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.