Diary January 24, 1915

01-1915, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1915 / 1 minute of reading

sinking of Blücher in the Battle of the Dogger Bank — Sinking of armored cruiser Blücher in the Battle of the Dogger Bank.

War Diary World War One for Sunday, January 24, 1915:

Sea War

North Sea – FIRST DREADNOUGHT ACTION: BATTLE OF THE DOGGER BANK. Thanks to signal intelligence 5 battlecruisers from Rosyth intercept and pursue Hipper’s 3 battlecruiser and armored cruiser Blücher on sweep in 3hr action begun at record range of 22,000 yards (ca. 20 km). Slower Blücher sunk (792 killed, 236 PoWs, total 260 survivors), but Royal Navy errors (Beatty not told U-boats actually hours away) allow rest to escape: Flagship HMS Lion has 21 of Royal Navies 95 casualties and hit 17 times. German flagship Seydlitz hit 3 times (192 killed) and badly damaged by British fire. Disabled Lion towed back to Rosyth by Indomitable.
British ships score 73 hots out of 958 shells fired, Germans 25 out of 1,276.

Air War

North Sea: German Navy airship L5 gives reconnaissance support and early warning for battlecruiser force during Dogger Bank Battle.

Middle East

Arabia: Pro-Turk Ibn Rashid defeats pro-British Ibn Saud‘s 6,000 men with 1 gun at Jarrab. Captain Shakespear killed, aged 36. Austrian orientalist Musil joins Rashid on January 26 and tries to make pro-Turk reconnaissance mission.

Neutrals

USA: US Secretary of State Bryan tries to refute the partiality in favor of the Allies with a public letter.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.