HMS Invincible blows up during the Battle of Jutland (1916) “Each man commits himself with a thousand others to a vulnerable shell, and launches it into an arena sheeted and bolted with flame and concussion…A single stroke of a single weapon might wipe out a thousand lives…He may die by a blow, by asphyxiation, by flaying, by boiling, by mutilation, by drowning, or may be instantaneously consumed in a glory of mauve flame, accompanied by the thunder of a detonation he never hears.” —Filson Young

HMS Invincible blows up during the Battle of Jutland (1916)

“Each man commits himself with a thousand others to a vulnerable shell, and launches it into an arena sheeted and bolted with flame and concussion…A single stroke of a single weapon might wipe out a thousand lives…He may die by a blow, by asphyxiation, by flaying, by boiling, by mutilation, by drowning, or may be instantaneously consumed in a glory of mauve flame, accompanied by the thunder of a detonation he never hears.” —Filson Young

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