stir in the UK, the Royal Navy freshly recovered from the loss of the Prince of Wales and the rejection. had refused to incorporate heavy fleet units into the response plan even though German torpedo bombers were hopelessly obsolete compared to the Japanese and the failure of RAF-level bombers illustrated exactly why such aircraft were virtually useless for attack moving targets and the RAF would come under significant criticism.

To make this decision, despite ambitious preparations, a combination of equipment failure, poor cooperation and coordination and a tactical error in thinking that many small attacks could have the same effect that a few large ones had allowed in the first successful transit of the channel through a hostile route. fleet in over three centuries thanks to all the valiant efforts of the men of the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force that day, they could all have stayed at home and in the end achieved almost exactly the same thing, as it was the mind that put the efforts days earlier that had caused the real damage on the German side Operation Cerberus was hailed as a tactical victory and Admiral Silex would earn a Knight's Cross, a promotion and be sent to defend Norway.

Technically, he did very well in the role of him, as no Allied invasion of Norway ever reached Norway. a fjord in private, although the Kriegsmarine saw the whole affair as a kind of strategic defeat that had been imposed on them by Hitler by exchanging a very real threat against British shipping for a theoretical defense of Norway and confining all important units of the Kriegsmarine to the north in the Baltic Seas, unless another pass over the home fleet was allowed, total British losses amounted to a pair of gale force winds from six Wellingtons, ten Hamptons, ten Spitfires and six Swordfish. , in addition to the destroyer Worcester, out of action for three months between 230 and 250 men.

The Jaguar and T13 torpedo boats were killed or wounded on the German side by near-collision bomb explosions and around 20 Luftwaffe aircraft were shot down, with around two dozen sailors and crew killed and some wounded, as well. of doubts about the damage to Prince Aegon, of the Sean class horse, would be torpedoed by a submarine off Norway a few weeks later and would spend the rest of the war in the Baltic. Ginoza was still in her floating dry dock when the RAF showed up a couple of weeks after her arrival. to prove that it was no safer than at Brest, it was due to be refloated in the next few days and had been resupplied with operational supplies and ammunition, so that when a single bomb pierced the armored deck of the forecastle, the fragments ignited charges in its forward turret and a large explosion through the turret derailed and burned the forward part of the ship, forcing a flooding of the magazines.

The damage was so extensive that it was decided to replace the bow entirely along with the main battery and place it on twin 15-inch guns, but by the time repairs had progressed enough to begin the conversion, Hitler had ordered the fleet of surface was scrapped after her failure in the Battle of the Arid Sea in December 1942, although most of the German fleet Escaping this fate denies this and Hell did not and her existing surviving guns were removed for use in batteries coastal. She would eventually be scuttled as a block ship and scrapped after the war. Sean Horst Oh would meanwhile be repaired in Kiel, the work finishing in July 1942 and thereafter. training exercises and you have rudder and a collision with you 5 2 3 would eventually arrive in Norway in March 1943 the only one of the three heavy units in Operation Cerberus that would ultimately be based there as to its final destination, let's tune in next week, that that's all for this video, thanks for watching, if you have a comment or suggestion for reviewing a boat, let us know in the comments below, don't forget to comment on the pinned post for dry docking questions.