The Live Bait Squadron
Subtitle: three massgraves off the Dutch coast, 22 September 1914
By: Henk H.M. van der Linden
Publisher: Aspekt
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Soesterberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9789461532602
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; German Naval operations; Aboukir (Ship); Cressy (Ship); Hogue (Ship)
Description: In one of the largest naval disasters in world history, three British cruisers -- HMS Cressy, Hogue and Aboukir -- were torpedoed by a German submarine and went down in the North Sea just off the Dutch coast seven weeks into the First World War. The British crews were totally unprepared for the attack, and the number of victims almost equalled that of the Titanic. For weeks afterward, bodies of British sailors washed ashore on the Dutch coast. Of the combined crew of 2296 there were 837 survivors.
Notes: Translation by Frederik Legger.

Originally published in Dutch: Drie Massagraven Voor De Nederlandse Kust. Soesterberg : Aspekt, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-201) and index.