Dover Patrol

Dover Patrol Memorial, northeast of Dover

The Dover Patrol was a British Royal Navy - Command in World War I , well known for his involvement in the attack on Zeebrugge and Ostend on 22 April 1918. The ships of the Dover Patrol were in Dover and Dunkirk stationed. Their main task was to prevent German naval forces from entering the English Channel . In particular, the passage of German submarines was to be prevented, for which purpose they guarded the Dover lock . In addition, there were regular land bombardments of the German-occupied Belgian coast through monitors and older battleships.

See also

• North Sea mine lock
• British naval blockade in the North Sea

literature

• Sir Reginald Bacon: The Concise Story of the Dover Patrol. Hutchinson, London, 1932

Web links

• Dover, Lock and Key of the Kingdom: The Dover Patrol ( Memento June 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )