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Description: | Collection of 8 short ms accounts (29pp in total, plus photographs) written between 1917 and 1919 by officers, cadets and apprentices who served in the Merchant Navy during the First World War giving details of some of their more memorable experiences including: actions with U-boats fought by the CITY OF LAHORE (October 1915) and the VALERIA (June 1916), the torpedoing and salving of the EASTGATE (August 1917), the torpedoing and sinking of the VANDALIA (June 1918) and the FLAVIA (August 1918), an explosion on board the HUTTONWOOD when in dock in New York (August 1918), coaling a battleship as seen from an Admiralty collier and the accidental death of a dockyard worker; together with an illustrated 'crossing the line' certificate issued to a Lance Corporal in the RMLI in the light cruiser HMS YARMOUTH (April 1919).
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2003-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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