The Battle of JutlandPen and Sword, 10. jun. 2015 - 179 sider The Battle of Jutland: At the end of May 1916, a chance encounter with Admiral Hipper's battlecruisers has enabled Beatty to lead the German Battle Fleet into the jaws of Jellicoe's greatly superior force, but darkness had allowed Admiral Scheer to extricate his ships from a potentially disastrous situation. Though inconclusive, at the Battle of Jutland the German Fleet suffered so much damage that it made no further attempt to challenge the Grand Fleet, and the British blockade remained unbroken. Captain Bennett has used sources previously unavailable to historians in his reconstruction of this controversial battle, including the papers of Vice-Admiral Harper explaining why his official record of the battle was not published until 1927, and the secret "Naval Staff Appreciation" of 1922 whose criticism were so scathing that it was never issued to the Fleet. Also included are numerous battle plans, photographs and an introduction by Bennett's son. 2006 is the 90th anniversary of the battle. |
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THE ILLUSTRATIONS | 13 |
DIAGRAMS | 15 |
1 Genesis | 17 |
2 The Long Vigil | 29 |
3 Der Tag | 55 |
4 Equal Speed Charlie London | 89 |
5 Night | 115 |
6 Who Won? | 141 |
THE BRITISH GRAND FLEET AT JUTLAND | 163 |
THE GERMAN HIGH SEAS FLEET AT THE SKAGERRAK | 169 |
THE HARPER RECORD | 173 |
SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY | 179 |
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12-inch guns action Admiral Sir Admiralty ahead armour astern attack Barham Battle Fleet Battle of Jutland Battlecruiser Fleet battleships Beatty’s Bödicker Britain British Battle Fleet British battlecruisers Captain Commander Commander-in-Chief Commodore course crew damaged Derffinger destroyers dreadnoughts enemy battle fleet enemy’s Evan-Thomas Fifth Battle Squadron Fisher Flagship of Rear-Admiral Flotilla force four German Battle Fleet German battlecruisers German Fleet Germany’s Goodenough Grand Fleet gunnery harbour Harwich Force High Seas Fleet Hipper Horn Reefs Iron Duke Jellicoe's Battle Fleet Jutland Kaiser knots Light Cruiser Squadron light cruisers Lion miles minutes later mist naval Navy night North Sea officers opened fire opponent ordered port pre-dreadnoughts Princess Royal range rear Rear-Admiral Room 40 Rosyth salvo Scapa Flow Scheer Scheer's Battle Fleet Scheer's line Scouting Group Sea Lord Second Seydlitz shell sighted signal speed starboard steam steering submarines tactics Third Battle Squadron Tirpitz torpedoboats turn turret Tyrwhitt U-boats Vice-Admiral whilst wireless yards