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Description: | Ms Midshipman's Journal (215pp) covering his service in the armoured cruiser HMS GOOD HOPE, the flagship of Admiral Sir Berkeley Milne, the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean (September - November 1912) and then in the battle cruiser HMS INFLEXIBLE, the new flagship on the Station, with the usual descriptions up to the outbreak of war of evolutions, gunnery exercises and cruises to various ports in the Mediterranean (November 1912 - August 1914) and, following the declaration of war, her part in the unsuccessful pursuit of the GOEBEN and BRESLAU (August 1914), her return to Home waters and participation, as a unit in the Battle Cruiser Squadron, in a series of sweeps in the North Sea (September - November 1914), her passage, in company with HMS INVINCIBLE, to the South Atlantic and her part in the sinking of the SCHARNHORST and GNEISENAU at the Battle of the Falkland Islands ( 8 December 1914) and in the short and fruitless search for the DRESDEN in South American waters before INVINCIBLE and INFLEXIBLE proceeded back to Gibraltar (December 1914 - January 1915).
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1975-12-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | armoured cruiser (1901) HMS INFLEXIBLE HMS GOOD HOPE Royal Navy HMS INVINCIBLE battlecruiser (1907) | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Macnair, J H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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