And he went to the bottom with 3,000 men and 11 ships, and not one man killed or wounded on board the “Invincible.”
Lord Fisher’s Notes of his own Special Interventions at War Council Meetings
Notes.—The first two meetings of the War Committee took place on August 5th and August 6th, 1914.
Lord Fisher was appointed First Sea Lord on October 30th, 1914.
The third meeting of the War Council (being the first after Lord Fisher’s appointment) took place on November 25th, 1914.
3rd Meeting of the War Council, November 25th, 1914.
Lord Fisher asked whether Greece might not attack Gallipoli in conjunction with Bulgaria.
It was pointed out Bulgaria blocked the way.
(Note.—From his experience of three years as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet, Lord Fisher had formed the conviction that Bulgaria was the key of the situation, and this he had pointed out to Lord Kitchener personally at the War Office.)