HMS Hindustan (1903)
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HMS Hindustan was a King Edward VII-class pre-dreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy. Like all ships of the class she was named after an important part of the British Empire, namely the Indian Empir
HMS Hindustan
Watercolor of HMS Hindustan, c. 1915
The Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby on 16 December 1914 was an attack by the Imperial German Navy on the British ports of Scarborough, Hartlepool, West Hartlepool and Whitby. The bombardmen
Remember Scarborough! Enlist Now!, Edith Kemp-Welch
The bombardment of Hartlepool by the cruisers Seydlitz and Moltke on 16 December 1914.
British recruiting poster picturing damage from German naval artillery to a civilian house: "No 2 Wykeham Street, Scarborough....four people were killed in this house including the wife...and two children, the youngest aged 5."
A recruitment poster.