Battle of Pierres Noires

Battle of Pierres Noires
	Part of World War II, Battle of the Atlantic, Invasion of Normandy
Date	5 July 1944
Location	Iroise Sea, near Pierres Noires lighthouse48°12′42″N 4°54′53″W / 48.21167°N 4.91472°W
Result	Allied victory
Belligerents
Canada	Germany
Commanders and leaders
Dickson Carlile Wallace	Gerhard Palmgren
Strength
4 destroyers	4 patrol boats; 1 U-boat
Casualties and losses
	1 patrol boat sunk; 1 patrol boat damaged

The Battle of Pierres Noires was a naval action that occurred during the Allied Operation Dredger, involving several Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) destroyers and a German Kriegsmarine U-boat with escorts near Brest, France. The RCN force managed to sink or damage some of the escorts on the surface, but the U-boat was able to escape.^[1]

^ Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two. Naval Institute Press. p. 340. ISBN 9781591141198.

[1] Rohwer, Jürgen (2005). Chronology of the War at Sea, 1939-1945: The Naval History of World War Two. Naval Institute Press. p. 340. ISBN 9781591141198.

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