ARTHUR+FILSELL

CWGC: Arthur Filsell, K/2396 Stoker 1st Class, HMS Queen Mary, Royal Navy. Died 31st May 1916, aged 29. Son of Joseph and Mary Ellen Filsell, of Pentrich, Ripley, Derby. Commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

According to the National Archives index of Royal Navy service records, Arthur Filsell was born in Swanwick, Derbyshire, on 15th October 1887.

1911 Census A Stoker aboard HMS Minotaur at anchor in Hong Kong http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/hms_queen_mary.htm Built by Palmers, launched in 1912. HMS Queen Mary took part in Heligoland Bight, Battle of Dogger Bank and Battle of Jutland. During the battle of Jutland after receiving direct hits from the German ships Seydlitz and Derfflinger the Queen Mary blew up with the loss of 1,266 crew with only 9 survivors. Displacement: Queen Mary 27,200 Speed: 27.5 knots Compliment: 1,000 (Queen Mary 1916 1,275) Armament: Eight 13.5-inch guns in pairs and sixteen 4 -inch guns. 1913 - one 47mm (mod), 1915/16 two 3 inch anti aircraft guns

Battle of Jutland 31st May 1916. Naval Battle which took place on the west coast of Jutland, Both the Germans and the British claimed victory. The Germans because they sank more ships. The British because the German High seas fleet would never again venture from there ports for the rest of the war. The German main fleet consisted of 16 Dreadnought Battleships and 6 pre-dreadnought battleships, 11 Light Cruisers and 72 destroyers. The British Fleet consisted of Admiral Jellicoe's fleet of 28 Dreadnought battleships and 3 battle cruisers and Admiral Beatty's force of 6 battle cruisers and 4 fast battleships.

The Germans had planned to sail from the Baltic to the North Sea with the plan to engage the British Battle Cruisers in Norwegian waters. But due to German radio messages being intercepted by the British the British Grand fleet were alerted. British Battleships and Cruisers at The Battle of Jutland 1st Battle Squadron. HMS Iron Duke (Flagship), HMS Agincourt, HMS Colossus, HMS Hercules, HMS Marlborough, HMS Neptune, HMS Revenge, HMS St. Vincent. 2nd Battle Squadron. HMS King George V, HMS Ajax, HMS Centurion, HMS Conqueror, HMS Erin, HMS Monarch, HMS Orion, HMS Thunderer. 4th Battle Squadron, HMS Royal Oak, HMS Bellerophon, HMS Benbow, HMS Canada, HMS Superb, HMS Temeraire, HMS Vanguard 5th battle Squadron, HMS Valiant, HMS Barham, HMS Malaya, HMS Warspite 1st Battle-Cruiser Squadron, HMS Lion (Flagship, HMS Princess Royal, HMS Queen Mary (Sunk) HMS Tiger 2nd battle-Cruiser Squadron. HMS Indefatigable (Sunk) HMS New Zealand, 3rd battle-Cruiser Squadron, HMS Indomitable, HMS Inflexible, HMS Invincible (Sunk) 1st Cruiser Squadron, HMS Black Prince (Sunk), HMS defence (Sunk) HMS Duke of Edinburgh, HMS Warrior (Sunk) 2nd Cruiser Squadron, HMS Cochrane, HMS Hampshire, HMS Minotaur, HMS Shannon, Light Cruisers. Active, Bellona, Birmingham, Birkenhead, Boadicea, Calliope, Canturbury, Caroline, Castor, Champion, Chester, Comus, Constance, Cordelia, Dublin, Falmouth, Fearless, Galatea, Gloucester, Inconstant, Nottingham, Phaeton, Royalist, Southampton, Yarmouth 7 destroyers were lost from the Flotillas, of 1st, 4th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th Flotillas.

GERMAN FLEET 1st battle Squadron. Friedrich der Grosse (Flagship) Heligoland, Nassau, Oldenburg, Ostfriesland, Posen, Rheinland, Thuringen, Westfalen. 2nd Battle Squadron, Deutschland, Hannover, Hessen Pommern (sunk), Schlesen, Schleswig-Holstein 3rd Battle Squadron, Konig, Grosser Kurfurst, Kaiser, Kaiserin, Kronprince William, Markgraf, Prinzregent Luitpold Battle-Cruiser Squadron. Derflinger, Lutzow (sunk) Moltke, Seydlitz, Von der Tan. Light Cruisers, Elbing (Sunk) Frankfurt, Frauenlob (sunk), Hamburg, Muenchen, Pillau, Regensburg, Rostock (sunk) Stettin, Stuttgart, Wiesbaden (Sunk) 2 Destroyers were lost from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th Flotillas


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