Book signing at The Orcadian Bookshop

The author of a new book – Jutland – the naval engagement that changed the course of WW1? –  will be signing copies in The Orcadian Bookshop, in Kirkwall, this morning, Saturday.

Nick Jellicoe, the grandson of Britain’s naval commander at the time, Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, will be in the bookshop from 9.30am until 10.30am.

The Battle of Jutland was the most significant naval engagement of the First World War, with over 100,000 sailors involved on 250 ships.

More than 6,000 Royal Navy and 2,500 German sailors lost their lives in the battle, which was fought from May 31 to June 1 1916, off the coast of Denmark.