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Description: | Ms diary (pp 1-24 only), with ts transcript (13pp), kept by an able seaman in the light cruiser HMS BRISTOL from December 1914 - March 1915 describing her part in the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914, when she was detached from the main action to pursue and sink two German transport ships, and in the subsequent frustrating search off the extreme southern coasts of South America, often in very inhospitable seas and weather, for the German light cruiser DRESDEN which had escaped destruction in the battle; together with three other ms accounts (12pp in total, including diagrams), written at a slightly later date, principally relating to the Battle of the Falkland Islands and mentioning the 'high spirits' in HMS BRISTOL at the prospect of action and how the ship's company of the light cruiser HMS GLASGOW had been 'full of swank' after the battle, an ms account (2pp), written in 1915, of the inconclusive action in the Atlantic between the BRISTOL and the German cruiser KARLSRUHE just after the outbreak of war in August 1914, an ms diary (5pp) written by him in August 1915 covering BRISTOL's deployment with the British Adriatic Squadron and the threat posed by submarine and air attacks during their operations and an ms diary (1p) kept in November (?) 1915 when BRISTOL was still in the Mediterranean.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2006-04 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | King, H | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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