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   ocr: For the greater part of the war, the powerful Verdun British corresponding battleships, displacing 20,000 tons, and the to Help Index German units limited themselves Places keeping one another under surveillance in the North Exit Sea, avoiding a direct clash, which would have been Back devastating. The biggest naval battle took place, almost by accident, on May 31, 1916, in the arm of the sea between Jutland (Denmark) and Norway, 60 km (35 miles) off the coast. Admiral Beatty was leading the British patrols when he unexpectedly ran into the German squadron that preceded the Blue Water Fleet of ...