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The Brave was first attacked in April 1917 when she was attacked by a submarine U-43, which had just left Germany on 8 April for a combat cruise in the Irish Sea.

The U-43 sank a number of ships, one of which was the 744-ton American sailing ship USS Woodward Abraham, which was bound for Liverpool from Pensacola.

At 7:10 p.m. on 22 April, the Abraham was intercepted by U-43 at latitude 51°23'N, longitude 19°51'W, about 400 miles west of the British coast, and was eventually bombed and sunk by U-43 after the crew abandoned ship.

U-43 then continued eastward and encountered the Brave at approximately 51°N, 18°W at 9 a.m. on 23 April.

The Brave had just departed from Plymouth on 21 April, accompanied by two destroyers, to Scapa Bay.

U-43 fired two torpedoes, but both grazed the bow of the Brave.

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All in all, if you want to restore the Second Battle of the Gulf of Helgoland, you must restore those glorious battleships one by one.

But in this way, the cost is too high, at least not what Li Yaoyang can afford.

He didn't make movies to pursue art, purely to wash his money cleanly, and he wasn't wronged, so why should he do it at a loss.

But sometimes things don't change according to his will, and when he protests to the above, the crew is forced to stop work on the grounds of disturbing the people!

It's a big spectrum, and there is no shadow within a radius of 3 kilometers from the shooting place, which is disturbing? The haunting is pretty much the same!

However, the Admiralty was not completely unreasonable, and specially sent a consultant to join the filming and explained the military's requirements in detail to the crew.

To crucify Germany to the pillar of shame!

After Li Yaoyang heard about it, he was silent for more than ten minutes, and then said a word:

"Remove my name from the movie!"

He wants to make sure that on the surface, this movie has nothing to do with him!

Although Germany was a continental nation, Wilhelm II wanted his empire to be at the helm of the world's sea power, and the German High Seas Fleet was the embodiment of this desire.

In the decade leading up to World War I, Germany was expanding its navy, which cost a huge amount of money and triggered a naval arms race with Britain.

When World War I broke out, the British Navy still had an advantage over the German Navy in terms of overall size and capital ship strength.

According to the traditional view of later historians, from the beginning of the war, the German Navy lacked a clear strategy towards Britain, and the senior generals of the German Navy always oscillated between surface warfare and unrestricted submarine warfare.

In the early stages of the war, the German surface fleet carried out a limited series of tactical operations, looking for opportunities to weaken the adversary, and such operations culminated in the Battle of Jutland in 1916.

However, despite the scale of the naval battle, the outcome was not conclusive, and the pattern of engagement in the North Sea remained unchanged.

The Battle of Jutland made the German navy's top brass realize that it was impossible to win the war through fleet engagements, and in the later stages of the war they focused on submarine warfare, with little to be done by its large surface fleet.

As time passed, the morale of the officers and men of the German Navy at the rank and file became increasingly demoralized, and war weariness continued to grow.

This culminated in a mutiny in November 1918, completely depriving the High Seas Fleet of its combat capability.

On the whole, the above point of view is accurate, but in concrete it is extremely obscure about the actions of the German surface fleet after the Battle of Jutland.

This was largely influenced by the outstanding results achieved in unrestricted submarine warfare in the later stages of the war, and submarine forces were closer to achieving decisive results than surface fleets.

After the war, the giants of the German navy, such as Alfred von Tirpitz and Reinhard Schell, described the trajectory of the war in this tone.

Even Scheer, who had been commander of the High Seas Fleet, was emotionally inclined to the surface fleet, admitting that submarines were more effective than battleships.

However, in fact, for more than two years after the Battle of Jutland, the surface warships of the German High Seas Fleet did not stop trying to prove their worth, and their actions were much more active and complex than later facts are known.

In Western historiography, scholars have long had a tendency to favor Britain over Germany when studying the confrontation between the British and German navies during World War I, and this tendency has not changed until recent years.

Even so, in studying the operational history of the German Navy, scholars have focused on surface engagements from 1914 to 1916 and unrestricted submarine warfare in the latter part of the war, with little ink on surface operations at the High Seas Fleet after the Battle of Jutland.

At 15 o'clock in the afternoon of June 1, 1916, the battleship "Frederick the Great", the flagship of the German High Seas Fleet, anchored in Wilhelmshaven, marking the end of the German Navy's journey in the Battle of Jutland and continuing to maintain a confrontation with the British Navy.

The Fleet Commander, Vice Admiral Scheer, now has to arrange for the ships damaged in the naval battle to be repaired and to chart a course of action for the future.

No matter how the German Navy judged the strategic effect of the Battle of Jutland, the Germans, at least for propaganda purposes, declared themselves the victors of this naval battle.

On 5 June, Kaiser Wilhelm II visited the naval base to award meritorious officers, Schell was promoted to admiral and awarded the Order of Merit, and the emperor made an impassioned speech to all the officers and men of the flagship of the fleet, declaring:

"Trafalgar's spell has been broken!" The overjoyed emperor demanded more active action from the High Seas Fleet.

However, the admirals' mentality was not as optimistic as that of His Majesty the Emperor, and the Battle of Jutland gave them a real glimpse of the strength of the British fleet, and they began to consider resuming unrestricted submarine warfare.

In 1915, the German Navy attempted unrestricted submarine warfare in the waters around Britain, but a few months later the sinking of the liner Lusitania led to a serious diplomatic crisis that forced German submarines to terminate their unwarned attacks on merchant ships.

Now, there is a growing cry within the German Navy for a complete breach of diplomatic relations.

The Chief of the General Staff of the Navy, Admiral Henning von Holzendorff, believes that the battleships wounded in the Battle of Jutland need to be repaired, and the surface fleet will not be able to make full steam sorties for weeks or even months, so it is necessary to intensify the offensive operations of submarines.

Admiral Tirpitz, the founder of the High Seas Fleet, resigned as Minister of the Navy in early 1916, but he still had a great deal of influence in the naval center, and he had been a staunch supporter of unrestricted submarine warfare.

The commander of the High Seas Fleet, Scheer, also wrote in his report after the Battle of Jutland:

"If we don't want to end up bleeding to death, we must carry out submarine warfare with all our might."

In contrast to the opinion of the Navy's top brass, most high-ranking officials in the German government were very concerned that an unrestricted attack on merchant ships would lead to a violent reaction from neutral countries, especially ugly countries, and therefore opposed unrestricted submarine warfare.

Admiral Georg von Müller, head of the Kaiser's naval cabinet, was also suspicious of unfettered submarine offensives, but his opposition was very weak within the navy.

In fact, the Kaiser himself did not approve of unrestricted submarine warfare, but under pressure from the military he agreed to an escalated underwater campaign in which submarines could carry out unannounced attacks, but only on armed ships.

On the other hand, since the High Seas Fleet claimed victory at Jutland, it could not remain in the harbor for long, and Schell felt considerable pressure to continue operations in the North Sea.

In response, the German Navy's Zeppelins began to take a more active part in air raids on the British mainland, which until then had been mainly engaged in reconnaissance missions.

In addition, the German Navy also began to re-examine and rethink the coordinated operation of submarines and surface fleets, and the role of German submarines in the Battle of Jutland was almost nil.

Admiral Scheer soon devised a new sortie plan, but the tactic was the same, using part of his forces to bombard Sunderland on the east coast of England and lure the British fleet into attack.

The main force was then used to intercept the attack, but some changes were made to the formation of the fleet, drawing lessons from the Battle of Jutland.

Scheer left the 2nd battleship in the harbor with the former dreadnoughts at the bottom, thus increasing the overall speed and maneuverability of the fleet.

The 1st reconnaissance flotilla, commanded by Vice Admiral Franz Hipper, suffered the most damage in the Battle of Jutland, and the battlecruiser "Lützov" was sunk;

"De Fringer" and "Seydlitz" were badly damaged and are still being repaired.

Therefore, Scheer drew the "Elector", "Frontier Governor" and "Bavaria" battleships from the main fleet as supplementary forces into the reconnaissance fleet.

Among them, the "Bavaria" is the latest super dreadnought equipped with 380 mm naval guns in service with the German Navy.

Scheer's move was modeled after the British Navy's approach to formation at the Battle of Jutland, when Betty's battlecruiser formation served as the fleet vanguard with four of the newest Queen Elizabeth-class battleships.

At the same time, the distance between Hipper's reconnaissance fleet and the main fleet was shortened.

The battlecruiser "Seydlitz", which received heavy damage in the Battle of Jutland, was hit by 25 large-caliber shells and 1 torpedo in the naval battle, with a water intake of up to 5000 tons, but in the end survived.

The German High Seas Fleet secretly set sail on the night of 18 August, but the British codebreaker department learned of the movements of the German Navy and alerted the Grand Fleet before Scheer and his team left Wilhelmshaven.

In the early morning of the next day, the British submarine E-23 ambushed the German fleet, and the battleship "Westphalia" was damaged by mines.

The next day, a zeppelin spotted a British light ship formation, and a German submarine reported the discovery of a British battleship.

Soon, the airship sent back more reports of the enemy's situation, but mistakenly regarded the British light ship formation as the main force of the Grand Fleet, so that Scheer led the fleet to turn course and try to intercept it.

During this operation, German submarines sank 2 British light cruisers, and the only result of the British was the damage of the "Westphalia".

Scheer planned a similar sortie in September, but it was cancelled due to weather conditions.

Entering October, the German surface fleet moved more cautiously, as most of the submarines were transferred to participate in the operation to break the diplomatic relationship.

Scheer was told that the fleet's range of operations was limited to the waters east of the center line of the North Sea, so that it could better be supported by his own bases, but in reality this was a sign of weakness or uncertainty.

For example, two people going head-to-head on the street, and someone who looks strong and tall is definitely more aggressive and aggressive than someone who looks thin and weak.

On 10 October, the High Seas Fleet made another sortie without success, and on 19 October, another sortie found nothing but a cruiser struck by a British submarine.

In fact, the British also changed their tactics, and even if they received the news that the High Seas Fleet had left the port, the Grand Fleet would not rush to attack.

In the months following the Battle of Jutland, the High Seas Fleet was plagued by British submarines, alerting them to underwater ambushes every time they went out to sea.

On 3 November, Scheer sent a fleet of warships to the coast of Jutland to rescue two stranded German submarines, only to be attacked by the British submarine J-1, and the battleships "Elector" and "Crown Prince" were damaged.

A series of submarine attacks has strained relations between submarine forces and surface ships within the High Seas Fleet.

The question is no longer limited to the tactical aspect of whether submarines should support surface warfare, but has risen to the strategic question of whether submarines or surface warships can win the war.

In September 1916, the British Navy began to build a large mine barrier across the Strait of Dover, alert to a large-scale German engagement.

It was an underwater obstacle consisting of multiple mine belts on the surface and underwater, intended to prevent German submarines from entering the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel, and the British Dover Patrol Fleet was responsible for the protection and vigilance of the minefield.

At the end of October, the German Navy planned an attack on British patrol ships in the Channel area to cover the German submarine breaking through the blockade.

On the night of 26 and 27 October, the 3rd and 9th destroyer detachments, based in Zeebrugge, Belgium, carried out their first assault operations, sinking one British destroyer, damaging several other British ships, and clearing six mines.

After that, such night raid operations became a routine task for the German destroyer forces, but at the same time they also depleted the strength of the High Seas Fleet.

Long before the Battle of Jutland, the German Navy felt the lack of light ships.

As more destroyers were deployed to support submarine operations, the battleships went to sea in the six months following the Battle of Jutland, and the debate within the German Navy and government about unrestricted submarines reached its peak, with diplomats and heads of government still opposing unrestrained submarines.

In the Navy, Chief of the General Staff Holzendorff was the last admiral still hesitant, and Schell and his chief of staff, Admiral Luthar von Trota, tried to convince Holzendorff that he would not stop the operation at the last moment.

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