Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "The Battle of Jutland - Clash of the Titans - Part 2 (Jellicoe vs Scheer)" video.

  1.  @untruelie2640  Yes, there is. HMS Caroline, a light cruiser, is preserved in Belfast.
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  2.  @johndoucette6085  Scheer had pre-positioned a number of U-boats (around 20) outside Grand Fleet harbours, and ordered them to listen for a specific signal from him when the HSF sailed. The intention was to degrade the Grand Fleet, but in the event only 4 boats picked up the signal, only two sighted Grand Fleet ships, and only one made an attack, which was an unsuccessful one on a light cruiser.
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  3. Beatty was First Sea Lord after the war, and was able to 'doctor' accounts of the battle to show him in a favourable light.
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  4.  @somerival930  She was part of Commodore le Mesurier's 4th Light Cruiser Squadron, with the Grand Fleet. This squadron engaged the German 6th & 9th Torpedo Boat flotillas as they made a massed torpedo attack on the Grand Fleet, and subsequently engaged the 5th Torpedo Boat flotilla. Caroline, together with Royalist, also made torpedo attacks on Mauve's pre-dreadnoughts, but Pommern wasn't sunk in this attack. Unfortunately, the Squadron commander, le Mesurier, was one of those who failed to communicate with Jellicoe.
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  5.  Mock Harris  Actually, they sortied twice more. On the first occasion, Scheert ran for the Jade upon a report of the Grand Fleet approaching, and on the second he returned almost at once when one of his ships was torpedoed. Looking to try again? I hardly think so. Perhaps you may wish to consider that there is more to determining the outcome of a battle than simply counting corpses. Using your simplistic approach, Stalingrad was a German triumph. The fact is, the British objective was to maintain control of the North Sea, and it was achieved.
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  6.  Mock Harris  If they were truly so successful, why did they spend the rest of the war in port, whilst the Royal Navy starved the German civilian population into collapse?
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  7.  @OddHunter5504  If you mean the late 1930s modernisation, then a rebuild similar to that of Renown. New engines, bridge & superstructure, together with a secondary armament of 8 x twin 5.25s (like the KGVs) or 20 x twin 4.5s, (Renown). On balance, I would prefer the greater AA capability of the 4.5s. The weight savings resulting from removal of the old machinery would permit the installation of thicker belt & deck armour without increasing Hood's displacement. Add to that modern fire control equipment & radar and Hood emerges looking like an enlarged Renown or a four turret KGV.
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  8.  @TheBrainSpecialist  More to the point, why would he not be allowed to sail into combat?
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  9.  @conradylee  Sturdee was not hated within the Admiralty as such, but by the dominant figure within it. Sturdee became involved, not by his choice, in a feud between Fisher and Charles Beresford, C-in-C Mediterranean fleet, when he was made his Chief of Staff in 1907, Sturdee was told by Fisher to 'keep an eye on Charlie, as he was inclined to be rash,' and to write to him privately about Beresford's behaviour. Sturdee refused, believing that he should be loyal to his C-in-C, and as a result, joined Beresford on Fisher's list. When Fisher returned to the Admiralty at the outbreak of WW1, Fisher told the First Lord, Churchill, that he would not accept Sturdee as Chief of Staff. Churchill, refused to permit his removal, and the matter rested there, rather uneasily, until Coronel gave Churchill the opportunity to write personally to Sturdee to offer him command of the battlecruisers, after Fisher had informed Churchill that he would not tolerate 'that damned fool' one day longer at the Admiralty. Even after his success at the Falklands, the antagonism did not abate. When Sturdee returned to the Admiralty with his report, Fisher kept him waiting for several hours in a side room before he would see him, and his own report on Sturdee's performance was riddled with comments about his perceived failures and shortcomings. Jellicoe, by contrast, thought highly of Sturdee, and, according to Churchill, Sturdee had the reputation within the navy of being 'a sea officer of keen intelligence and great tactical ability, a man who could handle and fight his ship and his squadron with the utmost skill and resolution.'
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  10. If you have a time machine, go back to the Boxer Rising and make sure that Beatty's injury was rather more serious that it actually was.
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  11. Presumably WW2, by which time subordinate officers were encouraged to show initiative, and apart from the Japanese, the Royal Navy was unmatched in night fighting skills, rather passed you by?
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  12.  @Philistine47  And considerable wealth.
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  13.  Sean m  Almost. Charles Edward le Mesurier commanded a light cruiser squadron attached to Beatty's battlecruisers. If he knew of Beatty's enthusiasm for stacking cordite around the turrets, I wonder if he said 'Do you think that's wise, sir?' I believe that they were only distantly related.
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  14. The German ships were certainly repaired, but never back in action. Scheer saw to that.
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  15.  @mattosullivan9687  Nearly. She was ceded to the US as war reparations. Subsequently, in notorious 'bombing trials' Billy Mitchell used her sinking to prove that aircraft could sink battleships. In 1921, they certainly could, provided that the ship was immobile, without a crew to carry out damage control or defensive measures, and had all watertight compartments left open.
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  16.  @yakumoyukari4405  Yes, in June 1900 he was with a party of 150 men from HMS Barfleur sent to help defend Tientsin.
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  17. In the sense that both were strategic defeats for the German navy, yes.
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  18. Mainly dark grey, although some destroyers were painted black.
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