To get acquainted with the fighting and sea specifically for the command staff of the RKCF was translated into Russian and in 1941 almost without abbreviations published at the Naval Publishing House of the NK of the Navy "Operations of the English Navy in the World War". (Voenmorizdat .) Leningrad . 1941 . 5 volumes with map attachments). The text of this book presents four chapters from the first volume of "Operations..." Note that before the events described in this book, the war was already raging in Europe, and in the vastness of the sea there was a battle at Helgoland, which entailed the death of several German cruisers. German submarine U-9 was sunk by three British armored cruisers So for a short period of time, the ships of the warring parties died one after another ..