Excerpt from From Heligoland to Keeling Island: One Hundred Days of Naval War
Probably nine out of ten people in the United Kingdom believed that a war between ourselves and Germany would be marked in its earliest days by a naval battle in the North Sea in which the British Fleet, though suffering some loss - probably heavy loss - would be victorious, and that the whole business, so far as the sea was concerned, would then be practically at an end.
No naval battle has occurred. To students of naval history this apparent inactivity of the naval forces of the two countries has occasioned no surprise.
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