Records, by Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher

by Baron John Arbuthnot Fisher Fisher

INDEX

• A
• Action, [45]
• Adams, John Couch, [21]
• Admiralty House, Portsmouth, King Edward’s visit to, [24], [25]
• Admiralty policy: replies to criticisms, [98] et seq.
• Alcester, Lord, [30]
• Alderson, General, [54]
• Alexandria, bombardment of, [63], [256]
• Allan, Sir William, [88]
• Allenby, Lord, [241]
• American advance on Verdun, [246]
• Animated biscuits, [8]
• Arabi Pasha, [30]
• Arbuthnot, Sir Robert, [261]
• Archbishop and the pack of cards, the, [32]
• Armoured trains, institution of, [30]
• Ascension, the, [45]
• Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., [65], [179], [194], [214], [222], [242], [247], [269]
• Augé, M., [59]
• Automatic dropping mines for ocean use, [223–224]
• Aylesford, Lord, [3]
• B
• Bacon, Admiral Sir Reginald, [128], [181];
• on the big gun, [204–206]
• Baker, Mrs., Lord Fisher’s cook, [25];
• invited to Buckingham Palace by King Edward, ibid.
• Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., [56], [65], [98]
• Balliol College, Oxford, [2]
• Baltic project, the, [217] et seq., [236], [241]
• Battle hymn of the American Republic, the, [77], [78]
• Beatty, Earl, [269]
• Beaufort Testimonial, won by Lord Fisher, [255]
• Beaumont, Admiral Sir Lewis, [30]
• Beilby, Sir George, [66]
• Benbow, Sir Henry, letter of, to Lord Fisher, [171]
• Beresford, Admiral Lord Charles, on training of officers and men for the Navy, [167–170];
• [265]
• Bethmann-Hollweg, Herr von, [247]
• Bible, the, and other reflections, [38] et seq.;
• Wyclif’s translation, [43];
• Tyndale’s, ibid.;
• Coverdale’s, [44];
• Authorised, ibid.;
• Revised, ibid.;
• Cranmer’s “Great Bible,” ibid.
• Big gun, the, [204] et seq.
• Birthday Honours List a serial novel, [73]
• Black, Dr. Hugh, [38], [39], [77]
• Boar, Mr., [128]
• Board of Invention and Research, [193], [269]
• Bodmin, ancestral home of the Fishers, [3]
• Borden, Sir Robert, and hereditary titles in Canada, [72]
• Borkum, [245]
• Bourke, Mr. Maurice, [95]
• Boydell, Alderman, [1], [261]
• Boys, training of, for the Navy, [166]
• Brampton, Lord, [26], [31], [33]
• Brest, blockade of, [6]
• Bright, John, [69], [70]
• British submarines before and during the war, [186]
• Brodrick, Mr., [83]
• Browning, Sir Thomas, [201]
• Brutality in the Navy, former, [10]
• Buonaparte, Napoleon, Archbishop Whately, on, [100]
• Burnham, the first Lord, [31], [32], [33]
• “Buying up opportunities,” [61] et seq.
• Byron, Lord, [4]
• C
• Cabman’s retort to the Admiral, the, [52]
• Campbell-Bannerman, Rt. Hon. Sir Henry, [31], [32], [51], [53]
• Canada and hereditary titles, Sir Robert Borden on, [73]
• Cape Observatory, the, [124]
• Capri, [41]
• Cawdor, Lord, [98]
• Cawdor memorandum, the, [107], [117]
• Childers, Rt. Hon. Hugh, [56], [139]
• China Seas, an Admiral’s unique manner of surveying, [9]
• Chinese, the ingenious, [9]
• Christmas Day joys on a man-of-war, [22]
• Churchill, Rt. Hon. Winston, [86], [179], [188], [191], [192], [194], [230], [269], [270]
• Clarke, Sir George, [266]
• Claverhouse, [78]
• Clemenceau, M., [240]
• Clive, Lord, [74]
• Coastguard, service, the, [120] et seq.
• Cochrane, Captain the Hon. A. A., [262]
• Collingwood, Admiral, [90], [92]
• Commerce, the submarine and, [183–185]
• Common entry into the Navy, [156] et seq.
• Congreve, William, [92]
• Cooper-Key, Admiral Sir A., [262]
• Corbett, Sir Julian, [34]
• Cornwallis, Admiral, [6], [90]
• Coronel, [261]
• Coverdale, Miles, [42], [43], [44]
• Cowdray, Lord, [196]
• Cranmer’s Bible, [43], [44]
• Cromwell, Thomas, [42], [43], [44]
• Currie, General, [74]
• Curzon, Earl, [193]
• D
• Dalby, Prof., [193]
• Daniels, Mr. Josephus, [79];
• report on oil-burning battleships, [203], [270]
• Davies, Mr., American dentist to the Kaiser, [75]
• Dawson, Sir Trevor, [189]
• Defects and repairs, [112] et seq.
• Democracy, [69] et seq.
• Deterding, Mr., [200], [201]
• Devonport, Viscount, [247]
• Diesel, Dr., [197]
• Dilke, Sir C., [102]
• Disraeli, Mr., [20]
• Diving methods of the Chinese, [9]
• Dogger Bank, [269]
• “Dreadnought” and “Invincible,” the, [109]
• Dreadnought battle cruiser, the, [232–233]
• Drumclog, [78]
• Drummond, Admiral the Hon. Sir James, [262]
• E
• Eardley-Wilmot, Admiral Sir Sydney, [210]
• Edison, Mr., [21]
• Edmunds, Mr. Henry, [21], [22]
• Empress of Russia, Dowager, [29]
• “Equal opportunity for all,” [71] et seq.
• Esher, Lord, [11], [53], [173], [266]
• Essentials of sea fighting, the, [88] et seq.
• F
• Falkland Islands, [66]
• Fisher Baronetcy, lapse of, [2]
• Fisher’s career, Lord, synopsis of, [255] et seq.
• Fisher, Sir Clement, [2], [3]
• Fisher, John, [2]
• Fisher, Rev. John, of Bodmin, [3];
• four generations of, [4]
• Fisher, Mr. John Arbuthnot, [5]
• Fisher, Sir Robert, of Packington, [3]
• Fisher, Sir Robert, [4]
• Fisher, William, father of Lord Fisher, [261]
• Fisher, Mary, wife of Lord Aylesford, [3]
• Fisher motto, the, [2]
• Fiume, [256]
• “Fleet Street” conspiracy, a, [101]
• Foch, Marshal, [246]
• Forgiveness, [49]
• “Free Tank Day,” a, [22]
• Frederick the Great and the Seven Years’ War, [217], [218]
• Freedom of the seas nonsense, [75]
• French, Lord, [247]
• Friedland-Eylau campaign, [221]
• Friend, Lord Fisher’s letter to a, [76]
• Fushishima, Prince, [227]
• G
• Gallifet, General, [31]
• Gard, Mr., [128]
• Gardiner, Mr. A. G., [11]
• Gaunt, John of, [96]
• Geddes, Sir Eric, [67], [246]
• German Emperor, the, [227], [230]
• German submarine menace, the, [65], [242]
• Gervais, Admiral, [264]
• Ginsburg, Dr., letter from Lord Fisher to, [41]
• Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., final resignation of, [50] et seq., [264]
• Goodenough, Commodore, [211]
• Gould, Sir F. C., [36]
• Goschen, Rt. Hon. G. J., [264]
• Gracie, Mr., [128]
• Grafton, Richard, printer of the 1539 Bible, [38]
• Grant, Sir Hope, [17]
• Graves, Admiral, [7]
• “Great Silent Navy,” the, [95], [96]
• Greenwich Observatory, [124]
• Gunboat, the use of the, [116] et seq.
• Gunning, Miss, wife of two dukes and mother of four, [5], [6]
• H
• Hadcock, Major A. G., [210], [233]
• Hamilton, Duke of, [5]
• Hamilton, Lady, [1], [6]
• Hamilton, Lord George, [54], [264]
• Hankey, Sir Maurice P. A., [173];
• letter to Lord Fisher, [214–215];
• letter of Lord Fisher to, [244]
• Hanotaux, M., [250]
• Harcourt, Lord, [53]
• Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Sir William, [51], [52], [53]
• Hawke, Admiral, Capt. A. T. Mahan on, [91]
• Hawkins, Sir Henry, see [Brampton, Lord]
• Hay, General, commandant of the Hythe School of Musketry, [17], [18]
• Heligoland Bight, a Naval Officer, on the battle of, [230], [245]
• Henderson, Wilfrid, [128]
• Hereditary titles out of date, [73];
• Canada and, ibid.
• Hicks-Beach, Rt. Hon. Sir Michael, [51]
• Hilles, Captain, [261]
• Hole, Dean, [65]
• Hood, Captain Arthur W. A., [262]
• Hood, Sir H., [262], [264]
• Hope, Sir James, [14], [15], [261]
• Hopkins, Sir John, [170];
• letter of, to Lord Fisher, ibid.
• Horton, Lady Wilmot, [4], [261]
• Hoskins, Sir A. H., [264]
• Hostile submarines, [183]
• House of Lords, Lord Fisher’s speech in, November, 1915, [86];
• March 21, 1917, [87]
• How the Great War was carried on, [64] et seq.
• Howe, Julia Ward, [77]
• Hunger and thirst the way to Heaven, [10]
• Huxley, T. H., [42]
• Hythe School of Musketry, the, [17]
• I
• Incarnation of Revolution, Lord Fisher as the, [20]
• Inge, Dean, [28], [47], [48]
• Ireland under military law, [31]
• J
• Jackson, Sir Henry, [128]
• Jellicoe, Viscount, [128], [214], [215], [223], [226], [242], [243], [247], [267]
• Joffre, General, [247]
• “Jolly and Hustle,” [58] et seq.
• Jonah’s Gourd, [97] et seq.
• Jones, Captain Oliver, [15], [16], [17], [261]
• K
• Keble, John, [19]
• Kelvin, Lord, [21], [61], [62], [63]
• Kerr, Lord Walter, [265]
• Kiel Canal, [214], [236], [237], [240]
• King Edward, [4], [24];
• characteristic thoughtfulness of, [25–27];
• his friendship for Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, [32];
• [57], [60], [180], [227], [266], [268]
• King William IV, [1]
• Kitchener, Lord, [54], [229], [243], [247]
• Knollys, Lord, [24]
• Knox, Sir Ralph, [55]
• Krupp, [196], [197], [199]
• L
• Labouchere, Mr. Henry, [31], [32]
• Lambe, A., grandfather of Lord Fisher, [261]
• Lambe, Sophia, mother of Lord Fisher, [261]
• Lane, Jane, [2]
• Latimer, Bishop, [211]
• Laurier, Sir Wilfrid, [73]
• Law, Rt. Hon. Bonar, [244]
• League of Nations nonsense, [75]
• Lectures to officers of the Fleet, [89] et seq.
• “Let ’em all come,” [81]
• Lethbridge, Captain, [11]
• Leverrier, Urbain, [21]
• Lloyd George, Rt. Hon., [77];
• letter from Lord Fisher to, [222–223]; 230
• Lloyd’s, [125]
• Lochee, Lord, see [Robertson, Mr. Edmund]
• “Loop Detection” scheme, the, [67]
• Lord Mayor’s Banquet 1907, the, Lord Fisher’s speech at, [83]
• Loreburn, Lord, [31]
• Lucy, Sir Henry, [36], [37]
• M
• M’Clintock, Admiral Sir Leopold, [263]
• McCrea, Admiral, [59]
• McKechnie, Sir James, [189]
• McKenna, Rt. Hon. Reginald, [268]
• McLaughlin, A. C., Professor of History at Chicago, [69], [73], [74]
• Madden, Admiral, [128]
• Mahan, Capt. A. T., [90], [91];
• on Nelson, [135]
• Marienbad, [29], [30], [32], [34], [36]
• Marlborough, Duke of, [74]
• Masterton-Smith, Sir J. E., [34]
• Memorandum on “Oil and its Fighting Attributes,” [200]
• Men, training of, for the Navy, [166]
• Mercantile Marine, the, [125]
• Midleton, Lord, see [Brodrick, Mr.]
• Midshipman and the Admiral, the, Mr. A. G. Gardiner’s story of, [11], [12]
• Midshipmen’s food, [6]
• Midshipmen past and present, comparison between, [7], [8]
• Miller, Captain, [11]
• Mitchell, Dr. Weir, [46]
• Mons, [246]
• “Monstrous” cruisers, the, [230], [232]
• Montecuccoli, Admiral Count, Austrian Minister of Marine, [180]
• Moresby, Admiral J., [248]
• Morley, Rt. Hon. John, on the Navy, 1893, [135]
• Morley, Lord, “Life of Gladstone,” [50]
• Motto, a Fisher, [2]
• N
• Napoleon, [74], [129];
• Friedland-Eylau campaign, [221];
• [231]
• Napoleon III, [179]
• Nargen, Island of, [8]
• National Lifeboat Institution as substitute for Coastguard, [123]
• Naval base reforms, [249] et seq.
• Naval candidate’s essay, a, [171–172]
• Naval captain and cavalry colonel, [17]
• Naval education, [156] et seq.
• Naval officer, a, on the battle of Heligoland Bight, [230]
• Navigation, ignorance of, in the Navy, [19]
• Navy, common entry into, [156] et seq.
• Navy in the war, the, [225] et seq.
• Nelson, [1], [6], [19], [81], [83], [129], [231], [232];
• Capt. A. T. Mahan on, [135];
• at Toulon, [136]
• Northbrook, Lord, [30]
• Nucleus crews, [147]
• O
• Observatories, [124] et seq.
• Obsolete vessels, purging the Navy of, [139] et seq.
• Officers, training of, for the Navy, [166];
• Lord Charles Beresford on, [167–170]
• Oil and oil engines, [189] et seq.
• Oil-burning battleships, Mr. Josephus Daniels’ report on, [203]
• Organisation for war, [133]
• Osborne system of Naval education, [7], [157], [248]
• “Out of date” fighting ships, [130]
• P
• Paganini, [164]
• Page-Roberts, Dr., Dean of Salisbury, [49]
• Pakenham, Admiral, [110], [208]
• Parker, Admiral Sir William, last of Nelson’s captains, nominates Lord Fisher for the Navy, [4], [261]
• Parkes, Mr. Oscar, [208]
• Parsons, Hon. Sir Charles, [66], [197]
• Peace, [74], [75]
• Pechili, Gulf of, [16]
• Penniless, friendless and forlorn, Lord Fisher’s entry into the Navy, [10]
• Plumer, General, [173]
• Pope, the, and Tyndale, [43], [44]
• Pre-war prophecy, a, [227]
• Public speeches, [79] et seq.
• Purging the Navy of obsolete vessels, [139] et seq.
• Q
• Queen Alexandra, her kindly disposition, [26];
• [28], [29], [268]
• Queen Elizabeth, [135]
• Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia, [34]
• Queen Victoria, [30], [55]
• R
• Rambodde, Ceylon, Lord Fisher’s birthplace, [255]
• Redesdale, Lord, [25], [26]
• Redmond, John, [31]
• Redmond, William, [31]
• Redundant dockyard workmen, discharge of, [56], [57]
• Resentment, [46]
• Retrospect, a (July, 1906), [150] et seq.
• Reval, [268]
• Rhodes, Cecil, [28]
• Richards, Sir Frederick, [50], [51];
• cabman’s retort to, [52];
• [264]
• Ridley, Bishop, [211]
• Riga, [236]
• Ripon, Lord, [53]
• Roberts, Lord, [36]
• Robertson, Mr. Edmund, [98], [101] n.
• Robertson, Rev. F. W., of Brighton, [46], [47], [49]
• Robertson, Sir W., [247]
• Rombulow-Pearse, Lieut., [159]
• Royal Academy Banquet, 1903, the, Lord Fisher’s speech at, [79]
• Royal Dutch-Shell Combination, the, [201]
• Royal Marines, Lord Charles Beresford on the, [168–169]
• Rozhdestvensky, Admiral, [207]
• Rumbold, Sir H. G. M. (Ambassador at Vienna), [31], [33]
• Russell, Lord, [31], [32], [33]
• Russian catastrophe, the reason of the, [228]
• Russian War, the, 1854–5, [8]
• S
• Saintly Naval captain, a, [12], [13], [14]
• Salisbury, Lord, [54], [55], [88]
• Salt-beef snuff-box, a, [10]
• Samuel, Sir Marcus, [193]
• Sankey, Mr., [77]
• Satanic captain, a, [15]
• Scapa Flow, [225–226], [243]
• Schwab, Mr., [187]
• Schwarzhoff, General Gross von, [55]
• Science, contempt for, in the Navy, [19]
• Scott, Admiral Percy, [80], [81], [267]
• Sea of Japan, battle of, [111]
• Sea-gull, a delicacy, [16]
• Secrecy and secretiveness, [93] et seq.
• Selborne, Lord, [101];
• letter of Sir John Fisher to, [127]; 265, [266]
• Seven Years’ War, the, [217], [218], [222]
• Shadwell, Captain, [12], [13], [14], [261]
• Shadwell, Sir Lancelot, last Vice-Chancellor of England, [12]
• Shand, Lord, [31], [33]
• Ship-building and dockyard workers, [56] et seq.
• Siegel, Admiral von, [55]
• “Sleep quiet in your beds,” speech at Lord Mayor’s banquet, 1907, [85]
• Smith, Rt. Hon. W. H., [54]
• “Snail and Tortoise Party,” the, [212]
• Snuff-box of salt beef, [10]
• Some predictions, [211]
• “Sow the North Sea with mines,” Lord Fisher’s advice in 1914, [237–239]
• Spee, Admiral von, [66], [206], [232], [233], [269]
• Spencer, Earl, [50], [51], [52], [264]
• Spencer, Herbert, [42]
• Staal, M. de, [55]
• Standard Oil Trust, America, [201]
• State education in the Navy, [160–162]
• Stead, Mr. W. T., [52], [53], [55];
• on Lord Fisher’s great naval reforms, [253] et seq.;
• [263]
• Stewart, Mr., “Jolly and Hustle,” [61]
• Stolypin, M., [222]
• Sturdee, Admiral Sir Doveton, [269]
• Submarine boat, the, [82]
• Submarine and commerce, the, [183–185]
• Submarines, [173] et seq.
• Submarines and oil fuel, [179–181]
• Submarines, British, before and during the war, [186]
• Subsidiary services of war, [148] et seq.
• Swan, Mr., inventor of the incandescent light, [21]
• Sydenham, Lord, see [Clarke, Sir George.]
• Sylt, [245]
• T
• Taylor, Bishop Jeremy, [46]
• Tennyson-d’Eyncourt, Sir Eustace, [208]
• Tepl, monks’ colony at, [29]
• Thackeray, [79]
• “The World, the Flesh, and the Devil,” [33]
• Thomson, Sir J. J., O.M., [65]
• Thurlow, Major, [1]
• Thursfield, Mr. J. R., [160]
• Tirpitz, Admiral von, [225], [247]
• Titles, hereditary, and Canada, [73]
• Togo, Admiral, [110], [174], [207], [226], [227]
• Training of boys for the Navy, [166]
• Training of men for the Navy, [166];
• Lord Charles Beresford on the, [167–170]
• Training of officers for the Navy, [166], [167–169]
• Tsar of Russia, [268]
• Tweedmouth, Lord, [98], [101] n.
• Twiss, General, [89]
• Two-Power standard, the, [13], [105]
• Tyndale, John, [42], [43], [44]
• U
• Uruguay, [119]
• Use of the gunboat, the, [116] et seq.
• V
• Vavasseur, Mr. Josiah, [268]
• Verdun, [5];
• American advance on, [246]
• “Victory,” the, Lord Fisher’s first and last ship, [4], [5]
• Villeneuve, Admiral, [89]
• Vladivostok, [110], [111]
• W
• War, organisation for, [133]
• War, subsidiary services of, [148] et seq.
• Warsaw, Napoleon at, [129]
• Watch, a historic, [3]
• Watson, Sir William, [78]
• Way to Victory, the, Lord Fisher’s letters to the Prime Minister, [234–236]
• Wellington, Lord, [74]
• Wesley, John, [46]
• Whately, Archbishop, [99], [100]
• Whitchurch, Edward, printer of the 1539 Bible, [38]
• Whitehead torpedo, [177], [262]
• Wilson, Sir Arthur, [268]
• Wilson, President, [77]
• Winchester, Bishop of, [114]
• Wireless Telegraphy, [82]
• Wotton, Sir Henry, [34]
• Wyclif, John, [42], [43]
• Y
• Yamamoto, Admiral, [226]
• Yates, Edmund, [31], [32]
• Youthful midshipmen, advantage of, [5], [7];
• arduous lives of, [6]

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