Entries for the tag ‘Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby’
An attack by the Imperial German Navy on 16 December 1914 on the ports of Scarborough, Hartlepool, West Hartlepool and Whitby, causing hundreds of civilian casualties and resulting in public outrage against Germany for the raid and the Royal Navy for failing to prevent it. 
- 16 December 1914: The Imperial German Navy’s official report on the bombardment today of Scarborough by the southern cruiser group under Rear Admiral Tapken
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