Since the outbreak of war, Germany’s Naval fleet had been blockaded, at least along the North Sea and the Baltic. The First World War naval Battle of Coronel took place on 1 November 1914 off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel. South East Pacific . The Battle of Coronel was a naval battle fought off the coast of Coronel, Chile on 1 November 1914 during World War I.The Imperial German Navy's East Asia Squadron, commanded by Graf Maximilian von Spee, destroyed a British Royal Navy squadron at Coronel, leading to the British reinforcing their Pacific fleet and destroying the German fleet at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in December. image caption Memorial to those who died at the Battle of Coronel Another relative, Liell Francklin, said he was the grandson of the flag captain of the HMS Good Hope. Sunday 1 November . The Battle of Coronel was the first British defeat at sea since the War of 1812. German Kaiserliche Marine forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee met and defeated a Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock.. Battle of Coronel and The Falklands “I must plough the seas of the world doing as much mischief as I can, until my ammunition is exhausted or until a foe far superior in power succeeds in catching me.” – Vizeadmiral von Spee CLARKE, CHARLES. Coronel had been Britain’s worst naval defeat for more than a century. The engagement probably took place as a result of a series of misunderstandings. The British ships had to remain in the harbours of Chile and Argentina until the German cruiser squadron was destroyed. The Battle of Coronel was a First World War Imperial German Naval victory over the Royal Navy on 1 November 1914, off the coast of central Chile near the city of Coronel.The East Asia Squadron (Ostasiengeschwader or Kreuzergeschwader) of the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee met and overpowered a British squadron commanded by Rear … ... Glasgow nearest the Chilean coast some 50 miles W of Coronel. The reaction in Britain was understandably extreme. There was only a small effect on sea warfare. The British, after their defeat at the Battle of Coronel on 1 November, sent a large force to track down and destroy the German cruiser squadron. The Battle of the Falkland Islands was a First World War naval action between the British Royal Navy and Imperial German Navy on 8 December 1914 in the South Atlantic. From 3 to 6 December 1914, after the Battle of Coronel, the German East Asia Squadron (armored cruisers and and the light cruisers, Leipzig and and the merchants Santa Isabel, Baden, Seydlitz and the captured Norwegian ship Drummuir) under the command of Admiral Graf Spee moored off Puerto Banner on the way to the Battle of the Falkland Islands. Among the forces deployed to seek revenge was a squadron led by two battle cruisers—Invincible and Inflexible—vastly more powerful and considerably faster than Spee’s principal ships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. After the Battle ↑ More than 1,700 British seamen died and three German seamen were wounded during the fight of Coronel. The new First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir John Fisher, organised a massive hunt for von Spee’s squadron, involving elements of the Royal Navy and the Japanese fleet. BATTLE IN OUTLINE . PRIOR, Royal Navy 30 yrs, drowned at the sinking (1914) of HMS Continue reading The Battle of Coronea in 394 BC, also Battle of Coroneia, was a battle in the Corinthian War, in which the Spartans and their allies under King Agesilaus II defeated a force of Thebans and Argives that was attempting to block their march back into the Peloponnese … Despite this, they maintained a heavy presence in the Pacific Ocean, “possessing German New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago and islands in the Solomons, Caroline, Ladrone, Pellew, Marshall Groups of Islands, and in Samoa” (). Battle of Coronel.