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Description: | Ms diary, in six volumes, kept almost throughout the First World War by a regular Yeoman of Signals RN and describing in considerable detail his experiences when the battleship HMS AUDACIOUS (2nd Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet) was mined and sunk off the NW coast of Ireland (27 October 1914) and his subsequent service in the armed steam yacht LORNA, which was attached to the Stornoway Auxiliary Patrol and employed on anti-submarine patrols and shipping examination duties off NW Scotland (October 1914 - October 1915), and then in the battleship HMS MARLBOROUGH (1st Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet) from May 1916 - November 1918, with good accounts of the Battle of Jutland and the destruction by internal explosion of HMS VANGUARD at Scapa Flow (9 July 1917) and much useful information about the day-to-day routine and deployment of the Grand Fleet and the morale of its officers and men; together with his official service record and a few papers about the surrender of the German High Seas Fleet and MARLBOROUGH's evacuation of members of the Russian royal family from South Russia, 1919 - 1920.
Cataloguer PJT
Catalogue date 1985-06-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Stornoway Auxiliary Patrol Russia 1918-1919 High Seas Fleet 4th Battle Squadron Russian Royal Family Signals VANGUARD (HMS) armed steam yacht LORNA 1st Battle Squadron First Battle of the Atlantic 1914-1918 Anti-submarine Warfare 1914-1918 Royal Navy 2nd Battle Squadron North Sea Battle of Jutland 1916 South Russia Intervention 1918-1919 First World War battleship MARLBOROUGH (HMS) Atlantic Ocean Grand Fleet German Navy AUDACIOUS (HMS) | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Attrill, J E | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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