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Description: | Ms diary (137pp) written by a Leading Stoker serving in the light cruiser HMS SAPPHIRE and covering her employment on patrol duties in the English Channel and North Sea (August - October 1914) and with the Grand Fleet in Northern waters (November 1914 - January 1915), her refit at Devonport (January 1915), her service with the Eastern Mediterranean Squadron on patrol and bombardment duties in the Gulf of Smyrna (March 1915) and during the final preparations for, and first stages of, the landings on Gallipoli (April - May 1915), her attachment to the British Adriatic Squadron based on Brindisi and deployment on patrol duties in the Adriatic and off the Albanian coast (May 1915 - October 1916), her passage via the Suez Canal and Aden to Ceylon (November - December 1916) and her service on the Egypt and East Indies Station where she was intermittently employed on escorting valuable single ships and convoys in the Indian Ocean before proceeding to Bombay for a refit (January - November 1917). The most detailed entries cover the Dardanelles campaign and the landings on 25 April 1915, but there are also useful references to a submarine scare at Scapa Flow (20 December 1914), the sinking of the Italian cruiser GARIBALDI (18 July 1915), his dislike of Brindisi as a base (21 August 1915), the destruction of the Italian battleship BENEDETTO BRIN by an internal explosion (27 September 1915) and an enemy air raid on Brindisi (4 May 1916).
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2003-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Akester, E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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