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1st Flotilla 27 knots Abrolhos Rocks action Admiral Beatty Admiral Sturdee Admiralty alongside altered course anchor Arethusa Argyll armament arrived ashore astern August 28th Battle Battle of Jutland battle-cruisers battleships BIGHT boats Canopus captain carried chase coal command Commodore Tyrwhitt court of enquiry Cradock's crew Cruiser Squadron decks destroyers division Doveton Sturdee Dresden duties eight enemy enemy's destroyers engine-room Falkland Islands Fearless fighting fire Firth Fleet force four full speed German destroyer Glasgow Gneisenau gunnery guns H.M. Ships H.M.S. INVINCIBLE harbour Harwich Force Heligoland Hornet Inflexible JUTLAND Kent Leipzig lieutenant light cruisers M-class destroyers Mainz miles minutes morning motor-boat naval Nestor night Nomad North Sea Nurnberg occasion officers Otranto patrolling Port Stanley range refit round salvoes sank Scharnhorst Scharnhorst and Gneisenau shell ship's company sighted SIR DAVID BEATTY Spee Spee's sub-lieutenant submarines sunk Tigress torpedo torpedo attack turned turret Wilhelmshaven yards
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Page 96 - They that go down to the sea in ships : and occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the Lord : and his wonders in the deep.
Page 11 - ... moved out at 4.15 pm, simultaneously with a similar movement on the part of the enemy destroyers. The attack was carried out in the most gallant manner, and with great determination. Before arriving at a favourable position to fire torpedoes, they intercepted an enemy force consisting of a light cruiser and fifteen destroyers.
Page 12 - Subsequently Nestor and Nicator altered course to the SE, and in a short time, the opposing battle-cruisers having turned 16 points, found themselves within close range of a number of enemy battleships. Nothing daunted, though under a terrific fire, they stood on, and their position being favourable for torpedo attack fired a torpedo at the second ship of the enemy line at a range of 3,000 yards. Before they could fire their fourth torpedo, Nestor was badly hit and swung to starboard, Nicator altering...
Page 11 - Flotilla, Turbulent and Termagant of the 9th Flotilla, having been ordered to attack the enemy with torpedoes when opportunity offered, moved out at 4.15 pm, simultaneously with a similar movement on the part of the enemy destroyers. The attack was carried out in the most gallant manner and with great determination.
Page 11 - Nestor, Nomad, and Nicator, gallantly led by Commander the Hon. Edward BS Bingham, of Nestor, pressed home their attack on the battle-cruisers and fired two torpedoes at them, being subjected to a heavy fire from the enemy's secondary armament. Nomad was badly hit, and apparently remained stopped between the lines. Subsequently Nestor and Nicator altered course to the SE, and in a short time, the opposing battle-cruisers having turned 16 points, found themselves within...
Page 140 - Flotilla (Harwich Force), Turbulent and Termagant of the 9th Flotilla (Harwich Force). The Onslow was detached on special service with Engadine. I immediately hoisted the signal for full speed and ordered the destroyers to form a single line astern of me. Then, shaping course a point and a half in towards the enemy, we ran full speed at 35 knots for half an hour, in order to reach an advantageous position on the enemy's bows, such as would enable me to launch the torpedo attack with the greatest...
Page 146 - These orders were rapidly executed, and there was still time on our hands ; for nothing had as yet happened. By a brilliant inspiration, Bethell then suggested to me that the cables might be ranged on deck — ostensibly for use in case of a friendly tow, but in reality to keep the men busy to the last. This suggestion I readily accepted, and the hands were still thus employed when the end came. From a distance of about five miles, the Germans commenced with their secondary armament, and very soon...
Page 149 - ... in, the rest supporting themselves by holding on to the gunwale. Looking now towards the Nestor, we saw the water lapping over the decks, and the forecastle high in the air, still the target of the German gun-layers, some of whose projectiles fell uncomfortably near us in the motor-boat and rafts. In about three minutes, the destroyer suddenly raised herself into an absolutely perpendicular position, and thus slid down, stern first, to the bottom of the North Sea, leaving a quantity of oil and...