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| Second Battle of Heligoland Bight
<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background: lightsteelblue;">Part of the First World War</td></tr>
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<tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lightsteelblue;">Combatants</th></tr><tr><td width="50%" style="border-right: 1px solid #aaa;">Britain</td><td width="50%">Germany</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lightsteelblue;">Commanders</th></tr><tr><td width="50%" style="border-right: 1px solid #aaa;">Charles Napier</td><td width="50%">Ludwig von Reuter</td></tr><tr><th width="50%" colspan="2" style="background: lightsteelblue;">Strength</th></tr><tr><td width="50%" style="border-right: 1px solid #aaa;">4 battlecruisers
2 light cruisers</td><td width="50%">2 battleships
torpedo boats
minesweepers</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background: lightsteelblue;">Casualties</th></tr><tr><td width="50%" style="border-right: 1px solid #aaa;">Light Cruiser Calypso damaged</td><td width="50%">1 torpedo boat</td></tr>
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The Second Battle of Heligoland Bight was a naval engagement in World War I. On 17 November 1917, German minesweepers clearing a path through the British minefield in the Heligoland Bight near the coast of Germany were intercepted by two British cruisers, and , performing counter-minesweeping duties. The German ships fled south toward the protection of the battleships SMS Kaiser and SMS Kaiserin, commanded by Rear Admiral Ludwig von Reuter. The two cruisers engaged the German battleships, while their own screening force of the battlecruisers HMS Tiger, HMS Renown, HMS Repulse, HMS Courageous, and HMS Glorious of the , commanded by Admiral Sir Charles Napier, were coming up to assist.
All personnel on the bridge of HMS Calypso, including her captain, were killed by an 11-inch shell. HMS Repulse briefly engaged the German battleships, but the Germans made it back to the safety of their own minefields with the loss of only a torpedo boat.
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