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Coastal Command often lacked resources compared with other home commands, giving it its other nickname of the ‘Cinderella Service’. An alphabetical account of the part in the Second World War played by the ‘Kipper Fleet’ as it was known in the RAF. Its main role was defensive – that of protecting Britain’s vital sea borne supply lines in home waters as well as in the Mediterranean, the Middle East and around the coasts of Africa. Coastal Command also acted in an offensive capacity, particularly in the so-called ‘Battle of the Barges’ in 1940 which helped deter Hitler from invading the UK, and in the Mediterranean and the Baltic, attacking German shipping.