A map of the Battle of Jutland, a work of the Department of History, United States Military Academy. And it left the British Navy with the same margin of superiority it enjoyed before the battle. It removed lingering doubts that the Germans had more naval surprises in store. At best, he wrote, the battle was a draw that exposed the inferiority of the German High Seas Fleet. He dictated a public “appreciation” on Jutland that took an optimistic view. The Germans lost only eleven ships and 2500 sailors, but Churchill knew war was not a cricket match: That was not how you kept score. True, fourteen British ships sank and 6000 sailors perished.
The press had inaccurately reported the North Sea encounter between the British and the German Fleets as a defeat. Just two weeks earlier, he had been highly critical of Balfour for discontinuing Churchill’s successful bombing of German zeppelin sheds. Advisers to Arthur Balfour, his successor as First Lord, wanted his views-for public release-on the Battle of Jutland. Winston Churchill was surprised by an invitation to the Admiralty. The sketch was a highly effective portrait of an inconclusive battle. German salvos (shown too close together) are falling short of the four-stack cruiser (also not accurately portrayed). Preliminary study for a finished watercolor. Above: HMS Southampton at Jutland,, by William Lionel Wylie (1851-1931).
The Lord Alfred story begins with the Battle of Jutland.
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