What the records say
- When
- 16 Dec 1914
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 54.28° N, 0.40° E
- Description
- attack by the Imperial German Navy on 16 December 1914
- Naval
- yes
- War
- World War I
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “World War I: Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby: Imperial German Navy battlecruisers bombard British North Sea ports, resulting in 137 deaths”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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