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Description: | Ts transcript (8pp) of a contemporary account by an engine room rating in HMS GALATEA (1st Light Cruiser Squadron, Grand Fleet) of the Battle of Jutland on 31 May - 1 June 1916 and describing in particular how his ship was the first to sight the German High Seas Fleet, how she soon came under heavy fire and suffered some damage, what he saw of the battle from his relief action station on deck between 4.00 and 8.00pm during which time GALATEA was hampered by a broken fan impeller in her after boiler room, his glimpses of the aftermath of the battle and his belief that it had been "a decided victory for the British".
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1994-03 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Farquhar, T | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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