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It was the first time that the opposing British and German battle fleets were ever to meet. It was the first time the British fleet had been in major action for over a hundred years. As the light scouting forces probed out across the North Sea towards Denmark, a British cruiser sighted a stopped steamer: moments later, she the steamer was, not alone, for there were destroyers standing by—German Destroyers. Beyond them was a force of battle-cruisers under Admiral Hipper, and over beyond them was the whole German High Seas Fleet, which had left the sa , ports to try to decoy and annihilate a portion of their enemy.

Now they had found the battle-cruiser force commanded by Admiral Sir David Beatty, a popular hero, with a force of six battle-cruisers and the close support of four most powerful battleships in the world.

By 3.48 p.m. on 31st May 1916, Beatty was in action with the German battle-cruisers; the Grand Fleet was 60 miles away. But he was certain of victory, for the Germans had only five battle-cruisers to match against his six, and he had the battleships as well. But things were going wrong: within fourteen minutes; he had lost one battte-cruiser, which had blown up with appalling lose of life; and twenty-four minutes after that a second British battle-cruiser had vanished in a mushroom cloud of smoke and debris. The tables had been dramatically turned. How had it happened?

Commander John Irving, R.N. retd., a midshipman in Ajax during the-battle and a Second World War gunnery expert who has analysed all the records of the Battle of Jutland, including many unpublished ones of the highest importance has reached the startling conclusion in this instance that during this first action German guns claimed three times as many hits on British Ships as the British guns claimed on them. Clearly there was something wrong, with-a fleet that had cost so much to construct and upon which Britain's safety and prestige depended. Was it the failure of the orders issued by its commanders, or of the system which governed the fleet's dispositions? Commander Irving has written a powerful defence of the Grand fleet's controversial Commander-in- Chief, Sir John Jellicoe. He has produced ample evidence that it was the individuals who failed—the commanding officers who failed to report during the day that they had seen the enemy turn away into the distant mists, and who failed again at night to report to Jellicoe that they had sighted the battleships of his adversary, Admiral Scheer; who omitted to open fire on ships that were attacking them, in case they were their own; and who dismissed as mere 'breaches of procedure' the failure of strange ships to reply correctly when challenged. Gravest of all was the:failure of the Admiralty to pass to Admiral Jelicoe a series of seven intercepted German signals stating the eneny's exact positions and intentions throughout their last desperate dash for home through the night.

When dawn broke, the enemy had gone; Scheer had escaped defeat Was it a victory? Only after the war could it be seen that it was the Battle of jutland that made the ultimate victory of 1918 possible.

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