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Great Yarmouth (/ ˈ j ɑːr m ə θ / YAR-məth), often called Yarmouth, is a seaside town which gives its name to the wider Borough of Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, England; it straddles the River Yare and is located 20 miles (32 km) east of Norwich. [3] Its fishing industry, mainly for herring, shrank after the mid-20th century and has all but ...
Lowestoft was a base of operations for minelaying and sweeping, while Yarmouth was a base for the submarines that disrupted German movements in the Heligoland Bight. The destruction of the harbours and other military establishments of both towns would assist the German war effort, even if the raid failed to bait the British heavy units.
The Raid on Yarmouth, on 3 November 1914, was an attack by the Imperial German Navy on the British North Sea port and town of Great Yarmouth.German shells only landed on the beach causing little damage to the town, after German ships laying mines offshore were interrupted by British destroyers.
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HMS Yarmouth, various British navy vessels; SS Yarmouth (1887), a steamship operating Nova Scotia and flagship of the Black Star Line; SS Yarmouth, a steel-hulled steamship owned by the Great Eastern Railway; SS Yarmouth (1927), sister of the American steamship Yarmouth Castle; SS Yarmouth Castle (1927), an American steamship lost in a fire in 1965
Yarmouth is a town, port and civil parish [3] in the west of the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. The town is named for its location at the mouth of the small Western Yar river. The town grew near the river crossing, originally a ferry, which was replaced with a road bridge in 1863.
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Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,596 km 2 (138,069 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.