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Description: | Ms memoir (118pp), with ts transcript (37pp), covering his service as a Lieutenant Commander RNR in command of the armed steam yacht CETO on patrol and escort work in the Dover Auxiliary Patrol (September 1914 - April 1915) and, in the rank of Commander RNVR, as assistant to the Captain-in-Charge of Auxiliary Patrol Area XIV based on Falmouth (April 1915 - November 1917), including cruises on escort duty to the Mediterranean in the armed yacht ROVENSKA in 1916 and 1917 and three patrols in the English Channel in the Q-ship LISETTE, a topsail schooner, in the autumn of 1917, and then as assistant to the Senior Naval Officer, Kingstown, Ireland (November 1917 - May 1919). Tower, a 55 year old gentlemen of leisure at the outbreak of war, had no previous naval experiences and his memoirs provide a useful personal record of the contribution made to the anti-submarine campaign by naval auxiliaries and their crews.
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Catalogue date 1982-12-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Tower, F F | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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