 Even the combined forces could not stop or even slow the Japanese advance due to their much greater numbers; to face the Japanese attacking naval forces, the ABDA command had a conglomerate of ships drawn from any available units, which included the U.S. Asiatic Fleet (fresh from the fall of the Philippines), a few British and Australian surface ships, and Dutch units that had previously been stationed in the East Indies.Major forces included two seaplane tenders ( and ), two heavy cruisers ( and ), seven light cruisers (, and , and [though "Boise" was forced to leave the area after striking a shoal on January 21], and ), 22 destroyers, and, perhaps their greatest strength, 25 American and 16 Dutch submarines.Being based on Java, these ships had to take on the central and western prongs of the three-headed Japanese assault.