2-710-786 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Blocking of Zeebrugge Harbour', (1919). Scene from the First World War: photograph taken by a German airman in 1918 of ships sunk by the Allies. '...incontestable evidence of the effectiveness of the brilliant operation which finally closed Zeebrugge Harbour [in Belgium], the most important submarine base the Germans possessed.' From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. VII, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]