Battle of Jutland

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War At Sea

• Battle of Jutland
• January 1916

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The Two Naval Powers

• The British Grand Fleet
• The German High Seas Fleet gets a new commander
  (Admiral Scheer)
• No major sea battles before 1916.

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German Plan

• Scheers plan was to send a small number of ships
  into the North Sea to act as bait.
• The rest of the German navy would follow 80 km
  behind. (Trap)

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Insider info.

• The German Plan was going to fail before it
  started.
• The British had the German radio code book.
  (1914)
• The British picked up the radio code and was onto
  the German plan.

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British Are Ready

• Admiral Beatty took a small group of boats out to
  meet (German admiral) Hipper.
• Hipper (German) sank 2 British boats, then
  followed the rest of the ships.
• The rest of the Grand Fleet was headed straight
  at him.

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The Battle at Sea
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May 31st 1916

• The two great Fleets ran into each other off the
  coast of Jutland.
• A massive battle took place, explosive shells
  ripped thick amour plating as if it was tin.
• That night the German Fleet turned for home and
  so did the British.

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Who Won????

• The British lost 6077 men, 14 ships.
• The Germans lost 2551 men, 11 ships.
• Germans Fled 1st and stayed home for the rest of
  the war.

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War Under the Sea

• German Submarines called U-Boats started a battle
  with Allied ships.
• The Germans announced the seas around England was
  a war zone in which they would sink ANY boat
  without warning.

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Famous Sinking

• May 7th 1915 the British liner Lusitania. The
  liner was sailing from New York to Liverpool.
• The Germans gave public warning that the liner
  would be sunk as it was carrying arms to Britain.

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Lusitania
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U-Boat 20

• 13 km off the coast of Ireland U-Boat 20 finds
  the Lusitania through a periscope.
• 2 torpedoes later the Lusitania was sunk, along
  with 1100 people.

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Newspaper Article
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U-Boats

• By the end of 1916 U-Boats had sunk 2.4 million
  tones of merchant shipping.
• The British did everything they could to stop the
  U-Boats.
• They used mines, anchored to the sea-bed so they
  would float under the waves.
• The Germans tried to clear the mine fields with
  minesweepers.
• A stalemate at sea is developing.