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...Tovey (rhymes with covey). This change precisely paralleled the recent substitutions of Sir Alan Brooke for Lord Gort in the Army, of Sir Charles Portal for Sir Cyril Newall in the R. A. F. Tough "Jack" Tovey, lean and electric, is the man who, commanding the destroyer Onslow at Jutland, engaged first the cruiser Wiesbaden, then the battleship Derfflinger, with only his torpedoes and four-inch guns; stopped fighting only when a hail of shells from the German ships put him out of action...
...fire from which was doused by Members of Parliament. Dingy Whitehall, the administrative hub of the Empire, and Downing Street, a famous address of power, were targets. So was the Tate gallery. Madame Tussaud's waxworks were shaken, and though Admiral Beatty lost the nose which survived Jutland, Hitler and Mussolini stared on uncrumbled. The slums whose names are nevertheless music to the Empire's poverty-stricken-Limehouse (after ancient limekilns), The Minories (pronounced minneries, after Nuns Minoresses), Elephant & Castle (after an old tavern) -were pulverized...
...creator was able, far-seeing Admiral von Tirpitz, famed for his bifurcated beard, whose active service extended to 1916. The brief German naval tradition is of daring, offensive, individual action, of surface and submarine raiders ranging far & wide through two world wars. It is of one great battle-Jutland-and of studious, hard-faced Vice Admiral Scheer directing the fleet against Jellicoe and Beatty from the bridge of the Friedrich der Grosse. It is of one afternoon in Scapa Flow when the entire German Navy went down, scuttled, to save it from surrender. It is of baton-toting grand Admiral...
...penetrating when it hit the very first deck. Alternatively, it would have to penetrate the 10-inch armor of a turret barbette; or blast in through a gunport, ignite a powder train down through an elevator to the magazine. Ever since three British capital ships were blown up at Jutland by failure of their flash screens, turret design has been perfected to render such accidents next to impossible. Clever though their story was, the Germans' "battleship bombed" screamer was to naval and air experts just another long shot that missed fire...
...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...