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Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)

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The Battle of Dogger Bank was a naval engagement on 24 January 1915, near the Dogger Bank in the North Sea, during the First World War, between squadrons of the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet. [1]

65 relations: Admiralty, Angle of list, Armored cruiser, Barbette, Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914), Battle of Jutland, Battle of Trafalgar, Battle off Texel, Battlecruiser, Castles of Steel, Cuxhaven, David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, Destroyer, Dogger Bank, Dreadnought, Dry dock, Edward Eden Bradford, First Lord of the Admiralty, Franz von Hipper, Freedom of the seas, Friedrich von Ingenohl, Gordon Moore (Royal Navy officer), Grand Fleet, Gun turret, Harwich, Harwich Force, Henry Oliver, High Seas Fleet, Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, Hugo von Pohl, Humber, I Scouting Group, III Battle Squadron, Imperial German Navy, Indirect fire, Jade (river), Jade Bight, James Alfred Ewing, John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Julian Corbett, Light cruiser, Magazine (artillery), North Sea, Oxford University Press, Port and starboard, Radio, Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby, Ralph Seymour (Royal Navy officer), Range of a projectile, Reginald Tyrwhitt, ..., Room 40, Salvo, Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet, Visibility, Wilhelm Heidkamp, Wilhelm II, German Emperor, William Goodenough, Winston Churchill, Wireless, World War I, Zeppelin, 1st Battlecruiser Squadron, 2nd Battle Squadron, 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron, 3rd Battle Squadron. Expand index (15 more) »

Admiralty

The Admiralty, originally known as the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs, was the government department responsible for the command of the Royal Navy firstly in the Kingdom of England, secondly in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and from 1801 to 1964, the United Kingdom and former British Empire.

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Angle of list

The angle of list is the degree to which a vessel heels (leans or tilts) to either port or starboard.

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Armored cruiser

The armored cruiser was a type of warship of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Barbette

Barbettes are several types of gun emplacement in terrestrial fortifications or on naval ships.

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Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914)

The First Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first naval battle of the First World War, fought on 28 August 1914, between the United Kingdom and Germany.

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Battle of Jutland

The Battle of Jutland (Skagerrakschlacht, the Battle of Skagerrak) was a naval battle fought by the British Royal Navy's Grand Fleet under Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, against the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet under Vice-Admiral Reinhard Scheer during the First World War.

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Battle of Trafalgar

The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1796–1815).

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Battle off Texel

The Battle off Texel, also known as the Action off Texel or the Action of 17 October 1914, was a naval battle off the coast of the Dutch island of Texel during the First World War.

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Battlecruiser

The battlecruiser, or battle cruiser, was a type of capital ship of the first half of the 20th century.

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Castles of Steel

Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea is a work of non-fiction by Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert K. Massie.

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Cuxhaven

Cuxhaven is an independent town and seat of the Cuxhaven district, in Lower Saxony, Germany.

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David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty

Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (17 January 1871 – 11 March 1936) was a Royal Navy officer.

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Destroyer

In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy or battle group and defend them against smaller powerful short-range attackers.

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Dogger Bank

Dogger Bank (Dutch: Doggersbank, German: Doggerbank, Danish: Doggerbanke) is a large sandbank in a shallow area of the North Sea about off the east coast of England.

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Dreadnought

The dreadnought was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century.

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Dry dock

A dry dock (sometimes dry-dock or drydock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform.

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Edward Eden Bradford

Admiral Sir Edward Eden Bradford GCB CVO (10 December 1858 – 25 November 1935) was a British naval officer, who commanded the 3rd Battle Squadron of the Grand Fleet until May 1916, and wrote Admiral of the Fleet Arthur Knyvet Wilson's biography.

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First Lord of the Admiralty

The First Lord of the Admiralty, or formally the Office of the First Lord of the Admiralty, was the political head of the Royal Navy who was the government's senior adviser on all naval affairs and responsible for the direction and control of Admiralty Department as well as general administration of the Naval Service of the United Kingdom, that encompassed the Royal Navy, the Royal Marines and other services.

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Franz von Hipper

Franz Ritter von Hipper (13 September 1863 – 25 May 1932) was an admiral in the German Imperial Navy (Kaiserliche Marine).

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Freedom of the seas

Freedom of the seas (mare liberum, lit. "free sea") is a principle in the international law and sea.

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Friedrich von Ingenohl

Gustav Heinrich Ernst Friedrich von Ingenohl (30 June 1857, in Neuwied – 19 December 1933, in Berlin) was a German admiral from Neuwied best known for his command of the German High Seas Fleet at the beginning of World War I. He was the son of a tradesman.

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Gordon Moore (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson Moore KCB CVO (2 February 1862 – 2 April 1934) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Third Sea Lord.

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Grand Fleet

The Grand Fleet was the main fleet of the British Royal Navy during the First World War.

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Gun turret

A gun turret is a location from which weapons can be fired that affords protection, visibility, and some cone of fire.

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Harwich

Harwich is a town in Essex, England and one of the Haven ports, located on the coast with the North Sea to the east.

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Harwich Force

The Harwich Force was a squadron of the Royal Navy, formed during the First World War and based in Harwich.

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Henry Oliver

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Francis Oliver, (22 January 1865 – 15 October 1965) was a Royal Navy officer.

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High Seas Fleet

The High Seas Fleet (Hochseeflotte) was the battle fleet of the German Imperial Navy and saw action during the First World War.

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Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson

Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was a British flag officer in the Royal Navy.

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Hugo von Pohl

Hugo von Pohl (25 August 1855 – 23 February 1916) was a German admiral who served during the First World War.

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Humber

The Humber is a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England.

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I Scouting Group

The I Scouting Group was a special reconnaissance unit within the German Kaiserliche Marine.

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III Battle Squadron

The III Battle Squadron was a unit of the German High Seas Fleet before and during World War I. The squadron saw action throughout the war, including the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, where it formed the front of the German line.

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Imperial German Navy

The Imperial German Navy ("Imperial Navy") was the navy created at the time of the formation of the German Empire.

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Indirect fire

Indirect fire is aiming and firing a projectile without relying on a direct line of sight between the gun and its target, as in the case of direct fire.

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Jade (river)

The Jade (in its upper course: Geestrandtief) is a 30 km long river in Lower Saxony, northwestern Germany.

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Jade Bight

The Jade Bight (or Jade Bay; Jadebusen) is a bight or bay on the North Sea coast of Germany.

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James Alfred Ewing

Sir James Alfred Ewing KCB FRS FRSE MInstitCE (27 March 1855 − 7 January 1935) was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, hysteresis.

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John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe

Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, (5 December 1859 – 20 November 1935) was a Royal Navy officer.

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Julian Corbett

Sir Julian Stafford Corbett (12 November 1854 at Walcot House, Kennington Road, Lambeth – 21 September 1922 at Manor Farm, Stopham, Pulborough, Sussex) was a prominent British naval historian and geostrategist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, whose works helped shape the Royal Navy's reforms of that era.

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Light cruiser

A light cruiser is a type of small- or medium-sized warship.

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Magazine (artillery)

Magazine is the name for an item or place within which ammunition or other explosive material is stored.

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North Sea

The North Sea (Mare Germanicum) is a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean located between Great Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Port and starboard

Port and starboard are nautical and aeronautical terms for left and right, respectively.

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Radio

Radio is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space, such as their amplitude, frequency, phase, or pulse width.

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Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby

The Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby on 16 December 1914, was an attack by the Imperial German Navy on the British ports of Scarborough, Hartlepool, West Hartlepool and Whitby.

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Ralph Seymour (Royal Navy officer)

Commander Ralph Frederick Seymour, RN, CMG, DSO, born 6 January 1886, d. 4 October 1922, was a British naval officer.

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Range of a projectile

In physics, assuming a flat Earth with a uniform gravity field, and no air resistance, a projectile launched with specific initial conditions will have a predictable range.

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Reginald Tyrwhitt

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet GCB, DSO (10 May 1870 – 30 May 1951) was a Royal Navy officer.

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Room 40

In the history of cryptanalysis, Room 40, also known as 40 O.B. (Old Building) (latterly NID25) was the section in the British Admiralty most identified with the British cryptanalysis effort during the First World War, in particular the interception and decoding of the Zimmermann Telegram which played a role in bringing the United States into the War.

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Salvo

A salvo is the simultaneous discharge of artillery or firearms including the firing of guns either to hit a target or to perform a salute.

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Sir George Warrender, 7th Baronet

Vice-Admiral Sir George John Scott Warrender of Lochend, 7th Baronet, (31 July 1860 – 8 January 1917) was a senior officer in the Royal Navy during the First World War.

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Visibility

In meteorology, visibility is a measure of the distance at which an object or light can be clearly discerned.

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Wilhelm Heidkamp

Pumpenmeister (mil. rank: Maat) Wilhelm Heidkamp (20 January 1883 – October 1931) was a German sailor who fought in World War I. Heidkamp was born in Herkenrath and joined the Imperial German Navy as a machinist in 1902.

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Wilhelm II, German Emperor

Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert von Hohenzollern; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918.

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William Goodenough

Admiral Sir William Edmund Goodenough (2 June 1867 – 30 January 1945) was a senior Royal Navy officer of World War I. He was the son of James Graham Goodenough.

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Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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Wireless

Wireless communication, or sometimes simply wireless, is the transfer of information or power between two or more points that are not connected by an electrical conductor.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Zeppelin

A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship named after the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who pioneered rigid airship development at the beginning of the 20th century.

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1st Battlecruiser Squadron

The First Battlecruiser Squadron was a Royal Navy squadron of battlecruisers that saw service as part of the Grand Fleet during the First World War.

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2nd Battle Squadron

The 2nd Battle Squadron was a naval squadron of the British Royal Navy consisting of battleships.

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2nd Battlecruiser Squadron

The 2nd Battlecruiser Squadron was a Royal Navy squadron of battlecruisers that saw service as part of the Grand Fleet during the First World War.

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3rd Battle Squadron

The 3rd Battle Squadron was a naval squadron of the British Royal Navy consisting of battleships and other vessels, active from at least 1914 to 1945.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dogger_Bank_(1915)

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