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Battle of Ringmere; Y. Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft; Raid on Yarmouth This page was last edited on 1 March 2017, at 17:45 (UTC). Text ...
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 other battlecruisers bombarded the town of Lowestoft largely without incident, but during the approach to Yarmouth, they encountered the British cruisers of the Harwich Force. A short artillery duel ensued before the Harwich Force withdrew. Reports of British submarines in the area prompted the retreat of I Scouting Group.
The Battle of Lowestoft took place on 13 June [O.S. 3 June] 1665 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War.A fleet of more than a hundred ships of the United Provinces commanded by Lieutenant-Admiral Jacob van Wassenaer, Lord Obdam, attacked a British fleet of equal size commanded by James, Duke of York, forty miles east of the port of Lowestoft in Suffolk.
She served primarily in the North Sea, and participated in the Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft and the battles of Jutland and Second Heligoland. At Jutland, she was lightly damaged by a British cruiser and her crew suffered minor casualties. At the end of the war, she was interned with the bulk of the German fleet in Scapa Flow.
The County Repertory Company, under the Management of Mr R W Schofield and Leaseholder of the Little Theatre, make their last performance. Under arrangement with Mr R W Schofield, Aurora Productions begin "A Season of Famous Plays", six weeks at the Little Theatre Great Yarmouth, with a view to continuing repertory performances indefinitely, conditional on sufficient support. [8]
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 ...
HMS Lucifer was a Laforey-class destroyer of the British Royal Navy.The Laforey class (or L class) was a class of destroyers ordered under the Royal Navy's 1912–1913 construction programme, which were armed with three 4-inch (102 mm) guns and four torpedo tubes and were required to reach speeds of 29 knots (54 km/h; 33 mph).