INDEX

A

Action, 45

Adams, John Couch, 21

Admiralty House, Portsmouth, King Edward’s visit to, 24, 25

Admiralty policy: replies to criticisms, 98 et seq.

Alcester, Lord, 30

Alderson, General, 54

Alexandria, bombardment of, 63, 256

Allan, Sir William, 88

Allenby, Lord, 241

American advance on Verdun, 246

Animated biscuits, 8

Arabi Pasha, 30

Arbuthnot, Sir Robert, 261

Archbishop and the pack of cards, the, 32

Armoured trains, institution of, 30

Ascension, the, 45

Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., 65, 179, 194, 214, 222, 242, 247, 269

Augé, M., 59

Automatic dropping mines for ocean use, 223–224

Aylesford, Lord, 3

B

Bacon, Admiral Sir Reginald, 128, 181;

on the big gun, 204–206

Baker, Mrs., Lord Fisher’s cook, 25;

invited to Buckingham Palace by King Edward, ibid.

Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., 56, 65, 98

Balliol College, Oxford, 2

Baltic project, the, 217 et seq., 236, 241

Battle hymn of the American Republic, the, 77, 78

Beatty, Earl, 269

Beaufort Testimonial, won by Lord Fisher, 255

Beaumont, Admiral Sir Lewis, 30

Beilby, Sir George, 66

Benbow, Sir Henry, letter of, to Lord Fisher, 171

Beresford, Admiral Lord Charles, on training of officers and men for the Navy, 167–170;

265

Bethmann-Hollweg, Herr von, 247

Bible, the, and other reflections, 38 et seq.;

Wyclif’s translation, 43;

Tyndale’s, ibid.;

Coverdale’s, 44;

Authorised, ibid.;

Revised, ibid.;

Cranmer’s “Great Bible,” ibid.

Big gun, the, 204 et seq.

Birthday Honours List a serial novel, 73

Black, Dr. Hugh, 38, 39, 77

Boar, Mr., 128

Board of Invention and Research, 193, 269

Bodmin, ancestral home of the Fishers, 3

Borden, Sir Robert, and hereditary titles in Canada, 72

Borkum, 245

Bourke, Mr. Maurice, 95

Boydell, Alderman, 1, 261

Boys, training of, for the Navy, 166

Brampton, Lord, 26, 31, 33

Brest, blockade of, 6

Bright, John, 69, 70

British submarines before and during the war, 186

Brodrick, Mr., 83

Browning, Sir Thomas, 201

Brutality in the Navy, former, 10

Buonaparte, Napoleon, Archbishop Whately, on, 100

Burnham, the first Lord, 31, 32, 33

“Buying up opportunities,” 61 et seq.

Byron, Lord, 4

C

Cabman’s retort to the Admiral, the, 52

Campbell-Bannerman, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry, 31, 32, 51, 53

Canada and hereditary titles, Sir Robert Borden on, 73

Cape Observatory, the, 124

Capri, 41

Cawdor, Lord, 98

Cawdor memorandum, the, 107, 117

Childers, Rt. Hon. Hugh, 56, 139

China Seas, an Admiral’s unique manner of surveying, 9

Chinese, the ingenious, 9

Christmas Day joys on a man-of-war, 22

Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston, 86, 179, 188, 191, 192, 194, 230, 269, 270

Clarke, Sir George, 266

Claverhouse, 78

Clemenceau, M., 240

Clive, Lord, 74

Coastguard, service, the, 120 et seq.

Cochrane, Captain the Hon. A. A., 262

Collingwood, Admiral, 90, 92

Commerce, the submarine and, 183–185

Common entry into the Navy, 156 et seq.

Congreve, William, 92

Cooper-Key, Admiral Sir A., 262

Corbett, Sir Julian, 34

Cornwallis, Admiral, 6, 90

Coronel, 261

Coverdale, Miles, 42, 43, 44

Cowdray, Lord, 196

Cranmer’s Bible, 43, 44

Cromwell, Thomas, 42, 43, 44

Currie, General, 74

Curzon, Earl, 193

D

Dalby, Prof., 193

Daniels, Mr. Josephus, 79;

report on oil-burning battleships, 203, 270

Davies, Mr., American dentist to the Kaiser, 75

Dawson, Sir Trevor, 189

Defects and repairs, 112 et seq.

Democracy, 69 et seq.

Deterding, Mr., 200, 201

Devonport, Viscount, 247

Diesel, Dr., 197

Dilke, Sir C., 102

Disraeli, Mr., 20

Diving methods of the Chinese, 9

Dogger Bank, 269

“Dreadnought” and “Invincible,” the, 109

Dreadnought battle cruiser, the, 232–233

Drumclog, 78

Drummond, Admiral the Hon. Sir James, 262

E

Eardley-Wilmot, Admiral Sir Sydney, 210

Edison, Mr., 21

Edmunds, Mr. Henry, 21, 22

Empress of Russia, Dowager, 29

“Equal opportunity for all,” 71 et seq.

Esher, Lord, 11, 53, 173, 266

Essentials of sea fighting, the, 88 et seq.

F

Falkland Islands, 66

Fisher Baronetcy, lapse of, 2

Fisher’s career, Lord, synopsis of, 255 et seq.

Fisher, Sir Clement, 2, 3

Fisher, John, 2

Fisher, Rev. John, of Bodmin, 3;

four generations of, 4

Fisher, Mr. John Arbuthnot, 5

Fisher, Sir Robert, of Packington, 3

Fisher, Sir Robert, 4

Fisher, William, father of Lord Fisher, 261

Fisher, Mary, wife of Lord Aylesford, 3

Fisher motto, the, 2

Fiume, 256

“Fleet Street” conspiracy, a, 101

Foch, Marshal, 246

Forgiveness, 49

“Free Tank Day,” a, 22

Frederick the Great and the Seven Years’ War, 217, 218

Freedom of the seas nonsense, 75

French, Lord, 247

Friedland-Eylau campaign, 221

Friend, Lord Fisher’s letter to a, 76

Fushishima, Prince, 227

G

Gallifet, General, 31

Gard, Mr., 128

Gardiner, Mr. A. G., 11

Gaunt, John of, 96

Geddes, Sir Eric, 67, 246

German Emperor, the, 227, 230

German submarine menace, the, 65, 242

Gervais, Admiral, 264

Ginsburg, Dr., letter from Lord Fisher to, 41

Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., final resignation of, 50 et seq., 264

Goodenough, Commodore, 211

Gould, Sir F. C., 36

Goschen, Rt. Hon. G. J., 264

Gracie, Mr., 128

Grafton, Richard, printer of the 1539 Bible, 38

Grant, Sir Hope, 17

Graves, Admiral, 7

“Great Silent Navy,” the, 95, 96

Greenwich Observatory, 124

Gunboat, the use of the, 116 et seq.

Gunning, Miss, wife of two dukes and mother of four, 5, 6

H

Hadcock, Major A. G., 210, 233

Hamilton, Duke of, 5

Hamilton, Lady, 1, 6

Hamilton, Lord George, 54, 264

Hankey, Sir Maurice P. A., 173;

letter to Lord Fisher, 214–215;

letter of Lord Fisher to, 244

Hanotaux, M., 250

Harcourt, Lord, 53

Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Sir William, 51, 52, 53

Hawke, Admiral, Capt. A. T. Mahan on, 91

Hawkins, Sir Henry, see Brampton, Lord

Hay, General, commandant of the Hythe School of Musketry, 17, 18

Heligoland Bight, a Naval Officer, on the battle of, 230, 245

Henderson, Wilfrid, 128

Hereditary titles out of date, 73;

Canada and, ibid.

Hicks-Beach, Rt. Hon. Sir Michael, 51

Hilles, Captain, 261

Hole, Dean, 65

Hood, Captain Arthur W. A., 262

Hood, Sir H., 262, 264

Hope, Sir James, 14, 15, 261

Hopkins, Sir John, 170;

letter of, to Lord Fisher, ibid.

Horton, Lady Wilmot, 4, 261

Hoskins, Sir A. H., 264

Hostile submarines, 183

House of Lords, Lord Fisher’s speech in, November, 1915, 86;

March 21, 1917, 87

How the Great War was carried on, 64 et seq.

Howe, Julia Ward, 77

Hunger and thirst the way to Heaven, 10

Huxley, T. H., 42

Hythe School of Musketry, the, 17

I

Incarnation of Revolution, Lord Fisher as the, 20

Inge, Dean, 28, 47, 48

Ireland under military law, 31

J

Jackson, Sir Henry, 128

Jellicoe, Viscount, 128, 214, 215, 223, 226, 242, 243, 247, 267

Joffre, General, 247

“Jolly and Hustle,” 58 et seq.

Jonah’s Gourd, 97 et seq.

Jones, Captain Oliver, 15, 16, 17, 261

K

Keble, John, 19

Kelvin, Lord, 21, 61, 62, 63

Kerr, Lord Walter, 265

Kiel Canal, 214, 236, 237, 240

King Edward, 4, 24;

characteristic thoughtfulness of, 25–27;

his friendship for Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 32;

57, 60, 180, 227, 266, 268

King William IV, 1

Kitchener, Lord, 54, 229, 243, 247

Knollys, Lord, 24

Knox, Sir Ralph, 55

Krupp, 196, 197, 199

L

Labouchere, Mr. Henry, 31, 32

Lambe, A., grandfather of Lord Fisher, 261

Lambe, Sophia, mother of Lord Fisher, 261

Lane, Jane, 2

Latimer, Bishop, 211

Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, 73

Law, Rt. Hon. Bonar, 244

League of Nations nonsense, 75

Lectures to officers of the Fleet, 89 et seq.

“Let ’em all come,” 81

Lethbridge, Captain, 11

Leverrier, Urbain, 21

Lloyd George, Rt. Hon., 77;

letter from Lord Fisher to, 222–223; 230

Lloyd’s, 125

Lochee, Lord, see Robertson, Mr. Edmund

“Loop Detection” scheme, the, 67

Lord Mayor’s Banquet 1907, the, Lord Fisher’s speech at, 83

Loreburn, Lord, 31

Lucy, Sir Henry, 36, 37

M

M’Clintock, Admiral Sir Leopold, 263

McCrea, Admiral, 59

McKechnie, Sir James, 189

McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald, 268

McLaughlin, A. C., Professor of History at Chicago, 69, 73, 74

Madden, Admiral, 128

Mahan, Capt. A. T., 90, 91;

on Nelson, 135

Marienbad, 29, 30, 32, 34, 36

Marlborough, Duke of, 74

Masterton-Smith, Sir J. E., 34

Memorandum on “Oil and its Fighting Attributes,” 200

Men, training of, for the Navy, 166

Mercantile Marine, the, 125

Midleton, Lord, see Brodrick, Mr.

Midshipman and the Admiral, the, Mr. A. G. Gardiner’s story of, 11, 12

Midshipmen’s food, 6

Midshipmen past and present, comparison between, 7, 8

Miller, Captain, 11

Mitchell, Dr. Weir, 46

Mons, 246

“Monstrous” cruisers, the, 230, 232

Montecuccoli, Admiral Count, Austrian Minister of Marine, 180

Moresby, Admiral J., 248

Morley, Rt. Hon. John, on the Navy, 1893, 135

Morley, Lord, “Life of Gladstone,” 50

Motto, a Fisher, 2

N

Napoleon, 74, 129;

Friedland-Eylau campaign, 221;

231

Napoleon III, 179

Nargen, Island of, 8

National Lifeboat Institution as substitute for Coastguard, 123

Naval base reforms, 249 et seq.

Naval candidate’s essay, a, 171–172

Naval captain and cavalry colonel, 17

Naval education, 156 et seq.

Naval officer, a, on the battle of Heligoland Bight, 230

Navigation, ignorance of, in the Navy, 19

Navy, common entry into, 156 et seq.

Navy in the war, the, 225 et seq.

Nelson, 1, 6, 19, 81, 83, 129, 231, 232;

Capt. A. T. Mahan on, 135;

at Toulon, 136

Northbrook, Lord, 30

Nucleus crews, 147

O

Observatories, 124 et seq.

Obsolete vessels, purging the Navy of, 139 et seq.

Officers, training of, for the Navy, 166;

Lord Charles Beresford on, 167–170

Oil and oil engines, 189 et seq.

Oil-burning battleships, Mr. Josephus Daniels’ report on, 203

Organisation for war, 133

Osborne system of Naval education, 7, 157, 248

“Out of date” fighting ships, 130

P

Paganini, 164

Page-Roberts, Dr., Dean of Salisbury, 49

Pakenham, Admiral, 110, 208

Parker, Admiral Sir William, last of Nelson’s captains, nominates Lord Fisher for the Navy, 4, 261

Parkes, Mr. Oscar, 208

Parsons, Hon. Sir Charles, 66, 197

Peace, 74, 75

Pechili, Gulf of, 16

Penniless, friendless and forlorn, Lord Fisher’s entry into the Navy, 10

Plumer, General, 173

Pope, the, and Tyndale, 43, 44

Pre-war prophecy, a, 227

Public speeches, 79 et seq.

Purging the Navy of obsolete vessels, 139 et seq.

Q

Queen Alexandra, her kindly disposition, 26;

28, 29, 268

Queen Elizabeth, 135

Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia, 34

Queen Victoria, 30, 55

R

Rambodde, Ceylon, Lord Fisher’s birthplace, 255

Redesdale, Lord, 25, 26

Redmond, John, 31

Redmond, William, 31

Redundant dockyard workmen, discharge of, 56, 57

Resentment, 46

Retrospect, a (July, 1906), 150 et seq.

Reval, 268

Rhodes, Cecil, 28

Richards, Sir Frederick, 50, 51;

cabman’s retort to, 52;

264

Ridley, Bishop, 211

Riga, 236

Ripon, Lord, 53

Roberts, Lord, 36

Robertson, Mr. Edmund, 98, 101 n.

Robertson, Rev. F. W., of Brighton, 46, 47, 49

Robertson, Sir W., 247

Rombulow-Pearse, Lieut., 159

Royal Academy Banquet, 1903, the, Lord Fisher’s speech at, 79

Royal Dutch-Shell Combination, the, 201

Royal Marines, Lord Charles Beresford on the, 168–169

Rozhdestvensky, Admiral, 207

Rumbold, Sir H. G. M. (Ambassador at Vienna), 31, 33

Russell, Lord, 31, 32, 33

Russian catastrophe, the reason of the, 228

Russian War, the, 1854–5, 8

S

Saintly Naval captain, a, 12, 13, 14

Salisbury, Lord, 54, 55, 88

Salt-beef snuff-box, a, 10

Samuel, Sir Marcus, 193

Sankey, Mr., 77

Satanic captain, a, 15

Scapa Flow, 225–226, 243

Schwab, Mr., 187

Schwarzhoff, General Gross von, 55

Science, contempt for, in the Navy, 19

Scott, Admiral Percy, 80, 81, 267

Sea of Japan, battle of, 111

Sea-gull, a delicacy, 16

Secrecy and secretiveness, 93 et seq.

Selborne, Lord, 101;

letter of Sir John Fisher to, 127; 265, 266

Seven Years’ War, the, 217, 218, 222

Shadwell, Captain, 12, 13, 14, 261

Shadwell, Sir Lancelot, last Vice-Chancellor of England, 12

Shand, Lord, 31, 33

Ship-building and dockyard workers, 56 et seq.

Siegel, Admiral von, 55

“Sleep quiet in your beds,” speech at Lord Mayor’s banquet, 1907, 85

Smith, Rt. Hon. W. H., 54

“Snail and Tortoise Party,” the, 212

Snuff-box of salt beef, 10

Some predictions, 211

“Sow the North Sea with mines,” Lord Fisher’s advice in 1914, 237–239

Spee, Admiral von, 66, 206, 232, 233, 269

Spencer, Earl, 50, 51, 52, 264

Spencer, Herbert, 42

Staal, M. de, 55

Standard Oil Trust, America, 201

State education in the Navy, 160–162

Stead, Mr. W. T., 52, 53, 55;

on Lord Fisher’s great naval reforms, 253 et seq.;

263

Stewart, Mr., “Jolly and Hustle,” 61

Stolypin, M., 222

Sturdee, Admiral Sir Doveton, 269

Submarine boat, the, 82

Submarine and commerce, the, 183–185

Submarines, 173 et seq.

Submarines and oil fuel, 179–181

Submarines, British, before and during the war, 186

Subsidiary services of war, 148 et seq.

Swan, Mr., inventor of the incandescent light, 21

Sydenham, Lord, see Clarke, Sir George.

Sylt, 245

T

Taylor, Bishop Jeremy, 46

Tennyson-d’Eyncourt, Sir Eustace, 208

Tepl, monks’ colony at, 29

Thackeray, 79

“The World, the Flesh, and the Devil,” 33

Thomson, Sir J. J., O.M., 65

Thurlow, Major, 1

Thursfield, Mr. J. R., 160

Tirpitz, Admiral von, 225, 247

Titles, hereditary, and Canada, 73

Togo, Admiral, 110, 174, 207, 226, 227

Training of boys for the Navy, 166

Training of men for the Navy, 166;

Lord Charles Beresford on the, 167–170

Training of officers for the Navy, 166, 167–169

Tsar of Russia, 268

Tweedmouth, Lord, 98, 101 n.

Twiss, General, 89

Two-Power standard, the, 13, 105

Tyndale, John, 42, 43, 44

U

Uruguay, 119

Use of the gunboat, the, 116 et seq.

V

Vavasseur, Mr. Josiah, 268

Verdun, 5;

American advance on, 246

“Victory,” the, Lord Fisher’s first and last ship, 4, 5

Villeneuve, Admiral, 89

Vladivostok, 110, 111

W

War, organisation for, 133

War, subsidiary services of, 148 et seq.

Warsaw, Napoleon at, 129

Watch, a historic, 3

Watson, Sir William, 78

Way to Victory, the, Lord Fisher’s letters to the Prime Minister, 234–236

Wellington, Lord, 74

Wesley, John, 46

Whately, Archbishop, 99, 100

Whitchurch, Edward, printer of the 1539 Bible, 38

Whitehead torpedo, 177, 262

Wilson, Sir Arthur, 268

Wilson, President, 77

Winchester, Bishop of, 114

Wireless Telegraphy, 82

Wotton, Sir Henry, 34

Wyclif, John, 42, 43

Y

Yamamoto, Admiral, 226

Yates, Edmund, 31, 32

Youthful midshipmen, advantage of, 5, 7;

arduous lives of, 6

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