So, on the day before the declaration of War in August 1011 he was appointed to command the Grand Fleet at the age of 55. To hhis work in that capacity tribute was recently paid by generous German officers when ships of the Royal Navy, visited Kiel in 1932: "Jellicoe made no mistake" they simply said. Indeed Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet, Jellicoe broke the heart of the German High Seas Fleet, in the Battle of Jutland, when the German ships ran away and escaped into their harbours during the night. They never came out again unfit the fini! surrender of 1918. In November 1916 Jellicoe agreed to go to the Admiralty as First Sea Lord to deal This was the greatest of all the achievements and events of the wat the most decisive for the victors, the most ruinous for the conquered, for they were utterly, defeated and swept from the sea, and out of their great host few relumed home.
'The life of a Flanders submarine was estimated at from' five six. cruises. By' the end of 1917 the Admiralty felt that the submarine had shot its bolt.
Submarine Perit In 1994 and his 75th year Lord Jellicoe produced another book entitled "The Submarine Peril" which gives a brief account of his tremendous achievement. At the end of 1917 he disagreed with Mr. Lloyd (George, then Prime Minister, "and was superseded at the Admiralty He had announced that as the result the antisubmarine Measures is ken Ghder "his "direction it was. lis pinion that the German "menace Would" cease by "August Toisse Temurkabiy accurate "forecast for tras" that month that the. Breaks Ing. "of sine Hindenburg "Line Bor the Fourth Army sein ain the events which fed "othe Jellicoe had been responsible for the fnitedetion ofthe onvey"tystem whereby. the safety. of shiga at sea Was efecively secured. His" book Thowed how men wih no knowledge Othe sea, voted for or against Dat System snd then thos of teem who by chance had proved right endeavoured to take credit for their
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