Sea Warfare was a compilation of a series of thirteen newspaper articles. Six were published between November 20 and December 2, 1915 in the Daily Telegraph (“The Fringes of the Fleet”): three more appeared between June 21 and June 28, 1916 in The Times (“Tales of the Trade”): and four between October 19 and October 31, 1916 in the Daily Telegraph (“Destroyers at Jutland”).These pieces were written as journalism, in response to a request by the Admiralty, as the British public realised that World War I certainly was not going to be ‘over by Christmas’, and wanted to know what the Navy, the ‘silent service’, on which so much money had been spent in the decade before the war, was doing.

Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1916.

The Fringes of the Fleet --Tales of "The Trade" -- Destroyers at Jutland.