With the Battle Cruisers E-Book

Filson Young

• Herausgeber: Filson Young
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

First published in 1921, With the Battle Cruisers is a very personal, focused study of naval life during wartime as it unfolded for Young.

Leseprobe

TABLE OF CONTENTS

COVER

TITLE

COPYRIGHT

WITH THE BATTLE CRUISERS

DEDICATION

PREFACE

I - THE YEARS BEFORE

II - THE BATTLE CRUISERS

III - BREAKING INTO THE NAVY

IV - INVERGORDON AND THE NORTH SEA

V - SEA DOINGS

VI - THE RAID ON HARTLEPOOL AND SCARBOROUGH

VII - THE FIRTH OF FORTH

VIII - CHRISTMAS AT SEA

IX - A NEW YEAR

X - DAYS WITH THE FLEET

XI - BATTLE OF THE DOGGER BANK: PRELUDE

XII - BATTLE OF THE DOGGER BANK: THE CHASE

XIII - BATTLE OF THE DOGGER BANK: THE RETURN

XIV - AFTERMATH

XV - THE FIRST SPRING

XVI - FOUNDATIONS OF THE FUTURE

APPENDIX I - THE DOGGER BANK DESPATCH

APPENDIX II - CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE ADMIRALTY, 1920

NOTES

Filson Young

WITH THE BATTLECRUISERS

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Copyright © 1921 Filson Young

With the Battle Cruisers

(1921)

WITH THE BATTLECRUISERS

TO

THOSE WHO DIED

AND THOSE WHO LIVE

FOR ENGLAND

PREFACE

THIS book is not a chapter of naval history. It is, however, a study of naval life in war from which the material for a chapter in naval history may some day be derived. The Navy and its life must remain to a great extent terraincognita to the public that owes so much to it; and it is as much due to the public as to the Navy that an explorer like myself should give some account of his adventures.

Although the book covers so short a period of the North Sea warfare the period is vital in that it embraces the discovery of nearly all our naval shortcomings, and the initiation of the means taken to overcome them. The point of view — that of the spearhead of the British Naval forces — necessarily includes a wide angle of outlook, in which the detail of things must diminish in proportion as they recede from the view-point. But just as one full and intimate picture of the life of one ship for one month would give the reader a more human insight into the Navy than a general survey of the whole Fleet for four years, so the narrative of an eye-witness whose place was for six months on the very point of that bright spearhead should have a value apart from, and supplementary to, the official and technical histories which are being compiled. My aim in this narrative has been to draw as few conclusions myself, and to present as much material from which others may draw them, as is humanly possible.

As the Admiralty in its wisdom has refused1 me access to documents by which I might verify my facts, the sources from which that material is drawn are limited to (1) my own observation and memory, which are trained for such a purpose; (2) the few notes and records of fact, valueless to an enemy but important to us, that I have been able to preserve; and (3) the published works of officers high in English and German commands. No one but myself is responsible either for my facts or my deductions; but having waited for five years after leaving the Navy and for two years after the end of the war before putting pen to paper, I shall not, I hope, be accused of rushing into print with a hasty or ill-considered record of my impressions.

My book is written primarily for the public and not for the Naval Officer; but I know him well enough to be sure that he, who will best understand the difficulties encountered in writing this book, will most generously forgive its defects. In my brief temporary membership of the “band of brothers” I came to hold the brotherhood as permanent.

FILSON YOUNG.

LONDON, March, 1921.