 "General Wolfe" was assigned to the Dover Patrol on 15 August 1918, but did not fire on any targets until 28 September, when a large force of monitors was gathered to harass German lines of communication.She was anchored bow and stern, broadside to her target, and had difficulties dealing with the tidal currents.She opened fire on the railway bridge at Snaeskerke ( south of Ostend) at a range of and made naval history as the heaviest shell fired from the largest gun at the longest range in action to date.