The saddest thing for me is that on each Capital ship there were up to sixty ships boys of between fourteen and seventeen years of age aboard. They were often involved doing duties as complex as any sailor and pobviously in at the thick end like the sailors and no less brave, but at the end of the day, they were someones grand son. When a ship like the Hood, or Barham, or the Battlecruisers of WW1 that sank in minutes, most if not all of them perished. That is a lot of children.