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134 “Abandon ship”: Corbett, I, 175.
134 “the sun shining on pink”: Hoehling, 50.
134 “a terrific crash”: Ibid.
135 “This time we were so bold”: Thomas, 24.
135 “Aboukir and Hogue sinking”: Corbett, I, 174.
135 “a sudden explosion”: Hoehling, 52.
135 “Keep cool, my lads”: Ibid., 54.
136 “Knowing where they were supposed to be”: Patterson, Tyrwhitt, 73.
136 “It was very difficult”: Hoehling, 55.
136 “They looked just like rows and rows of swallows”: Patterson, Tyrwhitt, 73.
136 “men climbed like ants”: Thomas, 25.
136 “She careened far over”: Gray, 36.
137 “On 22 September”: Groos, II, 56.
137 “It is well-known”: The Times (London), September 25, 1914, 8.
137 “of no great value”: Churchill, I, 326.
137 “We heard Aboukir crying out”: Beatty Papers, I, 136.
138 “It was pure murder”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 61.
138 “The disaster . . . followed”: Churchill, I, 326.
138 “One would expect senior officers”: Ibid., 327.
138 “a cruiser patrol”: Marder, II, 58.
138 “were placed in a cruel position”: Ibid., 55.
138 “that most of the officers concerned”: Churchill, I, 327.
138 “If one ship is torpedoed”: Goldrick, 133.
140 “indiscriminate and distinctly barbarian”: Marder, II, 72.
140 “cowardly weapon” and “the weapon of the weak”: Ibid., 70.
143 “We can only approve”: Scheer, 62.
144 “It is suicidal”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 71.
144 “rely to a great extent”: Ibid., 75.
144 “This may and probably will”: Ibid., 76.
145 “full confidence in your contemplated conduct”: Marder, II, 76.
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146 “The Grand Fleet was uneasy”: Churchill, I, 380.
148 “Don’t spend another penny”: Marder, Anatomy, 467.
148 “I got Rosyth delayed”: Fisher, Memories, 193.
148 “I have always been ‘dead on’ for Cromarty”: Ibid., 214.
148 “of the utmost gravity”: Marder, I, 421.
149 “a great seawater lake”: Hewison, 6.
150 “The great majority of the men”: Ibid., 52.
151 “Having to choose between the two”: Ibid., 57.
151 “The Admiralty have been so frequently charged”: Ibid.
152 “I often wondered”: Jellicoe, Grand Fleet, 29.
153 “I can only imagine”: Ibid., 30–31.
153 “It appeared to me”: Ibid., 30.
154 “No one, we believed”: Churchill, I, 381.
154 “prepare for a torpedo attack”: Hewison, 69.
154 “No trace of a submarine”: Jellicoe, Grand Fleet, 118.
155 “the fleet could not remain at a base”: Ibid.
155 “I long for a submarine defense at Scapa”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 73.
155 “Shall we be here in the morning”: Scott, 276.
155 “I think it is right that you should know”: Churchill, I, 389–91.
156 “Every effort will be made”: Ibid., 391–92.
157 “In pre-war days”: Jellicoe, Grand Fleet, 79.
157 “No one seriously contemplated”: Churchill, I, 381–82.
157 “Reproach has been levelled”: Ibid., 383.
158 “I interpreted my duty”: Ibid., 240
160 “It seems to be impossible”: FGDN, III, 131.
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163 “We are only playing at war”: Chalmers, 161.
163 “Winston, I hear”: Beatty Papers, I, 118.
163 “If he would either leave”: Marder, II, 83.
163 “If we only had a Kitchener”: Beatty Papers, I, 144.
164 “waving his stick”: Gilbert, I, 173.
165 “undertake command”: Ibid., 176.
165 “What we desire”: Ibid., 197.
165 “I can’t tell you”: Asquith, Letters to Venetia, 274.
165 “such a darned fool”: Marder, II, 85.
166 “a remarkably nice boy”: Brough, 88.
166 “stick it out a bit longer”: Hough, L and V, 66.
167 “My dearest Georgie”: Ibid., 111.
167 “I hate the idea”: Marder, I, 406.
168 “German princeling” and “court favorite”: Hough, L and V, 161.
168 “I am sure you must miss”: Ibid., 163.
168 “She hopes and expects”: Ibid., 171.
168 “perhaps the outstanding officer”: Chatfield, 84.
169 “There are literally hundreds”: Marder, I, 407.
169 “He is the ablest officer”: Randolph Churchill, II, 534.
169 “more English than the English”: Fisher, FGDN, II, 398.
169 “if his name had been Smith”: Randolph Churchill, 534.
169 “There is no one else”: Hough, L and V, 301.
170 “All my experience at the Admiralty”: Randolph Churchill, II, 630.
170 “unworthy of the royal mind”: Gretton, 88.
170 “We met every day”: Churchill, I, 241.
170 “It happened in a large number of cases”: Ibid.
170 “I accepted full responsibility”: Ibid., 240.
171 “Quite concur”: Marder, II, 88.
171 “court favorite”: Hough, L and V, 88.
171 “I heard by chance”: Marder, II, 86–87.
171 “I have never known more malignant rancour”: Hough, L and V, 196.
172 “Should a German boss our navy”: Ibid., 246.
172 “to live more in England”: Kerr, 126.
172 “never understood”: Ibid., 335.
172 “Sir, when I joined the Royal Navy”: Churchill, I, 90.
173 “whether it was true”: Hough, L and V, 301.
173 Germhun: Ibid., 302.
173 “The latest rumor”: Ibid., 300.
174 “the conversation having turned”: Ibid., 303.
174 “In time of war”: Ibid.
174 “Dear Lord Charles Beresford”: Ibid., 304.
175 “Prince Louis was a big man”: Marder, I, 407.
175 “you must not ever consider leaving”: Hough, L and V, 305.
175 “Winston has been pouring out his woes”: Ibid.
175 “grave doubt is expressed”: Gilbert, I, 215.
175 “Blood is said to be thicker than water”: Marder, II, 86.
175 “Winston came here”: Asquith, Letters to Venetia, 287.
176 “Poor Louis B’s resignation”: Hough, L and V, 307.
176 “Louis behaved with great dignity”: Asquith, Letters to Venetia, 290.
176 “I have lately been driven”: Churchill, I, 435.
176 “I beg you to release me”: Gilbert, I, 225.
176 “There is no more loyal man”: Nicholson, 251.
176 “profound sorrow”: Kerr, 258.
176 “mean and contemptible slander”: Ibid.
176 “a national humiliation”: Ibid., 256.
176 “It was an awful wrench”: Goldrick, 155.
176 “up to the end”: Marder, II, 87.
177 “On one day”: Haldane, 302.
177 “before the war ended”: Ibid., 306.
177 “he started and grew pale”: Nicholson, 309.
177 “George Rex”: Hough, L and V, 319.
177 “Arrived Prince Hyde”: Kerr, 289.
177 “to right a great wrong”: Kerr, 285.
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179 “to keep the native population”: Hough, Pursuit, 29.
180 “We must take advantage”: Ibid., 27.
180 “Thousands of German Christians”: Balfour, 209.
181 “as if he had swallowed a broom handle”: Hough, Pursuit, 20.
181 “The women seemed”: Ibid., 32.
182 “To my shame”: Ibid., 33.
183 “I do not think we were far wrong”: Pochhammer, 16.
183 “Very nice place, indeed”: Ibid., 22.
183 “alone of the Marianas”: Ibid., 36.
184 “a glorious sight”: Ibid., 42–43.
184 “Strained relations”: Bennett, Naval Battles, 53.
185 “threatened state of war”: Poch-hammer, 49.
185 “The whole beautiful world”: Ibid., 51.
185 “the British had elected”: Ibid., 55–56.
185 “The monotonous noise”: Ibid., 60.
186 “Von Spee was a cut flower”: Churchill, I, 295.
187 “In event of a war against Great Britain”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 46.
187 “It is impossible to judge from here”: Ibid., 64.
190 “If coaling the whole squadron”: Ibid., 62.
190 “We wish you success”: Pochhammer, 68.
190 “I thank Your Excellency”: Hohenzollern-Emden, 39.
190 “I shall proceed to Chile”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 63.
191 “The seemingly limitless desert”: Pochhammer, 83.
191 “In the evening”: Hough, Pursuit, 58.
193 “If no enemy ship approaches”: Hirst, 72.
194 “vastly to his astonishment”: Spencer-Cooper, 46.
194 “to gaze at the outside”: Hough, Pursuit, 78.
195 “in glorious sunlight”: Pochhammer, 135.
196 “furniture removal”: Hohenzollern-Emden, 78.
196 “we had five or six vessels collected”: Bennett, Naval Battles, 55.
196 “The Emden’s company”: Ibid., 59.
196 “the chief reason”: Marder, II, 104.
197 “It is almost in our heart”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 72–73.
CHAPTER 11: ADMIRAL CRADOCK’S VOYAGE
198 “The map of the world”: Churchill, I, 296.
198 “we could not be”: Ibid., 295.
198 “as the days succeeded one another”: Ibid., 408.
201 “Probably Scharnhorst, Gneisenau”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 54–55.
203 “She was the fastest”: Chatfield, 47.
203 “the guns . . . on the main deck”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 17.
203 “It certainly is the limit”: Ibid.
203 “Sir William White”: FGDN, II, 432.
204 “Sighted Monmouth”: Hirst, 15.
204 “Later on, when leave could be taken”: Ibid., 6.
208 “It is advisable to operate”: Ibid., 57.
208 “Gneisenau and Scharnhorst”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 80.
208 “No certain information”: Ibid., 81.
209 “Few can steam well”: Jane’s Fighting Ships—1914, 53.
209 “If she did not break down”: Marder, II, 106.
210 “Situation changed”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 82.
211 “I have a feeling”: Sweetman, 79.
211 “urgent importance”: Ibid.
212 “it blew, snowed, hailed”: Spencer-Cooper, 22–23.
212 “We finally got past caring”: Ibid., 23.
212 “It seemed to both the captain”: Chatterton, Gallant Gentlemen, 70.
213 “a good square meal”: Hirst, 52.
213 “snug as a bug”: Ibid., 54.
213 “She has already been condemned twice”: Ibid.
213 “It appears that Scharnhorst”: Churchill, I, 410.
213 “Does Defence join my command”: Ibid., 411.
213 “regulations of the Panama Canal Company”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 91.
215 “It always appeared to me”: Chatterton, Gallant Gentlemen, 71–72.
215 “It would be best for the British ships”: Churchill, I, 411.
215 “Settled”: Ibid.
215 “I understand from our conversation”: Ibid., 411–12.
216 “a citadel around which”: Ibid., 414.
216 “entirely a contrary opinion”: Hirst, 94.
217 “I trust circumstances”: Ibid., 93.
217 For William Denbow, see: Hough, Great War, 96.
217 “It is clear that”: Ibid., 412.
218 “Good Hope left”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 95.
218 “shining with that special, well-groomed”: Sweetman, 74.
218 “would come wandering up”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 14.
218 “one of our very best officers”: Fisher, FGDN, II, 101.
218 “the navy was not”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 15.
219 “When a hammock is being used”: Ibid., 14.
219 “fought hard, played hard”: Hough, Pursuit, 86.
219 “Engage the enemy more closely”: Sweetman, 74.
219 he hoped when his time came: Dreyer, 90.
219 “That ribbon”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 26.
219 “Cradock thought his chances were small”: Marder, II, 111.
219 “only in case”: Ibid., 112.
219 “I will take care”: Ibid., 111.
219 “The admiral was a very brave old man”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 92.
219 “He knew what he was up against”: Ibid., 95.
219 “With reference to orders”: Churchill, I, 416.
220 “gravely preoccupied” and “This telegram is”: Ibid.
220 “Defence is to remain”: Ibid., 417.
221 “The words ‘sufficient force’ must have seared”: Hirst, 96–97.
221 “tired of protesting”: Ibid., 97.
221 “I am going to attack the enemy now”: Ibid., 29.
221 “I am sure I should”: Churchill, I, 416.
221 “Speaking of Admiral Cradock’s position”: Ibid., 418.
221 “Two of the lieutenant commanders”: Hirst, 99.
221 “Monmouth, Good Hope and Otranto coaling”: Churchill, I, 417–18.
222 “alone this time”: Chatterton, Gallant Gentlemen, 72.
222 “that we expected to sight the enemy”: Ibid.
224 “Clear the decks”: Pochhammer, 138.
224 “Maneuver well executed”: Hirst, 101.
224 like a haystack: Pitt, 5.
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225 “in a quarter of an hour”: Pitt, 57.
225 “Does my smoke”: Pochhammer, 141.
225 “When the sun was sufficiently low”: Ibid, 141–43.
226 “We had in sight”: Chatterton, Gallant Gentlemen, 74.
226 “But when we saw those damned four funnels”: Copplestone, 236.
227 “We all thought he would leave Otranto”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 38.
227 “I cannot go down and engage”: Ibid.
228 “Follow in the admiral’s wake”: Pitt, 8.
228 “I am going to attack”: Hirst, 105.
228 “And now began the saddest”: Churchill, I, 422.
229 “the most rotten show imaginable”: Marder, II, 113.
229 “The waves rose high”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 31.
230 “The enemy had the range perfectly”: Hirst, 106.
230 “As the two big enemy ships”: Copplestone, 143.
231 “her funnels illuminated”: Hickling, 47.
231 “She looked like a splendid firework display”: Copplestone, 143.
232 “The moon was rising”: Chatterton, Gallant Gentlemen, 77.
232 “Are you all right”: Hirst, 109.
233 “I want to get stern to sea”: Ibid., 110.
233 “I felt that I could not help her”: Chatterton, Gallant Gentlemen, 78.
233 “It was obvious”: Hirst, 110.
233 “It was awful having to leave”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 35.
233 “utterly dispirited”: Hickling, 50–51.
234 “Both British armored cruisers”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 36.
235 “I fired until the Monmouth”: Sweet-man, 72.
235 “It was terrible to have to fire”: Bennett, Coronel and the Falklands, 37.
235 “Have sunk enemy cruiser”: Ibid.
235 “Bravo, Nürnberg”: Pochhammer, 154.
235 “With God’s help”: Ibid., 157.
236 “The creature just lay there”: Copplestone, 145.
236 “Good Hope, though bigger than Scharnhorst”: Pitt, 65.
236 “pretty, black-eyed women”: Pochhammer, 163.
237 “When I went ashore”: Pitt, 64.
237 “drunken, mindless idiot”: Ibid., 66–67.
237 “I drink to the memory”: Ibid.
237 “They will do nicely for my grave”: Ibid.
237 “I am quite homeless”: Hough, Pursuit, 116.
237 “Defence has been ordered”: Churchill, I, 419.
238 “We were already talking to the void”: Ibid.
238 “The Admiralty have no official confirmation”: Official Naval Dis-patches, 32.
238 “a belligerent warship”: Ibid., 33.
238 “Can you imagine”: Marder, II, 115.
238 “the British have allowed their old cruisers”: Sweetman, 73.
238 “Poor old Kit Cradock”: Beatty Papers, I, 159.
239 “He had no clear plan”: Marder, II, 110.
239 “I fear he saw red”: Chalmers, 180.
239 “let himself be caught”: Marder, II, 110.
239 “I cannot accept for the Admiralty”: Churchill, I, 414–16.
239 “It ought not to be necessary”: Ibid., 424.
240 “we could instantly concentrate”: Ibid., 414.
240 “The Defence had been refused him”: Marder, II, 111.
240 “I will take care I do not suffer”: Ibid.
241 “We are of the opinion”: Churchill, I, 426.
241 “Why did . . . [Cradock] attack”: Corbett, I, 356–57.
242 “by attacking the memory”: Bennett, Naval Battles, 102.
242 “Not under control”: Hirst, 124.
CHAPTER 13: “VERY WELL, LUCE, WE’LL SAIL TOMORROW”
244 “Carnarvon, Cornwall should join”: Churchill, I, 469.
245 “But I found Lord Fisher in a bolder mood”: Ibid., 465.
245 “Order Invincible”: Ibid., 466.
245 “Sir John Jellicoe rose to the occasion”: Ibid.
245 “important not to weaken the Grand Fleet”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 82.
246 “Once ships fall into dockyard hands”: Churchill, I, 473.
246 “The earliest possible date”: Ibid.
246 “Friday the thirteenth”: Ibid.
246 “Invincible and Inflexible are needed”: Ibid., 475.
