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Officers and Men Killed in Action or Died of Wounds, H.M.S. Southampton, Battle of Jutland, 31st May -1st June 1916.
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Extract from the Official History; " Naval Operations" by Sir Julian S. Corbett. 1923 ...........Captains C. B. Miller and A. A. M. Duff of the Nottingham and Birmingham had judiciously kept their searchlights quiet, and the enemy, unable to see them, left them alone to develop a rapid and destructive fire. At the first glimpse of the Germans, moreover, the Southampton had got a torpedo tube ready, and while her deck, bridges and superstructure were being swept in the storm of shell, it was fired. A bright explosion was seen in the enemy's line, and then suddenly they switched off their searchlights and vanished into the gloom. In a quarter of an hour it was all over. The Southampton had had all her midship guns' crews and most of her searchlight parties wiped out, she was blazing like a beacon with cordite fires, expecting every moment to blow up, and her casualties were thirty-five killed and forty-one wounded........ |
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