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In the UK and Germany there are many commemorative ceremonies taking place.
The "Jutland Centenary Initiative" website has a lot of interesting info to peruse. Including a nice animation of the battle, narrated by Nick Jellicoe, grandson of the admiral in command of the grand fleet at Jutland.
The KING has been graciously pleased to approve the grant of the Victoria Cross to Boy, First Class, John Travers Cornwell, O.N.J.42563 (died 2 June 1916), for the conspicuous act of bravery specified below.
Mortally wounded early in the action, Boy, First Class, Jack Travers Cornwell remained standing alone at a most exposed post, quietly awaiting orders, until the end of the action, with the gun's crew dead and wounded all round him. His age was under sixteen and a half
years
After the action, ship medics arrived on deck to find Cornwell the sole survivor at his gun, shards of steel penetrating his chest, looking at the gun sights and still waiting for orders. Being incapable of further action, Chester was ordered to the port of Immingham. There Cornwell was transferred to Grimsby General Hospital, although he was clearly dying. He died on the morning of 2 June 1916 before his mother could arrive at the hospital
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And here we are 100 years later with no battleships to even pretend to use ceremonially to mark the 100th Aniversary of the Battle of the Jutland, isn't that just so cool.
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And here we are 100 years later with no battleships to even pretend to use ceremonially to mark the 100th Aniversary of the Battle of the Jutland, isn't that just so cool.
The USS Texas is the only surviving Dreadnought, it's bethed at San Jacinto State Park in Texas.
You know, Jutland was a monument to poor decision making on the part of Wilhelm II. For no good strategic reason, Germany embarked on a massive ship building program, essentially because Wilhelm wanted a navy.
However, all this served to do was drive the British into aligning with their long-time historical enemies the French, as well as their adversaries the Russians. For the British, being an island navy, having a large modern navy on their doorstep was intolerable. As Churchill famously remarked, only Jellicoe was capable of losing the war in an afternoon. The destruction of the Home Fleet would have forced capitulation on a county that required a steady flow of goods from overseas.
So if Wilhelm had not started building dreadnoughts, it's highly likely that a British alliance with France and Russia would have never happened in the first place. And to what end?
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You know, Jutland was a monument to poor decision making on the part of Wilhelm II. For no good strategic reason, Germany embarked on a massive ship building program, essentially because Wilhelm wanted a navy.
However, all this served to do was drive the British into aligning with their long-time historical enemies the French, as well as their adversaries the Russians. For the British, being an island navy, having a large modern navy on their doorstep was intolerable. As Churchill famously remarked, only Jellicoe was capable of losing the war in an afternoon. The destruction of the Home Fleet would have forced capitulation on a county that required a steady flow of goods from overseas.
So if Wilhelm had not started building dreadnoughts, it's highly likely that a British alliance with France and Russia would have never happened in the first place. And to what end?
There was a lot more too it in terms if Wilhelm II.
Wilhelm blamed his withered arm and the death of his father on British Doctors. He spent a good deal of his childhood with his Grandmother Queen Victoria and she even died in his arms.
Wilhelm used to watch the British Naval Fleet from Queen Victoria's summer home Osborne House on the Isle of Wight which overlooked the solent and Portsmouth Naval Base and Wilhelm wanted Germany to have such a mighty fleet. He was also later made an Admiral in the British Royal Navy.
Wilhelm also had an unnatural obsession with his British Mother Victoria, Princess Royal and this also supposedly fuelled his hatred of Britain. In the end Wilhelm ended up declaring war on his cousins.
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