"29 wounded" . "and five motor launches" . . "border|22pxUnited Kingdom" . "border|22pxGerman Empire" . "with aerial support" . "18 dead," . "HMS Vindictive sunk in Ostend harbour but only partially blocked the canal." . "Launch ML254 sunk," . "fourmonitors," . . "1918-05-09Z"^^ . "eightdestroyers" . "The Second Ostend Raid (officially known as Operation VS) was the later of two failed attempts made during the spring of 1918 by the United Kingdom's Royal Navy to block the channels leading to the Belgian port of Ostend as a part of its conflict with the German Empire during World War I."@en . "Shore defences" . "," . . . "Second Ostend Raid"@en .