As the Allies began landing in Normandy on 6 June, the 5th Torpedo Boat Flotilla, now consisting of "T28" and three older torpedo boats, sortied multiple times from Le Havre over the next week in attempts to sink Allied shipping. Despite the expenditure of over 50 torpedoes and large quantities of ammunition, they were generally unsuccessful, only sinking the destroyer on 6 June. On the night of 8/9 June, the four ships of the 8th Flotilla set out for Cherbourg, but were intercepted by eight Allied destroyers of the 10th Destroyer Flotilla in the Battle of Ushant. The German ships had been spotted first and the British opened fire, with the Germans responding with a four-torpedo salvo from each destroyer that missed when the Allied ships turned to evade them, although "T24", the trailing ship in the formation, did not fire because she had no visible targets. The British fire was extremely effective, with "Z24", immediately ahead of the torpedo boat, badly damaged only moments after firing her first salvo. She was able to lay smoke and disengage, followed by "T24". "Haida" and "Huron" pursued the pair until they passed over a British minefield and lost track of the German ships after the Canadian ships were forced to detour around it.