Memories of the Arbuthnots of Kincardineshire And Aberdeenshire
Memories of the Arbuthnots of Kincardineshire And Aberdeenshire
Ada Jane Evelyn Arbuthnot
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" Sir Robert Arbuthnot was a fine, gentle, simple man, with the heroic temper of a Grenville and the devotion to duty of a Collingwood. The last time Collingwood went afloat he said to a friend : ' My family are actually strangers to me. What I Pp. 439-40. ROBERT ARBUTHNOT OF WHITEHILL 327 a life of privation ours is— what an abandonment of every- thing to our professional duty ! And how little do the people of England know tlie sacrifices we make for them. ' So Sir Robert Arbuthnot never slept... ashore after the war broke out. " When he went into the Defence, men reckoned that he went to death. His armoured cruiser was not fit to stand up to modern ships, yet she could not be held back in battle by an Admiral who intended to do the utmost he could for the Empire when the great chance offered. There was a period of twenty minutes' danger when Admiral Beatty's Cruiser Fleet shortened the range and five or six German battleships, close astern of the German battle-cruisers, were attempting to deliver a final concentrated fire on the British battle-cruisers just before the battle squadrons of the Grand Fleet came into action.
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