Admiral Jellicoe

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Admiral Jellicoe, by Arthur Applin
Admiral JELLICOE ARTHUR APPLIN
UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME
“A thrilling tale of the adventures of the Great Field-Marshal.... Well written and makes a suitable gift book.”—Daily Call.
“An excellent life ... giving just the information the general reader requires, and its perusal enables everyone to understand the great part Lord Kitchener has played in recent history.”—The Field.
SIR JOHN JELLICOE AS CAPTAIN
BY ARTHUR APPLIN
LONDON C. ARTHUR PEARSON LTD. Henrietta Street, W.C. 1915
In trying to chronicle the events in Admiral Sir John Jellicoe’s life one is faced with many difficulties, the greatest of which is that hitherto his most important battles have been fought on land, behind closed doors and, as far as the public is concerned, in the dark.
Although Sir John Jellicoe has seen active service in Egypt and in China, has sailed his ships on many seas and gone down into the Valley of the Shadow on no fewer than three occasions, he has nevertheless managed to give valuable years to the Admiralty on shore; and it was during the periods when he became successively Assistant Director of Naval Ordnance, Naval Assistant to the Controller of Navy, Director of Naval Ordnance and Controller of the Navy that his most valuable work was done.

Another important position behind the scenes which he filled was that of Superintendent of the building of ships of war in private as well as in Royal Dockyards.