The Royal Naval surgeons in the battle of Coronel.

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D Mahan

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Introduction The battle of Coronel was the fi rst British defeat in the First World War and is not often remembered. It played out in the southern Pacifi c Ocean, off the coast of Chile. On 1 November 1914, the Royal Navy (RN) confronted a German squadron outside the port of Coronel (36o 59’ 26.24’’ S, 73o 37’ 53.39’’ W), close to Chile’s second city of Concepción. The Germans won a resounding victory, sinking two of the four British ships (HMS GOOD HOPE and HMS MONMOUTH) with the loss of over 1600 lives. The British responded quickly and forcefully. They dispatched ships from the North Sea to the South Atlantic and confronted the Germans at the Falkland Islands fi ve weeks later. This time, the British won. They sank four German ships, and more than 1800 German sailors were lost (1).

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