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CAMPAIGN and BATTLE MAPS of WORLD WAR 1 (Part 1 of 2)


From mainly contemporary sources - an ongoing project

Escape of Karlsruhe and Dresden, West Indies

(Corbett, Vol 1, click to enlarge)

on to Part 2
 

 

 

Introduction

 

Excellent maps and plans (not navigational charts in this context) are vital for helping  to understand the Great War at Sea.

 

The best sources still appear to be from contemporary accounts, not least the official histories of the Royal Navy. Perhaps there were fewer cost constraints back then.

 

The aim is to collect together as many of these as possible, all of which are now believed to be in the public domain. This may extend to land campaigns in time, and supplemented where necessary by Naval-History.Net maps. I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.


The maps come from a variety of old volumes and are of variable quality (for which my scanning and image editing is partly to blame). Click all maps to enlarge - some are large files.

 

Gordon Smith, Naval-History.Net

 

 

 

Contents

 

Part 1

Naval Operations, Vol 1 by Corbett
Naval Operations, Vol 2 by Corbett
Naval Operations, Vol 3 by Corbett, including Jutland
Naval Operations, Vol 4 by Newbolt
Naval Operations, Vol 5 by Newbolt

 

Part 2

The Navy Everywhere, by Conrad Gato (Africa,  E. Europe, Middle East)

The Navy in Mesopotamia, by Conrad Gato

 

British Naval Bases in the British Isles
British Naval Bases Overseas

 

Sourced from:
Old Weather project
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HISTORY OF THE GREAT WAR

 

NAVAL OPERATIONS, Volume 1, to the Battle of the Falklands, December 1914

 by SIR JULIAN S CORBETT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Within the Volume (linked to map in text)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Escape of Karlsruhe and Dresden, West Indies, pp50

 


Shift of Base to Saint Nazaire, France, pp126

 


Duala and the Cameroons Estuary, pp276

 


German New Guinea, with Inset of Rabaul, pp286

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Cocos Islands; Action Between Sydney and Emden, November 9, pp384

 


Operations near Basra, Mesopotamia, pp388

 


Operations near Kurnah, Mesopotamia,  pp392

 


Lower Mesopotamia to the Head of the Persian Gulf, pp394

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Battle of The Falklands

       

Position at 12.51 P.M., pp419

 


Position at 1.30 P.M., pp420

 


Positions in Main Action 4.17 P.M. To 4.24 P.M., pp423

 


Positions in Main Action 4.44 P.M. To 5.01 P.M., pp424

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Action between Kent and Nürnberg, 5.35 P.M. to 6.36 P.M., pp430

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
      
       
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NAVAL OPERATIONS, Volume 2, December 1914 to Spring 1915

by SIR JULIAN S CORBETT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Within the Volume (linked to map in text)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Bombardment of Hartlepool, England, pp34

 


Strategical Plan of the Raid on the Yorkshire Coast, England, pp48

 


Alexandretta, Turkey, pp80

 


Strategical Plan of the Dogger Bank Action, pp102

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Suez Canal, pp118

 


The Approaches to the Dardanelles, pp123

 


The Dardanelles, Bombardment of February 19th, 1915, pp143

 


Dardanelles, Bombardment of February 25th, 1915, pp157

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Smyrna, Turkey, pp210

 


The Dardanelles, the Attack on the Narrows, pp230

 


Gallipoli, the Southern Beaches, pp328, 329

 


Eastern Mediterranean, pp382








From Map Case (linked to text)








1. British Islands, North Sea and Baltic Entrance (8.8Mb)


3. The Battle of the Dogger Bank (5.9Mb)

4. The Dardanelles (9.5Mb)








5. The Search for, and Destruction of S.M.S. Dresden (8.9Mb)
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NAVAL OPERATIONS, Volume 3, Spring 1915 to Battle of Jutland, June 1916

by SIR JULIAN S CORBETT

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Within the Volume (linked to map in text)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operations in the Baltic, pp61

 

S.M.S. "Konigsberg"  in the Rufiji Delta, pp63

 

Operations against Suvla: The Landings of the XIth Division, pp93

 

Suvla Beach, at the date of evacuation, pp237

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tekke "W" Beach, Gallipoli, at the date of evacuation, pp246

 

Helles "V" Beach, at the date of evacuation, pp247

 

 

From Map Case

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Lower Mesopotamia (1.5Mb)

 

2. Operations Against Kurnah (397Kb)

 

3. Sea of Marmara (2.5Mb)

 

4. The Torpedoing of H.M.S. "Triumph" (1.5Mb)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 5. Operations in the Aegean (2.8Mb)

 
6. Operations against Suvla (1.9Mb)		 


7. Destruction of S.M.S. Meteor (2.1Mb)

 


8. Operations against the Belgian Coast (1.8Mb)

 

       


9. Operations in the Akaika Channel (516Kb)

 


10. Operations near Nasiriya (991Kb)

 


11. Operations against Kut (442Kb)

 
12. Operations of S.M.S. Moewe (1.7Mb)
       

13. The Raid on the Schleswig Coast (2.2Mb)
14. Strategical Plan of the Bombardment of Yarmouth and Lowestoft (1.9Mb)
15. Tactical Plan of the Bombardment of
Yarmouth and Lowestoft (3.8Mb)
       
       

THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND


16. Opening Movements (1.6Mb)

       

The Battle Cruiser Action

       

17. From 2.15 P.M. to 2.30 P.M.		 
18. From 2.30 to 2.45		 
19. From 2.45 to 3.0		 


20. From 3.0 to 3.15

       

21. From 3.15 to 3.30		 
22. From 3.30 to 3.40		 
23. From 3.40 to 4.0		 
24. From 4.0 to 4.20
       

25. From 4.20 to 4.40		 
26. From 4.40 to 5.0		 
27. From 5.0 to 5.20		 
28. From 5.20 to 5.40
       

29. From 5.40 to 6.0		 
30. From 6.0 to 6.15
 
 

The Deployment


31. From 6.15 P.M. to 6.26 P.M.(1.1Mb)

       

The Main Action

       


32. From 6.26 P.M. to 6.35 P.M.

 


33. From 6.35 to 6.45

 
34. From 6.45 to 6.56		 
35. From 6.56 to 7.12
       

36. From 7.12 to 7.18 		 
37. From 7.18 to 7.26		 
38. From 7.26 to 7.35		 
39. From 7.35 to 7.45
  

 

    

40. From 7.45 to 8.15		 
41. From 8.15 to 8.35		 
42. From 8.35 to 9.0 		 


43. From 9.0 to 10.0

       

The Night Movements


44. From 10 P.M. to 3.0 A.M (2.6Mb)

       

The Night Actions

45. 8 Phases, A-H - 10.30 P.M. to 2.45 A.M.

       

Phase A - 10.30 P.M.		 
Phase B - 11.20 P.M.		 
Phase C - 11.40 P.M.		 
Phase D - Midnight
       

Phase E - 12.15 A.M.		 
Phase F - 12.30 A.M.		 
Phase G - 2 A.M.		 
Phase H - 1.40 to 2.45 A.M.
       

The First of June


46. From 3 A.M. to Noon

       
       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NAVAL OPERATIONS, Volume 4, June 1916 to Spring 1917

by HENRY NEWBOLT

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Within the Volume (linked to map in text)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loss of the "Hampshire", Orkneys, pp21

 

The Dover Straits Barrage, pp54

 

Lake Tanganyika Operations, pp82

 

Entrance to the Baltic showing the track of E.8, August 1915, pp92

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Central Baltic, pp94

 

The Balkans, pp100

 

 

The Patrol Zones in the Mediterranean, pp276

 

The British and German Dispositions in the Dover Straits, February 25-26, 1917, pp353

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The British and German Dispositions in the Dover Straits, March 17-18, 1917, pp361

 

Following raid of March 17-18, 1917, Dover Straits dispositions for Daytime and Light Nights

 

........ for Dark Nights - Bad and Fine Weather, pp366

 

  The British and German Dispositions in the Dover Straits, April 20-21, 1917, pp371

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June 1916 to April 1917 - Diagram showing the Progress of the Submarine Campaign

 in the Various Theatres of Operations, pp382

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NAVAL OPERATIONS, Volume 5, Spring 1917 to November 1918

by HENRY NEWBOLT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Within the Volume (linked to map in text)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

British Bombardment of Ostend, pp46

 

Dispositions for the British Anti-Submarine Operations, June 15-24, 1917, pp55

 

British Anti-Submarine Operations, July 5-8, 1917, pp122

 

Intercepting Dispositions Ordered by the British Commander-in-Chief, October 15, 1917, pp150

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plan Illustrating the Orders Issued on November 16, 1917, to the Forces Detailed for the Operations in the Heligoland Bight,  pp166

 

Extract from Mine Chart Issued to Vice-Admiral Commanding Light Cruiser Squadrons on November 17, 1917,  pp168

 

Extract from Mine Chart Issued to Vice-Admiral Commanding Battle Cruiser Squadron,  pp168

 

Diagram Showing Organisation of Local Patrols Falmouth and Devonport, c December 1917,  pp197

       

 Zeebrugge,  pp247

Railway System in North Russia,  pp320

 British Anti-Submarine Sweep,  pp340

       
 

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