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Description: | A very substantial collection of reminiscences, mostly in the form of questionnaires completed for an author in 1972, and also some copies of original personal letters and diary entries, written by British and German naval officers and ratings who took part in the Battle of Jutland on 31 May - 1 June 1916; together with letters from relatives of men who served at Jutland, press-cuttings about the battle, and research notes and preliminary drafts for the author's proposed book. The 197 major contributions are filed alphabetically under their writer's name and in each case their rank or rate at the time and the name of their ship is identified on the file cover. The best of these accounts, mostly contemporary, are written by British eyewitnesses in the battleships HMS BARHAM (Frampton, Phillips), HMS BENBOW (Lawder), HMS COLOSSUS (Foot), HMS CONQUEROR (Sneesby), HMS IRON DUKE (Bristow), HMS VALIANT (Duthy, Haldane, Wright), and HMS VANGUARD (Elgood); the cruiser HMS WARRIOR (Leake); the light cruisers HMS CALLIOPE (Algar), HMS CAROLINE (Smith), HMS CHAMPION (Cracknell) and HMS CHESTER (Phipps Hornby); the destroyers HMS BROKE (Croad), HMS MAENAD (Champion) and HMS MOORSON (Owen); and the seaplane carrier HMS ENGADINE (Ganderton); and by German eyewitnesses in the battleships KOENIG (Motzler, Hellmeyer, Von Pein), GROSSER KURFUERST (Beissel von Gymnich), KRONPRINZ WILHELM (Habedanck), MARKGRAF (Gretzschel), NASSAU (Bonatz, Meenzen); the battlecruisers SEYDLITZ (Faber), VON DER TANN (Helms); the light cruisers PILLAU (Krause, Jeglinski), ELBING (Bassenge, Meier), REGENSBURG (Strei); and the torpedo boats S34 (Lampe) and V1 (Frost).
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1982-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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