Ernie's War. My grandfather, Ernest Maggs, was a marine on board HMS Canada during the Battle of Jutland. He left a brief account of his experiences, and these form the basis of an article that appears in the September 2018 Genealogists' Magazine. Click on the link below to read the article, © Peter Maggs and the Society of Genealogists.
What I neglected to say in the article, was that the reason the Dreadnoughts and super-Dreadnoughts were so fast, was that they had new steam turbine power rather than reciprocating engines. Charles Parsons had developed the steam turbine in the 1880s, and he sent Turbinia, an experimental turbine powered launch, to the 1897 Spithead Review, where it steamed up and down the line of ships too fast for anything to catch it.
What I neglected to say in the article, was that the reason the Dreadnoughts and super-Dreadnoughts were so fast, was that they had new steam turbine power rather than reciprocating engines. Charles Parsons had developed the steam turbine in the 1880s, and he sent Turbinia, an experimental turbine powered launch, to the 1897 Spithead Review, where it steamed up and down the line of ships too fast for anything to catch it.
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