LAND AND WATER 
January 30, 1915. 
Seeing Uiat the Carnarvon, Kent and Glatgoio couldn't 
keep up we went on 24 knots, and at five minutes to one we 
opened fire on the gtcrninost light cruiser. Tlie Scharnhorit 
men, seeing that to run away was hopeless, turned and en- 
gaged us, and the three light cruisers (enemies) made away 
pursued by the Etnt, CornuaU and Glasgow. 
It was then like this: — 
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When we started opening fire I saw no more as I bad to 
go down into the turret, but this is roughly what happened. 
The German ships' largest guns were 8.2in., while we had 
12in., and it wag therefore up to us to keep o«t of their 
penetrative range and torpedo range, and sink them with 
gun fire. We found soon that we were on slightly diverging 
courses; the Germans seeing this turned to starboard in the 
hope of getting away, but we also altered starboard and came 
up with them firing the whole time, viz. : — 
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by British. 
broke down, but we soon got them into action again. It 
was rather awful, E.nd I was in a bit of a funk as I couldn't 
see what was happening, and you quite distinctly heard the 
screech of their shells, and one quite early made the whole 
xock by hitting somewhere near. They let us know when 
they could about how the action was going. Of course, I never 
saw the Scharnhonl sunk, but aft«r the " cease fire " had gone 
I looked through the telescope and saw the Unetsenau heel 
over and dive. 
Now came the awful part. The Inflexible, Carnarvon, 
and ourselves hurried up to where she had disappeared, shown 
by slightly discoloured water, and on coming up close saw 
a good amount of wreckage with men clinging to it. Never 
shall I forget it — they were mostly calling out, and it sounded 
like a wail to us. We all lowered boats as quickly as 
possible, and picked up as many as possible, but heaps must 
have sunk as the water was 40 degs., and they were all numb. 
It was awful being on the ship, because when ajl the boats 
were away Aey kept floating past, some swimming, some un- 
conscious just beneath the wat«r. We lowered people down 
on bow lines, and hauled them up the ship's side — some of 
them were quite dead when they came in. Altogether this 
ship saved about 115, of which 14 were dead. The Inflexible 
saved about 70, and the Carnarvon a few. As regards the 
enemy's light cruisers, the Cornwall and Glasgow sunk the 
Leipzig, and the Kent the Nurnberg. The Dresden, we sup- 
pose, got away. 
As regards our damage, eighteen, shells hit us, doing 
various damage. Of these I will name one or two of the 
most important:— (1) Entered wardroom, burst, went through 
deck beneath, absolutely wrecked wardroom, nothing left 
•whole except steel walls, which were riddled with splinters. 
(2) Entered through upper deck and burst between wardroom 
pantry and my cabin, wrecked pantry, large splinters entered 
my cabin, wrecked bunk, set fire to bedclothes, and wrecked 
drawers under bunk, made splinter holes in walls (the hose 
was then turned on my cabin, wetting most of my clothes which 
weren't burnt or riddled). (3) Entered starboard side, went 
through two decks and entered Admiral's pantry without 
bursting. It is certainly miraculous that we had no casual- 
ties, except the Commander slightly wounded. The Inflexible, 
which was only hit three times, had one killed and three 
wounded, the Kent about seven killed and six wounded, and 
I don't know about the others. 
I daresay you have noticed that I haven't mentioned 
ftbout the Bristol. She luckily couldn't raise steam in time, and 
80 came out later with the Macedonia, and was able to capture 
or sink the enemy's merchantmen and colliers. I told you 
that we had 101 saved on board. Seven of these are officers, 
and the funny part is that I know two of them, and have met 
them several times when I dined on the Gneisenau in China 
(the Scharnliorst and Gneisenau were in China when I was 
there). However, the fellow I liked best, who was in the 
Gneisenau, I am afraid was drowned. 
The weather during the action was quite calm. 
We then found the smoke was getting in our way, so we 
altered, viz. : — 
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SyEnemy 
At Devonshire Park, Eastbourne, on Februarj' 8, at 3.30, 
Mr. Hilaire Belloc vrill give an illustrated lecture entitled 
" The Progress of the War." 
At Devonshire Park, EastlDourne, on February 4, at 3.30, 
Mr. F. T. Jane will give an illustrated lecture on " What the 
Navy is ReaUy Doing in this War." 
Mb. Hilaire Belloc will lecture on " Strategy, Numbers and 
Material," at Queen's Hall on the afternoon of Tuesday, 9th February, 
His uext evening lecture there is on Wednesday, February 17th. 
And got the other side of the enemy. Shortly after this the 
Stharnhortl B'uiik (3.55 p.m., after we had been in action two 
hours). We were then concentrating on the Gneisenau, the 
Scharnhorst having slowly listed to port and then turned 
bottom up, and the propellers were seen still going round. 
The Gneisenau fought on very gallantly, when at G.12 p.m. she 
listed to port and slowly dived down. 
Now to go back to what I did — tho whole of the time I 
Was superintending the loading in the turret. Several things 
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