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Description: | Photocopies of documents relating to his service as a ship’s engineer with the Nautilus Steam Shipping Company of Sunderland during the First World War comprising: photographs of him and of the SS MAPLE BRANCH, the printed itinerary (1p) for the MAPLE BRANCH’s voyage from Liverpool to South America (August – October 1914), two press cuttings (3pp) from the ‘Mid-Ulster Mail’ (November 1914) describing his experiences when the MAPLE BRANCH was captured by the German cruiser KARLSRUHE in the Atlantic on 3 September and he spent seven weeks as a prisoner of war on board the German supply ship CREFELD before being put ashore in Tenerife in late October, and commenting in particular on their very considerate treatment by the Germans and the KARLSRUHE’s successful interception and sinking of numerous British merchant ships during this period; one ms letter written to his wife in Co Derry, Ireland from the SS MYRTLE BRANCH while in a port in Chile (March 1917); the ts itinerary (1p) for the MYRTLE BRANCH’s voyage from Glasgow to the west coast of South America (December 1917 – February 1918); nine ms letters to his wife covering family news and his activities during this voyage up to the ship’s arrival at Newport News (December 1917 – March 1918); and two telegrams and two ms letters of condolence sent to his widow (April – May 1918) relating to the torpedoing and sinking of the MYRTLE BRANCH by a U-boat off the Irish coast on 11 April, including an account by an officer survivor of the probable circumstances of Forbes’ death.
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Forbes, Frederick William | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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