The Grand Fleet, August 1917
Author | : Charles à Court Repington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
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Author | : Charles à Court Repington |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 604 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Earl John Rushworth Jellicoe Jellicoe |
Publisher | : New York, Doran Company |
Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Jutland, Battle of, 1916 |
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Author | : Montague Thomas Hainsselin |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781290860505 |
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author | : D K Brown |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2023-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1805000322 |
The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 ushered in one of the most rapid periods of warship development in history; and only ten years after this all-big-gun, turbine-powered battleship was completed, two entire fleets of Dreadnoughts would meet at Jutland and put the work of the prewar designers to the ultimate test. The renowned warship author, D K Brown, examines the development of these vessels and looks at how wartime experience affected warship design. As well as battleships and battlecruisers, for the first time the developmental history of smaller vessels such as minesweepers, monitors and escort vessels, built in direct response to wartime needs, is described, as is that of the submarine and aircraft carrier. A detailed study is made of battle damage, including the role played by ammunition explosions in the loss of three British battlecruisers at Jutland. Also described are the postwar capital ship designs, killed off by the Washington Treaty, which are among the most fascinating might-have-beens of naval history. A classic work again available for historians and enthusiasts, detailing the development of all those ships that enabled the Royal Navy to rule the waves supreme and defend country and empire.
Author | : John Rushworth Jellicoe Jellicoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2017-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781375467629 |
Author | : John Rushworth Jellicoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2017-06-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781548223663 |
The Grand Fleet was the main fleet of the British Royal Navy during the First World War.It was formed in August 1914 from the First Fleet and elements of the Second Fleet of the Home Fleets and it included 35-40 state-of-the-art capital ships. It was initially commanded by Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. He was succeeded by Admiral Sir David Beatty in December 1916.The Grand Fleet was based first at Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands and later at Rosyth on the Firth of Forth and took part in the biggest fleet action during the war - the Battle of Jutland - in June 1916.In April 1919 the Grand Fleet was disbanded, with much of its strength forming a new Atlantic Fleet.Not all the Grand Fleet was available to put to sea at any one time, because ships required maintenance and repairs. At the time of the battle of Jutland in May 1916 it had 32 dreadnought and super-dreadnought battleships. Of these 28 were in the Order of battle at Jutland.The order of battle of the Grand Fleet at the end of the war appears in the Naval order of 24 October 1918.The actual strength of the fleet varied through the war as new ships were built and others were sunk, but the numbers steadily increased as the war progressed and the margin of superiority over the German fleet progressed with it. After the United States entered the war, United States Battleship Division Nine was attached to the Grand Fleet as the Sixth Battle Squadron, adding four, and later five, dreadnought battleships.Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO, SGM, DL (1859-1935) was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during the First World War.His handling of the fleet at that battle was controversial: he made no serious mistakes and the German High Seas Fleet retreated to port - at a time when defeat would have been catastrophic for Britain - but the British public was disappointed that the Royal Navy had not won a victory on the scale of the Battle of Trafalgar. Jellicoe later served as First Sea Lord, overseeing the expansion of the Naval Staff at the Admiralty and the introduction of convoys, but was relieved at the end of 1917. He also served as the Governor-General of New Zealand in the early 1920s.
Author | : Viscount Jellicoe |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 2014-12-08 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 3954274337 |
This work describes the work of the famous Grand Fleet from the outbreak of WWI until the end of November 1916.
Author | : John Rushworth Jellicoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1919 |
Genre | : Jutland, Battle of, 1916 |
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Author | : Steve Backer |
Publisher | : Seaforth Publishing |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2011-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 184832104X |
The ShipCraft series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites.rnrnThis volume follows the format of the highly successful Flower Class where the extent has been doubled to include far more illustrations of the many different designs, from the Invincible of 1906 to the Renowns of 1915, and including the hybrid large light cruisers Courageous, Glorious and Furious.
Author | : John Rushworth Jellicoe |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2020-01-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1794872299 |
The Grand Fleet was the main fleet of the British Royal Navy during the First World War. The actual strength of the fleet varied through the war as new ships were built and others were sunk, but the numbers steadily increased as the war progressed and the margin of superiority over the German fleet progressed with it. After America entered the war, US Battleship Division Nine was attached to the Grand Fleet as the Sixth Battle Squadron, adding four, and later five, dreadnought battleships. Author and Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland in May 1916 during the First World War.