FOOTNOTES
[1] Was that our Sea Policy during the War? Did we not keep our Fleet in cotton wool?
[2] These mottoes were painted up in my first ship, and I have had them in every ship I have commanded since.
[3] One Sample out of Many.—“Lord Tweedmouth and Mr. Robertson, having tasted blood in their reduction of this year’s Estimates, are about to strike a blow at the vital efficiency of the Navy. But what are we to think of the naval officers on the Admiralty Board, men who cannot plead the blindness and ignorance of their civilian colleagues? No one knows better than Sir John Fisher the real nature and the inevitable consequences of those acts to which he is a consenting party. And we are not speaking at random when we assert that more than any one man, the responsibility and the guilt for those reductions lies at his door.” (The Globe, 21 Sept. 1906.)
[4] This was written in October, 1906.
[5] Not reprinted.
[6] There are two alternative schemes which may possibly be preferred to this.
[7] The “Pegasus” was massacred at Zanzibar by the Germans!—F. 1919.
[8] For these predictions, see Letter to Lord Esher of (?) Jan., 1904 “Memories,” p. 173.
[10] Only this morning (November 5th, 1919), I have arranged to deal with the drawings of a proposed Submersible Battleship carrying many Big Guns, and clearly a practicable production.
[11] Note.—For steam raising 3 tons of oil are only equivalent to 4 tons of coal.
[12] The War stopped this.—F. 1919.
[13] This was said in 1910, and Mr. Asquith did leave office as here predicted, in November, 1916, six years afterwards! And Sir John Jellicoe took command of the Grand Fleet forty-eight hours before war was declared, and the war with Germany did break out as predicted in 1914!
[14] These are the five Battle Cruisers built on my return to the Admiralty in 1914–1915.
[15] This 18-in. gun was ordered by me without any of the usual preliminary trials or any reference to any Gunnery Experts whatever. The credit of its great success is due to Major Hadcock, Head of the Elswick Ordnance Manufacturing Department, who also designed the 20-in. gun for the fast Battleship Type which was to have been built had I remained at the Admiralty in May, 1915.
A model of this 20-in. gun Battle Cruiser of 35 knots speed, was got out before I left the Admiralty—three days more they would have started building.
[16] See [Chapter XV].
[17] The Foreign Office would not permit an efficient blockade, and the outrageous release of vessels carrying war-helping cargoes caused intense dissatisfaction in the fleet. No vessels ever passed our chain of Cruisers without detention and examination.
[18] See [Chapter XI].