Raid on Yarmouth

3–4 November 1914, Off Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

Inconclusive

The first German raid on the English coast. Hipper's battlecruisers crossed the North Sea overnight and appeared off Great Yarmouth at dawn. They fired on the minesweeper Halcyon and the destroyer Lively, and dropped shells on the beach, while the light cruiser Stralsund laid mines offshore. Then they turned for home. The shelling did little harm, but the submarine D5, putting to sea to chase them, hit one of Stralsund's mines and sank, and three fishing boats were lost. Returning in fog, the armoured cruiser Yorck strayed into a German minefield off the Jade and sank with at least 235 men.