Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby

Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby
Part of the First World War
Remember Scarborough! Enlist Now!, Edith Kemp-Welch
Date 16 December 1914 Location Scarborough, Hartlepool, Whitby 54°40′08″N 54°20′14″W / 54.66889°N 54.33722°W / 54.66889; -54.33722[1] Result German victory
Belligerents
Germany	United Kingdom
Commanders and leaders
Franz Hipper Friedrich Ingenohl	George Warrender David Beatty
Strength
4 battlecruisers 1 armoured cruiser 4 light cruisers 18 destroyers	2 coastal batteries 6 dreadnoughts 4 battlecruisers 4 armoured cruisers 4 light cruisers 2 scout cruisers 7 destroyers
Casualties and losses
8 sailors killed and 12 wounded 1 armoured cruiser damaged 2 light cruisers damaged	122 civilians killed and 443 wounded 5 soldiers killed 2 sailors killed 14 military personnel wounded in total 1 scout cruiser damaged 3 destroyers damaged

The Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby on 16 December 1914 was an attack by the Imperial German Navy on the British ports of Scarborough, Hartlepool, West Hartlepool and Whitby. The bombardments caused hundreds of civilian casualties and resulted in public outrage in Britain against the German Navy for the raid and the Royal Navy for failing to prevent it.