Falklands, Jutland and the Bight

= Falklands, Jutland and the Bight by Edward Barry Stewart Bingham, Barry Bingham = https://archive.org/details/falklandsjutlan00binggoog/

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Things seemed as peaceful as could be on the afternoon of Tuesday, May 30th, when Maurice Bethell and I went ashore for a round of golf, at Bruntsfield near Edinburgh. After a thoroughly enjoyable game over this course, whose delightful inland surroundings reflected all the charm of early summer, we adjourned for tea to " Rospletha 93—the little house I had rented on the side of the links—and then found our way down to Queensferry Pier at the regulation hour of 6 p.m., in order to catch the routine boat. While we stood waiting on the pier amid a throng of fellow-officers, all eyes were suddenly drawn in the direction of the Lion, from whose masthead there floated a string of flags with this message to all ships—"Raise steam for 22 knots and bank fires at half an hour's notice." Next, observing the significance of the fact that this signal was being made to the seaplanecarrier ships, we not unnaturally concluded