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Battle off Noordhinder Bank
The Battle off Noordhinder Bank on 1 May 1915 was a naval action between a squadron of four British naval trawlers supported by a flotilla of four British destroyers, and a pair of German torpedo boats from the Flanders Flotilla. The battle began when the two torpedo boats were sent on a search and rescue mission and ran into a British patrol. The Germans fought with the patrolling trawlers until a heavier force of British destroyers from Harwich Force came to their aid and sank the German vessels.
The battle greatly demoralized the German flotilla at Flanders, as the boats that were sunk had just been launched shortly before the battle. The action off Noordhinder Bank helped bring attention to the German high command that the Flanders Flotilla was too inadequately armed to protect the coast it was assigned to defend let alone harass British shipping in the channel. Eventually, after other similar defeats, the small torpedo boats such as those used off Noordhinder Bank were relegated to coastal patrol and heavier units were finally transferred to even the balance of power in the English Channel.
==Background==
After the 7th Torpedo Boat Half Flotilla was lost during the Battle off Texel, German naval authorities were reluctant to commit any further forces for offensive operations off the coast of Flanders.〔Karau 2003, p. 44.〕 Despite this, the commander of Marine Corps Flanders – Admiral Ludwig von Schröder – kept pressure on the German naval command for a transfer of a force of submarines and torpedo boats to his command. After several months of resisting Schroeder's demands, the ''Kaiserliche Marine'' finally relented and decided to send him a force of light torpedo boats and submarines.〔Karau 2003, p. 48.〕 Although these forces were greatly inferior in armament and displacement to those he had requested, Admiral Schroeder put his newly acquired forces to use as soon as he received them. He formed the Flanders Torpedo Boat Flotilla made up of 15 "A"-class torpedo boats under the command of ''Korvettenkapitän'' Hermann Schoemann.〔Karau 2003, p. 53.〕
Three days later on 1 May 1915, two German seaplanes reported a squadron of four trawlers off Noordhinder Bank. One of these seaplanes was forced to make an emergency landing, and Schoeman was dispatched with boats and to rescue the seaplane's crew and destroy the trawlers.〔 Meanwhile, while patrolling off the Galloper lightship near Goodwin Sands, was sunk by the German submarine ''UB-6''. ''Recruit''s consort – ''Brazen'' – as well as the four trawlers the German seaplanes had spotted began searching for ''Recruit''s attacker.〔Corbett 1921, p. 401.〕 ''A2'' and ''A6'' caught the trawlers off the Noordhinder Bank at 15:00. The trawlers ''Columbia'', ''Barbados'', ''Chirsit'', and ''Miura'' were under the command of Lieutenant Sir James Domville onboard ''Barbados''. Armed with a single 3-pounder gun each, the trawlers were outgunned by the German torpedo boats, which were both armed with two torpedo tubes as well as a four-pound gun.〔
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