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Battle of the Denmark Strait
The
Battle of the Denmark Strait
was a
Second World War
naval battle between ships of the
Royal Navy
and the
German
Kriegsmarine
, fought on 24 May 1941. The British
battleship
and the
battlecruiser
fought the German
battleship
and the
heavy cruiser
, both of which were attempting to break out into the North Atlantic to attack Allied merchant shipping (
Operation Rheinübung
).
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