Lot Essay
Midshipman Hentry John Tuson was killed in action at the Battle of Jutland on 31.5.1916, while serving in the Battle Cruiser H.M.S. Indefatigable. His name is commemorated on the Naval Memorial at Plymouth.
'Soon after this, at a little past 4 o'clock, the Von Der Tann got in a salvo of three shots that fell upon Indefatigable's upper deck and penetrated her magazines. The ship was enveloped in smoke and flame and was observed to haul out of line heavily down by the stern. A second salvo struck her, and with a loud explosion she turned over and sank. Of her company of 1012 men only two were picked up by the Germans, the suddenness of her disappearance accounting for the loss of the remainder (Hocking's Dictionary of Sea Disasters refers).
'Soon after this, at a little past 4 o'clock, the Von Der Tann got in a salvo of three shots that fell upon Indefatigable's upper deck and penetrated her magazines. The ship was enveloped in smoke and flame and was observed to haul out of line heavily down by the stern. A second salvo struck her, and with a loud explosion she turned over and sank. Of her company of 1012 men only two were picked up by the Germans, the suddenness of her disappearance accounting for the loss of the remainder (Hocking's Dictionary of Sea Disasters refers).