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Description: | Ms. diary (60pp) kept by a naval rating briefly mentioning his service in the battleship HMS OCEAN in Home waters, August-September 1914, and containing short but almost daily entries covering his service between October 1914 and July 1917 in HMS BENBOW (4th Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet till June 1916, then 1st battle Squadron), together with copies of two naval signals, December 1915 and February 1916. The diary is a basic factual record of the ship's routine and movements and includes entries referring to the Battle of Jutland and the destruction by internal explosions of the cruiser NATAL (30 December 1915) and the battleship VANGUARD (9 July 1917).
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1986-11-13 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | HMS OCEAN Royal Navy battleship (1913) HMS BENBOW | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Percival, W A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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