A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard
Capitolo 63
nobody was freed by the Germans. There was not really a parallel in
British naval history for such defeat.
Measures of suggestion were takings to recover him/it. God Pescatore had succeeded
Prince Luigi of Battenberg to the admiralty 30 October and one of
its first actions were to send 5 November a squadron under Admiral
Sturdee, understanding the invincible and Inflexible one and four lighter
cruisers, the Carnarvon, Kent, Cornwall and Bristol; the Glasgow was
it picked up in the Southern Atlantic, while the Canopus was to Porto Stanley
in the Falklands. The invincible and Inflexible one was the two before
battle-cruisers built; each had a tonnage of 17,250 a speed of 27-28,
knots and the guns of eight 12-thumb to which could be shot as a broadside
as amended or left; and there would be small opportunity for Von Spee if him
met such weight of metal. Sturdee reached Porto Stanley 7
December. Von Spee that you/he/she had been refitting to Juan Fernandez he/she left him/it
15 November, possibly fearing the Japanese approach, and it did for
Head Horn and the Atlantic. Its plan was to bite on the Canopus and
the Glasgow, finds what he was able out of the Falklands, and then proceeds
to sustain the rebellion in Southern Africa. Soon 8 December him
unsuspectinglies drew near to Porto Stanley, while not discovering the presence
of the squadron of Sturdee until it was late. He made then street
north-eastwards with the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau, while his
agile cruisers turned south-eastwards. The first ones were sunk in the
afternoon from the British of the two battle - cruisers and the Carnarvons, while
the seconds succumbed in the evening to the Kent, Glasgow and
Cornwall; only the Dresden escaped, to be sunk in five minutes 14
March 1915 in Juan Fernandez of the Kent and the Glasgow. The
Invincible it didn't have accidents, the Inflexible men killed; the Kent
if four had killed and twelve wounded and the Glasgow nine and four.
Approximately two hundred Germans were saved by to drown, but they didn't do
includes Von Spee.
Man was the effects on the human life of a disparity of weight of