Download or read book Coronel and Falklands 1914 written by Michael McNally and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Coronel and the Falklands written by Capt. Geoffrey Bennett and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands 1914 written by Geoffrey Bennett and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands in 1914 written by Tony Walker and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coronel and the Falklands written by Geoffrey Martin Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The outbreak of World War I saw some deadly battles on the high seas in isolated areas. Germany's China Squadron, including the Scharnhorst and Gneisnau, made an epic voyage across the Pacific to attack British forces in South America. Admiral Craddock found himself outgunned by the Germans at Coronel and went down with most of his ships and crews. The Germans then advanced on the British communications and refueling station in the Falkland Islands but were sunk by a new British fleet; only a few German sailors were rescued. This tense tale also examines the issue of Britain's preparedness for naval warfare in 1914.
Download or read book Coronel and Falkland written by Barrie Pitt and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands November December 1914 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fatal Choices written by Seth Owen and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-12 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experimental history examining the World War I naval battles of Coronel and the Falklands using naval wargames.
Download or read book Falklands 1914 written by Richard Hough and published by Periscope Publishing Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands written by Phil Carradice and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Coronel written by Keith Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the British Presence in Chile written by W. Edmundson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Campaign of Coronel and the Falklands August 1 1914 to March 14 1915 written by Edward S. Kellogg and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coronel and the Falklands written by Geoffrey Martin Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1967-11-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Battle of the Falkland Islands written by Henry Edmund Harvey Spencer-Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Battle of the Falkland Islands 1914 written by H. Spencer-Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Coronel and Falkland written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
