The Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first Anglo-German naval battle of the First World War, fought on 28 August 1914, between ships of the United Kingdom...
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The Heligoland Bight, also known as Helgoland Bight, (German: Helgoländer Bucht) is a bay which forms the southern part of the German Bight, itself a...
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The Second Battle of Heligoland Bight, also the Action in the Helgoland Bight and the Zweite Seeschlacht bei Helgoland, was an inconclusive naval engagement...
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battle Battle of Heligoland (1864), a Second Schleswig War naval battle Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914), a World War I naval battle Second Battle of Heligoland...
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Germany (1914–1919) First Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) Sinking of the SMS Cap Trafalgar (1914) Battle of the Falkland Islands (1914) Raid on Scarborough...
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Reginald Tyrwhitt (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
commander of the Harwich Force. He led a supporting naval force of 31 destroyers and two cruisers at the Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914, in which...
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The Battle of Heligoland (or Helgoland) was fought on 9 May 1864, during the Second Schleswig War, between a Danish squadron led by Commodore Edouard Suenson...
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Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914) – World War I Battle of the Hellespont – 324 Battle of Helsingborg – 1362 – Danish–German War Battle of Hemmingstedt – 1500...
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of War], Wiener Zeitung [Vienna Newspaper], July 28, 1914, Extraausgabe [Special Edition], Amtlicher Teil [Official Section], 19" (PDF). Library of Congress...
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HMS Invincible (1907) (category Ships sunk at the Battle of Jutland)
in the Battle of Heligoland Bight in a minor role, as she was the oldest and slowest of the British battlecruisers present. During the Battle of the Falkland...
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HMS Queen Mary (category Ships sunk at the Battle of Jutland)
completed in 1913 and participated in the Battle of Heligoland Bight as part of the Grand Fleet in 1914. Like most of the modern British battlecruisers, the...
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Lion-class battlecruiser (category Ship classes of the Royal Navy)
German light cruiser Cöln during the Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914 and participated in the battles of Dogger Bank in 1915 and Jutland the following...
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Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1914, where she was credited with torpedoing the German light cruiser SMS Mainz. Lydiard also took part in the Battle of...
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HMS Invincible (section Battle honours)
the end of 1908. She saw action at Battle of Heligoland Bight, the Battle of the Falkland Islands, and the Battle of Jutland, where she blew up and sank...
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Leberecht Maass (category 1914 deaths)
November 1863 – 28 August 1914) was the Konteradmiral who commanded the German naval forces at the first Battle of Heligoland Bight. He lost his life when...
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HMS Liverpool (1909) (category Town-class cruisers (1910) of the Royal Navy)
initial stages of the First World War. During the war, Liverpool fought in the Battle of Heligoland Bight, operated off the coast of West Africa, and...
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The Second Battle of Dover Strait was a naval battle of the First World War, fought in the Dover Strait in April 1917 and should not be confused with the...
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the British success at the Battle of Heligoland Bight in 1914, Admiral Friedrich von Ingenohl, the Commander-in-Chief of the HSF planned a raid on Scarborough...
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New Zealand participated in some of the early actions in the North Sea, including the Battle of Heligoland Bight and the inconclusive Scarborough Raid...
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HMS Lion (1910) (category World War I battlecruisers of the United Kingdom)
light cruiser Cöln during the Battle of Heligoland Bight and served as Vice-Admiral David Beatty's flagship at the Battles of Dogger Bank and Jutland. She...
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HMS Badger (1911) (category Acheron-class destroyers of the Royal Navy)
British Grand Fleet in 1914 on the outbreak of the First World War. She was present on 28 August 1914 at the Battle of Heligoland Bight, detached from the...
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HMS Princess Royal (1911) (category World War I battlecruisers of the United Kingdom)
Princess Royal participated in the Battle of Heligoland Bight a month after the start of World War I in August 1914. She was then sent to the Caribbean...
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U-9, U-13, U-14, U-15, U-16, U-17, and U-18 sailed from their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea in the first submarine...
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Felix von Luckner (category Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 1st class)
In the early months of the First World War Felix von Luckner saw action at the Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914). At the Battle of Jutland (1916) he commanded...
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HMS Arethusa (1913) (category World War I cruisers of the United Kingdom)
early years of the First World War, participating in the Battle of Heligoland Bight and the Battle of Dogger Bank. The Arethusa-class cruisers were intended...
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Undaunted took part in the Battle of Heligoland Bight, and on 17 October 1914 she was involved in an action off the Dutch island of Texel with German torpedo...
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The first Battle of Heligoland took place on 4 June 1849 during the First Schleswig War and pitted the fledgling Reichsflotte (Imperial Fleet) against...
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SMS Moltke (category World War I battlecruisers of Germany)
outbreak of World War I in July. Shortly after the outbreak of World War I, on 28 August 1914, Moltke participated in the Battle of Heligoland Bight. During...
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main German fleet of sixteen dreadnought battleships of 1st and 3rd Battle Squadrons left the Jade at 02:30, being joined off Heligoland at 04:00 by the...
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HMS Acheron (1911) (category Acheron-class destroyers of the Royal Navy)
part of the Grand Fleet at the outbreak of war. She was present with First Destroyer Flotilla on 28 August 1914 at the Battle of Heligoland Bight, led...
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