item: #1 of 5 id: 11352 author: Bernhardi, Friedrich von title: Germany and the Next War date: None words: 100773 flesch: 55 summary: So long as the Dutch steeled their strength by unremitting conflict with the sea, so long as they fought for religious liberty against the Spanish supremacy, they were a nation of historical importance; now, when they live mainly for money-making and enjoyment, and lead a politically neutral existence, without great ambitions or great wars, their importance has sunk low, and will not rise again until they take a part in the struggle of the civilized nations. 2| -- | 1 ---------+--+-------+--+------+--+-----+--+-------+--+-------+----+----+--- Let us assume that in event of war England as well as France must leave a certain naval force in the Mediterranean, which need not be stronger than the combined Italian and Austrian fleets, but might be smaller, in event of a change in the grouping of the States; let us further assume that numerous cruisers will be detained at the extra-European stations--the fact, however, remains that England and France together can collect against Germany in the North Sea a fleet of battleships alone three times as strong as that of Germany, and will be supported by a vastly superior force of torpedo-vessels and submarines. keywords: --|; 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sea; second; sections; secure; self; sense; separate; service; set; ships; short; shows; sided; similar; situation; small; social; soldiers; soul; south; sovereignty; special; sphere; spirit; spiritual; spite; staff; standard; standing; standpoint; state; statesman; strategic; strength; strengthening; strong; stronger; struggle; subject; success; successful; sufficient; superiority; supplies; support; supremacy; sword; system; tactical; tactics; task; teaching; technical; territory; theory; things; thought; time; total; trade; training; transport; treaty; treitschke; triple; troops; true; turkey; turn; ultimate; union; united; units; universal; use; valuable; value; vast; victorious; victory; view; vigorous; vital; war; war england; war preparations; war strength; warfare; warlike; wars; way; ways; weaker; weakness; wealth; west; wide; wish; wishes; work; working; world; world power; years; | building|; | | cache: 11352.txt plain text: 11352.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 27244 author: Edelsheim, Franz, Freiherr von title: Operations Upon the Sea: A Study date: None words: 12843 flesch: 61 summary: The interior arrangements of a steamer to be used for troop transport must be planned according to law. It should be so managed that a line of land operations would be in close juncture with the fleet, through which we would be in a position to seize, within a short time, many of these important and rich cities, to interrupt their means of supply, disorganize all governmental affairs, assume control of all useful buildings, confiscate all war and transport supplies, and lastly, to impose heavy indemnities. keywords: able; advance; american; army; artillery; attack; battle; battle fleet; battleships; boats; cavalry; chief; coast; colonial; command; commander; conditions; corps; country; days; difficult; disembarking; distance; division; east; embarkation; enemy; england; english; equipment; expedition; extent; field; fighting; fleet; forces; foreign; german; great; greater; guns; hand; harbors; heavy; home; horses; hostile; hours; important; infantry; invasion; land operations; landing; large; length; loading; long; materials; means; men; military; naval; necessary; north; number; officers; open; operations; opponents; order; place; ports; position; possible; preparations; prepared; present; protection; sea; sea voyage; service; ships; short; small; speed; staff; states; steamers; strength; successful; sufficient; supplies; supply; time; transport; transport fleet; transporting; trip; troops; united; value; voyage; war cache: 27244.txt plain text: 27244.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 33996 author: Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer) title: The Spy in Black date: None words: 52175 flesch: 85 summary: Mr Tiel knows the source of my information, he said. So you treated me like an infant, Mr Tiel? The life I have lived, said Tiel quietly, has not been conducive to creating a feeling of confidence in my fellowmen's discretion--until I _know_ them. keywords: acquaintance; adventure; afraid; afternoon; air; ashington; bay; beach; beginning; belke; best; better; blacklock; boat; british; brother; brown; burnett; business; captain; car; case; certain; chair; chance; chauffeur; cigarette; clear; clergyman; close; coast; coming; commander; continued; conversation; cool; corner; country; course; craigie; curious; cycle; dark; day; days; dear; deck; details; different; door; doubt; drive; drummond; duty; early; edge; edinburgh; eileen; english; evening; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; far; farm; fellow; felt; fine; fire; fleet; floor; friend; gentleman; german; girl; glance; glimpse; good; governess; great; green; grey; half; hand; hard; hat; head; heart; heather; herr; high; hill; holland; hope; hour; house; hurried; idea; iii; information; instant; interest; islands; job; kind; lady; laird; large; late; leave; left; lieutenant; life; like; little; long; longer; look; low; luck; making; man; manner; manse; mary; matter; mean; mind; minister; minutes; miss; moment; morning; motor; mr belke; mr burnett; mr craigie; mr drummond; mr taylor; mr tiel; mrs; narrative; naval; navy; need; new; night; note; officer; old; open; opening; orders; parish; parlour; past; pay; people; phipps; pipe; place; plan; pleasant; pleased; pocket; point; possible; present; pretty; question; quiet; reply; risk; road; room; round; running; safe; scheme; schumann; sea; secret; sense; servant; service; shall; shore; sign; silence; silent; simple; sir; sister; smile; smoke; smoking; spot; spy; start; stay; step; story; straight; stranger; strong; submarine; suit; sunday; sure; suspicion; table; talk; tall; taylor; tea; telegram; thing; thought; tiel; time; topham; trouble; trust; truth; turn; uniform; view; visit; visitor; voice; von; wall; want; war; water; way; wide; wiedermann; wife; window; wire; wish; woman; wonder; word; work; yards; young cache: 33996.txt plain text: 33996.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 45583 author: Burrows, C. W. title: Scapa and a Camera Pictorial Impressions of Five Years Spent at the Grand Fleet Base date: None words: 14697 flesch: 65 summary: VICTORIOUS 83 SORTING MAILS FOR THE FLEET ON H.M.S. IMPERIEUSE 84 DISTRIBUTING NEWSPAPERS FOR THE FLEET (H.M.S. IMPERIEUSE) 85 DOCKYARD WORKMEN LEAVING H.M.S. VICTORIOUS FOR WORK IN THE FLEET 86 REPAIRING A STEAM PINNACE ON THE SLIPWAY AT LYNESS 86 SCHOOL CHILDREN'S ENTERTAINMENT ON H.M.S. VICTORIOUS 87 THREE OF THE YOUNG ORCADIAN GUESTS 87 NO COUPONS REQUIRED 88 CREW OF DRIFTER SHALOT 89 LIFTING CHAIN CABLES 89 MOORING VESSEL RECOVERY AT SCAPA FLOW 89 U.S.S. PATUXENT AND 272 ALONGSIDE H.M.S. VICTORIOUS FOR REPAIRS 90 AMERICAN MINESWEEPERS IN THE FLOATING DOCK FOR REPAIRS 90 A DAMAGED BRITISH DESTROYER BEING REPAIRED IN THE DOCK 90 S.S. BORODINO, JUNIOR ARMY AND NAVY STORES' STORE-SHIP WITH THE GRAND FLEET 91 INTERIOR OF SHOP ON S.S. BORODINO 91 A CORNER OF AN OFFICER'S CABIN 92 FISHING FOR SEA-TROUT 93 A SHIP'S PICNIC 93 A BATHING PARTY 93 THE NAVAL CEMETERY AT LYNESS 94 THE HAMPSHIRE MEMORIAL 94 AN INTERESTING STONE TO THE MEMORY OF A CHINAMAN WHO DIED AT SCAPA 94 THE MALAYA MEMORIAL 95 THE VANGUARD MEMORIAL 95 MAKING FOR HOME 96 THE SCUTTLING OF THE GERMAN SHIPS 97 H.M.S. LION ENTERING HOXA BOOM, SCAPA FLOW, AT HEAD OF GERMAN BATTLE CRUISERS, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1918 100 H.M.S. REPULSE, RENOWN, PRINCESS ROYAL, AND TIGER ESCORTING GERMAN BATTLE CRUISERS THROUGH HOXA BOOM, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1918 100 GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER SEYDLITZ ENTERING HOXA BOOM, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1918 102 GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER VON DER TANN ENTERING HOXA BOOM, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1918 102 GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER MOLTKE ENTERING HOXA BOOM, 25TH NOVEMBER 1918 103 THE INTERNED GERMAN SHIPS AT SCAPA 103 GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER SEYDLITZ 104 GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER MOLTKE AT SCAPA FLOW 105 GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER DERFFLINGER AT SCAPA FLOW 106 GERMAN BATTLE CRUISER HINDENBURG AT SCAPA FLOW 106 GERMAN BATTLESHIP FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE 107 GERMAN BATTLESHIP KAISERIN 107 GERMAN LIGHT CRUISER KÖLN 108 GERMAN DESTROYERS AT LYNESS, WITH BATTLESHIPS IN THE DISTANCE 108 PLAN OF THE ANCHORAGE OF GERMAN SHIPS AT SCAPA FLOW 110 A PARTY OF FRENCH OFFICERS VISITING THE GERMAN SHIPS 111 GERMAN BATTLESHIP BAYERN SINKING BY THE STERN, 2 P.M., 21ST JUNE, 1919 112 THE FINAL PLUNGE OF THE BAYERN 113 GERMAN DESTROYERS SINKING OR BEACHED OFF [Illustration: PLAN OF THE ANCHORAGE OF GERMAN SHIPS AT SCAPA FLOW.] keywords: 21st; 25th; admiral; admiralty; armistice; available; baden; base; base ships; battle; battle cruiser; battleship; bay; board; boat; book; boom; control; craft; crews; crockness; cruiser; day; days; derfflinger; destroyers; dockyard; drifter; early; elizabeth; emden; end; fleet; flotta; flow; following; frankfurt; german; german battle; german destroyer; german fleet; german ships; good; grand; grand fleet; great; h.m.s; harbour; headquarters; hill; hindenburg; history; hope; hospital; houton; hoxa; hoy; humphrey; illustration; imperial; imperieuse; inch; interest; interned; islands; joel; june; kent; kirkwall; left; life; light; little; long; long hope; lyness; making; map; march; martello; men; months; museum; naval; navy; near; new; north; northern; november; nurnberg; officers; old; orcadian; orkney; p.m.; party; peats; photographs; pier; place; port; present; queen; road; rosyth; s.s; sailors; salvage; salved; scapa; scapa flow; sea; seydlitz; ships; sinking; small; sound; south; squadron; standing; stone; stromness; submarine; time; torpedo; tower; town; vessels; victorious; view; war; ward; water; way; work; years cache: 45583.txt plain text: 45583.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 56653 author: Hurd, Archibald title: The German Fleet Being The Companion Volume to "The Fleets At War" and "From Heligoland To Keeling Island date: None words: 51810 flesch: 54 summary: But he sees, too, that the Germany of Luther and Goethe, of Ranke, Liebig, Helmholz, and Mommsen, of Bismarck and Moltke, has become also the Germany of Krupp, Siemens, Rathenau, Ballin, and Gwinner; that the products of German industry, the fruits of an unexampled application of the discoveries of science to the processes of manufacture, have been carried by German ships to the remotest ends of the earth; that the material prosperity of his country has been advancing in every direction by leaps and bounds. His death was followed after an interval of three months by that of Frederick I., and with the accession of William II., in 1888, the latest era of German naval policy may be said to have commenced. keywords: able; act; action; active; activity; acts; adalbert; admiral; admiral von; admiralty; advantage; african; agitation; ambitions; armament; armoured; armoured ships; army; assistance; authorities; baltic; basis; battle fleet; battleships; berlin; best; big; bill; bismarck; board; boats; body; brandenburg; britain; british; british fleet; british navy; british ships; building; capacity; captain; carrying; case; century; certain; change; character; chief; class |; coast; colonial; colonies; commander; commerce; commercial; commission; company; complete; conditions; considerable; construction; control; corvettes; countries; country; course; craft; crews; cruisers; danish; date; day; days; deal; decisive; defence; denmark; design; determined; development; difficult; displacement; doubt; dreadnought; dreams; dutch; early; east; economic; effect; effective; efficiency; elector; emperor; end; enemy; england; english; establishment; estimates; europe; events; example; expansion; extent; fact; far; fighting; flag; fleet law; fleets; flotilla; following; footnote; force; foreign; form; france; frankfort; frederick; french; friedrichsburg; frigates; future; general; german army; german authorities; german emperor; german empire; german fleet; german naval; german people; german policy; german sea; german ships; german vessels; german war; germany; gold; good; government; grand; great; great britain; great german; great naval; greater; greatest; gross; gunboats; guns; half; hamburg; hand; hansa; harbour; heavy; high; history; holland; hollmann; home; idea; immediate; imperial; important; inch; inches; increase; independent; influence; interesting; interests; kiel; king; knots; krupp; large; later; law; league; length; life; like; line; list; little; london; long; long fleet; longer; lord; main; majesty; making; marine; maritime; material; matter; maximum; means; measure; mediterranean; members; memorandum; men; military; mind; minister; ministry; modern; modern german; moment; money; months; movement; national; nations; naval authorities; naval officers; naval policy; naval power; naval war; navies; navy; navy act; navy law; necessary; new; new naval; new navy; north; number; officers; official; old; operation; opinion; opportunity; order; organization; parliament; particular; party; passage; past; peace; period; personnel; point; policy; political; popular; population; position; possible; pounder |; power; practice; present; present german; press; prince; principal; principle; programme; progress; protection; provision; prussia; public; purpose; question; ready; reichstag; requirements; reserve; respect; responsible; result; right; royal; rule; scale; school; sea; sea fleet; seas; service; shipbuilding; ships; short; single; sir; size; small; smaller; south; spanish; special; speed; squadron; standard; states; steam; steel; step; strength; strong; success; summer; superior; superiority; support; system; tactical; task; terms; thalers; thought; throne; time; tirpitz; tons; torpedo; total; trade; training; true; turrets; type; united; use; value; vessels; view; von; war; war vessels; warships; waters; way; west; william; words; work; world; years; | +; | barbette; | belt; | breech; | calibres; | deck; | second; | tapering; | | cache: 56653.txt plain text: 56653.txt