After the Bombardment - Dr David Pendleton

The bombardment of Scarborough by German battle cruisers on 16 December 1914 was one of the iconic moments of the Great War. A day when modern warfare crashed into the streets and houses of a peaceful seaside town. Over a century on that powerful message lingers in the cultural memory, but who now remembers the ships and sailors lost to a sea mining operation that ran concurrently with the bombardment?
Whilst eighteen people were killed in the streets of Scarborough, between December 1914 and March 1915, seven times that number lost their lives off Cayton Bay. A German minefield sank twenty ships, resulting in the deaths of 135 sailors, often little more than a mile from the coastline.
David has spent over a year exploring the ships and crews lost and has joined with the Scarborough Sub Aqua Club and Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre to produce a new exhibition starting on the 4th of December and running until the 2nd of March 2025.
Dr David Pendleton is a Filey-based historian, his research interests focus on the social history of the long nineteenth century, the 125 year period from the French Revolution in 1789 to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.

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Excellent, thank you. Very interesting, increased my reach of knowledge. Learned a lot, more to learn! wonderful.