Warship Disasters! Episode1: The HMS Swift

Excellent video again.  I remember that Fisher's reputation got high marks for modernizing the British navy with HMS Dreadnought, but he was not a really good fellow worker with the civilians in the Government.  Winston Churchill was First Sea Lord from 1911 to 1915, and in the peacetime portion of that four year period he was quite impressed by Fisher.  Then, in 1914 he discovered the difficulties of working with him when he (Fisher) felt he was THE ESSENTIAL man for naval affairs.  It turned out, much to Churchill's dismay, that Fisher never made formal military plans for the use of the Navy during the war except for the placement of the fleet at Scapa Flow, Rosythe, and other ports in the British Isles and in the widespread empire.  Unlike Germany which had the "Schlieffen" Plan for attacking France on land, there was never any corresponding naval "Fisher" plan to get at the German Navy.  Fisher tried to reassure an increasingly anxious Churchill that he had plans - but they were all in his head!  After the series of naval disasters (Audacious sinking, the torpedoing of the three antiquated cruisers, Goeben and Breslau) all capped by the loss of Coronel with only the victory at Heligoland Bight to brag about, Churchill had enough, and helped force out Fisher.  Ironically, within a year (after the Gallipoli disaster) Churchill too would be forced out.  Fisher lived until 1920, carping about Churchill's two-face treatment of the great Fisher, and finding nobody wanted his advice.  In the last couple of years I discovered (I can't recall where I found it) that during the War Fisher was in touch with his German opposite number Tirpitz, corresponding by letter on comparative naval results (as though they saw a life and death struggle like the Great War as a teaching exercise) and commiserating with each other on how their governments ungrarefully put them out to pasture just as the war began.
I'm glad they were able to comfort each other.