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Description: | Bound photocopy of an ms journal (366pp), with photographs inserted, covering his service as a Royal Fleet Reserve signalman in HMS SUTLEJ when she was employed on patrol and shipping examination duties first with the 9th Cruiser Squadron on the Finisterre station (August - September 1914) and then with Cruiser Force E in the eastern Atlantic (September 1914 - February 1915); and in the armed merchant cruiser HMS EBRO (April 1915 - July 1918) which was attached to the 10th Cruiser Squadron up to December 1917 and employed on patrol and shipping examination duties in the North Atlantic and subsequently, from January - July 1918, acted as an ocean escort to convoys sailing between the United Kingdom and West Africa and the United Kingdom and South America. The journal illustrates the ceaseless round of intercepting and examining British, allied and neutral merchant shipping, often in very bad weather, which was the lot of the 10th Cruiser Squadron on the Northern Patrol as they sought to prevent the passage of contraband goods to Germany (19 February 1916), the growing threat of U-boat attack (20 May 1917) and Grayson's distress at his wife's protracted ill-health and eventual death in October 1915.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1996-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Grayson, T | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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