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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 Raid on 22 April 1918. The Dover Patrol formed a discrete unit of the Royal Navy based at Dover and Dunkirk for the duration of the First World War.
The Dover Patrol was formed in July 1914, around a nucleus of the 12 Tribal class destroyers.Through the First World War, a variety of craft served in the patrol—cruisers, destroyers old and new, submarines, mine-sweepers, armed trawlers and drifters, armed yachts, motor launches and other coastal craft—as well as a variety of aircraft - flying boats, aeroplanes, and airships.
Patrol flotillas were organised along the south and east coasts of England, with commands established at several ports in the region. The Dover Patrol was based at Dover , consisting mostly of destroyers , while a number of pre-dreadnoughts and cruisers were based at Portland Harbour .
HMS General Wolfe, also known as Wolfe, was a Lord Clive-class monitor which was built in 1915 for shore-bombardment duties in the First World War.Her class of eight ships was armed by four obsolete Majestic-class pre-dreadnoughts which had their 12-inch guns and mounts removed, modified and installed in the newly built monitors.
The naval trawler was sunk in the Strait of Dover by a Kaiserliche Marine warship with the loss of all but one of her crew. [4] [2] HMT Cosmos Royal Navy: The naval trawler was sunk in the Strait of Dover by a Kaiserliche Marine destroyer. Three of her crew survived. [4] [2] HMT James Pond Royal Navy
The refloating and repairs were overseen by John Iron, a civilian sea captain and harbourmaster of Dover, who was appointed by Bacon as the patrol's salvage expert. [28] On 21 October, Iron guided the monitor across the strait to Dover but grew concerned about the pressure exerted on the bulkheads.
HMS Matchless was a Royal Navy Admiralty M-class destroyer. Matchless was built by Swan Hunter from 1913 to 1914 and was completed in December that year. She served through the remainder of the First World War, operating in the North Sea as part of the Harwich Force in the early part of the war and later in the English Channel as part of the Dover Patrol, where she took part in both the First ...
Attentive was assigned to coastal defence duties when the First World War began in 1914, and spent most of the war assigned to the Dover Patrol. She played a minor role in the Zeebrugge Raid in early 1918 and was then assigned to escort convoys to Gibraltar .