Memories

About this eBook

Author

Fisher, John Arbuthnot Fisher, Baron, 1841-1920

Title

Memories, by Admiral of the Fleet, Lord Fisher

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Hodder and Stoughton,1919.

Credits

Brian Coe, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe

Subject

Fisher, John Arbuthnot Fisher, Baron, 1841-1920

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 68034

Release Date

May 9, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MEMORIES
2. 2.Preamble
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.MEMORIES — CHAPTER I KING EDWARD VII — Postscript. — Lord Esher to Lord Fisher — Letter from Lord Redesdale — Extract from a Letter from Sir John Fisher to King Edward — Germany has been paralysed by the “Dreadnought.” — Nelson’s Copenhagen — Queen Alexandra , Lord Knollys , and Sir Dighton Probyn .
7. 7.CHAPTER II “THE MOON SWAYS OCEANS AND PROVOKES THE HOUND.”
8. 8.CHAPTER III ADMIRAL VON POHL AND ADMIRAL VON TIRPITZ — From Lord Fisher to a Friend — Lord Fisher to a Privy Councillor — From a Privy Councillor to Lord Fisher
9. 9.CHAPTER IV ECONOMY IS VICTORY
10. 10.CHAPTER V THE DARDANELLES — Lord Fisher to Colonel Sir Maurice Hankey — Lord Fisher to the Right Hon. Winston Churchill. — Lord Fisher’s Notes of his own Special Interventions at War Council Meetings — 3rd Meeting of the War Council, November 25th, 1914. — 4th Meeting of War Council, December 1st, 1914. — 7th Meeting of War Council, January 8th, 1915. — 8th Meeting of War Council, January 13th, 1915. — 9th Meeting of War Council, January 28th, 1915, 11.30 a.m. — The Dardanelles. — 10th Meeting of War Council (same day), January 28th, 1915, at 6.30 p.m. — 11th Meeting of War Council, February 9th, 1915. — 12th Meeting of War Council, February 16th, 1915. — 13th Meeting of War Council, February 19th, 1915. — 14th Meeting of War Council, February 24th, 1915. — 15th Meeting of War Council, February 26th, 1915. — 16th Meeting of War Council, March 3rd, 1915. — 17th Meeting of War Council, March 10th, 1915. — 18th Meeting of War Council, March 19th, 1915. — 19th Meeting of War Council, May 14th, 1915. — An Episode of the War. — Statement of new Shipbuilding Inaugurated by Lord Fisher. — Tuesday, November 3rd, 1914. — Building Programme.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI ABDUL HAMID AND THE POPE
12. 12.CHAPTER VII A JEU D’ESPRIT BOWS AND ARROWS—SNAILS AND TORTOISES—FACILE DUPES AND SERVILE COPYISTS
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII NAVAL WAR STAFF AND ADMIRALTY CLERKS
14. 14.CHAPTER IX RECAPITULATION OF DEEDS AND IDEAS — “Seekest Thou Great Things for Thyself? Seek them not!” (The Prophet Jeremiah.) — Aircraft. — The Submarine Mine
15. 15.CHAPTER X APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA — The “Warrior” — How I became Captain of the “Inflexible”
16. 16.CHAPTER XI NELSON
17. 17.CHAPTER XII LETTERS TO LORD ESHER — 1903 [ Sir John Fisher, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth ]. — [“ The Army and Navy Co-operative Society. ”
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII AMERICANS — Lord Fisher on John Bright — Sir Hiram Maxim
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV SOME SPECIAL MISSIONS — Reval — Cartagena — Kiamil Pasha
20. 20.CHAPTER XV SOME PERSONALITIES — Letter from Sir Nathaniel Barnaby, K.C.B. (formerly Chief Constructor of the Navy) to Lord Fisher. — From Lord Fisher to Sir N. Barnaby in 1883. — History of Provision of 24 Light-draught Gunboats for Mesopotamia.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI THINGS THAT PLEASE ME
22. 22.EPILOGUE MOUNT PISGAH
23. 23.FOOTNOTES
24. 24.Index
25. 25.Transcriber’s Notes

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