On the 28th of August came the battle off the Bight of Helgoland.
The country around here is not wild and dark; as, for example, at Helgoland.
Helgoland: an island in the North Sea, belonging to Prussia.
To most New Yorkers it is as remote as Helgoland and as little known.
The launch cut through the now pitchy darkness of the Helgoland waters.
On November 17, 1917, during an engagement off Helgoland one German light cruiser was sunk and another damaged.
"German squadron of six vessels reported to have left Helgoland and to be headed for the coast of Scotland," the message read.
This period also brought to Germany the island of Helgoland in exchange for certain readjustments of boundaries in Africa.
I believe southeast was the course we used coming away from Helgoland.
The Bight of Helgoland is the passage about eighteen miles wide between the island and the German coast.