The Big Blockade
The work done during the First World War by the 10th Cruiser Squadron was a key part of defeating the German forces. He pieces together the attack from private letters, personal conversations and diaries of those who saw action. In a little over six months the Squadron had intercepted over 1600 vessels who had tried to run the blockade. It was, writes E. Keble Chatterton, ‘the greatest and most devastatingly effective blockade since ships first sailed the seas’.