Th 9 June 1859 Your email address will not be published. The sinking of the Battleship Cressy, together with the Battleships Aboukir and Hogue on the 22 September 1914 was a disaster in itself, but was made all the more significant because it ushered in the dawn of a terrible new weapon, the submarine. If you want to learn more about Otto Weddigen and how the submarine developed, try this video. All this changed on the 22 September 1914 when Otto Weddigen in command of the German submarine U9 came into contact with three British battle cruisers, the Hogue, the Aboukir, and the Cressy. 1, p. 188. Cressy did not ask for permission and so avoided wrecking. Your email address will not be published. HMS Aboukir was struck at … List of ships of the line of the Royal Navy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMS_Cressy_(1810)&oldid=931526684, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 December 2019, at 11:52. Dreadnaught and sunk. In the early morning of 22 September 1914 the weather had finally changed for the better. HMS Pathfinder The first indication of the submarine’s potential came on September 5th 1914, when the British cruiser HMS Pathfinder was sunk in the North Sea off the Scottish coast. At the outbreak of the First World War all the great sea powers had submarines in their fleets, but it is fair to say that virtually all the Navy’s despised them and nobody had any real idea of their deadly potential. In March 1901 she arrived at Portsmouth Dockyard to be completed, which she was in early in 1902. One such memory is contained within the confines of the 12th century church of St. Nicholas and St. Cyriac in the village of South Pool near Salcombe, Devon. In sinking these three cruisers Weddigen brought home the awful reality of submarine warfare. Weddigen returned to a hero’s welcome, was promoted and given a new submarine. Meanwhile, HMS Cressy, Hogue and Aboukir went on patrolling, unprotected, and eye-catching as ever thanks to their four big smoking funnels. She eventually left home waters in early October 1901, arrivi… There were no survivors. Pictures - Cressy HMS [+1914], wreck, wreck database. It was September 1914 and the three armoured cruisers HMS Cressy, Aboukir and Hogue were on patrol off the Dutch Coast. The Parish Church of St Nicholas and St Cyriac. HMS Aboukir was a Cressy-class armoured cruiser. The German submarine U9. He was transferred to U29 which was rammed and sunk by … The Wrecker's Guide To South West Devon Part 1, The Wrecker's Guide To South West Devon Part 2, Missing: The Story Of The A7 Submarine DVD, Admiral Shovell’s Treasure-R.Larn & R.McBride, Business in Great Waters – John Terraine, The Man Who Bought a Navy – Gerald Bowman, Falco,chief diver of the Calypso – Falco & Diole, Life and Death in a Coral Sea – J.Y.Cousteau, Sea Lion- Elephant Seal and Walrus – J.Y.Cousteau, A Time to Die, the story of the Kursk – R. Moore. Most of the bodies that came ashore were buried in the sand dunes of Thorsminde, which have been known ever since as "Dead Mens Dunes". [1], On 24 December 1811 Cressy was off the west coast of Jutland, Denmark, under command by commander Charles Dudley Pater and in the company of St George, under Rear-admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds, and Defence, when a hurricane and heavy seas came up. Upon completion she was assigned to the China Station. He was sixteen years of age. Recommissioned at the start of World War I, she played a minor role in the Battle of Heligoland Bight a few weeks after the beginning of the war. A View of the shipwreck and total loss of the St George and the Defence; Cressy can be seen top left of the picture St George was jury-rigged and so Captain Atkins of Defence refused to leave her without the Admiral's permission. She saluted the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, and at 12 o'clock fired a Royal salute, in commemoration of Her Majesty's birthday. She was a special warship, based on the Cressy class of cruisers, which were designed to take on a range of duties – everything from scouting to commerce, to warfare, and, to simply displaying the British flag. © 1999–2020 Peter Mitchell and Chris Mitchell. HMS Drake was built at HM Dockyard at Pembroke, between 1899 and 1902, as a Drake Class armoured cruiser, based on the Cressy Class cruisers. Son of Ashley Froude C.M.C of Collapit Creeck Kingsbridge and Ethel Aubrey Froude daughter of Captain A.P.Hallifax of Halwell In this parrish and only grandson of James Antony Froude Regus Professor Of modern history Oxford University He died in the discharge of his duty At the age of 16 When serving as midshipman in H.M.S.Cressy This ship was sunk by a German Submarine In the action in the North Sea on September 22 1914 while she Had stopped to rescue the survivors From H.M.S. In that one hour Weddigen in his primitive submarine had inflicted more causalities on the Royal Navy than Nelson’s fleet suffered at Trafalgar. All rights reserved. HMS Aboukir, Cressy, Hogue, Pegasus, killed and died, casualty lists September 1914 World War 1 - Casualty Lists of the Royal Navy and Dominion Navies Researched & compiled by Don Kindell 1st - 30th SEPTEMBER 1914 At 6:55, Hogue was struck by two torpedoes.U-9 dived and remained submerged. A famous picture of HMS Audacious sinking after striking a mine. Required fields are marked *. The U9 was commissioned as the first ship in its class in July 1908 and launched in February 1910. HMS Cressy was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 7 March 1810 at Frindsbury. In 1793 she captured one of the richest prizes ever. Primary Documents - Report on the Sinking of the Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue by the U-9, 22 September 1914 Reproduced below is a report of the sinking of three British cruisers - the Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue - by a single German U-boat, U-9, on 22 September 1914. Weddigen sunk all three in under an hour causing the loss of 62 officers and 1085 men. Aboukir and Hogue Previously sunk in the same action. It always amazes me how many echoes of history lie hidden away in little country churchyards deep in the Devon and Cornwall countryside. 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