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David Beatty Beatty - LoveToKnow 1911 (1314 words) |
 | He was not, as so many naval officers are, predestined to his profession by family asso ciation or tradition, which in his case took its tone chiefly from the army and the hunting-field; his father was a wellknown figure in the Leicestershire world of the 'eighties and 'nineties. |
| Beatty, acting not so much on information as on his intuitive sense of the position, turned back through a submarine-infested area and arrived just in time to save them and sink every German ship in the immediate neighbourhood. |
| Beatty's signals to " keep nearer to the enemy " were either missed or misunderstood by the ships immediately following him, with the result that touch with the German battle cruisers was lost, and what was on the point of becoming a complete victory was left merely as an indecisive castigation of the enemy. |
| David Beatty (384 words) |
| Admiral Beatty himself was not a native of the county. |
| Beatty joined the Royal Navy in 1884, and partook in several conflicts of the era, including the Sudan (1896 1898). |
| Earl Beatty did prove his competence as a naval commander at battles, partaking in such battles as Heligoland Blight, and Dogger Bank. |
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