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Monday, January 1, 2007

Battleship Blücher sinks in WW1

On 24 January 1915, Blücher was part of the German squadron commanded by Vice Admiral Franz Hipper that was surprised by a superior British force of five battlecruisers, under Vice Admiral David Beatty on HMS Lion, at the Battle of Dogger Bank.

Due to a misunderstanding of Beatty's orders, the British ships concentrated their fire on Blücher, the slowest and rearmost ship of the retreating German line of battle. She was bombarded by heavy fire from four of the five battlecruisers and finally sunk by torpedoes. 792 of her crew went down with her. 260 were rescued by Beatty's ships.

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