a circle.
Through the whole of this time she was under heavy fire, and is
reported to have been struck more than one hundred times by heavy
shells, in spite of which she later returned to her position in column
and continued the fight. In the course of her erratic maneuvers, while
not under control, she circled around the _Warrior_ and received so
much of the fire intended for that ship as to justify the belief that
her accident saved the _Warrior_ from immediate destruction and made
it possible, later, to rescue her crew before she finally sank, as she
did during the night following the battle. It was for a time believed
that the _Warspite_ had deliberately intervened to save the _Warrior_,
and there was much talk of the "chivalry" of the _Warspite's_
commander in thus risking his own ship to save another--this from
those who overlooked the fact that the duty of the _Warspite_, as one
of the most valuable fighting units of the fleet, was to keep place in
line as long as possible, and to carry out the general battle plan;
which, of course, is exactly what the _Warspite_ did to the best of
her ability.

It is an interesting fact that of the small number of capital ships
lost or disabled, four were flagships. Two rear admirals, Hood and
Arbuthnot, went down with their ships. Two vice admirals, Von Hipper
and Burney, shifted their flags in the thickest of the fight, Von
Hipper from the _Luetzow_ to the _Moltke_, Burney from the
_Marlborough_ to the _Revenge_.

A large part of Admiral Jellicoe's official report deals with the work
of the light cruisers and destroyers, which, while necessarily
restricted to a secondary role, contributed in many ways to the
operations of the main fighting forces, securing and transmitting
information, attacking at critical times, and repelling attacks from
the corresponding craft of the enemy. All of these tasks took on a
special importance as the afternoon advanced, because of the
decreasing visibility due to fog and darkness. The light cruisers were
constantly employed in keeping touch with the enemy, whose capital
ships they approached at times to within two or three thousand yards.
And the destroyers of both fleets were repeatedly sent at full speed
through banks of fog within which the enemy battleships were known to
be concealed. It is rather remarkable that so few of either type were
lost, and still more remarkable, so far as the destroyers are
concerned, that so few of the large sh