ANNAPOLIS NAVAL ACADEMY MIDDIES WATCHING 20,000 CUBIC FEET OF WATER A SECOND BEING DISCHARGED FROM HUGE SPILLWAY IN NAVAL INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS Vol. 45, No. 11 NOVEMBER, 1919 Whole No. 201 A DESCRIPTION OF THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND By LIEUT. COMMANDER HOLLOWAY H. FROST, U. S. Navy Motto: "Indoctrination makes effective co-ordination possible. -CAPTAIN C. T. VOGELGESANG, U. S. Navy. 1. INTRODUCTION Numerous accounts of the Battle of Jutland have been published from British sources. Admiral Jellicoe's book, "The Grand Fleet, 1914-1916," presents a detailed description of the battle from the viewpoint of the commander-in-chief of the British forces engaged and gives the reasons for the various moves made by the British throughout the action. This volume also contains the complete official report of the battle which was published in deleted form soon after it was fought. While Admiral Jellicoe's description of the night action is the most complete thus far published, further information on this interesting phase of the battle is very desirable. A special effort has been made in this paper to reconstruct the details of this action from the incomplete information available. The German official accounts of the battle have been contradictory, unreliable and generally unsatisfactory. This was doubtless due partly to the difficulty of determining what actually took place in a battle fought in misty weather and partly to misstatements made for propaganda purposes. The unofficial accounts of the battle are merely enlargements of the official accounts. Only a few details can be gained from the German accounts and consequently the movements of the German forces during the day, not to speak of the night, are very uncertain at some stages. 'It will be noted that numerous sketches have been used. All' the information available has been incorporated in them and every effort has been made to make them as accurate as possible. It must be realized, however, that their purpose is to give a general |