HMS Revenge (Imperial War Museum photograph)
Tuesday 6th June 1916: The adjutant of the 7th Battalion
tells us that Captain E Clegg has returned from leave. He was certainly not
taking things easy as he was a spectator of the Battle of Jutland from on board
HMS Revenge.
Source: X550/8/1
(1) The Battle of Jutland, the largest battle between
battleships ever fought, took place on 31st May and 1st June 1916. Although the
British lost 14 of their 151 ships to the Germans’ 11 (out of 99) with three
battlecruisers being lost the battle could be accounted a British strategic
victory as the High Seas Fleet hardly left port again in large numbers to enter
the North Sea, rendering it useless for the rest of the war. Revenge, a brand
new super-dreadnought, weighing 30,000 tons and carrying eight 15 inch guns as
main armament formed part of 1st Battle Squadron along with Marlborough,
Hercules, Agincourt, Colossus, Collingwood, Saint Vincent and Neptune. Her
captain was E B Kiddle. She assisted in sinking the light cruiser Wiesbaden and
inflicting significant damage on the battlecruiser Derfflinger.
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