"Battle of May Island": In a confused series of collisions as a large Royal Navy fleet steams down the Firth of Forth this evening

When

31 Jan 1918

Kind

Event

Coordinates

56.19° N, 2.56° W

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Battle of May Island.

"Battle of May Island": In a confused series of collisions as a large Royal Navy fleet steams down the Firth of Forth this evening, submarines K4 and K17 are sunk, three other submarines and a light cruiser are damaged and 104 men are killed.

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• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “deux sous-marins de la Royal Navy sont coulés et trois autres ainsi qu’un croiseur léger sont endommagés lors de la bataille de l’île de May”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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