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Description: | British seaman served aboard HMS Otranto at Battle of Coronel, 1/11/1914
REEL 1 Recollections of service as seaman aboard HMS Otranto during Battle of Coronel, 1/11/1914: first sighting of German East Asitiatic Sqdn; rendezvous with HMS Glasgow, HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth; action station as stretcher bearer on foredeck; absence of naval training as merchant seaman; commencement of German shell fire; German concentration of fire on Good Hope and Monmouth, superiority of German armament and damage suffered; orders to escape from Rear Admiral Christopher Craddock; sinking of Good Hope and Monmouth whilst still firing; state of morale on making escape. | 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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