The selected passages show Fisher cultivating loyalty among the lower deck while understanding that a commander's relationship with sailors could improve fighting effectiveness. He attacked the social divide between executive and engineering officers, including customs that excluded engineers from shore functions. His criticism also reached the narrow class base from which officers were drawn and the snobbery that treated trained ratings and warrant officers as an inferior order. Fisher's modernism therefore extended beyond ships and guns to a conviction that an outdated hierarchy weakened the service he wanted to prepare for war.
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Jacky Fisher, the lower deck, and naval modernization
Fisher's Face presents Admiral Jacky Fisher's affection for sailors, hostility to inherited status barriers, and belief that social reform supported combat effectiveness.