The Dover Patrol and later known as the Dover Patrol Force was a Royal Navy command of the First World War, notable for its involvement in the Zeebrugge...
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The Dover Patrol Monuments are a trio of war memorials designed by Sir Aston Webb to commemorate the Royal Navy's Dover Patrol of the First World War....
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Reginald Bacon (section Commander of the Dover Patrol)
Churchill and made Commander-in-Chief, Dover, replacing Rear-Admiral Horace Hood. Bacon became commander of the Dover Patrol in April 1915. He was promoted vice-admiral...
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description of the engines by Admiral Reginald Bacon, commander of the Dover Patrol from April 1915, shows how fault-prone they were: "Reliability both in...
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Commanding the Dover Patrol and Senior Naval Officer Commanding, Dover, with the short title "Rear-Admiral, Dover Patrol". The Dover Patrol operated continuously...
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forming a cliff that is topped by the obelisk of the Dover Patrol Monument, commemorating the Dover Patrol which kept the Channel free from U-boats during...
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Plans at the Admiralty and then took command of the Dover Patrol: he altered tactics and the Dover Patrol sank five U-boats in the first month after implementation...
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years of the war as part of the Dover Patrol. She sank the German U-boat UC-50 in February 1918, while she was on patrol in the English Channel. In late...
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HMS Humber (1914) (section Dover Patrol)
the rest of their careers. They were initially sent to serve on the Dover Patrol, which was responsible for protecting the shipping routes around France...
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Bertram Ramsay (section Defending Dover)
part of the Dover Patrol off the Belgian coast. Promoted to commander on 30 June 1916, in October 1917 he took command of another Dover Patrol vessel, the...
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