THE FIRST OBSTRUCTION AT SCAPA FLOW 28 SMOKE SCREEN MADE BY DESTROYERS 68 A DUMMY BATTLESHIP, MARCH, 1915 68 THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, CAPTAIN OF THE FLEET (COMMODORE LIONEL HALSEY), AND THE FLAG LIEUTENANT (LIEUT.-COMMANDER HERBERT FITZHERBERT) ON BOARD H.M.S. _IRON DUKE_ 96 THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND AS DEPICTED BY A GERMAN ARTIST (_colour_) 336 H.M.S. _IRON DUKE_ AND 3RD DIVISION OF THE BATTLE FLEET DEPLOYING AT THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND 342 H.M.S. _IRON DUKE_ OPENING FIRE AT THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND 346 H.M.S. _SUPERB_ OPENING FIRE AT THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND 366 PLANS AND DIAGRAMS PLANS PLAN FACING PAGE 1. SCAPA FLOW AND THE ORKNEYS 48 2. AREA OF OPERATIONS OF 10TH CRUISER SQUADRON 74 3. TYPICAL SWEEP, SEPTEMBER 8TH–11TH, 1914 128 4. APPROXIMATE DISPOSITIONS, OCTOBER 3RD–11TH, 1914, WHILST CANADIAN CONVOY WAS CROSSING 138 5. MOVEMENTS OF FLEET, JANUARY 23RD–25TH, 1915 196 6. OPERATIONS OFF HORN REEF, MAY 2ND–5TH, 1916 290 7. OPERATIONS OF BATTLE CRUISER FLEET, 2 P. M. TO 6.15 P. M., MAY 31ST, 1916 316 8. APPROXIMATE POSITION OF SHIPS OF GRAND FLEET, 6.45 P. M., MAY 31ST, 1916 350 9. APPROXIMATE POSITION OF SHIPS OF GRAND FLEET, 7.15 P. M., MAY 31ST, 1916 358 DIAGRAMS DIAGRAM 1. BEFORE AND AFTER DEPLOYMENT OF THE BATTLE FLEET, MAY 31ST, 1916. 2. SHOWING AN IMAGINARY DEPLOYMENT ON THE STARBOARD WING COLUMN. 3. BATTLE OF JUTLAND, MOVEMENTS OF BATTLE FLEET AND BATTLE CRUISERS. 4. OPERATIONS DURING THE NIGHT OF MAY 31ST–JUNE 1ST, AND ON JUNE 1ST, 1916. THE GRAND FLEET, 1914–1916 CHAPTER I THE OPENING OF THE WAR Early in 1914, whilst serving at the Admiralty as Second Sea Lord, I had been offered and had accepted the command of the Home Fleets, which in the ordinary course would have become vacant in the following December on the expiration of Admiral Sir George Callaghan’s term of command, and public announcement was made of the intended appointment.