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Updated: May 18, 2025

However, the strategical advantage over water lies with the British, because their control of the deep parts of the North Sea enables them to establish a temporary aeronautical base of mother ships sufficiently close to the German fleet to enable the British to launch a torpedo-plane attack from it on the German fleets in Kiel and Wilhelmshaven, while the Germans could not possibly establish an aeronautical base sufficiently close to the British fleet.

Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot - Aircraft and Submarines: The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day: Uses of War's Newest Weapons