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    The First Ostend Raid (part of Operation ZO) was the first of two attacks by the Royal Navy on the German-held port of Ostend during the late spring of...
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  • The Second Ostend Raid (officially known as Operation VS) was the later of two failed attempts made during the spring of 1918 by the United Kingdom's...
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  • Ostend Raid may refer to: Ostend Raid (1798), combined Royal Navy British Army attack to disrupt French invasion preparations First Ostend Raid (23 April...
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    Zeebrugge and Ostend Raids 1918. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books. ISBN 978-1-47-383796-6. McGreal, Stephen (2008). Zeebrugge and Ostend Raids. Barnsley: Pen...
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    patrol in the English Channel. In late April, she participated in the First Ostend Raid as an escort for the bombardment force. After the war, Zubian was...
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    in the failed First Ostend Raid in 1918, bombarding the defending coastal artillery as the British attempted to block the Bruges–Ostend Canal. Lord Clive...
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    operations against German positions in Flanders, including during the First Ostend Raid in April 1918. In October 1918, she became a tender to the gunnery...
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    participate in the blockading of the Belgian harbour of Zeebrugge-Ostend, during the First Ostend Raid. The motor launches were detailed to rescue personnel from...
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  • Appointed Commander of Motor Launch 283, Hoare was in action at the First Ostend Raid on 23 April 1918. Throughout the operation, the launch conducted duties...
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    sinks Peruvian ironclad Independencia. 26 May First Battle of Antofagasta – Peruvian ironclad Huáscar raids Chilean port of Antofagasta and engages the...
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    the spring of 1918 she was with the Offshore Squadron during the First Ostend Raid. Quietly sidelined and scrapped after the war, her size was not approached...
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    First Ostend Raid on 23 April 1918. In the early hours of 10 May 1918 he was killed in action commanding HMS Vindictive during the Second Ostend Raid...
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  • the war and provided cover for the Inshore Squadron during the First Ostend Raid. She was sold for scrap in 1921. The Lord Clive design was derived from...
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    Second Ostend Raid Vindictive's damaged superstructure HMS Vindictive memorial in Ostend at its original location HMS Vindictive memorial in Ostend at its...
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    Destroyer Flotilla of the Harwich Force. The destroyer took part in the First Ostend Raid in 1918 alongside the monitors Erebus and Terror. Later that year...
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    (see First and Second Ostend Raid) but soon recovered. "UNLOCODE (BE) - BELGIUM". service.unece.org. UNECE. Retrieved 17 April 2020. "Port of Ostend, Belgium"...
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    The Ostend Manifesto, also known as the Ostend Circular, was a document written in 1854 that described the rationale for the United States to purchase...
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    protected cruiser scuttled in the entrance to the harbor at Ostend, Belgium, during the First Ostend Raid. HMS Bulwark 26 November 1914 A London-class battleship...
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    Operation Jubilee or the Dieppe Raid (19 August 1942) was an unsuccessful Allied amphibious attack on the German-occupied port of Dieppe in northern France...
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  • against conscription. Zeebrugge Raid: The British Royal Navy attempts to seal off the German U-boat base here. First Ostend Raid: The British Royal Navy unsuccessfully...
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    to be scuttled in the mouth of Ostend harbour in Belgium following the failed First Ostend Raid. The Second Ostend Raid operation (of which Sappho was...
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  • before seeing action again during the Zeebrugge Raid and the Ostend Raid in 1918. Tomkinson became the first commanding officer of the newly-commissioned...
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    The siege of Ostend was a three-year siege of the city of Ostend during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War. A Spanish force under Archduke...
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  • an Hawthorn M-class destroyer launched in 1914. She served on the First Ostend Raid and the Battle of Dogger Bank (1915); she was broken up in 1922. HMS Mentor (1981)...
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    September 1918 and on 17 October, Ostend was captured. Dover Patrol Zeebrugge Raid First Ostend Raid Second Ostend Raid From 30 January 1916, each British...
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  • second-in-command of Motor Launch 283, Bagot was in action at the First Ostend Raid on 23 April 1918. Throughout the operation, the launch conducted duties...
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    by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel Greene. Ten of the raiders were killed during the raid, seven were tried and executed afterwards...
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    and was with the force that led the attack on Zeebrugge and Ostend. At the second Ostend Raid during the night of 9/10 May 1918, Lieutenant McBean commanded...
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    1958 The Zeebrugge Raid by Philip Warner, William Kimber and Co. Limited – London. 1978 Battleground Series - Zeebrugge & Ostend Raids 1918 by Stephen McGreal...
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    Brilliant was deliberately scuttled in the mouth of Ostend harbour in Belgium during the failed First Ostend Raid. This operation was intended to block the harbour...
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