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Marksmanship on both sides must have been keen. Percentage of hits to tries in battle averages 2%. At Jutland, where the firing was tops, the Germans got 1.5%, the British 2.6%. Here the average may well have been 2% in the first phases. Spee suffered two especially bad hits-which must have been 256-pound shells from Exeter, since they both pierced heavy armament. One of them, high on the port quarter detonating a split second after getting inside, ripped gaping holes in side and deck. The other probably decided the battle. It pocked Spee's control tower fair...
...memory serves me, Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty (no kin, unfortunately) had as his flagship the Lion and was leading five battle cruisers just before the battle of Jutland, May 1916. At that time the Lion was torpedoed and put out of commission, and Admiral Beatty transferred his flag to another ship...
...underscore, let Reader Beatty add another for TIME. Shellfire, not torpedoes, wrecked Lion at the Battle of Jutland (where no submarine action occurred...
Next Nazi victim to mock Winston Churchill was the British Booth freighter Clement, sunk between New York and Brazil in the South Atlantic by a "sea raider." And down went the Swedish steamer Gun, torpedoed off Jutland...
...explanation for prolonged heavy firing heard four days later off Bergen, Norway. There mighty detonations shook houses of fisherfolk. and reverberations of small-calibre firing sounded for 14 hours. But the British Admiralty said it knew of no naval engagement in the area. So the "Second Battle of Jutland" remained a mystery. But it revived talk that perhaps some day soon the British would try to force their way into the Baltic, to cut off Germany's seaborne supplies from Scandinavia and Russia, perhaps to land troops on Germany's northern coast...