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U-18 Sunk in Hoxa Sound
U-18, a U-17 type submarine, captained by Kptlt. von Hennig, is sunk by the trawler Dorothy Gray while trying to penetrate Scapa Flow. This would be one of only two attempts on the main British Naval base by submarine during the Great War. Despute the vulnerability of the base (in 8 October 1939 U-47 would sink the anchored Royal Oak in that harbor) commerce raiding soon ended attempts by German submarines to attack the anchorage.
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