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    The Royal Navy Officer’s Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916
    The Royal Navy Officer’s Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916
    The Royal Navy Officer’s Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916
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    The Royal Navy Officer’s Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916

    By W.M. James and Brian Lavery

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    Published in the months leading up to the Battle of Jutland, W.M. James’ New Battleship Organisations, was the ultimate guide to command and organization of every aspect of a modern First World War capital ship. The book provides a unique, and highly revealing, insight into life aboard ship, the mechanics of command, seamanship, the issuing of orders, and the broad expectations placed upon British naval officers. Specific sections are dedicated to the organization of watches, the division of work (from fellow officers right through the ship’s company to the ratings), naval routine, parades, anchor and cable work, coaling and right down to the organization of chapel, on-board shops, cleaning and even the ship’s barbers. A series of detailed tables, diagrams and humorous cartons accompany the lucid, period language of the First World War Senior Service and provide a further glimpse below-decks that will appeal to social and family historians, and anyone with a general or specialist interest in naval history.

    The book, re-published here by the Pool of London Press as The Royal Navy Officer’s Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916, marks the centenary of the First World War’s most famous, and deadly naval encounter.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCasemate
    Release dateApr 30, 2016
    ISBN9781910860243
    The Royal Navy Officer’s Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916
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    W.M. James

    In 1916 William James served as Executive Officer on board the ill-fated battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary and left the ship the day before she sailed to her destruction at the Battle of Jutland (31 May-June 1 1916). James went on to become one of the major figures in the twentieth century Royal Navy, famed for his work in naval intelligence and rising to the rank of full Admiral in 1938 before retiring to pen a series of acclaimed works of naval history and strategy.

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      The Royal Navy Officer’s Jutland Pocket-Manual 1916 - W.M. James

      CHAPTER I

      ORGANISING A SHIP’S COMPANY BY NIGHT ATTACK WATCHES

      This has come to be known as the ‘three-watch’ system, which is a misnomer; three watches happens to be the number of watches into which it is possible in many big ships to divide the ship’s company for night attack stations.

      Some ships can organise an efficient four-watch system and some have only sufficient men for a two-watch system. In the two latter cases no departure is necessary from old-established customs, but many new features arise in the case of a three-watch system, which is the subject of these notes.

      If the ship’s company are organised into their night attack watches, no change takes place on the declaration of hostilities, commencement of manœuvres, or for the periods of practice firings, and the men are, for all purposes, under the same petty officers and leading seamen and associated with the same topmates.

      Naming the Watches.—Difficulty arises in finding suitable titles for these watches. Denominating two watches, starboard and port, had some significance in the days of masts and yards, as each watch worked their own side of the deck when both watches were on deck, but even these names have little connection with the work of a modern ship, except for working the net defence.

      There are no suitable nautical terms for denominating three watches, and some simple names that will not clash with other names already in use must be found.

      A, B, C lead to confusion with water-tight doors and sea (C) watches. First, second, and third, which have been used for many years in the engine-room department to denominate the three steaming watches, are not satisfactory for general use; such a pipe as ‘The second part of the third watch will keep the first watch’ would be confusing. Practical, though to many people unpleasant sounding, are three watches known as Red watch, White watch, and Blue watch.

      These are distinctive, and become, in a very short time, as natural to everyone on board as port and starboard.

      Making out the Watch Bill.—The seamen are divided into three night attack watches.

      The marine detachment is divided into three night attack watches.

      The engine-room complement is divided into three steaming watches.

      The daymen are divided into three watches of equal strength as regards numbers and qualifications.

      The following are kept in separate lists and are not detailed by watches:

      Chief petty officers (seamen).

      Quartermasters and boatswains’ mates.

      Captain’s coxswain.

      Excused daymen.

      Signalmen.

      Notes re Men on Separate Lists.—1. There is no point in detailing chief petty officers for a watch; they do not work with a watch for ship’s work or leave, and, as a rule, are not in a night attack watch.

      If a chief petty officer is in a night attack watch, it might seem desirable to put his name in somewhere in that watch, but the watches are necessarily divided into parts of the ship, and he has no connection with a particular part of the

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