The British Navy in BattlePollen, Arthur Joseph Hungerford
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The British Navy in Battle
Pollen, Arthur Joseph Hungerford
Great Britain. Royal Navy; World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations
XVIII. The Dogger Bank. II 251
XIX. The Battle of Jutland:
I. North Sea Strategies 267
XX. The Battle of Jutland (_continued_):
II. The Urgency of a Decision 283
XXI. The Battle of Jutland (_continued_):
III. The Distribution of Forces 294
XXII. The Battle of Jutland (_continued_):
IV. The Second Phase 307
XXIII. The Battle of Jutland (_continued_):
V. The Three Objectives 315
The Tactical Plans:
Admiral Scheer’s Tactics 317
Sir David Beatty’s Tactics 324
Sir John Jellicoe’s Tactics 326
XXIV. The Battle of Jutland (_continued_):
VI. The Course of the Action 330
The German Retreat 333
The Night Actions and the Events of June 1 335
XXV. Zeebrügge and Ostend 341
Strategical Object 342
Sir Roger Keyes’s Tactics 345
Attack on the Mole 352
Moral Effect 353
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Big guns more accurate at long range, because more regular 94
Big guns need less accurate range-finding, because the danger
space is greater 95
Range-finding by bracket 97
The crux of sea fighting, changes of course and speed produce
an irregularly changing range 98
In this sketch the black silhouette shows the position at the
moment the torpedo is fired; the white silhouette the
position the ship has reached when the torpedo meets it 107
Plan of _Sydney_ and _Emden_ in action 158
Plan of the action between the British battle-cruisers and
the German armoured cruisers 199
Plan of action between _Kent_ and _Nürnberg_, and of that
between _Cornwall_ and _Glasgow_ and _Leipzig_ 207
The action off Heligoland up to the intervention of
Commodore Goodenough’s Light Cruiser Squadron 235
The action off Heligoland. The course of the battle-cruisers 239
The Dogger Bank Affair. Diagram to illustrate the character
of the engagement up to the disablement of _Lion_ 249
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