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...Scapa Flow...
Your article on Ernest Clegg's painting of Jutland and the surrender at Scapa Flow demonstrates the fallibility of an old salt's memory...
...TIME has set me right, and I am grateful. It all happened at Scapa Flow, under the lonely kirk spire at Kirkcaldy. By any chance, do you suppose, was it at Scapa Flow that the Germans scuttled their fleet after waiting under the guns of the Grand Fleet to find out what the Peace Conference would...
...Captain Ernest Clegg, a British company commander on the Western Front, went to London on leave. While there, he was invited to visit his old friend Captain Kiddle of the dreadnought Revenge, which was anchored with the rest of the British Grand Fleet in Scapa Flow. Mrs. Clegg thought it would be a nice change for her husband, packed him off to Scotland. An hour after Captain Kiddle welcomed his guest on his quarterdeck, the Grand Fleet steamed out on emergency orders and the Battle of Jutland, greatest modern naval engagement...
...earn. He earned it by drawing decorative maps for magazines and decorators. Last week, however, at Rockefeller Center's British Empire Building in Manhattan he exhibited the newly completed job in which his heart had been for 20 years: the Battle of Jutland and the surrender at Scapa Flow on canvas...