The First Ostend Raid ( part of Operation ZO ) was the first of two attacks Attack by the Royal Navy on the German-held port of Ostend during the late spring of 1918 during the First World War Hostile_encounter .

The First Ostend Raid ( part of Operation ZO ) was the first of two attacks Attack by the Royal Navy on the German-held port of Ostend during the late spring of 1918 during the First World War Hostile_encounter .

Ostend was attacked Attack in conjunction with the neighbouring harbour of Zeebrugge on 23 April in order to block Hiding_objects the vital strategic port of Bruges , situated inland and ideally sited to conduct Action raiding Attack operations on the British coastline and shipping Self_motion lanes .

The plan Arranging of attack Attack was for the British raiding Attack force to sink two obsolete cruisers in the canal mouth at Ostend and three at Zeebrugge , thus preventing Preventing_or_letting raiding Attack ships leaving Departing Bruges .

The Ostend canal was the smaller and narrower Expansion of the two channels giving Giving access to Bruges and so was considered a secondary target Aiming behind the Zeebrugge Raid .

Consequently , fewer resources were provided Supply to the force assaulting Attack Ostend .

While the attack Attack at Zeebrugge garnered Getting some limited Limiting success , the assault Attack on Ostend was a complete failure .

Further plans to attack Attack Ostend came to Self_motion nothing during the summer of 1918 , and the threat from Bruges would not be finally stopped Process_end until the last days of the war Hostile_encounter , when the town was liberated by Allied land forces .