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The Battle Of Jutland Explained
On 31st May 1916 the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet clashed with the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet in what became one of history's most infamous naval battles.
Fought in the freezing waters of the North Sea, off the Danish coast, the Battle of Jutland was the only full-scale naval engagement of the First World War.
Both sides claimed victory, the outcome hotly contested to this day. What is not in doubt is the huge loss of life suffered.
By July of that year however the horrific casualties of the Somme swept the pain of Jutland from much of the British public's consciousness.
A century on and just one surviving ship from the battle remains afloat - HMS Caroline, now moored in Belfast, providing a haunting reminder of that brutal spring day.
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