THE E GREAT
THE GREAT NAVAL BATTLE.
DETAILED ACCOUNT..
A FIGHT OVER 100 MILES.
The Pimer special correspondent at Edin-] burgh, writing on June 5th, mys:
For a considered and oficial history of the results of the battle of Horn Reef the nation must wait until Sir John Jelli coe's dispatches have been published; but sufficient is now known of the course and issue of the battle to onable provisional conclusions to by drawn. **
and of the sea.
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A survivor from the Invincible, who subsequently saw much of the fighting from the ship that rescued him, says:
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miss their mark No armour could withstand, the heaviest, modern projectilo at such a range, and huge ships, tower- ing in their tremendous strengtis, pound- ed one another to destruction as though they were as flimsy as yachts.
The small craft played their appointed part bravely, and among themselves half a hundred encoun
[FROM "THE TINIES” were reproducing ters alike in kind but less in sento, and People will find, I am sure, that the
PORTSMOUTH.) the toll of destroyers taken on either site enemy losses are much heasier than they great naval battle was the plucky dash TJBODAS
One of the most stirring episodes in the is evidence also that these vipers of the have been led to expect when the Ad into the midst of an overwhelmingly sen" diet not hesitate to attack larger To my certain knowledge some very smart Shark, Describing this incident ons of miralty makes the whole story public, powerful foc made by the destroyer quarry.
In spite of the handicaps under which work has been done by our submarines, the survivors said Stated in its broadest form, the net re-long in drawing blood.
they fought, the British gunners were not
We were told that they had caught someRight ahead of us and close at band ault of the battle in that while we have cruiser was hit, burst into flames, and to the Kiel Canal.
A German of the enemy ships as they dashed back. lost heavily in ships and men we have sank within a few minutes. Within an
we saw two colames of German destroy- inflicted at least erjual loss on the enemy, and have retained unimpaired our co-Souls of them fought on until they sank, her on each side, and she replied to both a column of their small craft on either
hour ships on both sides were ablaze.
During the time the invincible was. We were racing along at the time, in action she had teramn ships attacking right towards the enemy lines. There was and out skipper took us at full speod. and some fell out of the line,.
het, asmilants. Her firing was splendid side of me, and as soon as we got abreast The enterprise towards the north on cible, the Indomitable, and Inflexible, the I was in a position to observe could see managed to torpedo a couple of enemy According to one account the Invin-50 was that of the other ships that of them we attacked at close range, and which the German ships set out, whatever alower ships of the Battle-Cruiser Squad- may have been its immediate object,' was
that they were punishing the German a challenge to the British Fleet. Admiral fuster ships had been fighting against the Germans, strong as they were numeri popping at us from all quarters, and we ron, did not reach the scene until the ships severely. Such good practice did destroyers, one on each beam. All the Sir David Beatty deliberately took up the appalling odds for upwards of an hour.cally, and had enough before our buttle were fring back as hard as we could go, our cruisers make with their guns that tiuse we were getting it hot. Guns were challenge, though he had at his command To some extent they reduced the balance. only a portion, and that not the strongest. against us, but the battle was still un- of our forces to pit against the whole and attained a terrible intensity.
squadron arrived.
as well as using our torpedo tubes, Navy of Germany. With wonderful miral Hood, Sir David Beatty's second The Invincible, flying the flag of Ad-
saw several enemy ships of various kinds go down, although I do not know tions could not last long for us. We had "Of course a, fight under these condi- lantry and tenacity he held the enemy in command, singled out the indentary, Germans went in for rapid fring. They torpedoes hit fairly, one on each side of how many were sunk. altogether. The been engaged about 10 minutes when two until our Grand Fleet could join in the and after n hot fight, in which some of used their guns as quickly as they our ship, and ripped three holes in her, conflict. The German Flect had their our men claim that the Hindenburg repossibly could, and singled out our ships so that she sank almost at once. chance to consider conclusions with our ceived mortal injury, the Invincible went main sen forces, and they declined it down.
for combined attack. Really the onemy some others sprang on to a raft, where NETH. Some of the splendid ships and brave men
fell into their own trap. They thought we stayed for five hours watching the in whom the nation placed a proud trust put the opposing, forces for the first time which they would be able to destroy and et. Zeppelins, torpedo craft, sabraarines, The coming of the four fast battleships they had got a weak force against them, battle and there was something to look kept that trust at the last cost, and the on a basis approaching an equality of thea inake safely back to their own har and big ships were all there. Shells tell nemy has slunk away to their ports leav guns. One of the newcomers, the War. hours before any of our big ships could like hailstones into the water, and we ing at the bottom of the son at least four spite, it is said, was attacked by five retch them in force.. of their largest ships, In short, the Ger- capital ships of the German I'lect and man l'lect is to-day as lightly bottled up left her mark on three of them, but she
Admiral Beatty upset that plan by The enemy losses in destroyers must have could see the small craft getting it badly, as it was a week ago. That at least is how herself had to retire.
drawing the enemy out and holding him been very great, for whenever one got & until our battle feet could get at him, hig shell into her she was done. Some of men here who know our Navy read the had been steaming at great speed-over know a better word to describe the tre them that I saw hit went down like stones.
and then it gave him hell. I do not What the heads of the rival fleets knew knots, I was told-end were maneuv of oach other's plans and dispositions ring to bring as many of their guns s
mendous firing that went on. one could not conceive what it was like man submarines, and they seemed to be
In fact may, perhaps, nevor, be fully xovenied possible to bear. Out of sight, in the of the enemy's light ships were blown good many of them were done for by our "Apparently there were a lot of Ger- The main facts of those which are knownowe's of the ships, the heroes of the
without actually experiencing it. Some very busy, but my impression is that a are that on Wednesday the entire Garman keep the huge ships ploughing their way
black minad
worked unceasingly to Fleet, including vessels of all weights and across the sea. With them the fight had
right out of the water. One could seeships running over them. The fire of the bits of masts and other works and bodies big ships was enough to stun anybody gunfire, accompanied, or more probably none of the glamour of notion, but all
of men flying up into the air after the with the noise it mado, I saw five Ger- preceded, by Zeppelin scouts, sallied out its peril. On then, as well as on the men
heavy shells exploded in the holds of the man battleships and battle-cruisers; they from its mino guarded harbours and above who manned the guns, depended with debris and bodies. At least one time at one of our cruisers. The Germans ships. Very soon the water became thick looked as if they were all firing at une steamed along the Danish coast towards life, death, viutory or defeat. They were Zeppelin was destroyed and several of seemed to be concentrating their fire upon the north. Somewhere in the North Sea. the unseeing actors in a grim tragedy their submarines. Torpedoes from the one ship at a time as much as they could not all together, bnt in call one with an They could not tell how the fortunes of intter just missed some of our ships, and ether, were the British Battle Cruiser the battle were swaying as they bent to then the boats that fired them would be Squadron, the armoured cruisers, and the their work in the heat and grime, Battle Fleet. Light cruisers, the advance them there was nothing to see, but just
For crushed down by our boat leaping over guurd of the two fleets, came into contact the hard unpicturesque duty to be done,
them. and the news that the Germans were out and in doing that duty hundreds of was sent throbbing through the air. The them went unflinching to their death. British forces at uner crowded on steam Flect. Through the din of weaseless This was the spirit of every one in the and made for the enemy.
The Battle Cruisor Squadron, consist broadsides, amidst smoke and stean, ing of the fastest, but not the most power plosives, shrapnel, and poison gas, our falling shells, large and small, high ex- ful, ships of the Navy, were the first to men were as cool as they might be at come on the enemy near Horn Roof. The Lan, the Tiger, the Queen Mary, and
Everything that seaman-
Survivors from the Warrior say that -Princess Royal--the four ships which formship and gunnery could do was done. ed the spear-bead of the Ficet came up marked was the disparity in material
"When I was picked up from the raft their ship's company was saved by the I was about done, for it was very cold, And now that the people know how at great speed, with the Indefatiguille strength between Admiral Beatty's squad-drawn, ran back and turned off the min
plucky action of Landing Stoker Darby and I had not much clothing on. To Allen who, after the fires had been with wards the latter part of the time we had cluso bukind, followed by the Juviasible ton and, the fleet which it fought, they and her sister ship, and at an interval by marvel that even British sailors could do
steam pipe, thus preventing an explosion ourselves. We kept our blood circulat as much as we could do to keep life in the four fast battleships provisionally so much..
that would have wrecked the ship. Theng by jumping overboard and swimming attached to the squadron--the Barban,
Warrior's crew were taken off by the round the raft. All of us did this in The Warrior when she came into the Ending. They say that the Black the Warspite, the Malaya, and theValiunt,light became the target for six German Prince shak just in front of them and turn, those on the raft hauling in the By all the laws of naval warfare it was ships, and how she was saved from im- she disappeared at once. The Intefatip then going for a swim round the raft the function of this squadron to aim the mediate destruction by the Fursuite Ichle went almost as quickly, taking down themselves. As it was, one of our mon ones who had finished their swim, and Arst blow at the enemy, to harass him to was able to tell yesterday from the lips the whole of her crew. There was cut him off from his base or to drive him of the men of the Warrior. When and chance of saving life-Time, into the arms of the main Battle Fleet.o the other-cruisers the Invincible,
died from the effects of the exposure be- fore he could be landed."
menning of the battle
All this time the vessels of both sides
mancyres.
Adriral Beatty coming up from the west and at what cost to the enemy, cannot the Defence, and the Black Prince-sank, found himself confronted by a force yet he ascertained. Unhappily, few men which, in number of ships and weight of from these ships survive, and not many guns, was immensely superior to his owa in the others can say how the ships met In seamanship and gunnery a not un- their fate. But what is certain is that worthy For, but in collective, speed de- cidedly slower, he could have shown them his heels, but he elected to join battle with them.
THE QUEEN MARY LOST IN MIX MINUTES
they were lost during the running fight when Admiral Beatty was drawing the enemy towards Sir John Jellicoe,
When she went I was thrown inte the The Invincible Bank very quickly
stroyers, which wors doing their best to time was picked up by one of our de- water, and after swimming about for a savo life. While I was on board tha destroyer it took part in two attacks on the enemy, both between midnight and early morning."
SEA CHIVALRY,
THE WARSPITE" AND THE "WARRIOR."
[FROM THE TIMES" CORRESPONDENT AT ADMIRAL BEATTY'S SIGNAL.
PORTSMOUTH.]
a lot of these big ships would all turn the whole of their guns upon one of our cruisers, and then do the same thing to tering for the ship they fired at. You can another. This meant a tremendous bat-
pen one ship at the same time. I mw from four or five of their vessels pouring imagine what it was to face these salvors
you any particulars about them, as there one or two ships go, but I could not give was so much going on that one could not grasp details very well.
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THOUGHTS IN ACTION. A SEAMAN ON " "GETTING ON WITH THE JOB." From a seaman who was in action in the naval battle tried to obtain au COMING OF THE “IKON DUKE
impression of the things which were in When at last the Battle Fleet hove in
his mind, when the fight was raging, and The disposition gave the enemy the ad- sight, with the Iron Duke at the head fought the whole of the German battle guest recollection of the thoughts which vantage of the sunlight and of the slight the oneing found the tables turned fleet, and beat them, when she went to the
The manner in which the arpite the fact emerged that he had only the made full use of it. They opened fire on our battleship, including some of the most thrilling battle stories in our annals. I suppose we were too busy to think haze which hung over the water, and they Swinging along past the German lines rescue of the Warrior, provides one of the ring line (says The Times' correspond ere to him while his ship was in the his leading ships, and a salvo from the Queen Elizabeth's sisters, fired broadside German guns, almost the first they fired, after brongside from their heavy gaus gines disabled. Her magazines were under question.
ent), steak the Queen Mary, and within six while the runy returned the fire un-water, and the crew, unable to get am
Quite helpless lay the furrior, her enat all, he remarked in answer to my minutes of the opening of the battle á steadily. thunderous explosion, tore the great ship were seen to be hit, and they did not Convinced that they would soon go the stretched. I remember when a German
Numbers of the enemy ships taunition, could no longer use their guns.
"We just got along with our jab, and considering the number of asunder and she passed out of sight.
stand their ground very long. Dividing way of their companion ships, which they light cruiser got one that put her out I rounds we were fring the job kept us Susudden was her end that explana- towards Heligoland, the others northr's men calmly waited for the end an idea we passed & word or two when their forces, some of them went south had seen sunk before their eyes, the War said to myself: Our bird, and I have Lines of the must sensational kind are towards the Skager Rack aircraft, and according to ons version a their trail and their destroyers dropped huge ship coming along it a tremendous teeth grind, but as for stuff like thinking
As they went they scattered mines in
Suddenly on the horizon they saw a seaglane, brought down by her own - on the surface of the water bombs pace through the water. It was the fast of your boyhood lays My little gres a big one gave us a rap that made our hus, fell on her decks with its load of which threw out voat clouds of dense and powerful Warepite (sister to the home in the west, you know that sort bonds. I cannot find any real support white smoke. This and the failing light Queen Elizabeth) which Admiral Jelli of thing didn't get into my eyes. I'm
What I am told is that until our gunners bat our light cruisers and destroyers now sent ahead of the Grand Flees to succour heen dured, his I don't think married THE TAIKOO
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coe, learning of the Warrior's peril, had not married myself, or it might have was remarkably accurate, and that one of harassed the flying foe through the night
their opportunity, and they her. their first shots found the magazine. Ten and the early hours of the morning minutes later the Indejatiyehle suffered the same fate, the concentrated fire of the heavy guns battering her to pieces.
ffered There are stories of bombs from
for these statements.
small craft against the large that one of It was in these night encounters of the effective range of German battleship sur destroyers, the Onslaught, got within and sent her to the bottom.
THE FIRST SALVOLINE
difforent, but
the moment. It's like when you've got to worry about anything that wasn't of
and down to one thing. the gloves ou and the other chap's dan- cing round. You've got to keep your
ashore again a man starts telling people "If when it's all over and you're that just as a 12in. shell wiped out a dozen of his mates 10 yards from him, he was thinking about a girl he took to the theatre once, I don't believe him, particularly if he's telling the yarn to
and you're heading for home. If you bit of thinking is when you're out of it the girl. The time when you do do s don't mind you can think then willi hurts you. That's when sailors get a bit
On came the great battleship with the
ly swept into the fray. Recognizing in grim muzzles of her 15-inch guns trained on the enemy. At full speed she arrogant Those losses were the price paid for a
greeted the Warspite with ringing cheers. her their saviour, the Warrior's men maneuvre which, I am told, was executed by Admiral Beatty with extraordinary skill When his squadron, coming east-
These ungrudgingly answered from the ward, met the German Fleet, the latter
ZEPPELIN “LOOK-OUTS,”
battleship, which threw herself between the helpless Warrior and the German ves was on a north-westerly course, and a determined attempt was made to envelop Press representative, said:--
Lord Beresford, in a statement to a
sels that were battering her zilent hull the British ships. By turning southwarels and wheeling round to the north-west Sir we have no suitable airships, The Ger- full force of it and sank. Putting her The British look-outs" are cruisers; 15-inch batteries. A German ship got the Crash went a salvo from the Warpite's David Beatly frustrated the effort and mans have a great advantage by using helm over, the Warspite circled round the turned the battle into a running fight on Zeppelins os look-outs." Every minute Warrior, drawing on herself all the fire approximately parallel lines, his pur of time in the report of "look-out" in of the German ships, and replying to it pose being to draw the enemy in the direo sea fight is a priceless jewel. The Ger with vigour and great effect, tion from which the British Battle Fleetmans can tell the allocation of our Fleet, damaged her steering gear; still the War-
soft should come, at while we cannot be certain of the allora spite held on, fighting single-handed the
You want to know my impression of Soon the three Invincibles arrived and tion of their fleets unless our cruisers are whole of the German battleships.
A shell the action. I can't say much except that joined in the fight, and later the four fest in the radius of action. We must send times the Nazspate circled round the somebody picking up two or three covered we were steaming fast, bring fort, and battleships added their support to our levy cruisers as outside scouts, on Warrior in this way, all the while punish-legs and pitching them overheerl. It there were more abella flying round than surely tried cruisers. In all, the fight ex-account of small cruisers being driven in ing the enemy terribly with her great seemed the best thing to do at the time. Four I care to think about now. I remember tended over at least 100 miles, and pro- without getting information.
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The Germans-could tell to a second when Come hack; you are sacrificing your- | is- was time to ran before the Grand Fleet self." signalled Admiral Beatty to the Warmite, but, owing to her damaged
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Each force had its complement of could properly engage. light cruisers, destroyera, and other small I declare it to be a victory for us, hardsteering mor, she could not obey the order craft, but they were the pawns in the earned, but a victory. The grand tradi- could only hang on and fight, and she did gno The read struggle was between the tions of the British Flect have been nolly this so sturdily, in spite of the heavy bat giants. It was at first a contest of big maintained, and our margin of safety terine which she received, that by the time guns, As a spectacle it must have been remains. inspiring, but as warfare it was murder had a
As I have said, the Germans her consorts of the Dreadnought division
We have no airships in full fight.
Firing at they were at a range for "lookidous advantage in Zeppelins had in the German battle fleet was:
which at times was under five miles and suitable for our Fleet, and, to get seldom exceeded 10, the finest gunners accurate information, we must stand to single-handed and succoured the Warrior, of the world's finest fleets could hardly lose some of our cruisers,
The fe had beaten them off
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