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Description: | Ms letter (4pp), with envelope, written home in November 1914 by a Lieutenant RNR in the armed merchant cruiser HMS OTRANTO and including very interesting comments on the ship's employment on patrol duties in the South Atlantic and Pacific, the loss of HMS GOOD HOPE and HMS MONMOUTH in the Battle of Coronel from which the OTRANTO had escaped without damage, the factors affecting the morale of the ship's company and his desire to see Germany `crippled for at least 2 generations.'
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1990-09 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Woodcock, H W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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