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Description: | Ms diary for January – March 1916 (13 folios) and complete ‘Boots Commercial’ diary for 1917, the latter with wordprocessed transcript (49pp), both covering his service as an able seaman in the Auxiliary Patrol armed yacht HMS SAGITTA, the 1916 entries noting her deployment on minesweeping duties in the North Sea and the 1917 ones recording how she was based on Lowestoft, Suffolk from January – March for patrol duties in the North Sea and then, after a refit, proceeded from Home waters to the Arctic (March – May) to serve as the headquarters ship for Captain H A Hurt RN, the Senior Naval Officer, White Sea, and was employed on convoy escort, minesweeping and shipping examination duties until ordered back to the United Kingdom in December; with useful entries concerning U boat activity and the harsh weather conditions off North Russia, SAGITTA’s poor sea-keeping qualities in bad weather (‘a prodigy for rolling’), the task of coaling ship, the loss of the SS ZILLAH (24-26 October 1917) and his off duty recreations ashore. The diaries are accompanied by an ms letter (2pp) to his parents written during SAGITTA’s passage home from the White Sea (December 1917), SAGITTA’s printed Christmas cards for 1915 and 1916, an ms fair copy (38pp), with ms covering letter (1p) dated December 1977, of a diary kept by R J Prior, another member of SAGITTA’s ship’s company, during her deployment in the White Sea, a photograph of Sadd in uniform and an album and loose photographs principally showing scenes on board the ship and mostly unidentified members of her crew (1915 – 1917).
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Royal Navy Auxiliary Patrol armed yacht HMS SAGITTA | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Sadd, John G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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