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Description: | Small notebook containing ms diary (93pp), with summary entries, kept by an RNR (Trawler Reserve) deckhand while serving in the trawler HMT ARCTIC PRINCE and covering her passage from the United Kingdom to North Russia (March 1916), her service with the British naval forces based on Yukanskie and employment on patrol, shipping examination and minesweeping duties in the White Sea and the Kola Inlet (April 1916 – January 1917) and her return to the United Kingdom (January – February 1917). The diary, which is accompanied by his demobilisation certificate (January 1919) and a photograph of ARCTIC PRINCE after she was severely damaged by a mine (April 1917), includes frequent references to the very harsh conditions, both at sea and ashore, during the winter months in North Russia and also mentions the assistance given to the armed merchant cruiser HMS ARLANZA after she was mined (April 1916).
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Cooper, David Henry | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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