Memories, by Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher

by Baron John Arbuthnot Fisher Fisher

[16] Then after this came the 15-inch gun; then the 18-inch gun, actually used at sea in the War; and then the 20-inch gun, ready to be built and go into the “Incomparable” of 40,000 tons and 40 knots speed, on May 22nd, 1915—F. 21/9/19.

[17] “The New Teaching,” edited by John Adams. Hodder and Stoughton.

[18] This shows how badly advised the Navy was by the India Office, as under 3 feet was vital, and the order was given accordingly.

[19] Eighteen days going through Departments.

[20] Mr. Yarrow had technical charge of the whole business and was the sole designer—and there was no paper work whatever.

[21] All this action on the same day.

[22] All the rest of the required action taken in 4 days.

Index

• A
• Abdul Hamid,55;
• the Pope and, [91] et seq., [204], [205]
• Aboukir Bay, French Fleet in, [161]
• Adalbert, Prince, [230]
• Adams, John, editor of “The New Teaching,” [251] n.
• Admiralty clerks and the Naval War Staff, [102] et seq.
• Aircraft, [124] et seq.
• Alcester, Lord, [140]
• Alexandra, Queen, [12], [20], [198], [238]
• Alfonso, King, [237–238], [258]
• Americans, [221] et seq.
• Anderson, Mr. J. W. S., [111]
• Angell, Mr. Norman, [126], [211]
• Arbuthnot, Sir R., [60]
• Arnold-Forster, Rt. Hon. H. O., [169–171], [179]
• Asquith, Rt. Hon. H. H., [42], [50], [58], [59], [70], [74], [196], [199]
• B
• Bacon, Admiral Sir Reginald, [104], [128]
• Baddeley, Mr. V. W., [111]
• Balfour, Rt. Hon. A. J., [36], [64], [82], [182], [210]
• Barnaby, Sir Nathaniel, [253], [255];
• letter to Lord Fisher, [256–257]
• Barnardo, Dr., [160]
• Bartolomé, Admiral Sir Charles de, [104], [270]
• Battenberg, Prince Louis of, [168]
• Beatty, Lord, [37], [40], [121]
• Beilby, Sir George, [116]
• Beit, Mr., [4], [33], [34], [182]
• Benbow, Admiral, [163]
• Bernstorff, Count von, [210]
• Bieberstein, Marschall von, [204], [205]
• Birdwood, General Sir William R., [82]
• Bismarck, Prince, [229]
• “Blücher,” sinking of the, [149–150]
• Booth, General, [160]
• Borden, Rt. Hon. Sir R. L., [218]
• Botha, General, [136], [263]
• Boys, Admiral, [168]
• Bridgeman, Admiral Sir Francis, [246], [247]
• Bridgman, Mr., [92]
• Bright, John, [23], [100], [223], [225–227], [256]
• Bristol, Marquis of, [258]
• Brock, Commander, at Zeebrugge, [50]
• Bryce, Lord, [205]
• Buckle, Mr., [181]
• Bulwer, Sir Henry, see [Dalling, Lord]
• Byron, Lord, [92], [102]
• C
• Caillaux, M., [209]
• Caldwell, Major-General Sir Charles, [83], [84]
• Callaghan, Admiral Sir George A., [37], [39]
• Campbell-Bannerman, Sir H., [42], [176], [182], [183], [256]
• Canning, Sir Stratford, [95]
• Carden, Admiral Sir Sackville H., [79], [82]
• Cartagena, [237–239]
• Cavendish, Lady Frederick, [260]
• Cawley, Lord, [56]
• Cervantes, [282–283]
• Chalmers, Dr., [153]
• Choate, Mr., [17]
• Churchill, Mr. Winston, [36], [41], [50], [52], [55–59], [63], [64], [66], [67], [71–73], [81], [124], [127], [183], [196], [198], [206], [207], [212–214], [246]
• Clark, Mr. Champ, [202]
• Clarke, Sir George, [16], [165], [169], [173], [179], [196]
• Clemenceau, M., [209]
• Corbett, Sir Julian, [2] n., [101]
• Cornwallis, Admiral, [163]
• Cradock, Admiral, [135], [136], [283]
• Crease, Captain, [104]
• Cromer, Lord, [56], [60], [70], [76], [94]
• Cromwell, Oliver, [107], [278]
• D
• Dalling, Lord, [265], [277]
• “Daniell cell,” the, [140]
• Daniels, Mr. Josephus, [225]
• Dardanelles, the, [49] et seq.
• Denbigh, Lord, [10]
• Depew, Mr. Chauncey, [224]
• Dilke, Sir Charles, [16]
• Disraeli, [25], [101]
• Dogger Bank incident, the, [65], [71], [94]
• Dryden, [281]
• Dumanoir, Admiral, [162]
• Dundonald, Lord, [146], [163]
• E
• Ellison, General Sir C., [165], [166]
• Empress Marie, [198]
• Esher, Lord, [5], [12];
• letter to Lord Fisher, [13], [33], [34];
• Lord Fisher’s letters to, [165] et seq.
• F
• Falkenhayn, General von, [97]
• Fisher, Mr. Andrew, [61], [69]
• Fitzgerald, Admiral, [263]
• Flint, Mr., [110]
• Franklin, Benjamin, [163] n
• Frederick the Great, [34]
• French, Lord, [57], [58], [69], [169], [172–174], [188]
• G
• Gard, Mr., [122]
• Gardiner, Mr. A. G., [53]
• Garibaldi, visit of, to the “Warrior,” [150]
• Garvin, Mr. J. L., [187]
• German Emperor on Lord Fisher, [33], [182]
• Girouard, Sir E. P. C., [166]
• Gladstone, Mr., [41], [42], [244], [259], [260], [261], [282]
• Gladstone, Mrs., [260]
• Godley, Mr., [283]
• Goschen, Viscount, [107], [139]
• Grand Duke Nicholas, [52], [79]
• Granville, Lord, [205]
• Greene, Sir Graham, [111]
• Grey, Lord, [18], [96], [189], [190], [205]
• Grierson, General, [172]
• Guazzo, Steven, [35]
• H
• Haddock, Commodore, [144], [145]
• Haig, Lord, [172]
• Haldane, Lord, [102], [104], [106], [209]
• Hall, Admiral Sir S. S., [269–271]
• Hall, Admiral W. H., [103]
• Hall, Rear-Admiral Sir William Reginald, [85]
• Hamilton, Sir Ian, [83], [215]
• Hamilton, Lady, [158]
• Hamilton, Lord George, [242], [243], [244]
• Hankey, Sir Maurice, [58], [64], [74], [194]
• Hanotaux, M., [187]
• Harcourt, Sir William Vernon, [186], [216]
• Hawke, Admiral Lord, [163]
• Hawthorne, [115]
• Henderson, Admiral Sir Reginald, [105] n.
• Henderson, Mr. Arthur, [47]
• Hertz German submarine mine the, [130], [151]
• Hertzog, General, [136]
• Hildyard, General, [169]
• Hindenburg, Field-Marshal von, [74], [106]
• Hood, Admiral Sir Horace, [104]
• Hood, Admiral Viscount, [60], [163]
• Hornby, Admiral Sir Geoffrey Phipps, [65–66], [71], [93], [228]
• House, Colonel, [45]
• Howe, Admiral, [163]
• Hush Hush ships, [98–101], [243], [258]
• I
• Inge, Dean, [61]
• Ingenohl, Admiral von, [32]
• Inglefield, Admiral Sir Frederick S., [168]
• Ismay, Mr. 145
• Isvolsky, M., [182], [187], [233]
• J
• Jackson, Admiral Sir Henry B., [40]
• Jellicoe, Lord, [30], [31], [36–40], [64], [74], [105], [208–210], [270]
• Johnson, Abraham, [148–149]
• Jones, Commodore Oliver, [146]
• K
• Kelly-Kenny, General, [174]
• Kelvin, Lord, [143], [193], [251] et seq.
• Kerr, Lord Walter, [140]
• Key, Sir Cooper, [143]
• Kiamil Pasha, [93], [95], [239]
• Kiel Canal, the, [19], [130], [131]
• Kiderlen-Waechter, von, [204]
• Kiernan, John, [147–148]
• King Edward, [1] et seq.;
• letter from author to, [3–4];
• his tact, [5–7], [25], [51], [113], [117], [184], [186], [187], [191], [192], [198–199], [203], [207], [211], [225], [226], [232], [234], [236], [237], [260]
• King William, [229]
• Kitchener, Lord, [50], [52], [57], [59], [65], [67], [74], [79], [80], [83], [104], [105], [176], [198], [199], [241]
• Knollys, Sir Francis, [3], [20], [21], [171], [193]
• Knox, Mr. Philander, [205]
• Kruger, Paul, [169]
• Kuropatkin, M., [187]
• L
• Labouchere, Mr. Henry, [265–267]
• Lambert, Mr. George, [267]
• Lansdowne, Lord, [82]
• Latimer, Bishop, [120]
• Law, Mr. Bonar, [82]
• Learmonth, Admiral, [132]
• Lecky, Rt. Hon. W. E. H., [281], [282]
• Leishman, Mr. John G. A., American Ambassador to Germany, [204], [205]
• Lincoln, Abraham, [261], [262]
• Lister, Lord, [250]
• Lloyd George, Mr., [55], [56], [59], [81] n., [131], [186], [204], [213], [215–217], [223]
• Loubet, President, [12], [236]
• Ludendorff, General von, [32], [97], [106]
• Lyttelton, Sir N., [65]
• M
• McClintock, Admiral Sir Leopold, [143]
• McCrea, Mr., [222]
• Macgregor, Sir Evan, [111]
• McKenna, Mr. Reginald, [41], [43], [44], [62], [186], [193–197], [199–201], [206], [207]
• McKenna, Mrs. Reginald, [43]
• Mackenzie, Sir Thomas, [61–62], [70]
• Macnamara, Dr. T. J., [42], [44]
• Madden, Admiral Sir Charles, [104]
• Magee, Archbishop, [151]
• Mahan, Admiral, [5], [37], [187], [216]
• Maxim, Sir Hiram, [227], [228], [250]
• Maxse, Mr. Leo, [182]
• Maxwell, General, [172]
• Mears, Sir Grimwood, Secretary to the Dardanelles Commission, [61]
• Merchant Navy, the, [119–120]
• Milne, Mr., [139]
• Mitchell, Dr. Weir, [284]
• Moltke, Field-Marshal Count, [229], [230], [276]
• Moresby, Admiral J., letter to Lord Fisher, [284–285]
• Morgenthau, Mr. H., [84]
• Morley, Lord, [216], [262]
• Munro, General Sir Charles, [85]
• Murray, Mr. George, [199]
• Murray, Sir Oswyn, [111]
• N
• Naples, Queen of, [158]
• Napoleon, [18], [44], [162], [201]
• Naval War Staffs and Admiralty clerks, [102] et seq.
• Nelson, [18], [25–27], [51], [66], [105], [107], [109], [111], [117], [142], [147], [158] et seq.
• Nicholson, Field-Marshal Lord, [65], [85]
• Nicholson, Mr. W. F., [103]
• Northbrook, Lord, [156], [157], [244], [245]
• O
• O’Connell, Daniel, [260]
• Oldenburg, Grand Duke of, [229], [232]
• Olga, Grand Duchess, [231], [232];
• letter to Lord Fisher, [233–234]
• Oliver, Admiral Sir Henry, [104]
• Orde, Sir John, [244]
• Orloff, Prince, [2], [234]
• P
• Palmerston, Lord, [203]
• Parker, Sir Hyde, [66]
• Parsons, Sir Charles, [249]
• Pepys, Samuel, [111]
• Perrin, Mr. W. G., [111]
• Petersen, Mr., [119]
• Phillips, Mr. J. F., [111]
• Pitt, Mr., [18], [36], [203]
• Plumer, General, [32], [172], [174]
• Pohl, Admiral von, [29] et seq.
• Pohl, Frau von, [30–32], [105]
• Polsonare family, the, [152]
• Pope, the, and Abdul Hamid, [91] et seq.
• Probyn, Sir Dighton, [20]
• Q
• Queen Alexandra, [12], [20], [198], [238]
• Queen Victoria, [156], [157]
• R
• Rawlinson, Sir Henry, [119]
• Redesdale, Lord, letter to Lord Fisher, [14]
• Reich, Herr von, on “Dreadnoughts,” [14] et seq.
• Reid, Sir George, [199]
• Reval, [231] et seq.
• Rhodes, Cecil, [34], [35]
• Richmond, Captain, [104]
• Ridley, Bishop, [120]
• Roberts, Lord, [53], [183]
• Roch, Mr. W. F., [62]
• Rodney, Admiral, [163]
• Roon, Count von, [229]
• Roosevelt, Mr., [23]
• Rosebery, Lord, [27], [44], [49], [55], [138], [158], [162], [248]
• Rothschild, Lord, [244]
• Rousseau, M., [187]
• Rozhdestvensky, Admiral, [107]
• Runciman, Mr. Walter, [44]
• Russia, Emperor of, [191], [251]
• S
• St. Vincent, Lord, [181]
• Salisbury, Lord, [94], [204]
• Sampson, Admiral, [225]
• Samuel, Mr. Herbert, [42]
• Samuel, Sir Marcus, [116]
• Sanders, Marshal Liman von, [85], [97]
• Scapa Flow, [31]
• Schreiner, Mr. G. A., [84]
• Schwab, Mr., [270]
• Schwartzhoff, Gross von, [105], [106], [212]
• Scott, Mr. Robert Falconer, [163] n.
• Scott, Sir Percy, [248], [249]
• Seely, General, [216]
• Selborne, Lord, [170], [245], [246]
• Shipbuilding, new, inaugurated by Lord Fisher, [86] et seq.
• Sinclair, Commodore Hugh Paget, [267]
• Slade, General F. G., [174], [175]
• Smith, Sir F. E., [183]
• Smith, Sir Thomas, [250]
• Smith-Dorrien, General, [169], [172], [174]
• Some Personalities, [242] et seq.
• Southey, [249]
• Special Missions, some, [229] et seq.
• Spee, Admiral von, [36], [78], [135], [136], [283]
• Spencer, Lord, [242], [244], [245]
• Stead, Mr. W. T., [35], [170], [171], [197], [249], [262], [263], [264]
• Stolypin, M., [187], [231], [236–237]
• Stopford, Sir F., [172]
• Submarines, Lord Fisher’s Memorandum on, [88–90]
• Swift, Dean, [276]
• T
• Taft, Mr., [202]
• Tall, Isaac, [151]
• Taylor, Bishop Jeremy, [114]
• Tennyson-D’Eyncourt, Sir Eustace, [257–259]
• Thomas, Mr. Holt, [125], [126]
• Thompson, Mr., [224]
• Thomson, Sir William, see [Kelvin, Lord]
• Tirpitz, Admiral von, [16], [29] et seq., [97], [184]
• Togo, Admiral, [107]
• Treves, Sir Frederick, [249–251]
• Troubridge, Sir Thomas, [155], [161]
• Tryon, Sir George, [146]
• Tweedmouth, Lord, [5]
• Tyrwhitt, Sir Reginald Yorke, [170]
• V
• Villa Vieja, Marquis de, [233]
• W
• Walker, Sir Charles, [111]
• Warburton, Eliot, [27]
• War Council Meetings, Lord Fisher’s notes of his special intervention at, [78] et seq.
• Ward, Sir Joseph, [193]
• Warren, Sir Herbert, [283]
• Washington, George, [223], [226]
• Watts, Dr., [114]
• Watts, Sir Philip, [187], [257–259]
• Weymouth, Admiral, [122]
• White, Mr. Arnold, [263]
• White, Sir William, [95]
• Wilmot, Admiral Sir S. Eardley, letter to Lord Fisher, [129]
• Wilson, Mr. A. K., [199], [206]
• Wilson, Sir Arthur, [102], [183], [194], [195], [197], [200], [246], [247]
• Wilson, Mr. Havelock, [119–120]
• Wilson, President, [202], [222]
• Wolff, Sir Drummond, [277]
• Woolward, Captain Robert, [144]
• Y
• Yarrow, Sir Alfred, [116], [268] et seq.
• Yelverton, Sir Hastings, [231]
• Z
• Zeebrugge, [50], [58], [75], [79], [81], [119]

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