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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: THE FIRST WORLD WAR Volume 7 “LUXURY” FLEET This page intentionally left blank “LUXURY” FLEET The Imperial German Navy 1888–1918 HOLGER H. HERWIG I1 Routledge I1 Taylor &. Francis Group LONDON AND NEW YORK Firstpublishedin1980 Thiseditionfirstpublishedin2014 byRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,Oxon,OX144RN andbyRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©1980HolgerH.Herwig Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedor utilisedinanyformorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,now knownorhereafterinvented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany informationstorageorretrievalsystem,withoutpermissioninwritingfromthe publishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregistered trademarks,andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintent toinfringe. BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary ISBN:978-0-415-74924-4(Set) eISBN:978-1-315-77961-4(Set) ISBN:978-1-138-01434-3(Volume7) eISBN:978-1-315-78082-5(Volume7) Publisher’sNote Thepublisherhasgonetogreatlengthstoensurethequalityofthisreprintbut pointsoutthatsomeimperfectionsintheoriginalcopiesmaybeapparent. Disclaimer Thepublisherhasmadeeveryefforttotracecopyrightholdersandwould welcomecorrespondencefromthosetheyhavebeenunabletotrace. "Luxury" Fleet: The Imperial German Navy 1888-1918 HOLGER H. HERWIG London GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN Boston Sydney First published in 1980 This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. All rights are reserved. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright Act, 1956, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic. electrical, chemical, mechanical, optical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. Enquiries should be sent to the publishers at the undermentioned address: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD 40 Museum Street, London WCIA ILU ©Holger H. Herwig. 1980 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Herwig, Holger Heinrich 'l..uxury' fleet. 1. Germany - Kriegsmarine - History I. Title 359'.00943 DDI06 ISB~ 0-04-943023-8 Typeset in 11 on 12 point Baskerville by Watford Typesetters Ltd and printed in Great Britain by Unwin Brothers Limited, Old Woking, Surrey In Memory of My Grandfather, Hermann Strauss This page intentionally left blank Contents page ABBREVIATIONS AND CONVERSIONS XIV INTRODUCTION I Part One I Modest Beginnings : 9 The Prussian/German Naval Tradition to I 888 II Kaiser Wilhelm II : 7 I The Years of Hope and Misdirection, x888-18g8 III The "New Course'': 33 Alfred v. Tirpitz, Architect of the Battle Fleet, r8g7-1905 IV The Dreadnought Challenge: 54 The Master Plan Goes Awry, 1905-19I I V "We Have Them Up Against the Wall'': 69 Denouement, 1912-1914 Part Two VI A Place in the Sun : 95 The German Colonial Empire and the Navy, 1884-I9I8 VII "Men Fight, not Ships" : r I I The Personnel of the Imperial German Navy Part Three VIII August rgr4 : 143 The War that Came too Soon IX Jutland I 9 r 6 : q8 Missed Opportunity or Fortunate Escape? X "Museum of Experiments'' : I99 The End of the Battleship Era, 19I4-1918 XI "Between the Thames and Helgoland" : 226 German Naval Policies, I9J7- Igi8 XII The Sun Sets : 249 Scapa Flow, 2 r June 1919 Appendixes 259 Tables 260 Reference Literature 292 Index 301
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