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Description: | Ms diary (7pp) written by an Ordinary Seaman in the armoured cruiser HMS CARNARVON, July 1914 - August 1915, with very brief, impersonal and irregular entries covering the ship's deployment on patrol and shipping examination duties in the South Atlantic, including the capture of the German liner PROFESSOR WOERMANN, and then off the east coast of South America (August - November), the Battle of the Falklands Islands and the beginning of the search for the DRESDEN (December - January) and CARNARVON's collision with an uncharted rock off the Abrolhos Rocks and her time in dry dock in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Montreal, Canada before proceeding to the United Kingdom (February - August), together with his official certificate of service in the Royal Navy and the Royal Fleet Reserve, eventually as a Leading Seaman, from 1913 to 1936.
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | White, G | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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