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Plans to mark WWI's Battle of Jutland - BBC News - 0 views

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  • Scotland is to be the focus of one of the main acts of World War One remembrance in 2016.
  • The biggest naval forces in the world clashed off the coast of Denmark in 1916 in the Battle of Jutland but it was a battle in which Scotland played a key role.
  • qkirkpatrick on 25 Oct 15
     
    Scotland plans to mark the Battle of Jutland in 2016, which was one of the biggest and most important naval battles during WWI.
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How WWI was waged at sea deck - Washington Times - 0 views

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shared by qkirkpatrick on 26 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • In “Dreadnought,” the reader is reminded that the author is a biographer at heart: His portraits of the young Winston Churchill; of the intense, eccentric Adm. Sir John “Jacky” Fisher; and of Germany’s ambitious Adm. Alfred von Tirpitz make for a riveting narrative.
  • The two great fleets had vastly different origins. The German fleet was the creation of an unstable monarch, Kaiser Wilhelm II, who chose to compete for naval supremacy with the Royal Navy.
  • At sea as on land, World War I confounded the planners on both sides. The Germans anticipated a sea blockade, but thought that an enemy blockade close to their own coast would be vulnerable to sorties by their own warships.
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  • Instead, Britain instituted a remote blockade, declaring most of the North Sea a war zone and enforcing the blockade from a distance. Much of the war was passed in attempts by each side to lure the other into a naval ambush.
  • The climax of World War I at sea was the Battle of Jutland on May 31, 1916. There, in the North Sea off Denmark, a sortie by German battle cruisers led to the greatest naval battle of the last century, involving at one time or another more than 200 vessels, including 44 battleships.
  • The British lost more ships and men than their enemies in the resulting melee, in part because of the rugged construction of the German ships.
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Navy's role in WWI often overlooked | Plymouth Herald - 0 views

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  • WITH the recent Government announcement of the events that are being held in various parts of the UK to commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Jutland next year, it is fitting to remember the important part that Plymouth played in the only major clash between the dreadnought fleets of Britain and Imperial Germany in WW1 on May 31 1916 in the grey wastes of the North Sea.
  • Admiral Reinhard Scheer, the German Navy C in C, knowing that the RN was now too powerful to be defeated, recommended to the Kaiser a return to unrestricted submarine warfare resulting in the once proud High Seas Fleet spending most of the remainder of the war confined to harbour, never again to challenge the might of the Grand Flee
  • The courage and sacrifice of all those who took part, over 6,000 RN personnel and 14 ships being lost in total, should never be forgotten and it is appropriate that Plymouth's main commemoration will be held at the Naval Memorial on the Hoe.
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