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Navy News Issue	Month / Year	Page	Index
174	December 1968	3	Navy News

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At Jutland neither the Ger- mans nor the British had air- craft apart from the unreliable zeppelins and the few "sticks and string aircraft" in H.M.S. Engadine. When Admiral Beatty ordered Engadine to send up one of her Short seaplanes to search for the enemy ships. it took the ship 21 minutes before Flt.-Lieut. F.J. Rutland and his observer, Asst. Paymr. G. S. Trewin were airborne. and half an hour be- fore they sighted the enemy. FIRST TIME This was the first occasion that a heavier-than-air machine was used in a fleet action. The seaplane sighted the enemy and the enemy report reached the Engadine, but that ship was unable to relay it to the Lion, Beatty's flagship. Thus the good work was wasted. No more of Engadine's planes were used during the battle be- cause the swell prevented the machines taking off. Later in the action the Enga- dine was holed in several places.		.

Navy News Issue	Month / Year	Page	Index
174	December 1968	18	Navy News

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