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I.A Greeting. By Way of Dedication[3]
II.A Retrospect[11]
The First Crisis[14]
The Second Crisis[20]
The Third Crisis[22]
The Fourth Crisis[25]
The New Era[28]
III.Sea Fallacies: A Plea for First Principles[33]
IV.Some Root Doctrines[48]
V.Elements of Sea Force[61]
VI.The Actions[79]
VII.Naval Gunnery, Weapons and Technique[93]
Fire Control[96]
The Torpedo in Battle[103]
VIII.The Action that Never Was Fought[108]
IX.The Destruction of Koenigsberg[119]
The First Attempt[126]
Success[134]
A Problem in Control[142]
X.Capture of H. I. G. M. S. Emden[152]
XI.The Career of Von Spee. I[165]
Coronel[172]
XII.Battle of the Falkland Islands. I:
The Career of Von Spee II[180]
A. Preliminary Movements[182]
XIII.Battle of the Falkland Islands. II:
B. Action with the Armoured Cruisers[191]
XIV.Battle of the Falkland Islands. III:
C. Action with the Light Cruisers[201]
D. Action with the Enemy Transports[210]
XV.Battle of the Falkland Islands. IV:
Strategy—Tactics—Gunnery[213]
British Strategy[215]
The Tactics of the Battle[219]
A Point in Naval Ethics[230]
XVI.The Heligoland Affair[232]
The North Sea[240]
XVII.The Action Off the Dogger Bank. I[245]
XVIII.The Dogger Bank. II[251]
XIX.The Battle of Jutland:
I. North Sea Strategies[267]
XX.The Battle of Jutland (continued):
II. The Urgency of a Decision[283]
XXI.The Battle of Jutland (continued):
III. The Distribution of Forces[294]
XXII.The Battle of Jutland (continued):
IV. The Second Phase[307]
XXIII.The Battle of Jutland (continued):
V. The Three Objectives[315]
The Tactical Plans:
Admiral Scheer’s Tactics[317]
Sir David Beatty’s Tactics[324]
Sir John Jellicoe’s Tactics[326]
XXIV.The Battle of Jutland (continued):
VI. The Course of the Action[330]
The German Retreat[333]
The Night Actions and the Events of June 1[335]
XXV.Zeebrügge and Ostend[341]
Strategical Object[342]
Sir Roger Keyes’s Tactics[345]
Attack on the Mole[352]
Moral Effect[353]

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Big guns more accurate at long range, because more regular[94]
Big guns need less accurate range-finding, because the danger space is greater[95]
Range-finding by bracket[97]
The crux of sea fighting, changes of course and speed produce an irregularly changing range[98]
In this sketch the black silhouette shows the position at the moment the torpedo is fired; the white silhouette the position the ship has reached when the torpedo meets it[107]
Plan of Sydney and Emden in action[158]
Plan of the action between the British battle-cruisers and the German armoured cruisers[199]
Plan of action between Kent and Nürnberg, and of that between Cornwall and Glasgow and Leipzig[207]
The action off Heligoland up to the intervention of Commodore Goodenough’s Light Cruiser Squadron[235]
The action off Heligoland. The course of the battle-cruisers[239]
The Dogger Bank Affair. Diagram to illustrate the character of the engagement up to the disablement of Lion[249]
The official plan of the Battle of Jutland. Note that the course of the Grand Fleet is not shown to be “astern” of the battle-cruisers, but parallel to their track[295]
Position of the opposing fleets at 3:30 P.M.[298]
The first phase; from Von Hipper’s coming into view, until his juncture with Admiral Scheer[301]
The second phase; Beatty engages the combined German Fleet, and draws it toward the Grand Fleet[309]
Sketch plan of the action from 6 P.M. when the Grand Fleet prepared to deploy, till 6:50 when Admiral Scheer delivered his first massed torpedo attack[332]
Jutland Diagrams. Third phase[at end of book]

THE BRITISH NAVY IN BATTLE

CHAPTER I
A Greeting by Way of Dedication

Xmas, 1915.