[2] In spite of a five minute delay, it was too dark for the planes to accurately strafe the air fields, so instead they attacked large buildings in the vicinity.

Following the main bombardment, Tromp, Quality, Quickmatch, and Quilliam under Captain Richard Onslow entered Sabang harbour, shelling Japanese positions and launching torpedoes.

Return fire from coastal artillery lightly damaged the ships, except for Quickmatch, causing some casualties and killing a war correspondent.

[8] In a report of the raid, The force arrived at flying off position in the early hours of Tuesday 25 July and at 4am the capital ships were detached to bombard Sambang along with Cumberland, Kenya and Nigeria.

[7] Operation Crimson was the final event of Admiral Somerville's military command before concerns about his health forced his transfer to diplomatic duty.