Castles of Steel, page 123
573 “You must take”: Ibid.
573 “I am laid”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 132.
573 “My beloved Jellicoe”: Bacon, Jellicoe, 228.
573 “feeling really fit”: Ibid., 146.
573 “Please don’t overdo”: Beatty Papers, I, 281.
574 “a totally different being”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 185.
574 “I expect you will know”: Bacon, Jellicoe, 239.
574 “At ease”: Gordon, 18.
574 “smiling, clapped his hands”: Winton, 167.
574 “I am being pressed”: Beatty Papers, I, 301–2.
574 “You ask me”: Ibid., 303.
575 “Germans intend”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 254.
576 “After a thoroughly”: Bingham, 133.
576 “blazing red”: Brown and Meehan, 95.
576 “Inside the ships”: Gibson and Harper, 102.
578 “If there is no news”: Jellicoe Papers, 259.
CHAPTER 31: JUTLAND: BEATTY VS. HIPPER
579 “about a thousand bare-headed sailors”: Gordon, 71.
579 “We did not appear”: Ibid., 73.
580 “In the Jade”: Irving, 36.
580 “No definite news”: Gordon, 73.
580 “a party of very clever fellows”: Marder, III, 47.
580 “Those chaps”: Ibid.
582 “Ridiculous,” “angry”: Gordon, 72–73.
582 “buffoon”: Ibid., 416.
583 “Ship ahead blowing off steam”: Oakeshott, 36.
583 “Green two five”: Ibid., 37.
583 “Enemy in sight”: Official Despatches, 443.
583 “Two cruisers, probably hostile”: Ibid.
584 “Nearly everyone agreed”: Hase, 73.
584 “Clear for action”: Ibid., 77.
584 “When we turn north”: Official Despatches, 443.
585 “The only way”: Bacon, Jutland Scandal, 178.
586 “putting on as many clothes”: King-Hall, 130.
586 “All the cups”: Gordon, 105.
586 “urinal buckets”: Costello and Hughes, 127.
587 “Have sighted”: Official Despatches, 444.
587 “Smoke seems to be”: Ibid., 445.
587 “Sea suitable for getting off”: Ibid., 433.
589 “it was one”: Chalmers, 229.
589 “Suddenly my periscope”: Hase, 80.
589 “how splendid”: Oakeshott, 42.
590 “The enemy battle cruisers”: Chatfield, 140–41.
590 “a moment of supreme tension”: Raeder, 66.
590 “The six ships”: Hase, 81.
590 “dense masses of smoke”: Ibid., 83–84.
591 “The Zeiss lenses”: Ibid., 86.
591 “His unruffled calm”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 204.
591 “could not be separated”: Ibid., 205.
591 “Hipper left his telescope”: Ibid.
591 “from this time on”: Fawcett and Hooper, 62.
592 “With each salvo fired”: Hase, 85.
592 “His curiosity”: Ibid.
593 “Q turret has gone”: Chatfield, 143.
593 “No further confirmation”: Chalmers, 231–32.
593 “We were altering course”: Fawcett and Hooper, 17.
594 “with their huge bow waves”: Chalmers, 233.
593 “It happened so suddenly”: Fawcett and Hooper, 18.
594 “Behind the battle cruiser line”: Hase, 93.
594 “Although out in the open sea”: Tarrant, Warspite, 23.
595 “quivered and reverberated”: Gibson and Harper, 133.
595 “The Queen Mary was firing less rapidly”: Hase, 89.
595 “I saw one salvo”: Fawcett and Hooper, 19–20.
596 “We disappeared”: Ibid., 18–19.
596 “Princess Royal blown up, sir”: Churchill, III, 129.
596 “There seems to be something wrong”: Chatfield, 143.
598 “Those of us”: Goodenough, 95.
598 “We saw ahead of us”: Ibid.
598 “If you’re going to make”: Ibid.
598 “URGENT”: Official Despatches, 453.
599 “the weather was extremely clear”: Scheer, 147.
599 “Course of enemy’s battle fleet”: Official Despatches, 453.
599 “I can truthfully say”: Marder, III, 71.
599 “Simply by steering”: Chalmers, 243.
599 “Alter course”: Official Despatches, 453.
600 “I suddenly saw”: Fawcett and Hooper, 67–68.
601 “The turning point”: Ibid., 60–61.
601 “the securing of arteries”: Ibid., 49.
601 “a lull in the action”: Ibid., 14–15.
602 “When we turned”: Ibid., 61.
602 “until swelling from burns”: Gordon, 410.
602 “did his best”: Ibid.
602 “Six, eight, nine salvos”: Ibid., 411.
602 “Everything was dark chaos”: Fawcett and Hooper, 64.
602 “The effect was agonizing”: Tarrant, Warspite, 35–36.
602 “restless agony”: Ibid., 36.
603 “On its way”: Fawcett and Hooper, 72.
603 “three stokers dead”: Gordon, 413.
604 “Give chase”: Scheer, 149.
604 “Prepare to renew”: Official Despatches, 455.
CHAPTER 32: JUTLAND: JELLICOE VS. SCHEER
606 “large amount of smoke”: Official Despatches, 444.
606 “Smoke seems to be”: Ibid., 445.
607 “several ships were flying”: Fawcett and Hooper, 98.
607 “Am engaging enemy”: Official Despatches, 450.
607 “Proceed immediately”: Ibid., 451.
608 “under fire from enemy battleships”: Tarrant, Jutland, 281.
608 “a great cloud”: Bennett, Jutland, 103.
608 “Look after yourself”: Ibid., 104.
609 “a shell took off”: Ibid.
609 “Yes, I am engaging”: Official Despatches, 451.
609 “Have sighted enemy”: Ibid., 452.
609 “Enemy’s battle fleet”: Ibid., 453.
609 “every face radiant”: Schoultz, 118.
609 “Urgent. Fleet action”: Official Despatches, 453.
609 “in a state of very great excitement”: Marder, III, 94.
609 “Balfour stayed”: James, A Great Seaman, 155.
610 “You must steer”: Official Despatches, 450.
610 “Keep just clear”: Ibid., 452.
610 “Can you pass”: Ibid., 454.
610 “What can you see”: Ibid., 457.
610 “our battle cruisers”: Ibid.
610 “I wish somebody”: Bacon, Jellicoe, 265.
611 “suddenly burst”: Gordon, 433.
611 “Where is enemy’s battle fleet”: Official Despatches, 457.
611 “Enemy’s battle cruisers bearing southeast”: Ibid., 458.
611 “Enemy battle fleet in sight”: Ibid., 459.
612 “I therefore decided”: Jellicoe, Grand Fleet, 350.
612 “One must agree”: Tarrant, Jutland, 123.
612 “I heard the signalman”: Dreyer, 146–47.
613 “Dreyer, commence”: Ibid., 147.
613 “the supreme moment”: Corbett, III, 361.
613 “the peak moment”: Marder, III, 101.
613 “Dreyer, I think it is time”: Dreyer, 149.
613 “as thick as the traffic”: Marder, III, 112.
614 “fired a salvo over us”: Fawcett and Hooper, 81.
614 “a light cruiser squadron”: Marder, III, 117.
614 “dressed in all her glory”: Tarrant, Warspite, 31.
615 “Twenty-four hours earlier”: Gibson and Harper, 176.
615 “berserk”: Marder, III, 113.
615 “while center stage”: Gordon, 443.
616 “got a bit rattled”: Ibid., 447.
617 “highly satisfactory”: Tarrant, Invincible, 97.
617 “The gunnery”: Hayward, 118.
618 “Your firing is very good”: Official Despatches, 168.
618 “At 6.29 p.m., the veil of mist”: Hase, 102–3.
618 “I have never seen anything”: Fawcett and Hooper, 130.
618 “My gun layer”: Ibid.
618 “Pick up survivors”: Official Despatches, 460.
618 “had not a scratch”: Fawcett and Hooper, 136.
618 “Is wreck”: Official Despatches, 462.
619 “a kind of paralysis”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 208.
619 Hipper’s conversations with Raeder and Harder are in ibid.
619 “a hole as big”: Ibid., 210.
620 “breaking into a ripple”: Gordon, 440.
621 “had but the foggiest idea”: Marder, III, 225.
621 “It was now obvious”: Scheer, 152.
621 “in the vicinity”: Tarrant, Jutland, 281.
622 “While the battle is progressing”: Frost, Battle of Jutland, 328.
622 “I could not see”: Marder, III, 123.
623 “Can you see”: Official Despatches, 461.
623 “a heavy shock”: Ibid., 67.
624 “all sense of danger”: Wheeler-Bennett, 97.
625 “If the enemy followed”: Scheer, 155.
625 “It was as yet too early”: Tarrant, Jutland, 151.
625 “The fact is”: Weizsäcker, 33.
626 “if I’d done it”: Marder, III, 128.
626 “bunched together”: Irving, 163.
627 “an almost continuous flickering”: Ibid., 157.
627 “Splinters penetrated”: Official Despatches, 80.
627 “Schlachtkreuzer ran”: Groos, V, 319.
628 “We were steaming”: Hase, 110–13.
628 “Operate against”: Tarrant, Jutland, 283.
629 “altered course to starboard”: Fawcett and Hooper, 121–22.
630 “following exactly in our course”: Ibid., 117.
630 “torpedo was either deflected”: Ibid.
631 “eight or even more”: Irving, 173.
632 “full confidence”: Marder, II, 76.
633 “Submit van”: Official Despatches, 466.
633 “posturing”: Gordon, 467.
633 “To tell the truth”: Marder, III, 145.
633 “Follow our battle cruisers”: Official Despatches, 468.
CHAPTER 33: JUTLAND: NIGHT AND MORNING
635 “I went back”: Dreyer, 151.
636 “must have inevitably led”: Jellicoe, Grand Fleet, 372.
636 “It was known to me”: Ibid., 373.
636 “Nothing would make me fight”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 271.
637 “to steer south”: Official Despatches, 21.
637 “fulfill three conditions”: Jellicoe, Grand Fleet, 374.
637 “No night intentions”: Bennett, Battle of Jutland, 128.
637 “made from dark slabs” Costello and Hughes, 206.
638 “Please give me challenge”: Official Despatches, 473.
639 “First sign of enemy challenge”: Tarrant, Jutland, 286.
639 “the ‘V’ became an ‘X’ ”: Gibson and Harper, 220.
639 “I can’t help who it is”: Goodenough, 96.
639 “Those who have not”: Marder, III, 162–63.
640 “A signalman suddenly”: King-Hall, 149–53.
641 “Three [German] destroyer flotillas”: Official Despatches, 474.
641 “I should not for a moment”: Admiralty Narrative, 108.
641 “German battle fleet ordered home”: Official Despatches, 475.
641 “The lamentable part”: Marder, III, 174.
642 “Of course, if the Admiralty” Bennett, Jutland, 135.
642 “criminal neglect”: Marder, III, 176.
642 “had left the War Room”: Bennett, Jutland, 135.
643 “and all the time”: Fawcett and Hooper, 179.
643 “A blaze of searchlights”: Ibid., 173.
644 “four big ships”: Ibid., 193–94.
645 “At 11.40”: Official Despatches, 219–20.
646 “constant attacks by torpedo craft”: Ibid., 201.
646 “At 11.35 p.m., we observed”: Ibid., 271.
646 “which I surmised”: Ibid., 195–96.
646 “whether the various observations”: Gordon, 487.
647 “that the crew”: Scheer, 161–62.
647 “a grand but terrible”: Ibid., 162.
647 “URGENT. PRIORITY. Enemy’s battle fleet”: Marder, III, 166.
648 “URGENT. I am attacking”: Ibid.
648 “Amidships on the waterline”: Fawcett and Hooper, 208.
648 “Every now and then”: Legg, 122.
648 “A cruiser on fire”: Fawcett and Hooper, 202–3.
648 “violent action flared up”: Bennett, Jutland, 127.
649 “Owing to the bad visibility”: Official Despatches, 598.
651 “I did not challenge her”: Ibid., 93.
651 “I missed the chance”: Marder, III, 184.
652 “It was inadvisable”: Official Despatches, 376.
653 “These difficulties rendered it undesirable”: Jellicoe, Grand Fleet, 385.
653 “the double purpose”: Marder, III, 188.
653 “lifted its nose”: Fawcett and Hooper, 213.
654 “Damage yesterday”: Official Despatches, 488.
654 “Enemy fleet has returned”: Ibid.
654 “None appeared to suffer”: Fawcett and Hooper, 196.
654 “I want to ascertain”: Official Despatches, 506.
654 “wreck of Queen Mary”: Ibid.
654 “When did Queen Mary”: Ibid., 509.
654 “Was cause of sinking”: Ibid., 511.
654 “Do not think it was mines”: Ibid., 514.
656 “bobbing about”: Fawcett and Hooper, 93.
656 “triumph of organization”: Ibid., 94.
656 “sat down on the settee”: Chalmers, 262.
656 “[It was] an awful sight”: Gordon, 470.
656 “The wounded who could speak”: King-Hall, 156.
657 “Very rapidly”: Gordon, 477–78.
657 “how he had found”: Marder, III, 495.
657 “poor charred bodies”: Bennett, Jutland, 153.
657 “poor, unrecognisable scraps”: Gordon, 496.
657 “an awful smell”: Hayward, 146–47.
CHAPTER 34: JUTLAND: AFTERMATH
658 “not yet returned”: Marder, III, 234.
658 “intoxicated with its victory”: Ibid.
658 The German newspaper headlines I quote appear in Tarrant, Jutland, 247.
658 “Trafalgar Is Wiped Out”: Gibson and Harper, 256.
659 “annihilation”: Ibid.
659 “the arrogant presumption”: Ibid., 256–57.
659 “almost hysterical”: Marder, III, 234.
659 “The journey”: Tarrant, Jutland, 274.
659 “cock-crowing”: Marder, III, 235.
659 “Nevertheless”: Ibid., 253.
660 “prompt contradiction”: Irving, 9.
660 London newsboys: Gibson and Harper, 258.
661 “On the afternoon”: Newbolt, IV, 3.
661 “I desired”: Marder, III, 243.
661 The quotations from the Daily Telegraph and Daily News are taken from ibid., 241.
661 “They’ve failed me”: Gordon, 498.
662 “having driven the enemy”: Newbolt, IV, 6.
662 “substantial victory”: This and the following quotations are from Marder, III, 243–44.
662 “Will the shouting”: Tarrant, Jutland, 250.
663 “It is not customary”: Gordon, 504.
663 “The German fleet has assaulted”: Tarrant, Jutland, 250.
663 “talked twaddle”: Beaverbrook, 71.
663 One night over dinner: Dugdale, 115–16.
663 “Rightly or wrongly”: Magnus, 372.
664 “the dirtiest night”: Gordon, 503.
664 “a timetable”: Jellicoe, Grand Fleet, 423.
664 “I feel in a measure”: Marder, III, 237.
666 “the superiority”: Ibid., 198.
666 “the supreme quality”: Tirpitz, I, 173.
666 “Hit first”: Marder, III, 203.
668 “laughable” and “broken to pieces”: Chatfield, 153.
668 green boys: Marder, III, 263.
669 “May I go outside”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 268.
669 “God bless you, Sir”: Ibid., 270.
669 “Your deployment into battle”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 358.
669 “You were robbed”: Marder, III, 236–37.
669 “I hope that”: Ibid., 237.
670 “I often feel”: Ibid.
670 “I missed”: Ibid.
670 “First, I want to offer you”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 277.
670 “I spent an hour”: Marder, III, 238.
670 “As you well know”: Ibid.
670 “arrogant, slipshod”: Ibid., 246.
670 “There is no doubt”: Ibid.
671 “If Jellicoe had grasped”: Ibid., 245.
671 “Now that it is all over”: Beatty Papers, I, 369.
671 “It was nothing”: Marder, III, 81.
672 “Scheer had but”: Ibid., 226.
673 “Neither Lion nor Princess Royal”: Harper, Truth, 157.
675 “he would have led”: Marder, III, 105.
675 “I hope I would”: Ibid.
675 “He fought to make”: Ibid., 226.
675 “I am not particularly sensitive”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 288.
676 “I do not understand”: Beatty Papers, I, 280.
676 “based solely:” Harper, Truth, 5.
676 “we do not wish”: Jellicoe Papers, II, 465.
677 “Well, I suppose”: Ibid., 471.
677 “It is to be supposed”: Pollen, The Navy in Battle, 338–39.
677 Harper described Pollen: Harper, Truth, 146.
677 “full of errors”: Jellicoe Papers, II, 412.
677 “almost unreadable”: Winton, 287.
677 “a man of tearful yesterdays”: Bellairs, 80.
678 “outrageous and intolerable”: Harper, Truth, 170.
678 “It is, apparently”: Ibid., 169.
678 “I am the luckiest person”: Ralph Seymour, 71.
678 “ ‘Flags’ is my Food Dictator”: Beatty Papers, I, 408.
678 “lost three battles”: Marder, II, 140.
678 “rose in all Hell’s fury”: Roskill, Beatty, 316.
678 “The Admiralty are bent”: Bacon, Jellicoe, 438.
678 “On learning of the approach”: Patterson, Jellicoe, 233.
678 “The carelessness”: Jellicoe Papers, II, 417–18.
678 “It is . . . of course”: Ibid.
678 “If you had seen”: Bacon, Jellicoe, 440.
