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Description: | Ms diary (116pp) kept by an ordinary, later able seaman serving in the armoured cruiser HMS CARNARVON and covering her deployment on patrol and shipping examination duties in the Eastern Atlantic, including the seizure of the German liner PROFESSOR WOERMANN (August - mid October 1914), and then, based on the Abrolhos rocks, off the east coast of South America (mid October - December 1914), her participation in the Battle of the Falkland Islands (8 December 1914), during which she fired a few salvoes at the sinking SCHARNHORST and rescued some survivors from the GNEISENAU, and in the subsequent search in the Magellan Straits and off the southern tip of South America for the German light cruiser DRESDEN (December 1914 - early January 1915), her return to the Abrolhos rocks and service there as a guardship, broken only by a spell in dry dock in Rio de Janeiro after the ship had gone aground (February - April 1915), her passage to Bermuda and visit to Canada, when they were inspected by the Governor General in Montreal before going into dry dock (May - July 1915) and their passage back to the United Kingdom via Nova Scotia (July - August 1915), with some useful references to the monotony of patrol and guardship duties, living conditions on board CARNARVON, the lack of the pleasures of shore leave until the spring of 1915 and his views about the two British-built Brazilian battleships (27 October, 12 March) and reproducing some doggerel poetry about the Battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands; together with his official record (S 459) of service in the Royal Navy (1912 - 1918), his gunnery history sheet (S 1245) dated November 1916 and a ts letter (1p plus enclosure), dated July 1966, concerning Mr Humphrey and his diary.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2005-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Humphrey, G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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