Dreadnought, Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert K. Massie

Author:Robert K. Massie [Massie, Robert K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Non Fiction, History, Military
ISBN: 9780712653688
Publisher: London : Jonathan Cape, 1992.
Published: 1993-01-07T00:00:00+00:00

Fisher's actual departure was done in bravura style. At noon, when a gun was fired, Renown slipped her mooring and steamed out of the Grand Harbor at sixteen knots "like a torpedo boat with the largest Admiral's flag that has ever been flown." As she passed beneath the ramparts, her own guns thundering out a salute to the Governor, Fisher caught sight of companies of soldiers running to line the ramparts in his honor. "As usual, they were all half an hour late," he noted, "and we saw them all doubling up just as we were leaving the harbor. One does not wonder at South Africa when one sees every day the utter ineptitude of Military Officers." Fisher's daughter Beatrix watched her father go: "As we passed the ships they cheered over and over again, drowning the bands and [gun] salutes, 'Auld Lang Syne,' etc.-the soldiers on shore cheering too. You never saw anything so lovely as the Renown as she fired the parting salute to the Governor with the sun shining on the smoke… They say over a thousand copies of Father's photo were bought by bluejackets last week…"

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