Word: jutland
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...match those of his master: both wanted to bust the bully-bold British Navy. In World War I Hamburg-born Erich Raeder, promoted to chief of staff in the Kaiser's brand-new cruiser squadrons, had a brief taste of glory in the battles of Doggerbank and Jutland (in which the British were powerfully mauled), but at war's end the barnacled fleet had to scuttle itself to avoid capture. Returning from Versailles. Raeder said: "Just wait 25 years. We'll be back." In half that time Raeder was building pocket battleships for Hitler, who made...
...eighth baronet, and so to speak, chief of the family tong. It was John Eden-the eldest of four brothers of whom Timothy was second, Anthony third and Nicholas fourth - who was killed in the Kaiser's war in France . . . Nicholas, a midshipman, died in the Battle of Jutland...
...might happen to the Navy while the missiles are being developed has many an old sea salt worried. Russia already has 30 cruisers to Britain's 26, said 81-year-old Lord Chatfield last week. Chatfield, who was Admiral Beatty's flag captain in the Battle of Jutland, warned the House of Lords: "It's the same old game-wait for the scientists. But if you wait for the scientists, you wait forever and never build anything...
...When Austrians and Prussians invaded Jutland, grabbed Schleswig-Holstein...
...terrace of Graasten Castle, the royal summer home near Sonderborg, Jutland, King Frederilc of Denmark, with Queen Ingrid, the Princesses Anne-Marie, 6, Benedikte, 8, and Margrethe, 12, posed for a family portrait wearing souvenir gifts from their recent visit to Greenland. The King wore a white Anorak, a soft cotton turtleneck shirt; the Queen and her daughters modeled Kamikker boots and pearl-embroidered sealskin dresses...