[96]. See map to face page 518.
[97]. i.e. about 80 miles West of Heligoland.
[98]. It must be explained that in these days the wireless communication with destroyers and still more submarines was not as perfect as it became later on. The Firedrake had therefore been stationed in the morning midway between the submarines and Harwich to pass on messages. She had late in the afternoon, after the orders to take the submarines into the Bight had reached her, rejoined Commodore Keyes and the link was, for the time being, broken.
[99]. The whole of this operation is described in minute detail in the official British Naval History, and should be studied with the excellent charts by those who are interested in its technical aspect. So complicated is the full story that the lay reader cannot see the wood for the trees. I have endeavoured to render intelligible the broad effects.—W.S.C.
[100]. See map to face page 518, ‘The Dawn Situation.’
[101]. See map facing this page, ‘The Noon Situation.’
[102]. The Dresden and two armed merchant cruisers were alive for a few weeks more, but in complete inactivity.
[103]. In peace.
[104]. In war.