The War at Sea

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WAR AT SEA TIMELINE
28th August 1914. Heligoland Bight.
Successful battlecruiser support
of light forces based at Harwich resulted
in the sinking of three German light
cruisers and one destroyer.
January 1916. Unrestricted
submarine warfare bout two.
16th December 1914. The
bombardment of Hartlepool,Whitby
and Scarborough by four German
battlecruisers. There was public
outcry that the attack was against
civilians.
31st May to 1st June 1916.
The Battle of Jutland.
18th February 1915. Unrestricted
submarine warfare. Germany
declared the seas around Britain a
war zone and announced it would
begin targeting ships from nations
that traded with Britain.
1st February 1917.Unrestricted
submarine warfare bout three.
6th April 1917.The US enters the war.
8th December 1914. Battle of
the Falklands.The German victors
at Coronel were overwhelmed
by battlecruisers Invincible and
Inflexible in the SouthAtlantic.
1 st November 1914. Battle of Coronel.
German cruisers based in the Pacific
inflicted a major defeat on the British
off the coast of Chile.
24th April 1916. Lowestoft and Great
Yarmouth subjected to a 20 minute
bombardment by German battlecruisers.
24th January 1915. Battle of Dogger
Bank. A missed opportunity for
Admiral Beatty’s battlecruisers
due to mistaken signal messages.
5th June 1916. HMS Hampshire with
Lord Kitchener sunk by a mine laid by a
U-boat off theWest Coast of Orkney.
June 1915. Development of
hydrophones at Granton moves
to Hawkcraig Point, Aberdour.
7th May 1915. The sinking of
passenger ship Lusitania off
southern Ireland.
April 1917.The cruellest month –
huge loss ofAllied shipping to U-boats.
19th February – 18th March 1915.
Bombardment in the Dardanelles.
The new Queen Elizabeth with 15
inch guns,and the battlecruisers
Indefatigable and Inflexible, joined
in the bombardment.
24th May 1917. Convoys put into
operation in theAtlantic and loss
of cargo ships drops dramatically.
Autumn 1918. Minefield between
Scotland and Norway completed.
28th October 1918. Mutiny by German
sailors inWilhelmshaven.
9th November 1918. An announcement is
made by the Chancellor of Germany that
the Kaiser has abdicated.
21st November 1918. Under the terms of the
Armistice,the German fleet rendezvoused
with the Grand Fleet 40 miles east of the
Isle of May and was escorted into the Forth,
anchoring under guard off Inchkeith,
thereafter being interned at Scapa Flow.
21st June 1919. German ships scuttled
by their crews at Scapa Flow.