![]() ![]() Two succumbed to hypothermia and six were caught and executed. Of the ten men - who would later become known as 'the Cockleshell Heroes' - only two survived. The other canoes capsized in the rough waters near the Gironde estuary. There they attached limpet mines to the ships, damaging six of them. Only two teams made it to the port of Bordeaux. Instead, five two-man teams of the RMBPD disembarked from a submarine in the Bay of Biscay, tasked with paddling their folding canoes up the heavily-defended River Gironde. ![]() Planners were also reluctant to launch an operation similar to the recent failed raid at Dieppe. Several of the German ships there were known to be taking specialist equipment to Japan.Ī large commando attack was ruled out as too expensive. In December 1942, men from the Royal Marines Boom Patrol Detachment (RMBPD) took part in a raid against German merchant vessels at Bordeaux.
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