Admiral of the Fleet David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty was a Royal Navy officer. After serving in the Mahdist War and then the response to the Boxer Rebellion, he commanded the Battle Cruiser Flee
Beatty in 1916
Captain David Beatty
Admiral Seymour returning to Tientsin with wounded men
HMS Lion, flagship of the battlecruiser squadron
Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe was a Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Anglo-Egyptian War and the Boxer Rebellion and commanded the Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jut
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty
…of Jutland in 1916, a tactically indecisive engagement after which his aggressive approach was contrasted with the caution of his commander Admiral Sir John Jellicoe. He is remembered for his comment at Jutland that "There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today", after two of them exploded. Later…
John Jellicoe, Admiral of the Fleet
The battleship HMS Victoria sinking
Jellicoe as captain, in command of HMS Centurion, flagship on the China Station (His depiction on a contemporary cigarette card shows he was in the public eye long before becoming an admiral.)
Admiral, or as the French knew him: Amiralissime Jellicoe, shown as a captain earlier in his career