| More than 6,000 ships, warships, merchantmen, landing craft and barges, sailed across the channel in marked lanes cleared by minesweepers. |
| He joined the Royal Navy when he left school, and during the second world war he served on minesweepers. |
| These were to include a close escort of six destroyers, four corvettes, three minesweepers, four armed trawlers and two ack-ack ships. |
| The Royal Navy committed four minesweepers to the operation. |
| The objective was to silence the forts so that minesweepers could clear the minefields to allow the fleet to force the Dardanelles and lay siege to Constantinople. |
| The two minesweepers became the first two ships of the Fijian Navy and were recommissioned as HMFS Kiro and HMFS Kula. |
