A week later, the 105th Regiment finally set off.
Due to Wells's efforts and the green light from the Minister of the Navy, Shire's reinforcement fleet was quite luxurious.
The fleet consisted of five transport ships, two of which carried troops, and the other three carried supplies, including two respectively loaded with landing craft and amphibious landing ships.
Additionally, there were three destroyers and two Q-ships escorting them.
The so-called Q-ships are armed ships disguised as merchant ships, an invention by the British to deal with submarines.
They had armed ships masquerade as solitary merchant ships at sea.
German submarines encountering these "merchant ships" usually wouldn't sink them directly with torpedoes, choosing instead a more economical method: surfacing for a close-range attack, at which point the Q-ships would suddenly counterattack the submarines.
