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Description: | Photocopied ts extracts (46pp) from his letters written home, covering his commands of HMS No 6, the dummy battleship HMS ORION based on Loch Ewe (January - February 1915); of HMS No 14, the dummy battle cruiser HMS TIGER, the "flagship" of a Special Service Squadron of dummy warships on patrol duties in the Eastern Mediterranean in connection with the Dardanelles campaign from March 1915 until No 14 was torpedoed by U 8 on 30 May 1915; and of the armed drifters based on Ramsgate as part of the Dover Patrol, July 1915. The purpose of the dummy warships was to act as a bait for U-boats and draw their attention away from the real capital ships, while Forbes, who was born in 1845 and had retired from the Royal Navy in 1888, has the distinction of being the oldest officer to serve afloat in the First World War.
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Catalogue date 1981-07-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Forbes, W B | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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