Heligoland
Proper noun
Meaning
Heligoland
A small island in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in the North Sea
Examples
A force of British light cruisers and destroyers entered the Heligoland Bight (the part of the North Sea closest to Hamburg ) to attack German destroyer patrols.
Battlecruisers in action The first combat involving battlecruisers during World War I was the Battle of Heligoland Bight in August 1914.
On 24 September 1900 radio telegraphy signals were exchanged regularly with the island of Heligoland over a distance of 62 km.
L 1 was lost on 9 September near Heligoland when caught in a storm while taking part in an exercise with the German fleet. 14 crew members drowned, the first fatalities in a Zeppelin accident.
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