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1918-01-20Imbros (1918)

The battle occurred on 20 January 1918 when an Ottoman squadron engaged a flotilla of the British Royal Navy off the island of Imbros in the Aegean Sea

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1918-01-17USS Monocacy Incident

It was one of many incidents at the time involving armed Chinese men firing on foreign vessels At the beginning of World War I, the European nations with flotillas on the Yangtze withdrew their vessels to reinforce their fleets in Europe

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1917-11-17Action of 17 November 1917

The action was fought between a German U-boat and two United States Navy destroyers in the North Atlantic Ocean

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1917-11-17Second Heligoland Bight

On 17 November 1917, German minesweepers clearing a path through the British minefield in the Heligoland Bight near the coast of Germany were intercepted by two British light cruisers, and , performing counter-minesweeping duties

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1917-10-17Action off Lerwick

The British regularly shipped coal across the North Sea from Norway in 1917, these convoys were lightly defended so the German Navy took advantage of the situation

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1917-10-161917-11-03Moon Sound

The Germans captured the West Estonian archipelago (Moonsund archipelago), with its main islands of Saaremaa (osel), Hiiumaa (Dago), and Muhu (Moon) during Operation Albion in September 1917

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1917-05-141917-05-15The Strait of Otranto

This battle was the largest surface action in the Adriatic Sea during World War The Otranto Barrage was a fixed barrier, composed of lightly-armed drifters with anti-submarine nets coupled with minefields and supporte...

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1917-05-04Action of 4 May 1917

The action took place between the German Zeppelin LZ92 and the Australian light cruiser, HMAS Sydney.

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1917-04-201917-04-21Dover Strait (1917)

Royal Navy destroyers defeated a superior force of torpedo boats (the British had lost one destroyer, a transport, and several drifters while the Germans themselves suffered only minor damage to a single torpedo boat

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1917-03-17Action of 17 March 1917

Two flotillas of German torpedo boats set out from the coast of Flanders and split

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