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Description: | Two ms Midshipman's Journals covering the periods May 1913 - February 1914 and February 1914 - May 1915, and describing his service in the battle cruiser HMS INDOMITABLE, with details of the peacetime routine of a capital ship of the Royal Navy and the 1913 naval manoeuvres, and later with HMS INDOMITABLE in the Mediterranean at the outbreak of the war, taking part in the chase of the GOEBEN and the BRESLAU, and in the first naval bombardment of the Dardanelles forts (November 1914), the return of HMS INDOMITABLE to Home waters (December 1914), taking part in the Battle of Dogger Bank (January 1915), which Schofield calls the Battle of the Ems River, with interesting observations about the quality of German shells, with illustrations of ships, maps and other observations. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | HMS INDOMITABLE Royal Navy battlecruiser (1907) | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Schofield, Brian Betham | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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