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Description: | Photocopies of a ms diary (23pp) and miscellaneous naval papers covering his service in the Auxiliary Patrol, 1914 - 1917, detailing his first two months in command of HMS OMBRA (September - November 1914) patrolling off the north west coast of Scotland, mentioning boarding a number of trawlers and revealing the interest at that time surrounding submarines; together with his ms autobiography (7pp) covering his naval career from 1882 to 1918; an ms record of his service in the First World War; Admiralty letters appointing him to the command of HMS OMBRA (September 1914) and HMS SALVATOR (March 1915), as Senior Naval Officer, Berehaven (November 1915) and as Route-giving Officer, New York (August 1917); and a ts report on a U-boat attack on SS ARACATACA (March 1917).
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-20 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Coates, O U | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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