15 Thursday Feb 2018
Tags
1918, bombardment, casualties, Dover, Dover Patrol, English Channel, Finland, Finnish Civil War, Germany, Great Britain, Imperial German Navy, Massacre of the Drifters, Royal Navy, submarine
Flotilla of at least 10 large German destroyers sinks a British trawler and seven drifters while hunting a submarine in Straits of Dover. Dover shelled by a German submarine; one killed and seven wounded. Spread of Bolshevist domination in Finland.
11 Thursday Jan 2018
Tags
1918, British Empire, Dover Patrol, George Hope, German East Africa, German Empire, Germany, Great Britain, Mozambique, munitions, Portugal, Reginald Bacon, Rosslyn Wemyss, Rovuma, Royal Navy, Sir Henry Oliver, Sydney Fremantle, Tanzania
War Office announces three columns of British troops from Rovuma river, from Lake Nyasa, and from the coast in conjunction with Portuguese in pursuit of enemy forces escaped into Mozambique. Changes in Admiralty: Rear-Admiral Fremantle succeeds Sir Henry Oliver as Deputy Chief of the General Staff; Rear-Admiral Hope succeeds Sir Rosslyn Wemyss as Deputy First Sea Lord. Vice-Admiral Bacon, Commanding Dover Patrol, transferred to Ministry of Munitions.
22 Friday Sep 2017
Posted in Naval warfare
Tags
1917, Belgium, Dover Patrol, Germany, Great Britain, Ostend, Royal Navy
Ostend attacked by British ships of Belgian coast patrol.
