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...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...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Fred erick Laurence Field, 74, commander of the battleship King George V at the Battle of Jutland, Britain's First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff from 1930 to 1933; in York, England...
...Forces of the Adriatic under General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson's Mediterranean command; included paratroopers, commandos, infantrymen, engineers and an R.A.F. regiment. The two Greek guerrilla forces -E.D.E.S. and E.L.A.S. -had promised cooperation. Local commander was the 26-year-old Earl Jellicoe, son of the British commander at Jutland in World War I. Young Jellicoe went in as a major, was promoted to a lieutenant colonel four days later...