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The British Navy in Battle

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Big guns more accurate at long range, because more regular 94

Big guns need less accurate range-finding, because the danger space is greater 95

Range-finding by bracket 97

The crux of sea fighting, changes of course and speed produce an irregularly changing range 98

In this sketch the black silhouette shows the position at the moment the torpedo is fired; the white silhouette the position the ship has reached when the torpedo meets it 107

Plan of Sydney and Emden in action 158

Plan of the action between the British battle-cruisers and the German armoured cruisers 199

Plan of action between Kent and Nürnberg, and of that between Cornwall and Glasgow and Leipzig 207

The action off Heligoland up to the intervention of Commodore Goodenough’s Light Cruiser Squadron 235

The action off Heligoland. The course of the battle-cruisers 239

The Dogger Bank Affair. Diagram to illustrate the character of the engagement up to the disablement of Lion 249

The official plan of the Battle of Jutland. Note that the course of the Grand Fleet is not shown to be “astern” of the battle-cruisers, but parallel to their track 295

Position of the opposing fleets at 3:30 P.M. 298

The first phase; from Von Hipper’s coming into view, until his juncture with Admiral Scheer 301

The second phase; Beatty engages the combined German Fleet, and draws it toward the Grand Fleet 309

Sketch plan of the action from 6 P.M. when the Grand Fleet prepared to deploy, till 6:50 when Admiral Scheer delivered his first massed torpedo attack 332

Jutland Diagrams. Third phase at end of book

THE BRITISH NAVY IN BATTLE

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