The action off Lerwick (/ˈlɛrɪk/, "Lerrick") was a naval engagement on 17 October 1917 fought in the North Sea during the First World War. The German light...

the Lerwick raid, the Admiralstab considered sending Brummer and Bremse on a commerce raiding mission into the Atlantic. They were to operate off the...

replaced by FK Edmund Schulz. The success of the two ships in the action off Lerwick led the British to commit heavier escorts to the convoys to Norway...

of the action off Lerwick but decided to mount another operation when it was clear that Scandinavian ships were still sailing the Bergen–Lerwick route...

the German Brummer-class cruisers SMS Brummer and SMS Bremse (the action off Lerwick) against the Scandinavian Convoy. (During 1917, six U-boats were sunk...

century BC to piracy off the coast of Somalia in the 21st century. If a battle has no commonly used name it is referred to as "Action of (date)" within the...

The islands' administrative centre, largest settlement and only burgh is Lerwick, which has been the capital of Shetland since 1708, before which time the...

merchant ships, two destroyers, and two armed trawlers. In the ensuing action off Lerwick, the German ships quickly sank the escorting destroyers and nine of...

SMS Bremse about 70 nautical miles (130 km) east of Lerwick in the Shetland Islands in the Action off Lerwick. Narva  United Kingdom 22 December 1957 A cargo...

Uboat.net. Retrieved 19 October 2012. "British Merchant Ships Lost to Enemy Action Part 3 of 3 - September 1917-November 1918 in date order". Naval History...

mass," Lerwick said. "You want to make sure when you fire your weapon the bullet strikes its intended target. On a person, that's the torso," Lerwick also...

based at Rosyth. On 16 October, the destroyer participated in the Action off Lerwick, escorting the aircraft carrier Furious, which launched aircraft to...

Llanwrtyd Wells, World Gurning Championship at Egremont, Up Helly Aa in Lerwick, Burning the Clocks in Brighton, 'Obby 'Oss festival in Padstow, Samhain...

establishment) was the Navy's base at Lerwick, Shetland between 1939 and 1945. HMS Fox II was the Coastal Forces Base at Lerwick between 1942 and 1944. Ships named...

Andenes, Norway, off the Lofoten Islands. Her most famous mission, however, was her eleventh patrol out of the British submarine base at Lerwick in the Shetland...

workers at the Shetland Gas Plant. During this time, it was berthed at Lerwick, Scotland. In 2015, a man from Saltcoats, Ayrshire called Her Majesty's...

for the 4th Light Cruiser Squadron during the Action off Lerwick, but took no active part in the action. Orford subsequently took part in the Royal Navy's...

The Action off Noordhinder Bank on 1 May 1915 was a naval engagement between four British naval trawlers, supported by a flotilla of four destroyers and...

on or near Shetland have included Lerwick, the NorthLink ferry and the village of Wester Quarff, south of Lerwick. Some filming was on Fair Isle for...

The Battle off Texel, also known as the Action off Texel or the Action of 17 October 1914, was a naval battle off the coast of the Dutch island of Texel...

The action of 15 February 1918 was a naval engagement First World War between a Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) destroyer flotilla and vessels...

and disengage, thereby avoiding a decisive action. Within the existing technological limits, a trade-off had to be made between the weight and size of...

HMS Venturer (Lieutenant James Launders), which had just left Lerwick in Scotland, to Fedje Island, off the coast of Norway to search for U-864. On 6 February...

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...

The action of 19 August 1916 was one of two attempts in 1916 by the German High Seas Fleet to engage elements of the British Grand Fleet, following the...

ship Sirius. On 16 March, Syrtis departed Lerwick for her seventh patrol, off the Kya Lighthouse then later off Bodø. She achieved the only success of her...

engine problem on take-off from RAF Odiham, buries nose in an earthen berm. 20 February First fatal accident involving a Saro Lerwick flying boat occurs when...

lose control of the ship during a storm. At 05.19 hrs on 5 January 1993, Lerwick coastguard were advised that the tanker, Braer, en route from Bergen, Norway...

The action of 29 February 1916 was a naval engagement fought during the First World War between the United Kingdom and the German Empire. SMS Greif, a...

for night action, but German ships had. The Germans had better searchlight control, using iris shutters which could rapidly switch on and off the light...