IBCC Lecture & Supper Series - To Force the Enemy Off the Sea
‘To Force the Enemy Off the Sea’ - RAF Coastal Command’s North Coates Strike Wing 1943-45
Thursday 6th November 2025, 18.30
This lecture examines the important and hard-fought but little-known anti-shipping campaign successfully conducted by Coastal Command’s North Coates Strike Wing from early 1943 onwards.
After three years of war, heavily armed German shipping convoys were still sailing down the North Sea into Rotterdam, carrying supplies of high-grade Swedish iron ore destined for the armaments factories of the Ruhr. With great courage the “Cinderella Boys” of RAF Coastal Command had attempted to curtail this enemy supply line, but with limited success and while incurring heavy losses.
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‘To Force the Enemy Off the Sea’ - RAF Coastal Command’s North Coates Strike Wing 1943-45
Thursday 6th November 2025, 18.30
This lecture examines the important and hard-fought but little-known anti-shipping campaign successfully conducted by Coastal Command’s North Coates Strike Wing from early 1943 onwards.
After three years of war, heavily armed German shipping convoys were still sailing down the North Sea into Rotterdam, carrying supplies of high-grade Swedish iron ore destined for the armaments factories of the Ruhr. With great courage the “Cinderella Boys” of RAF Coastal Command had attempted to curtail this enemy supply line, but with limited success and while incurring heavy losses.
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