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Battle of Audierne Bay
The Battle of the Audierne Bay took place on 23 August 1944 and was an engagement between German and Allied naval flotillas. Three Allied warships, which had already established control off the coast of Brittany and were lurking off Audierne south of the invested fortress of Brest, intercepted and sank eight German vessels of an armed convoy. This was the conclusion of Operation ''Kinetic''; an allied plan to intercept shipping and hinder Germans besieged at Brest.
==Background==
By 11 August, the Mortain counter-offensive had ground to a halt. To the east, US forces took Argentan on 13 August while British and Canadian forces closed in toward Falaise from the north, thus initiating the drive to encircle and destroy two German armies inside the Falaise Pocket. As the siege of the Breton ports continued, the focus of the war was quickly shifting further east.〔German pg. 161〕
Operation ''Kinetic'' had been set up by the Royal Navy Command Headquarters; the objective of which was to eliminate the German navy all along the French Atlantic ports.〔Paterson pg 264〕 Of three Forces of Kinetic - Force 27 under the command of William Davis, consisting of the light cruiser HMS ''Mauritius'' and the destroyers HMS ''Ursa'' and HMCS ''Iroquois'', departed Plymouth on 13 August to carry out a new patrol along the central section of the Biscay coast. With the Germans under the command of Marinegruppenkommando West on the move to evacuate by sea, the ongoing ''Kinetic'' had already scored two successes and was finalizing for the naval offensive in the Bay of Biscay to complete the success.
On the night of 22/23 August, under orders from naval intelligence the cruiser HMS ''Mauritius'' and the destroyers HMCS ''Iroquois'' and HMS ''Ursa'' were patrolling Audierne Bay between Brest and Lorient and radar soon picked up a large contact heading towards them.
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