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Description: | Edited wordprocessed transcript (44pp including illustrations) of a diary kept during his service as a (?) stoker in the destroyer HMS TIGRESS, June 1917 – January 1919, with brief entries covering her deployment with the 2nd (later 4th) Destroyer Flotilla, based on Plymouth, on escort duties with convoys and single ships in the South West Approaches and with the troopships taking the Portuguese Expeditionary Force from Lisbon to Brest in France and making occasional reference to U boat activity (June – November 1917), her passage to the Eastern Mediterranean and service with the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, based on Mudros, on patrol duties off the Dardanelles and escort work to and from Salonika and in action on 20 January 1918 during the sortie of the GOEBEN and BRESLAU in which both enemy ships were mined (November 1917 – March 1918), her service with the British Adriatic Force, based on Brindisi in Italy, and deployment on anti-submarine patrols using hydrophones and, on 3 October 1918, in the bombardment of Durazzo (April – October 1918) and her service with the British Aegean Squadron, based on Mudros, following Turkey’s surrender when mines posed a hazard to shipping off the Dardanelles or proceeding to Constantinople.
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Phillips, John Hugh | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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