The Battle of the Falkland Islands was a First World War naval action between the British Royal Navy and Imperial German Navy on 8 December 1914 in the South Atlantic. The British, after their defeat at the Battle of Coronel on 1 November, sent a large force to track down and destroy the German cruiser squadron. The battle is commemorated every year on 8 December in the Falkland Islands as a public holiday.
Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee commanding the German squadron of two armoured cruisers, SMS Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the light cruisers SMS Nürnberg, Dresden and Leipzig, and the colliers SS Baden, SS Santa Isabel, and SS Seydlitz[3][4] attempted to raid the British supply base at Stanley in the Falkland Islands. The British squadron consisting of the battlecruisers HMS Invincible and Inflexible, the armoured cruisers HMS Carnarvon, Cornwall and Kent, the armed merchant cruiser HMS Macedonia and the light cruisers HMS Bristol and Glasgow had arrived in the port the day before.
Visibility was at its maximum, the sea was placid with a gentle breeze, and the day was bright and sunny. The vanguard cruisers of the German squadron were detected early. By nine o'clock that morning, the British battlecruisers and cruisers were in hot pursuit of the German vessels. All except Dresden and Seydlitz were hunted down and sunk.
^Jaques. Dictionary of Battles and Sieges. p. 346.
^Scott & Robertson. Many Were Held by the Sea: The Tragic Sinking of HMS Otranto. p. 16.
^Battle of the Falkland Islands Archived 10 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine -names the three German auxiliary ships and states that Bristol and Macedonia sank the colliers Baden and Santa Isabel, while 'the other collier', Seydlitz, escaped.- www.worldwar1.co.uk, accessed 7 December 2019
^Battle of the Falkland Islands Archived 10 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine -SS Seydlitz listed as a 'hospital ship'- www.britishbattles.com, accessed 7 December 2019
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