Special 1: HMS Warspite
History of the Second World War
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The Warspite and the Battle of Chutland
The story of the warspite shielding the warrior from German fire would become the stuff of legend. Shipman fell with later right that quote, we were received at Rossith with very, very great disapproval by the local people. They all felt that the Grand Fleet had suffered complete defeat and that some ships, like the warspite, had run away. Both of these assertions were of course not true. The British fleet had lost more ships and men than the Germans, including three battle cruisers but they were far from having been decisively defeated.
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