Battle of Jutland
May 31, 1916
The British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet met in a single enormous naval battle in the North Sea. The British lost more ships, the Germans lost more morale, and the encounter was inconclusive. Still, the German fleet never came out again. Britain kept its command of the sea until the war's end.
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