The Battles Of Coronel And The Falklands 1914

Author : Geoffrey Bennett
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473834859

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The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands, 1914 by Geoffrey Bennett Pdf

The defeat that Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock suffered at Coronel in 1914 at the hands of Maximilian Graf von Spee, one of Germany's most brilliant naval commanders, was the most humiliating blow to British naval prestige since the eighteenth century and a defeat that had to be avenged immediately. On 8 December 1914, the German squadron steamed towards Port Stanley, unaware that in the harbour lay two great British battle-cruisers, the 'Invincible' and 'Inflexible'. Realizing this, Spee had no option but to turn and flee. Hour by hour during that long day, the British ships closed in until, eventually, Spee was forced to confront the enemy. With extraordinary courage, and against hopeless odds, the German cruisers fought to the bitter end. At five-thirty that afternoon, the last ship slowly turned and rolled to the bottom. Cradock and Britain had been avenged.

Author : Michael McNally
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782002987

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Coronel and Falklands 1914 by Michael McNally Pdf

A highly illustrated account of the naval battles of Coronel and the Falklands in 1914, which saw the destruction of both British and German squadrons. Upon the outbreak of war, the British Royal Navy was deployed globally, whilst the Imperial German Navy was concentrated in two areas – Home Waters and Tsingtao, the home port of the crack East Asia Cruiser Squadron which, under the command of Admiral von Spee contained some of Germany's most modern cruisers. As Spee made his way to the Chilean port of Valparaiso, he met the British 4th Cruiser Squadron which had been ordered to engage and defeat the German force. This resulted in the battle of Coronel where the antiquated British warships proved no match for Spee's modern cruisers. It was the first naval defeat suffered by the Royal Navy in over 100 years. When news reached London, panic reigned and two ships HMS Inflexible and Invincible were sent to lead the force against Spee. When bad weather delayed the German arrival, Spee knew that he had to stand and fight, unaware that amongst the ships opposing him were two modern battlecruisers which outclassed any of his own squadron's ships. Given the presence of Inflexible and Invincible, the result of the battle had an inevitable outcome and after several hours hard combat, Spee's ships were defeated.

Author : Capt. Geoffrey Bennett
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787207011

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Coronel and the Falklands by Capt. Geoffrey Bennett Pdf

On 1 November 1914, off the coast of Chile near Coronel, ships of the German and British navies exchanged fire, resulting in the sinking of two British ships HMS Monmouth and HMS Good Hope with the loss of nearly 1,600 sailors. To counter the German squadron, the Royal Navy sent two battle-cruisers—Inflexible and Invincible—to the South Atlantic. In December 1914, the British battle-cruisers, accompanied by smaller ships, engaged the German squadron during the Battle of the Falkland Islands and sank the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau near the Falkland Islands. First published in 1962, this is a gripping account of the World War I British-German naval battles off the coast of South America, and an examination of the issue of Britain’s preparation for naval warfare in 1914.

Author : Phil Carradice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Coronel, Battle of, 1914
ISBN : 1781553475

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The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands by Phil Carradice Pdf

The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands: British Naval Campaigns in the Southern Hemisphere 1914-15 tells the story of British cruiser warfare and naval strategy in the Southern Atlantic during the First World War. This was the last naval campaign that was fought just by surface ships without the intrusion of modern technology such as aircraft, submarines and mines. German commerce raiders had been at large in the southern oceans since the declaration of war on 4 August 1914 and it was imperative that British forces should hunt and destroy them before they caused untold damage to British trade. The campaign to bring a German squadron to battle met with disaster (The Battle of Coronel) before final victory at the Falkland Islands. Individual raiders such as the Emden, Dresden and Konigsburg were also hunted and destroyed in a fascinating series of actions where bravery and courage were displayed by both sides.

Author : Geoffrey Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Coronel, Battle of, 1914
ISBN : OCLC:220729202

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Coronel and the Falklands by Geoffrey Bennett Pdf

Author : Keith Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Coronel, Battle of, 1914
ISBN : OCLC:252503031

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Coronel by Keith Phillips Pdf

Author : H. Spencer-Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0857064711

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The Battle of the Falkland Islands 1914 by H. Spencer-Cooper Pdf

The Royal Navy strikes back In the final months of the first year of the First World War a squadron of the Imperial German Navy under von Spee decisively destroyed a weaker British force under Cradock off the coast of South America. This action in the Southern Pacific, known as the Battle of Coronel (after the nearest coastal town in Chile) delivered a decisive blow to the prestige and perception of British sea power and prompted a determined and powerfully resourced retaliatory response from the British Admiralty which would lead to the events described in this book, the Battle of the Falkland Islands. The German cruiser squadron comprised two armoured cruisers, Scharnorst, Gneisenau, three light cruisers, Nurnberg, Dresden and Leipzig plus three auxiliary support vessels. After his Coronel victory, von Spee had sailed his squadron south with the intention of raiding the supply base at Port Stanley in the Falklands in the South Atlantic, when on December 8th, 1914 it was brought to engagement by the avenging stronger British force under Doveton Sturdee comprising the battle cruisers Invincible and Inflexible, the armoured cruisers Carnarvon, Cornwall and Kent and two light cruisers Bristol and Glasgow. The outcome was perhaps as inevitable as it was intended to be. Only two German vessels escaped being sunk. Students of naval history will know that for a century the Royal Navy's dominance of the seaways had meant that it had fought few major engagements since Trafalgar. The First World War was dominated by the Battle of Jutland. So this account of modern warships in action is of vital interest. Available in softcover and hardback for collectors.

Author : Seth Owen,Larry Bond
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1500969397

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Fatal Choices by Seth Owen,Larry Bond Pdf

An experimental history examining the World War I naval battles of Coronel and the Falklands using naval wargames.

Author : L. Cecil Jane,A. Neville Hilditch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0857065394

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The Naval War of 1914 by L. Cecil Jane,A. Neville Hilditch Pdf

The worlds great navies grappling for dominance of the high seas The Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first naval battle of the Great War, fought in the late summer of 1914 when the Royal Navy devised a plan to ambush German patrols operating in the northern North Sea. A sizeable force of British warships under the commands of Tyrwhitt, Keyes, Goodenough and Beatty were set to the task and the ensuing conflict resulted in the sinking of three German light cruisers and one destroyer. Three German light cruisers were also damaged. The British loss was light and the action is widely regarded as a victory for the British. The most significant outcome was a reluctance on the part of the Kaiser to further risk his battle fleet and it remained impotently confined to port. The actions in the South Pacific and South Atlantic that were the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands centred around the marauding naval squadron under the command of von Spee. The German squadron inflicted a humiliating and crushing defeat against a weaker force under Cradock off the coast of Chile and an outraged admiralty despatched a substantially stronger squadron under Doveton Sturdee to exact revenge. It caught up with von Spee's squadron as he was about to raid the base at Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands and practically annihilated it. These two small naval engagement histories have been brought together for good value by Leonaur. They are available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.

Author : Geoffrey Martin Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Coronel, Battle of, 1914
ISBN : LCCN:gb62013094

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Coronel and the Falklands by Geoffrey Martin Bennett Pdf

Den engelske marinehistoriker G. Bennett om 1. Verdenskrigs første engelsk-tyske søslag i 1914: Coronel ud for Chile1/11 og slaget ved Falklandsøerne 8/12.

Author : Barrie Pitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Coronel, Battle of
ISBN : UOM:39015016924089

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Coronel and Falkland by Barrie Pitt Pdf

Author : Richard Hough
Publisher : Periscope Publishing Ltd.
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Coronel, Battle of, 1914
ISBN : 190438112X

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Falklands 1914 by Richard Hough Pdf

This naval history tells the dramatic story of the destruction of Germany's East Asiatic Squadron in the opening weeks of the World War I. This crack force of armoured cruisers, led by Vice-Admiral von Spee, had the potential to be a menace to Allied shipping in the Pacific.

Author : W. Edmundson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230101210

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A History of the British Presence in Chile by W. Edmundson Pdf

This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players, starting in 1554 with the English Queen 'Bloody Mary' becoming Queen of Chile, and ending with the decline of British influence following the Second World War.

Author : Thomas Benjamin Dixon
Publisher : Blandford
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015001712622

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The Enemy Fought Splendidly by Thomas Benjamin Dixon Pdf

Dette værk omfatter skibslægens dagbog ført om bord i H.M.S. KENT i krigsårene 1914 og 1915, hvor dette orlogsskib indgik i jagten på de tyske krydsere DRESDEN og NÜRNBERG.

Author : Gary Staff
Publisher : Pen & Sword Maritime
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Cruisers (Warships)
ISBN : 152674385X

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Battle on the Seven Seas: German Cruiser Battles 1914-1918 by Gary Staff Pdf