By the time that Filson Young found himself aboard Admiral Sir David Beatty's flagship in the North Sea just before the First World War, he had a varied career as a novelist, journalist, and war correspondent. He had been a special reporter during the Boer War and also had written about naval subjects such as the voyages of Christopher Columbus and the Titanic. This book, also known as 'With Beatty in the North Sea', chronicles his time as a Royal Naval Reserve Lieutenant with the Grand Fleet in 1915-1916, and provides a gripping eye-witness account of the Battle of Dogger Bank. He left the Navy in 1916, before the battle of Jutland. He recorded, a few years later, his experiences of life at sea in the Grand Fleet in this book, which captures the action of the battle and the personalities of the crews he served with.
