JUTLAND BATTLE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, Issue LIV, 16 October 1920, Page 10

JUTLAND BATTLE

PEAR-ADMIRAL GRANT’S IMPRESSION'S An interesting description of the Battle of Jutland was given by Reai» Admiral Sir Berry Grant in the course of a lecture on “The Navy at War, given by him at Melbourne under the auspices of the Victorian branch oi the Navy League. At the Battle ol Jutland Admiral Grant was on hoard the battleship Marlborough, leader ol the first battleship squadron. Speaking of the part of the Marlborough in the battle. Admiral Grant said that after deploying the first incident of note to those on the Marlborough was the passing of a ship bottom up. To their regret they read the name Invincible on it. and the loss of the crusier came as a shock. Shortly -a fte'rwards they passed, a lit tle British destroyer with her side blown open. Engaging a German battleship the Marlborough was hit by a largo shell, and was severely damaged. She listed to about ISdeg., but continued in the battle. After about seven minutes she got her guns into action again, and fired throe salvoes into a little German cruiser, wliich collapsed like a pack of cards. Next, the Marlborough exchanged shots with a large German battleship. Fourteen salvoes were fired at her in six minutes, and thel enemy ship then swung out of the battle line. At twenty minutes to 8 o’clock a star shell was fired from a German ship, and the whole enemy fleet then made. off. Within ten minutes the two fleets were out of sight of each other. With darkness coming on, it would have

been absolute madness to go after a weak Hying fleet in the darkness with a superior fleet. Fifty-nine German ships took part in the action, and the Germans had admitted that if there had been another hour of daylight the British would have finished off the German fleet. *