In June she was detached from Home Fleet to be made ready for service in Mediterranean to support Operation Husky, the planned allied landings in Sicily.

Reporters are in effect barred from the town because the only planned landings are intermittent relief flights and Government military planes.

For the first time since they failed to hear from the spacecraft after its planned landing on Friday, mission officials and scientists spoke openly and often of the probability that all was lost.

Mission officials said the exact cause of the polar lander's failure might never be determined because they could receive no engineering data from it during the final 11 minutes before the planned soft landing.

In July, Nubian and Tatar prepared for Operation Zipper, the planned British landings in Malaya.

She carried out these duties into December, when she was moved to the Anzio area to support Operation Shingle, the planned allied landings.

The British government was unsure of Charles' planned landing.

The report's findings and recommendations included suggested ways to avert disaster with the sister craft, which has fallen silent since trying to make its planned landing on Friday.

After her arrival in Londonderry, she was nominated for special duties during the planned North African landings (Operation Torch).

Obtaining three-dimensional images of the landforms and geological structures of the lunar surface, so as to provide a reference for planned future soft landings.