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Description: | Interesting and detailed ms diary account (13pp) of the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914, with a brief postscript added at Gibraltar in January 1915, written by one of the engineer officers in the battle cruiser HMS INVINCIBLE and describing his activities during, and impressions of, the action. When it was learnt that the German squadron was in sight off Port Stanley, Shaw notes that the engine room department 'were just about as far from ready as we could be', but after much effort on their part INVINCIBLE was soon able to work up to her full speed, despite being short of coal' and, while he saw little of the battle, he does describe the rescue of survivors from GNEISENAU and the damage sustained by INVINCIBLE, concluding that the battle was 'a most remarkably fortunate affair'.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1983-02-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Shaw, J F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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