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...Clement's crew. With good weather and luck, all of them reached shore. All 47 were immediately asked a question everyone wanted answered. What ship attacked? One man, apparently a spokesman, replied with assurance: "The attacking ship came so close I could read the name Admiral von Scheer." Either his eyesight or his memory was bad: the name he had meant to speak was Admiral Scheer...
Hearing that the British Fleet was being divided to protect its coasts from submarine raids, Admiral Scheer of the bottled-up German High Seas Fleet determined to venture an attack from his bases back of Helgoland. The British caught on, steamed to meet the Germans, and Admiral Beatty's battle cruisers encountered Admiral Hipper's cruisers when both sent scouts to investigate a small merchantman about 2 p.m. Beatty, with the western light at his back, took a shellacking from the German guns. When Admiral Jellicoe got there with the Grand Fleet, Scheer turned directly about and fled...
Jellicoe strung out to prevent Scheer's return, rather than pursue him and risk a night battle. Scheer took that risk and, due to balled-up British orders and wireless, got through the British destroyers with loss of only one battleship. Each side claimed victory. The loss score was: German-one battleship, one battle cruiser, four light cruisers, five destroyers, a total of eleven. British-three battle cruisers, three armored cruisers, eight destroyers, total of 14. The British decorated a lot of their Admirals.* The Germans, though their fleet never emerged again until it was time to surrender, later...
...raids on Mallorca, but Almeria is on the section of Spanish coast that the German navy legally patrols. At dawn following the Deutschland bombing, five Nazi warships flying Swas tika battle flags from their main trucks drew up off the harbor entrance. Flagship was reported to be the Admiral Scheer, sister of the Deutschland. For over an hour this squadron proceeded to pour high explosive shells into the stucco & light brick houses of Almeria. Leftist shore batteries replied until they ran out of ammunition. Then under a smoke screen the Nazi fleet, honor satisfied, steamed off towards Melilla in Rightist...
...world at large were inclined to think that Germany had had the better of it. As far as damage goes, official figures still support their claim-British losses: 14 ships (112,000 tons), 6,094 men; German losses: 11 ships (60,000 tons), 2,551 men. But German Admiral Scheer was first to quit the scene of battle, never again ventured out to seek a general engagement. England's Grand Fleet, though never used as a unit in battle, was still unchallenged mistress of the seas...