Battle of Heligoland Bight
From The Dreadnought Project
Early this morning a concerted operation of some consequence was attempted against the Germans in the Helgoland Bight … According to the information that has reached the Admiralty so far, the operation has been fortunate and fruitful.
—Press Bureau Statement of 28 August, 1914
The Battle of Heligoland Bight was the first naval action of The Great War fought on 28 August 1914 near the island of Heligoland near the main German naval base at Wilhelmshaven.
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- Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division (July, 1921). Naval Staff Monographs. (Fleet Issue.) Volume III. O.U. 6181 (late C.B. 1585). Copy No 127 at The National Archives. ADM 186/610.
