Harbor Raiding
The Scapa flow raid came about because Admiral Doenitz (sorry, the library's keyboard doesn't do umlauts) had been studying intelligence photographs of nets, minefields and blockships, and discovered the hole in the blockship barrier in Holm Sound. He decided that a u-boat could get through and asked Gunther Prien if he wanted the job. Together they planned the attack, and Prien was lucky enough to get in one day before the British brought in a fourth blockship and sealed the hole.
Winston Churchill called the sinking of the Royal Oak "A magnificent feat of arms".
No other British naval base was ever raided by a u-boat.
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