Action off Noordhinder Bank 1915
Recorded location from Wikidata; battle sites are often approximate.
Key facts
| Date | 1 May 1915 | Wikidata |
|---|---|---|
| Year | 1915 | Wikidata P585 (point in time) |
| Era | World War I era (1914–1918) | derived from year |
| Nearest landmass | At sea (nearest continent: Europe) | Natural Earth (modern borders) |
| Continent | Europe | Natural Earth |
| War / conflict | World War I | Wikidata P361 |
| Coordinates | 56.0000, 3.0000 | Wikidata P625 |
About the battle
The Action off Noordhinder Bank on 1 May 1915 was a naval engagement between four British naval trawlers, supported by a flotilla of four destroyers and a pair of German torpedo boats from the Flanders Flotilla. The two torpedo boats were sent to rescue the crew of a reconnaissance seaplane that had been forced down with engine trouble, then to attack the trawlers. Four British destroyers from the Harwich Force were sent to patrol in the southern North Sea after a destroyer was torpedoed and sunk by a U-boat.
The Germans engaged the trawlers, sank Columbia with a torpedo and return-fire from the three surviving trawlers damaged one torpedo boat that temporarily lost steam. The four British destroyers from the Harwich Force appeared and the torpedo boats turned for home. The destroyers engaged the torpedo boats and sank them. The loss of the two new A-class torpedo boats greatly demoralised the German Flanders naval flotilla.
The commanders of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) realised that the Flanders Flotilla was inadequately armed to protect the coast, let alone harass British shipping in the English Channel. After similar defeats, the A-class torpedo boats were relegated to coastal patrol and heavier V25-class torpedo boats were transferred to the flotilla.
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