In last months issue we published a photo of the lighthouse in Scarborough England showing severe damage from a German shell piercing the lighthouse and asked our readers for some background information. Thanks to information supplied by Richard Dodds, of the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Maryland, we can give you the rest of the story ...
Early in the morning of December 16, 1914 the lookout at the Castle Hill Coast Guard Station telephoned the town declaring that the German Warships were approaching the coast. Within seconds the attack began in what was described by the local press as, "Scarborough's baptism of fire".
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