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Description: | Photocopy of a vivid ts account (13pp) of the Battle of Falkland Islands, 2 - 9 December 1914, possibly written by a Chief Yeoman of Signals in the cruiser HMS KENT and beginning with an anaylsis of the writer's feelings at the outset of the action and a description of the chase and first phase of the engagement with the German squadron, but primarily concerned with the KENT's pursuit and eventual destruction, after a fierce action at diminishing range, of the German light cruiser NURNBERG from which there were only seven survivors. Together with a photocopy of the official ship's log of HMS KENT (2pp), 8 - 9 December 1914.
Cataloguer Backlog
Catalogue date 1981-04-23 | 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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