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270 “She was being torn apart”: Tarrant,
Invincible,
67.

270 “rapid independent”: Pitt, 118.

270 “We were most obviously hitting”: Verner, 11.

270 For the signals between Spee and Maerker, see Bennett,
Coronel and the Falklands,
149–50.

270 “Endeavor to escape”: Pitt, 128.

271 “the men with their powder-blackened faces”: Pochhammer, 210.

272 “All men overboard”: Ibid., 217.

273 “We cast overboard”: Spencer-Cooper, 104–5.

273 “Lower all your boats”: Bennett,
Coronel and the Falklands,
154.

273 “The ship inclined”: Pochhammer, 217–22.

274 “Flag to
Inflexible
”: Ibid., 227.

274 “In the name of all our officers”: Bennett,
Coronel and the Falklands,
155–56.

276 “Am anxious to save life”: Hirst, 191.

276 “If anyone can reach the ensign”: Ibid., 194.

277 “We are a crippled old ship”: Dixon, 19.

277 “Our shooting was rotten”: Ibid., 22.

279 “outrageous” and “an overwhelming desire”: Pochhammer, 240.

279 “emphatic and unanimous”: Verner, 25.

279 “There is nothing at all to show”: Copplestone, 169.

280 “Well, Beamish”: Bennett,
Coronel and the Falklands,
154.

281 “It really is a spanking victory”: Ibid., 166–67.

281 “It has done us all”:
Beatty Papers,
I, 174.

281 “like an armadillo”:
FGDN,
III, 77.

281 “the only substantial victory”: Fisher,
Records,
221.

281 “We cannot but be overjoyed”: Fisher,
FGDN,
III, 91.

281 “This was your show”: Churchill, I, 452.

282 “Your letter pleasant”: Ibid.

282 “criminal ineptitude”:
FGDN,
III, 101.

282 “report fully reason”: Bennett,
Coronel and the Falklands,
171.

282 “Their Lordships selected me”: Marder, II, 125–26.

282 “Last paragraph”: Bennett,
Coronel and the Falklands,
173.

283 “dilatory and theatrical”: Tarrant,
Invincible,
71.

283 It was “an irony”: Marder, II, 124.

283 “No one in history”: Bennett,
Coronel and the Falklands,
137.

284 “at the head of some magnificent gorge”: Hirst, 219.

285 “villainous-looking face” and “pendulous nose”: Dixon, 60.

CHAPTER 15: FISHER RETURNS TO THE ADMIRALTY

287 “He is a wonderful creature”: Asquith,
Letters to Venetia,
266–67.

287 “We talked all day”: Churchill, I, 73.

287 “fell desperately in love”: Fisher,
FGDN,
II, 397.

288 “My dear Winston”: Randolph Churchill,
Young Statesman,
530.

288 “My dear Fisher”: Ibid.

288 “My beloved Winston”: Churchill, I, 79.

288 “I want to see you very much”: Randolph Churchill,
Young Statesman,
532.

288 “I plied him with questions”: Churchill, I, 77.

288 “I began our conversations”: Ibid., 78.

288 “I think Winston Churchill”: Mackay, 432.

288 “betrayed the navy”: Randolph Churchill,
Young Statesman,
565.

289 “The liquid fuel problem”: Churchill, I, 132–33.

289 “Contact with you”: Mackay, 454.

289 “Winston is quite cross”: Ibid.

289 “Tomorrow old Fisher comes down”: Gilbert, I, 216.

289 “[Watching] him narrowly to judge”: Churchill, I, 401–02.

289 “make our country feel”: Gilbert, I, 215.

289 “that I could work”: Churchill, I, 402.

290 “with some reluctance”: Marder, II, 90.

290 “He seems as young as ever”: Ibid.

290 “He is already a Court Favorite”: Gilbert, I, 226.

290 “Undoubtedly the country will benefit”: Ibid., 227.

290 “They have resurrected old Fisher”: Chalmers, 160–61.

291 “horrible appointment”: Wemyss,
Life and Letters,
186.

291 “Everything began to move”: Bacon,
Fisher,
II, 161–62.

292 “a genius without a doubt”: Fisher,
FGDN,
II, 409.

292 “I was never in the least afraid”: Churchill, I, 402.

292 “Lord Fisher was the most distinguished”: Ibid., 403.

292 “the formidable energy”: Ibid., 405.

292 “I can’t dine out”: Gilbert, I, 264.

292 “Once, I remember”: Gretton, 198.

293 “extraordinary spectacle”: Hough,
Great War,
145.

293 “an almost unsleeping watch”: Churchill, I, 405.

293 “we made an agreement”: Ibid.

293 “Port and starboard lights”: Ibid., 406.

294 “everything that can be finished”: Ibid., 454.

294 “make his wife a widow”: Keyes,
Memoirs,
I, 130.

295 “large light cruisers”: Marder, II, 96.

295 “They were an old man’s children”: Churchill, I, 459.

295 “Lord Fisher hurled himself”: Ibid., 456.

295 “order to his subordinates”: Gilbert, I, 228.

295 “I backed him up”: Churchill, I, 460.

296 “a projectile”: Fisher,
FGDN,
I, 291.

296 “criminal folly”: Marder, II, 192.

296 “a million Russian soldiers . . . within eighty-two miles”: Bacon,
Fisher,
II, 188.

296 “on that 14 miles”:
FGDN,
II, 455.

296 “convoy and land”: James,
A Great Seaman,
138.

296 “We gratefully accept”: Churchill, II, 39.

297 “storm and seize”: Marder, II, 186.

297 “a palpable reluctance”: Churchill, II, 42.

297 “Churchill would often look in”: James,
A Great Seaman,
144.

297 “I am wholly with you”: Churchill, II, 43.

297 “Although the First Sea Lord’s strategic conceptions”: Ibid., 41–42.

298 “how an attack on Borkum”: Marder, II, 190.

298 “Welcome back”: Gilbert, I, 264.

298 “We one and all”: Ibid., 184.

298 “First Sea Lord to see”: Churchill, II, 358.

298 “Winston has so monopolized”: Fisher,
FGDN,
III, 99–100.

299 “The situation is very curious”:
Beatty Papers,
I, 173.

299 “inkling that he was”: Bonham Carter, 321.

CHAPTER 16: “
THE REQUIREMENTSOF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF WEREHARD TO MEE
T
”

300 “weakening the Grand Fleet”: Winton, 154.

300 “Is
Princess Royal
to go”: Goldrick, 172.

300 “
Princess Royal
’s coal expenditure”:
Jellicoe Papers,
I, 81.

301 “
Princess Royal
should have proceeded”: Goldrick, 172.

301 “The
Tiger
is absolutely unfit” and “a present for the Germans”: Fisher,
FGDN,
III, 68.

301 “We cannot rely”:
Jellicoe Papers,
I, 97.

301 “The inferiority”: Ibid., 99.

301 “I admit the force”: Fisher,
FGDN,
III, 82.

303 “we must always be ready”: Ibid., 443.

303 “The requirements”: Churchill, I, 443.

304 “Since war began”: Ibid., 445.

304 “We cannot reinforce you”: Ibid., 447.

304 “I think we have to stand fast”: Ibid.

304 “As A. K. Wilson observed”: Ibid., 448.

305 “The coast has been so denuded”: Ibid., 445.

305 “The Admiralty have in mind”: Ibid.

305 “I regret to appear importunate”:
Jellicoe Papers,
I, 94.

305 “as I am directed to use this base”: Churchill, I, 447.

305 “I know perfectly well”: Ibid.

305 “have five torpedoes each”: Churchill, I, 447.

305 “You know the difficulty”:
Jellicoe Papers,
I, 103.

305 “wearing”: Churchill, I, 448.

305 “No one can blame”: Ibid., 447–48.

306 “It is necessary to construct”: Ibid., 527–28.

306 “The next day”: Scott, 272.

307 “The ships could not accompany the fleet”: Jellicoe,
Grand Fleet,
173.

308 “mislead the Germans”: Churchill, II, 299.

308 “astonished to see”: Denham, 50.

CHAPTER 17: THE YARMOUTH RAID AND ROOM 40

310 “the battle fleet must avoid”: Scheer, 68.

310 “escort the cruisers”: Goldrick, 159.

310 “I don’t want”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 127.

311 “Two battle cruisers”: Groos, II, 265.

312 “Early in the morning”: Churchill, I, 440–42.

313 “I won’t wear it”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 129.

313 “It appeared that the risk”: Groos, II, 267.

313 “One could not assume”: Ibid.

314 “short, thick-set man with keen blue eyes”: Beesly, 9.

314 “a mauve shirt”: Ibid., 10.

315 “The fuses are lit”: Kahn,
Enigma,
19.

316 “the German light cruiser
Magdeburg
”: Churchill, I, 462.

316 number 151: Beesly, 5.

317 “drying before Ewing’s fire”: Kahn,
Enigma,
24.

317 “Some days earlier”: Ibid.

317 “
SKM
key”: Beesly, 24.

317 “No fears”: Ibid.

318 “virtual certainty”: Ibid.

CHAPTER 18: THE SCARBOROUGH RAID: “WITHIN OUR CLAWS”

319 Queen of Watering Places:
Daily Mail,
Dec. 17, 1914, 8.

319 “greatness, vastness of enterprise”: Perrett, introduction.

320 “I could see in the mist”:
Daily Mail,
Dec. 17, 1914, 6.

320 “Just before eight o’clock”: Ibid.

320 “resolutely in bed”: Roskill,
Beatty,
105.

321 “was killed”:
Daily Telegraph,
Dec. 19, 1914, 10.

322 “a special lookout”: Ward, 7.

324 “deplorable” and “which was stationed”: Keyes,
Memoirs,
151.

324 “1,150 shells”: Groos, III, 82.

324 “The Germans have come”:
Daily Chronicle,
Dec. 17, 1914, 7.

325 “I must get that medal”:
Daily Mail,
Dec. 18, 1914, 5.

325 “Look, there’s my teddy bear”: Ibid.

325 “assassin squadron” and “Scarborough bandits”: Marder, II, 149.

325 “the stigma of the baby-killers”:
The Times,
Dec. 21, 1914, 8.

325 “a colossal act of murder”: Ibid.

325 “The bombardment . . . was”:
Daily Chronicle,
Dec. 17, 1914, 8.

326 “So far as the Hartlepools”: Ibid.

326 “Demonstrations of this character”: Ward, 28.

326 “The best police force”: Marder, II, 148.

326 “It would no doubt”:
The Times,
Dec. 18, 1914, 9.

326 “The purpose of the Royal Navy”: Ibid., Dec. 17, 1914, 9.

326 “We hope that the authorities”: Ward, 28–29.

327 “There has been”:
Daily Telegraph,
Dec. 18, 1914, 10.

327 “Cannot we use”: Ibid., Dec. 19, 1914, 10.

327 “This does not, however, prevent”: Scheer, 68.

329 “Have lost touch”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 133.

329 “Bombardment off shore”: Ibid.

330 For the conversation between Hipper and Raeder, see ibid., 134.

330 “decided in favor”: Groos, III, 77.

330 “with remarkable coolness”: Ibid., 78.

331 “Operation completed”: Goldrick, 202.

331 “Where is the main fleet”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 136.

332 “flying raid” and “insult bombardment”: Marder, II, 130.

332 “They can never again”: Goldrick, 191.

332 “Good information just received”: Churchill, I, 465.

333 “before daylight tomorrow”: Ibid.

333 “were precisely the sort”: Goldrick, 192.

334 “A great deal of cruising”: Churchill, I, 464.

334 “was only thirty miles south”: Groos, III, 63.

335 “an imperturbability”: Goodenough, 86.

335 “never spoke”: Goldrick, 215.

335 “passed in the dark”: Young, 90.

336 “I think raid”: Ibid.

CHAPTER 19: THE SCARBOROUGH RAID: HIPPER ESCAPES

338 “fairly turned tail”: Corbett, II, 28.

339 “Here at last”: Marder, II, 136.

339 “Our premature turning”: Scheer, 71.

339 “Never again”: Goldrick, 195.

339 the one heaven-sent opportunity: Churchill, I, 472–73.

339 “On December 16”: Tirpitz, II, 285.

339 “There was . . . no compulsion”: Churchill, I, 473.

341 “Am keeping in touch”: Young, 93.

341 “I am being chased”: Ibid.

342 “if I might lead around”: Chatfield, 129.

342 “The fine sunrise”: Young, 92.

342 “Are you going after
Roon
”: Corbett, II, 29.

342 “Have heard nothing of
Roon
”: Goldrick, 197.

343 “Scarborough being shelled”: Young, 94.

343 For the exchange of signals between Warrender and Beatty, see Young, 94.

343 “I was in my bath”: Churchill, I, 466.

343 “The bombardment of open towns”: Ibid., 467–68.

345 “Light cruisers must go in”: Goldrick, 202.

345 “Enemy will in all probability”: Corbett, II, 36.

345 “Enemy is probably returning”: Churchill, I, 468.

345 “At eleven o’clock”: Ibid., 475.

346 “Engaged with enemy cruisers”: Young, 97.

347 “Tell that light cruiser”: Ibid., 98.

347 “Light cruiser resume station”: Corbett, II, 38.

347 “Enemy’s cruisers bearing south by east”: Goldrick, 206.

348 For the signals exchanged between Beatty and Goodenough, see Chalmers, 171, and Goldrick, 206.

348 “Enemy in sight”: Goldrick, 207.

348 “No, not until the Vice Admiral signals”: Dreyer, 103.

349 “Our golden moment”: Ibid., 103–4.

349 “He never spoke to me”: Ibid., 103.

349 “Enemy cruisers and destroyers in sight”: Corbett, II, 40.

349 “Enemy’s course east”: Goldrick, 208.

350 “Relinquish chase”: Ibid., 209.

351 “Am being chased”: Groos, III, 256.

351 “five enemy battleships”: Ibid., 257.

351 “Enemy is out of sight”: Ibid.

351 “Are you in danger”: Ibid., 258.

351 “No”: Ibid.

352 “Telegraph and telephone”: Churchill, I, 468–69.

353 “Twenty destroyers”: Goldrick, 209.

353 “Certainly not advisable” and “It is too late”: Ibid.