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Admirals of the British Navy Portraits in Colours with Introductory and Biographical Notes
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Title: Admirals of the British Navy
Portraits in Colours with Introductory and Biographical Notes
Author: Francis Dodd
Release Date: November 18, 2012 [eBook #41399]
Language: English
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Admirals
OF THE
British Navy
FRANCIS DODD
With Introduction and Biographical Notes
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MCMXVII
CONTENTS
| INTRODUCTION | |
| I.— | JELLICOE, ADMIRAL SIR JOHN R., G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O. |
| II.— | BURNEY, ADMIRAL SIR CECIL, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.S.O. |
| III.— | MADDEN, ADMIRAL SIR C. E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.V.O. |
| IV.— | PHILLIMORE, REAR-ADMIRAL R. F., C.B., M.V.O. |
| V.— | BACON, VICE-ADMIRAL SIR R. H. S., K.C.B., K.C.V.O., D.S.O. |
| VI.— | DE ROBECK, VICE-ADMIRAL SIR J. M., K.C.B. |
| VII.— | NAPIER, VICE-ADMIRAL T. D. W., C.B., M.V.O. |
| VIII.— | BROCK, REAR-ADMIRAL SIR OSMOND de B., K.C.V.O., C.B., C.M.G. |
| IX.— | HALSEY, REAR-ADMIRAL LIONEL, C.B., C.M.G. |
| X.— | PAKENHAM, VICE-ADMIRAL SIR W. C., K.C.B., K.C.V.O. |
| XI.— | PAINE, COMMODORE GODFREY M., C.B., M.V.O. |
| XII.— | TYRWHITT, COMMODORE SIR R. Y., K.C.B., D.S.O. |
INTRODUCTION
IF the English are singularly incurious about their Navy, that attitude must not be thought to imply neglect. On the contrary, it is a blend of admiration, respect, and, above all, confidence, induced very largely by the Navy itself. For so long has the Navy minded its own silent business that we—otherwise so inquisitive a people—have come to look upon it as beyond examination and (normally too eager to cut open the drum and explore its resources) trustfully to leave it to its own devices, conscious that those devices are wholly in our own interests. As Matthew Arnold said in his sonnet to Shakespeare:
Others abide our question, thou art free—
so do we address the Navy. For, although it baffles curiosity and ends by eliminating it, it is only to substitute faith. We do not take for granted all the things that we cannot understand: sometimes, indeed, we deny them; but we are satisfied to take for granted the Navy. We know that it is there. Where "there" is we may have no notion; by "there" we mean probably everywhere. The Navy is not only there, the Navy is everywhere, and therefore all's well. That is our simple creed.
A further cause for this quiet and unusual acceptivity is to be found in the medium in which the Navy works—the sea itself. The sea has ever been a barrier to investigation, and the Navy and the sea are one. Public opinion is land-made, and landsmen have neither time nor inclination to cope with the riddles of the ocean, which to most of us is vague and inimical, the home of risks and discomforts which it is wiser to avoid. Well content to consider her, from a safe distance, as a Sphinx, we are very happy that to others has fallen the perilous lot of patrolling her and very full of gratitude for