Britain's limited role in the Cuban Missile Crisis

What was the United Kingdom's response to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Britain offered support and asked Washington what it needed, but the United States did not seek a major independent British role in the Caribbean.

Britain asked the United States what assistance it wanted during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Washington did not particularly want a separate British intervention in the Caribbean. Britain nevertheless had regional relationships and some associated activity because of its Caribbean connections. The exchange portrays the British role as allied consultation and presence at the margins of an overwhelmingly American operation.