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Operation Chastity was a planned operation to capture Quiberon Bay and bring its ports into operation for the Allied supply operation but it was continually postponed and eventually cancelled.

How much of the supply problem would this one port have been able to reduce?

Wiki link here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastity


And the PDF it references makes for some very interesting reading

http://stinet.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA416387&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf

Pages 53 to 55 of the actual document state some of the effects of the failure to seize and develop deep-water ports – the British coaster fleet being needed for far longer than originally planned, ships returning unloaded, ships arriving geared for offloading at pier side using heavy cranes but having to offload onto lighters, ships having to be used as floating warehouses.



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