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The Beatty Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty: v. 1: 1902-18 - Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty (Paperback)
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The Beatty Papers: Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty: v. 1: 1902-18 - Selections from the Private and Official Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Earl Beatty (Paperback)
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David Beatty joined the Victorian Navy in 1884. His early career
therefore occurred at a time of great technological, tactical and
strategic challenges to the Royal Navy. In 1910 he was promoted to
Rear Admiral, and from 1912 served as Naval Secretary to Winston
Churchill, the First Lord of the Admiralty. This role in turn led
to his command of the Battle Cruiser Squadron, with which he
entered the war. The early years of the war saw much frustration.
There was also disappointment at the failure to bring about a
decisive action with the German navy. The Battle of Jutland (May
1916) led to his often quoted comment, 'There seems to be something
wrong with our bloody ships today'. Attempts to learn lessons from
the battle - and attribute blame - would long outlast the war. In
November 1916, Beatty was appointed Commander-in-Chief, with
Jellicoe, his predecessor in this position, becoming First Sea
Lord. His main concerns in this position included solving the
problems revealed by Jutland, countering the U-boat threat,
maintaining morale in the Royal Navy and prosecuting the
increasingly effective blockade of Germany. For Beatty, the war
ended triumphantly, with his receiving the surrender of the German
fleet. In 1919, he became First Sea Lord and was promoted to
Admiral of the Fleet and he retired in 1927. This volume spans the
period up to the end of the First World War. The first section
covers Beatty's career as a Captain, to set the context for the
bulk of the volume, which focuses on the War itself. The Battle of
Jutland is covered fairly briefly here, with Beatty's immediate
reaction; his later thoughts can be found in Volume II (NRS Volume
132). The documents included have come mainly from Lord Beatty's
personal collection (at the National Maritime Museum), but also
from the Imperial War Museum and the archives of Churchill College,
Cambridge. Official papers from the National Archive and the
British Library are not included. Both the subject, and some
individual documents, overlap with the Navy Record Society
collections, Volume 108: The Jellicoe Papers, Volume I (1966) and
Volume 111: The Jellicoe Papers, Volume II (1968), both edited by A
Temple-Patterson.
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