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...north tip of Denmark remember a special kind of sea thunder, which they heard during the late afternoon and night of May 31, 1916. It was the firing of heaviest naval ordnance and it came from the Battle of Jutland (Germans call it the Battle of the Skagerrak...
Last week inhabitants of Laesö island (see map), east of Denmark's northern tip, again heard heavy gun-thunder. They counted at least 200 shots and old-timers said it surely must be another great sea battle. Firing sounded either deep in the Skagerrak where a line of British destroyers had been reported, or farther east on the Kattegat. The police chief of Laesö Island said he saw, through field glasses from a high hill, a thin line of ships in the northeast. Two reporters ventured out in a fast motorboat but found nothing...
...First news was that the British Royal Navy, already at battle stations, controlled the Mediterranean at both ends and had blockaded Germany completely from the North Sea to the Skagerrak. This action, now that Germany had access to Russia's food and raw materials, meant less than it did in World War I unless the British were prepared for the desperate adventure of forcing and commanding the Baltic...
...chill caught at Armistice Day ceremonies; in London. Admiral-of-the-Fleet Jellicoe was told in 1914 that he alone had the power to "lose the War in an afternoon." The afternoon when the overpowering British Grand Fleet met the crack German High Seas Fleet in the Skagerrak entrance to the Baltic Sea proved to be May 31, 1916. To 19 years of accusations that he bungled the Battle of Jutland, the War's only fleet engagement, Jellicoe's reply has been that he did not lose the War, even though he failed to destroy the German Fleet...
Biggest naval battle of the Great War, according to the Germans, was the victory of their High Sea Fleet at Skagerrak, May 31, 1916; according to the British, the victory of their Grand Fleet at Jutland, the same date. As even little Peterkin or little Wilhelmine might have pointed out, this could hardly be so, since the two battles were one and the same. Like other contemporary mix-ups, however, the action was so far from clean-cut that both sides could claim a victory and both sides did. Eighteen years after the event, Authors Gibson & Harper do their Allied...