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    The Channel Dash was a major naval engagement during World War II in which a German Kriegsmarine squadron consisting of Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen, supported by a number of smaller ships, ran a British blockade and successfully sailed from Brest in Brittany to their home bases in Germany via the English Channel.

    English losses
    1 destroyer heavily damaged
    42 aircraft destroyed
    40 dead and missing
    21 wounded

    German losses
    1 battlecruiser damaged
    1 battlecruiser lightly damaged
    2 torpedo boats lightly damaged
    17 aircraft destroyed
    13 dead
    2 wounded

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