Pechili, Gulf of, 16 Penniless, friendless and forlorn, Lord Fisher’s entry into the Navy, 10 Plumer, General, 173 Pope, the, and Tyndale, 43, 44 Pre-war prophecy, a, 227 Public speeches, 79 _et seq._ Purging the Navy of obsolete vessels, 139 _et seq._ Q Queen Alexandra, her kindly disposition, 26; 28, 29, 268 Queen Elizabeth, 135 Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia, 34 Queen Victoria, 30, 55 R Rambodde, Ceylon, Lord Fisher’s birthplace, 255 Redesdale, Lord, 25, 26 Redmond, John, 31 Redmond, William, 31 Redundant dockyard workmen, discharge of, 56, 57 Resentment, 46 Retrospect, a (July, 1906), 150 _et seq._ Reval, 268 Rhodes, Cecil, 28 Richards, Sir Frederick, 50, 51; cabman’s retort to, 52; 264 Ridley, Bishop, 211 Riga, 236 Ripon, Lord, 53 Roberts, Lord, 36 Robertson, Mr. Edmund, 98, 101 _n._ Robertson, Rev. F. W., of Brighton, 46, 47, 49 Robertson, Sir W., 247 Rombulow-Pearse, Lieut., 159 Royal Academy Banquet, 1903, the, Lord Fisher’s speech at, 79 Royal Dutch-Shell Combination, the, 201 Royal Marines, Lord Charles Beresford on the, 168–169 Rozhdestvensky, Admiral, 207 Rumbold, Sir H. G. M. (Ambassador at Vienna), 31, 33 Russell, Lord, 31, 32, 33 Russian catastrophe, the reason of the, 228 Russian War, the, 1854–5, 8 S Saintly Naval captain, a, 12, 13, 14 Salisbury, Lord, 54, 55, 88 Salt-beef snuff-box, a, 10 Samuel, Sir Marcus, 193 Sankey, Mr., 77 Satanic captain, a, 15 Scapa Flow, 225–226, 243 Schwab, Mr., 187 Schwarzhoff, General Gross von, 55 Science, contempt for, in the Navy, 19 Scott, Admiral Percy, 80, 81, 267 Sea of Japan, battle of, 111 Sea-gull, a delicacy, 16 Secrecy and secretiveness, 93 _et seq._ Selborne, Lord, 101; letter of Sir John Fisher to, 127; 265, 266 Seven Years’ War, the, 217, 218, 222 Shadwell, Captain, 12, 13, 14, 261 Shadwell, Sir Lancelot, last Vice-Chancellor of England, 12 Shand, Lord, 31, 33 Ship-building and dockyard workers, 56 _et seq._ Siegel, Admiral von, 55 “Sleep quiet in your beds,” speech at Lord Mayor’s banquet, 1907, 85 Smith, Rt. Hon. W. H., 54 “Snail and Tortoise Party,” the, 212 Snuff-box of salt beef, 10 Some predictions, 211 “Sow the North Sea with mines,” Lord Fisher’s advice in 1914, 237–239 Spee, Admiral von, 66, 206, 232, 233, 269 Spencer, Earl, 50, 51, 52, 264 Spencer, Herbert, 42 Staal, M. de, 55 Standard Oil Trust, America, 201 State education in the Navy, 160–162 Stead, Mr. W. T., 52, 53, 55; on Lord Fisher’s great naval reforms, 253 _et seq._; 263 Stewart, Mr., “Jolly and Hustle,” 61 Stolypin, M., 222 Sturdee, Admiral Sir Doveton, 269 Submarine boat, the, 82 Submarine and commerce, the, 183–185 Submarines, 173 _et seq._ Submarines and oil fuel, 179–181 Submarines, British, before and during the war, 186