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Broad Fourteens Massacre
Three obsolete British of the 7th Cruiser Squadron, the HMS Aboukir, Hogue, and Cressy were sunk by the German submarine U9 piloted by Otto Weddigen.
The victory of a submarine against a surface ship was not the first in history, submarines had been used since the American Revolutionary war, but it was a shock to the moral of the British Navy.
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