The seafarers . nenemy press tried to make the Public believe ; andwhat a vast number of our people did believe. I haveencountered this firmly-rooted idea in every part ofthe country, right down to the moment of writing. Down at Harwich there lay the Striking Forceof the Royal Navy. The first ships which would comeinto action. It was composed of half-a-dozen lightcruisers ; destroyers (nominally about fifty, but theDover Patrol would keep on borrowing) ; somesubmarines and the usual attendant aircraft. Theforce was under the command of a man whose namewas unknown to 999 of 1,000 in this countr
The seafarers . nenemy press tried to make the Public believe ; andwhat a vast number of our people did believe. I haveencountered this firmly-rooted idea in every part ofthe country, right down to the moment of writing. Down at Harwich there lay the Striking Forceof the Royal Navy. The first ships which would comeinto action. It was composed of half-a-dozen lightcruisers ; destroyers (nominally about fifty, but theDover Patrol would keep on borrowing) ; somesubmarines and the usual attendant aircraft. Theforce was under the command of a man whose namewas unknown to 999 of 1,000 in this country untilthe episode of the surrender of the German sub-marines brought him prominently before the public. Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt is his name, Rear-Admiral. And—well, as the Navy is not my ServiceI am going to risk displeasure and say it. I thinkof Admiral Tyrwhitt as one of the finest fightingseamen Britain has ever produced. The FrancisDrake of the Navy to-day. One of his captains told me that since August. /. Photo: Tunn 6s (*.».REAR-ADMIRAL SIR REGINALD TYRVVHITT COMBAT 99 14, Admiral Tyrwhitt had been blown up in, orshelled out of six different flagships. That showsthe kind of man he is. It is, too, a pleasing com-ment on the barnacle idea. You may picture him any morning during theWar steaming out to sea (for the Force was ready dayand night for instant action), sometimes his onelittle cruiser, sometimes with her consorts. Anyday over towards Heligoland and the enemy as he steams out you may see the signal made Good-bye, boys; see you later. Over to theminefields of Heligoland, for a round of golf beforelunch. At least I honestly believe that the Admiralthought of it like that. Sometimes he would be in luck and there would be a healthy little scrap. And (whichever of the six it might be) would steam back to portwith a bit of a limp and a few holes in her funnels,and a score, maybe, of disconsolate Fritzes on boardtrying to wring the North Sea out of the
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