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Phase One: Groping. On Monday scattered units of the German Fleet accompanying transports were at sea getting into position for landing Tuesday at daybreak...
...answer was gunfire. After announcing that she had engaged an enemy destroyer, the Glowworm never reported to the Admiralty again. Several days later German sources told how the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper had come down and sunk her during the battle - she had stumbled upon part of the German Fleet escorting transports north...
Phase Four: Blockade. Having sunk by its own account one-third of Germany's fighting ships the Allied fleet settled down to the lengthy task of trying to isolate and destroy the rest. First step was the swift and probably very sketchy laying of vast Allied minefields extending from Dutch waters in the North Sea, around the flat, sandy, northern prong of what in less than 24 hours ceased to be Denmark, in the Kattegat right down through the Danish Belts (straits) and then, amazingly, clear across the Baltic to Memel and Lithuania...
...arounder" whose thoroughness is not pedantic, whose energy succumbs to neither red tape nor his chronic arthritis. He is also a good bluffer when occasion demands. With precious few rounds of ammunition on his economy-stripped ships, when he was chief of staff to the Mediterranean Fleet in 1935 he cheekily told the Italians where to head...
Under First Sea Lord Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet is Admiral Sir Charles Morton Forbes, 60, a softspoken, blue-eyed, pint-sized gunnery specialist who reached the top without social pull, who likes to prune his own apple trees, whose second wife is a Swede. He saw the carnage at the Dardanelles as executive officer of the Queen Elizabeth, was the late Admiral Earl Jellicoe's fleet gunnery officer at Jutland in the Iron Duke, for which...