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Description: | Microfilm copy of a ts memoir (446pp plus appendices), written in 1961 - 1962, covering in particular his training as a cadet at the Royal Naval Colleges Osborne and Dartmouth (1904 - 1908), his service as a midshipman in Home waters in the battleship HMS LONDON, the battle cruiser HMS INVINCIBLE, the destroyer HMS WELLAND and the cruiser HMS ISIS (1908 - 1910) and in the Atlantic Fleet battleship HMS PRINCE OF WALES (1910 - 1911), his service as a junior officer in the Mediterranean Fleet cruiser HMS SUFFOLK (1912) and in the light cruiser HMS GLASGOW on the South East of America Station (1912 - 1913), his decision to specialise and training as an engineer officer (1913 - 1914), his service as a junior engineer in the battleship HMS CANOPUS, including her deployment in the South Atlantic and marginal role in the Battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands (July 1914 - January 1915) and her operations during the Dardanelles campaign and off Asia Minor (February 1915 - February 1916), his application for transfer to the submarine service and service in HMS K4 (12th Submarine Flotilla, Grand Fleet) on anti-submarine duties (1917) and command of HMS H22 in Home waters and on patrols off Biorko during the operations in the Baltic (1918 - 1920), his engineering appointments in the submarine service (1921 - 1924), his service as an engineer officer in the Mediterranean Fleet battleship HMS EMPEROR OF INDIA (1924 - 1926) and in the submarine depot ship HMS TITANIA on the China Station (1928 - 1930), his appointment as Assistant to the Engineer Manager at the Torpedo Tube Design Office in Portsmouth (1931 - 1934), as Commander (E) in the battleship HMS QUEEN ELIZABETH, the flagship of the Mediterranean Fleet, at the time of the Abyssinian crisis and the Spanish Civil War (1934 - 1936), in the Torpedoes and Mining Department at the Admiralty (1937 - 1938), as a naval liaison officer at the Air Ministry and in the Air Materiel Department at the Admiralty (1938 - 1940), as Fleet Engineer Officer, China Station based on Singapore and later Batavia in the Netherlands East Indies during the Malayan campaign when his responsibilities included the denial of fuel resources to the Japanese (March 1941 - February 1942), as Chairman of the Ceylon Petroleum Board (April 1942 - April 1943), as Engineer Officer, Belfast in the Western Approaches Command with responsibility for the maintenance of the escort force of Captain class frigates (October 1943 - 1945) and as Assistant Director of the Admiralty's Underwater Weapons Department at Bath (1945 - 1949). As an engineer officer, Phillips's memoir includes very useful details on the technical performance of all the ships in which he served and about the status of his Branch within the Royal Navy.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2001-06 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Phillips, O W | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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