sentences:  These officers approached Commodore Hubert Lynes and Admiral Roger Keyes with a refined plan for a second attempt to block the port.Other officers came forward to participate and Keyes and Lynes devised an operational plan to attack the canal mouth at Ostend once again.Two obsolete cruisers—the aged and the battered veteran of Zeebrugge, —were fitted out for the operation by having their non-essential equipment stripped out, their essential equipment reinforced and picked crews selected from volunteers.