Word: scapa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joined the British Navy 13 years later. Sir John Jellicoe commanded the British Grand Fleet (1914-1916), and while personally worshiped by British tars, was considered by some experts to have let the German fleet slip through his fingers at the battle of Jutland (1916). Viscount Jellicoe of Scapa became Admiral of the Fleet in 1919. In 1920 he was sent as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief to New Zealand, returning in 1924, to be created, in 1925 Viscount Brocas of Southampton and Earl Jellicoe...
...present generation has not gazed at a more gallant act than Cervera at Santiago. Compare it with Scapa Flow...
...state to concern itself with the size of its population just as much as with the size of its army or the amount of the budget. With the use of one of the famed floating docks surrendered by Germany to Britain after the War, the 17th destroyer scuttled at Scapa Flow in June, 1919, by the Germans, was last week raised...
Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe of Scapa, until recently Governor General of New Zealand, was created an earl and chose as his second title Viscount Brocas of Southampton. Earl Jellicoe is the last of the supreme War leaders to receive an earldom...
British workmen engaged off Scapa Flow in breaking up a scuttled German warship came across the bodies of five German officers and seamen, who were thought not to have been warned when the German crews sank their ships on June...