What the records say
- When
- 17 Nov 1917
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 54.17° N, 8.07° E
- Location
- Heligoland Bight, North Sea
- Outcome
- Indecisive
- Belligerents
- German Empire vs United Kingdom
Second Battle of Heligoland Bight
Naval Engagement in World War I
The Second Battle of Heligoland Bight, also the Action in the Helgoland Bight and the Zweite Seeschlacht bei Helgoland, was an inconclusive naval engagement fought between British and German squadrons on 17 November 1917 during the First World War.
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- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Deutschen Bucht kommt es zwischen britischen und deutschen Marinestreitkräften zum Seegefecht bei Helgoland, das aber ohne Entscheidung abgebrochen wird”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “seconde bataille de Heligoland”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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