David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty

David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (17 January 1871 – 11 March 1936) was an admiral in the Royal Navy. From 1914 onwards he commanded the British battle cruiser fleet stationed at Scapa Flow as a component of the British Grand Fleet.

Quotes

 * There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today.
 * On the British battlecruiser losses in the early portion of the Battle of Jutland (1916), as quoted in The Rules of the Game : Jutland and British Naval Command (2005) by Andrew Gordon, p. 120