Table of Data Points

Tag : Naval

1917-03-16Action of 16 March 1917

After leaving port in March disguised as the Norwegian freighter Rena Norge, the Leopard set sail on its mission to disrupt Allied commerce

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1917-03-10Action of 10 March 1917

Although the Germans won the battle, their ship was badly damaged and they were forced to end their raid and return to Germany

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1916-10-261916-10-27Dover Strait (1916)

Two and a half flotillas of German torpedo boats from the Flanders Flotilla launched a raid into the Dover Strait in an attempt to disrupt the Dover Barrage and destroy whatever Allied shipping could be found in the strait

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1916-08-181916-08-19Action of 19 August 1916

Twenty four submarines were also deployed, off the English coast, in the southern North Sea and off the Dogger Bank

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1916-05-311916-06-01Night action at the Jutland

The battle was the only direct engagement between the two fleets throughout World War The war had already been waged for two years without any major sea battle, and many of the people present did not expect that this patrol would end differently

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1916-05-311916-06-01Jutland

The battle was the largest naval battle of World War I, and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war

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1916-04-24Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft

The German fleet sent a battlecruiser squadron with accompanying cruisers and destroyers-commanded by Rear Admiral Friedrich Bodicker-to bombard the coastal ports of Yarmouth and Lowestoft

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1916-02-10Dogger Bank (1916)

Three German torpedo boat flotillas sortied into the North Sea and encountered the British Fifteenth Mine-sweeping Flotilla near Dogger Bank

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1916-01-16Action of 16 January 1916

Most successful of German commerce raiders during the war, was commanded by Corvette Captain Nikolaus zu Dohna-Schlodien and was assigned to duty in the Atlantic

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1915-12-281915-12-29Durazzo (1915)

In December 1915, the Austro-Hungarian Navy sent another cruiser Squadron into the Adriatic, this time to interfere with the Serbian Campaign

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