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Description: | Ts transcription (3pp) of an extract from a letter written by Captain E P G Grant RN to Rear Admiral A E A Grant, 5 June 1916, in which Captain Grant, who was Chief of Staff to Vice Admiral Sir Cecil Burney in HMS MARLBOROUGH (1st Battle Squadron), gives his impressions of the Battle of Jutland and comments that when the Grand Fleet first came into action, "it was a most magnificent and awe-inspiring sight" and emphasising the calm reaction of the MARLBOROUGH's ship's company when she was hit by a torpedo (the only British capital ship to suffer that fate during the engagement). Before the following morning Admiral Burney and his staff had shifted from the damaged MARLBOROUGH to HMS ROYAL OAK, but the High Seas Fleet was not located, although Grant was confident that, if there was another action, "...we shall account for what is left of their fleet..."
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Catalogue date 1978-03-29 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Grant, Percy | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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