16 Dec 1914 bombardment
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>Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 16:10:04 -0700
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>Donald Macintyre’s *Jutland* describes the actions of the day. Hipper was
>out with his battlecruisers, bombarding the British coast. Ingenohl with
>the High Seas Fleet was far to seawards, in position to fight any British
>force that might attempt to intercept and chase Hipper. The British had
>Beatty with four battle cruisers and light cruiser screen, moving
>southwards from Cromarty, to meet Adm. Warrender (base not stated, but
>presumably Scapa Flow, but if so, how had they got there so soon?) who had
>6 battleships of the KGV class, and Tyrwhitt’s Harwich force of light
>cruisers and destroyers. At daybreak, Beatty’s and Ingenohl’s destroyers
>and light cruisers made contact. Ingenohl, fearful of his emperor’s
>explicit instructions not to fight the whole British fleet and not knowing
>that only a part of that fleet opposed him, turned around, leaving Hipper
>to his fate. Hipper had few outlets through the coastal minefields, and
>Jellico ordered these to be closed by the forces at sea. Beatty’s screen
>met Hipper’s screen at an outlet, but Hipper, warned by radio, turned north
>in the mist and evaded Beatty.
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>John Forester
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