Admiral Jellicoe

When his nurse threatens to have him arrested, young Jack Jellicoe marches straight up to the policeman: “Nurse says you’re to take me in charge.” Then he adds a compliment about the man’s buttons.

Born in Southampton in 1859, with the sea in his family and his father’s yarns to fire his imagination, Jellicoe grows from a fearless, mischievous boy into a quiet, exacting officer. Arthur Applin’s portrait follows him from the shores and docks of his childhood toward the Royal Navy, where a revolution in gunnery earns him the fleet’s blazing nickname, “Hell Fire Jack.” As war brings the weight of command, the small, reserved man must meet demands far greater than his stature suggests. How did the boy who cheerfully asked to be taken into custody become a leader the Navy keeps close to its heart?

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