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Description: | Ms diary (60pp) covering his service as a watch-keeping Lieutenant in HMS ANTRIM, the flagship of Rear Admiral W C Pakenham, Commanding 3rd Cruiser Squadron, July 1914 - February 1915, detailing his journey to Scapa Flow and duties involving mine and anti-submarine patrols, criticising Admiral Pakenham's reluctance to board ships and Captain Molteno as being ill-tempered, making several references to the threat posed by U-boats before his move to Rosyth where he describes the aftermath of the Battle of the Dogger Bank; together with a ts diary covering his service in command of the submarine G8 attached to the 10th Submarine Flotilla based on Scapa Flow, March 1917 - July 1917, covering patrols between Scapa and Norway and also giving his impressions of HMS KING GEORGE V (2nd Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet); plus miscellaneous documents consisting of reports, sailing orders, letters and memoranda relating to his service in submarines, 1915 - 1918.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-23 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | De Burgh, C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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