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The Dover Strait coastal guns were long-range coastal artillery batteries that were sited on both sides of the English Channel during the Second World War. The British built several gun positions along the coast of Kent , England while the Germans fortified the Pas-de-Calais in occupied France .
The Battle of Dover Strait that occurred on 26–27 October 1916 was a naval battle of the First World War between Great Britain and the German Empire.Two and a half flotillas of German torpedo boats from the Flanders Flotilla launched a raid into the Dover Strait in an attempt to disrupt the Dover Barrage and destroy whatever Allied shipping could be found in the strait.
The naval trawler was sunk in the Strait of Dover by a Kaiserliche Marine destroyer. [4] [2] HMML 12 Royal Navy: The motor launch was shelled and sunk in the Strait of Dover by a Kaiserlich Marine destroyer. [2] HMS Newbury Royal Navy: The Racecourse-class minesweeper was shelled and set on fire by German torpedo boats.
In October 1916, the Flanders based forces were again reinforced, this time by III and IX Flotillas. The combined force was planned to operate against the Dover Barrage, a system of nets, minefields and patrols deployed by the British to stop German submarines passing through the Dover Strait, and to directly attack transports in the Channel ...
The first HMS Zulu was a Tribal (or F-) class destroyer launched 16 September 1909 at Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard and commissioned in March 1910. She was mined during the First World War, on 27 October 1916 off Dover in a minefield lain by the Imperial German submarine UC-1.
The German bombardments later extended to land targets and eventually involved both fixed-gun batteries and railway guns. The British response primarily involved coastal guns, but at least [four World War I long-range railway guns were activated under the direction of Lt. Col. Montague Cleeve, who commanded a railway artillery battery in the ...
Amongst the first were the Dover Strait guns begun in July 1940 and included Todt Battery. Building began in February 1941 on the Saint-Nazaire submarine base Following the first effective commando raid in March 1941 Operation Claymore and with the planning of Operation Barbarossa , Hitler decided in June 1941 to strengthen the west against ...
The action of 17 March 1917 was a German raid on British shipping in the Strait of Dover as well as the harbours of Ramsgate and Margate.Two flotillas of German torpedo boats set out from the coast of Flanders and split.