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Description: | Photocopy of a very brief undated ts account (2pp) written by a wireman in HMS ROYALIST (4th Light Cruiser Squadron, Grand Fleet) whose action station was in her after control position giving his synopsis of what he had heard and seen about the ship's part in the day and night actions during the Battle of Jutland and referring to the number of officers and ratings from action stations below decks who found reason to come up to see something of the action; and a ts transcription (10pp) of the diary which he kept in HMS ROYALIST (now 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, Grand Fleet) from September 1918 - March 1919 mentioning exercises and sweeps in the North Sea during the last weeks of the war, his reactions to the Armistice and the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet - 'the most ignominious display' - and the ship's deployment in the Baltic in January - February 1919 when she was based on Copenhagen and made three trips to the port of Libau in Latvia as well as carrying out patrol duties.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2003-05 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Robinson, W J | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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