. Electrical news and engineering. I Victory. Admiral Sir David Beatty THREE times in four years he had fought them. He hadhoped to fight them again—and to a finish. But herein the North Sea, November 21. 1313. was the finishwithout the fight. Seventy-one Kaiser-ships of the linesteaming up the lane of a great nations navy. Five hun-dred great guns—any of them at ten miles could have riddledall Nelsons fleet of tubs in 1805—Never a shot! It was hisanswer to that day when the High Seas Fleet put to theNorth Sea in 1914 with the Kings message. Capture ordestroy the enemy. Perhaps he reme
. Electrical news and engineering. I Victory. Admiral Sir David Beatty THREE times in four years he had fought them. He hadhoped to fight them again—and to a finish. But herein the North Sea, November 21. 1313. was the finishwithout the fight. Seventy-one Kaiser-ships of the linesteaming up the lane of a great nations navy. Five hun-dred great guns—any of them at ten miles could have riddledall Nelsons fleet of tubs in 1805—Never a shot! It was hisanswer to that day when the High Seas Fleet put to theNorth Sea in 1914 with the Kings message. Capture ordestroy the enemy. Perhaps he remembered that twentydays afterwards; he potted five German cruisers off Heligo-land; and then he began to wait, prowling in the fog, look-ing for more ships from Kiel—till on January £4th. 1915, hesank the Bluecher and the Seydlitz and theDerfiinger in that IDO-mile run—back to Heligoland, whenall the Lions gunners had to aim at was a target of fun-nel-tops and smoke, the size of a threepenny bit. One yearand three months more he w
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