21. WWI: The Battle of Dogger Bank (1915)

The year 1915 was a significant year for the participants of the Great War, and a great many memorable events occurred. The Gallipoli Campaign commenced, along with the Raid on the Suez Canal, the Second Battle of Ypres began, the RMS Lusitania passenger ship was sent to the seabed by a German U-Boat, to name a few. A lot was happening. The Great War was heating up. These campaigns, events and battles are definitely areas of WWI that most military history enthusiasts have heard of, but have you heard of the Battle of Dogger Bank?

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Sources:

Germany's high sea fleet in the World War, written by Carl Friedrich Heinrich Reinhard Scheer (Admiral in the Imperial German Navy)

https://archive.org/details/germanyshighseaf00sche

The king's ships were at sea : the war in the North Sea, August 1914-February 1915

by Goldrick, James https://archive.org/details/kingsshipswereat0000gold/page/n5/mode/2up

https://archive.org/details/navaloperations00newbgoog/page/n14/mode/2up (from page 82)

Philbin, Tobias R., III (1982). Admiral von Hipper: The Inconvenient Hero. Amsterdam: B. R. Grüner Publishing Co.

Battle of Dogger Bank:

https://navymuseum.co.nz/explore/by-themes/world-war-one/battle-of-dogger-bank/

The Battle of Dogger Bank as then Lieutenant AD Boyle serving in HMS New Zealand recalled it: https://navymuseum.co.nz/explore/by-themes/world-war-one/battle-of-dogger-bank-lt-a-d-boyle/

SIGINT and Electronic Warfare (As it relates to Room 40) https://web.archive.org/web/20120805161935/http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_spectrum/electronic_warfare.pdf

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-war-at-sea

https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-articles/the-battle-of-dogger-bank-january-1915/

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