During the First World War, Skate was torpedoed and damaged in the North Sea off the Maas Lightship by the Imperial German Navy submarine  with the loss of a crew member on 12 March 1917.
During World War I, the ship Skate was attacked and damaged by a German submarine of the Imperial Navy off the Maas Lightship on March 12, 1917, resulting in the loss of a crew member.