Operation Cerberus

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Operation Cerberus was a daring World War II German naval operation in which major warships made a high-speed, heavily defended dash from occupied France through the English Channel back to German ports.

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Label Occurrences
Operation Cerberus canonical 6

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf German military operation
World War II operation
naval operation
characteristic close coordination of naval and air forces
surprise maneuver
codeName Cerberus
conflict World War II
consequence British failure to stop German capital ships in the Channel
German surface fleet redeployed to home waters
country Nazi Germany
destinationPort Brunsbüttel
Wilhelmshaven
endDate 1942-02-13
followedBy operations of German ships from home ports in the North Sea
hasAlias Channel Dash
involvedShip German battleship Gneisenau
German battleship Scharnhorst
German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen
location English Channel
North Sea
Strait of Dover
notableEvent German ships passed through the Strait of Dover in daylight
objective avoid British air and naval attacks on German ships in Brest
transfer German capital ships from Brest to German ports
opponent United Kingdom
opposedBy British coastal artillery
British motor torpedo boats
British torpedo bombers
originPort Brest
participant Kriegsmarine
Luftwaffe
Royal Air Force
Royal Navy
plannedBy Kriegsmarine High Command
precededBy German deployment of capital ships to Brest
result German capital ships reached home ports
German tactical success
riskLevel high
startDate 1942-02-11
subOperationOf Battle of the Atlantic
supportedBy Luftwaffe
tactic heavy air cover by Luftwaffe fighters
high-speed dash through the English Channel
mine-sweeping and escort by smaller German vessels
theater European theatre of World War II
year 1942

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Input
Subject: Operation Cerberus
Description of subject: Operation Cerberus was a daring World War II German naval operation in which major warships made a high-speed, heavily defended dash from occupied France through the English Channel back to German ports.

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kriegsmarine notableOperation Operation Cerberus
German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen tookPartIn Operation Cerberus
Operation Rheinübung followedBy Operation Cerberus
Channel Dash hasPart Operation Cerberus
Channel Dash codeName Operation Cerberus
Channel Dash alsoKnownAs Operation Cerberus