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The Naval War

Question: What was the Royal Navy’s prime naval war strategy during WW1?

Answer: Blockading Germany 

Question: What was the only significant naval battle between Britain and Germany during the First World War?

Answer: The Battle of Jutland

Question: Who commanded the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland during the First World War?

Answer: Admiral Sir John Jellicoe 

Question: Who, during the First World War, is quoted as saying, “Jellicoe is the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon”?

Answer: Winston Churchill Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty and Jellicoe commanded the Royal Navy’s Grand Fleet which included the Dreadnought class battleships.

Question: What was the name of First World War heavily armed merchant ships with concealed weaponry designed to lure submarines into making surface attacks thus providing the chance to open fire and sink them?

Answer: Q-Ships