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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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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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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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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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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armed ships of the Dover Patrol in the Strait of Dover, English Channel. By the beginning of 1918 a deep mine barrage across the Dover Strait from Folkestone...
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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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landform in St Margaret's at Cliffe, Kent. The Dover Patrol Monument is located here. "The Dover Patrol Monument (War Memorial) and associated railed surround...
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