1911 RMS Titanic launched in Belfast.
1916 Battle of Jutland: Largest naval battle of World War I between the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet which killed 8,645 in an inconclusive battle but strategic British victory. German fleet never puts to sea again in WWI
1940 Major General Bernard Montgomery leaves Dunkirk.
1940 Winston Churchill flies to Paris to meet with French Marshal Philippe Pétain who announces he is willing to make a separate peace with Germany.
1942 U-boats sink and damage 146 allied ships this month (722,666 tons)
1943 42 U-boats sunk by the Allies this month.
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