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Description: | British officer served with Royal Marines aboard HMS Berwick in North Atlantic, 1917-1918
REEL 1 Recollections of service as officer with Royal Marines aboard HMS Berwick operating on North Atlantic convoys from North America to GB, 1917-1918: coaling ship and carrying extra coal on upper deck; convoy layout; problems with ships failing to keep station; introduction of zig-zagging; effects of rough weather; German U Boat attacks on stragglers rather than ships in station; question of meeting destroyer escorts; difficulties manoeuvring convoy into Irish Sea; period in-between convoys; return journey; story of meeting U Boat disguised as sailing ship and subsequent close escape from torpedoes; Christmas celebrations in rough seas, 25/12/1917. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | BBC | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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