John Arbuthnot Fisher
John Arbuthnot " Jackie" Fisher , born the January 25th 1841 with Ceylon, and dead the July 10th 1920, 1st baron Fisher, was an admiral of the British fleet known for its efforts to reform the British naval force.
With a career of almost 60 years, it had a major influence on the evolution of the Royal Navy, and beyond on the world navy. He is often regarded as the most important character of the naval history of the United Kingdom, after Nelson.
Biography
John Fisher starts very a long career in the British navy, which will be worth to him the title of 1st Lord of Admiralty in 1905, after having obtained the title of Third Lord of the Sea in 1892, then the Second Lord of the Sea in 1902.
He profits, in 1905, of his title of 1st Lord of Admiralty, to re-examine the budgets of the British navy while launching two naval projects which were expensive to him: the industrial realization of the " projects; Dreadnought ", a fast battleship and monocalibre, and " Cruiser of battle ".
Not being more admiral since 1910, Fisher is pointed out there in November 1914, following the defeat of Cradock against German Von Spee. 73 years old he opposes all his experiment to the daring German admiral Von Spee. Instigator of the " project; dreadnought" , it becomes also the first to collect the fruits of them: in 1914, he is the supreme commander of a British fleet which counts already 31 " dreadnoughts" , he imagined the name starting from the expression " which dread nought" (" who does not fear rien").
December 8th 1914, it makes run in water of Port-Stanley (Falklands) the squadron of Von Spee, showing a great strategic intelligence (Bataille of Falklands).
Fisher runs up violently with Winston Churchill, First Lord of Admiralty, on the project of unloading in Dardanelles (Gallipoli), on which he would prefer to support his fleet an unloading united with the Russians, on the German coasts of the Baltic. He resigns in May 1915. It was the strategic dissension of too, with inflexible Churchill.
He dies in 1920.
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