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Description: | Photocopy of a very interesting ms letter (6pp), dated 11 June 1916, written to another serving naval officer by a Sub Lieutenant in HMS VALIANT (5th Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet) giving his impressions of the Battle of Jutland and in particular describing how they had originally gone to action stations (his was in the Gun Control Tower) 'in the we-have-heard-all-this-yarn-before spirit', but that 'things began to get exciting' with the loss of the battle cruisers HMS INDEFATIGABLE and HMS QUEEN MARY, VALIANT coming under heavy fire but escaping with almost no damage, the perfect deployment of the main units of the Grand Fleet by Admiral Jellicoe, the sinking of the armoured cruisers HMS DEFENCE and HMS BLACK PRINCE, and what he saw of the damage inflicted on the High Seas Fleet and of the night action, 'a mixture between a series of Crystal Palace firework displays and nightmares'.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2005-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brand, E S | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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