The Channel Dash was partly undertaken for this reason.

She took part to the Channel Dash, leading a torpedo boat flotilla.

JG 2 participated in the Luftwaffe air cover of the Channel Dash.

Better training, more aircraft and a higher quality of equipment would allow the RAF to avoid a repeat of the Channel Dash.

The so-called "Channel Dash", codenamed Operation Cerberus, would avoid the increasingly effective Allied radar and patrol aircraft in the Atlantic.

Cerberus (1942) - movement of capital ships from Brest to home ports in Germany (Channel Dash)

However while this experiment was being trialled, the ships made a daring escape from Brest to the Baltic, nicknamed the "Channel Dash".

After the Channel Dash, Vivacious returned to her normal North Sea duties.

She eventually returned to Germany during the Channel Dash in 1942, after which she too went to Norway.

Run The Gauntlet; The Channel Dash 1942.