With the Battle Cruisers

With the Battle Cruisers

<b>Serving with the battle cruisers, Filson Young was placed at the tip of the spear as the war in the North Sea unfolded over the course of 1914-15.</b><br /><br />In the years before the First World War, Filson Young had become friends with several notable Royal Navy leaders, including Lord Fisher and Admiral Beatty.<br /><br />Following the outbreak of hostilities in 1914, Young began to miss his friends and resolved to join them and share in their experiences.<br /><br />Even though volunteer officers were ridiculed, Young wrote to his friends and managed to engineer a Lieutenant’s gazette in the R.N.V.R. <br /><br />Buoyed by the success of the Scarborough raid, Admiral Hipper of the Imperial German Navy sought a repeat of the exercise, this time against the fishing fleet on the Dogger Bank.<br /><br />Young was there to witness it.<br /><br />First published in 1921, <em>With the Battle Cruisers</em> is a very personal, focused study of naval life during wartime as it unfolded for Young. <br /><br /><b>Filson Young</b> (1876-1938) was an Irish writer, journalist, war correspondent and essayist. He was noted for publishing a book about the sinking of the Titanic little over a month after the tragedy in 1912. Between November 1914 and May 1915 he served as a Lieutenant R.N.V.R.; <em>With the Battle Cruisers</em> was one of two books he wrote about his naval service.<br />