Word: jutland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peter's nickname, however, seemed justified beyond mere turf victories. His father was one of England's great naval heroes, the dashing admiral who fought the German fleet at Jutland in World War I. His mother, the only daughter of Chicago's fabulously rich Marshall Field I, had left him a cool $1,000,000. Peter's youth was divided between the playing fields of Eton and happy vacations in the Swiss Alps. As a young man he had his pick of Mayfair's debutantes for company, and plenty of time and money to hunt...
...lucid account of the pursuit, cornering and sinking of the pride of Hitler's navy. An author of less background might have pulled out all the stops and wallowed happily but confusingly in the story's drama. Author Grenfell,* veteran of 30 years' service, including the Jutland and Dardanelles actions in World War I, sticks sternly to facts and understatement...
...Queen Elizabeth's sister battleship Valiant fought at Jutland in World War I; through the good & bad days of World War II she did heavy duty helping to protect the Empire's precarious lifeline in the Mediterranean...
After seven years of sail, he went into steam with the Cunard Line in 1910. In World War I, he served at Jutland, in H.M.S. Valiant, went back to Cunard when the war was over. He fondly remembers the Scythia, where he made the crew hop to their tasks. They gave him a handsome desk set when he left. Said the spokesman for the presentation committee: "You ran us hard, sir, but it's all in the way it's done...
Britons talked sadly about the inglorious end of a once proud vessel, the 34-year-old battleship Warspite. The old lady had come to be a sort of symbol of British fortitude through two wars. In 1916's Battle of Jutland, her steering gear jammed, the Warspite had run around in circles, taking terrible punishment from German shells. But she had come back. In World War II she had been seriously damaged in action off Salerno, but had come back to fight again on D-day off Normandy. Last week the "miracle ship," stripped of her fighting gear...