The term 'North Atlantic Front' seems never to have been used officially but the British strategy in both World Wars, in 1914-18 and 1939-45, of trying to confine German naval activity did create a 'front' in practice. In the trackless ocean, the front materialised only as the protagonists' ships and aircraft, and as the land masses where one flag or another could be raised. In the First World War the Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow and the Northern Patrol operating from Swarbacks Minn gave the front tangible form. In 1918 it became briefly and more precisely defined by the laying of a great minefield from Orkney to Norway. The German occupation of Norway in 1940 blasted aside Britain's intention to repeat this strategy in the Second World War and, outflanked, the front retreated westwards and was re-established along the Shetland-Faroes-Iceland chain.
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