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The Battle of Heligoland Bight
The Battle of Heligoland Bight was a minor skirmish in the north Atlantic near the German coast. The UK Navy was able to ambush a German cruiser patrol of 6 light cruisers, 19 torpedo boats, and 12 minesweepers under the command of Franz Hipper with a force of Battlecruisers under David Beatty. The result was a German defeat with three light cruisers, SMS Mainz, Cöln and Ariadne and the destroyer V-187, sunk.
The Kaiser, furious at the loss, ordered the High Seas Fleet to avoid action hence forth, limited their usefulness to a fleet in being.
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