Note 98 — Chapter XX · THE BOMBARDMENT OF SCARBOROUGH AND HARTLEPOOL December 16, 1914

It must be explained that in these days the wireless communication with destroyers and still more submarines was not as perfect as it became later on. The Firedrake had therefore been stationed in the morning midway between the submarines and Harwich to pass on messages. She had late in the afternoon, after the orders to take the submarines into the Bight had reached her, rejoined Commodore Keyes and the link was, for the time being, broken.