Battle of Heligoland Bight (1914)

When

28 Aug 1914

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

54.19° N, 7.51° E

Location

Heligoland Bight, North Sea

Outcome

British victory

Belligerents

Germany vs United Kingdom

First major naval battle of First World War

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 and Germany. The battle took place in the south-eastern North Sea, when the British attacked German patrols off the north-west German coast.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Сражение в Гельголандской бухте — британский флот одержал победу над германской эскадрой”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• World War I28 Jul 1914 · Interstate war · Deaths 17,000,000