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Action off Noordhinder Bank
Summary
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 action began when the two torpedo boats were sent to rescue the crew of a reconnaissance seaplane that had been forced to alight by engine trouble and to attack the trawlers. The Germans engaged the trawlers; British destroyers from the Harwich Force appeared; the German ships tried to escape but were sunk.
The loss of the two torpedo boats greatly demoralised the German flotilla at Flanders, as they were new. The loss of the two s showed the commanders of the Imperial German Navy (Kaiserliche Marine) 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 s were transferred to the flotilla.
Flanders Flotilla
After the 7th Torpedo Boat Half Flotilla was lost during the Battle off Texel (17 October 1914) German naval authorities were reluctant to commit forces for offensive operations off the coast of Flanders. Admiral Ludwig von Schröder, the commander of Marine Corps Flanders (MarineKorps Flandern), kept pressure on the German naval command for the transfer of a force of submarines and torpedo boats to his command. After several months, the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) relented and decided to send him a force of new coastal submarines of the UB and UC (minelayer) types and new s.
The torpedo boats had been designed in late 1914, built at Hamburg and transported, in sections, overland to Antwerp, like the UB and UC coastal submarines. The new A-class boats displaced a little over , had a speed of about , carried two torpedoes, a 5 cm SK L/40 gun and could stow four naval mines. The Flanders Torpedo Boat Flotilla, based in Zeebrugge, was formed on 28 April 1915.
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