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Description: | Ms diary (71pp) kept from July 1914 - January 1915 by a leading seaman in the armoured cruiser HMS DEFENCE covering her preparations for war, her deployment in the Mediterranean at the outbreak of the war and then on patrol duties off the Dardanelles until early October, her service off the west coast of South America from late October - late November and then briefly on the other side of the South Atlantic off German South West Africa in December, and her passage back to the United Kingdom through heavy seas by early January; with interesting references to the very high regard in which DEFENCE's Captain, E La T Leatham (later a Vice Admiral) was held by the ship's company of his previous command HMS EURYALUS, to the warm reception given to HMS GLASGOW on her arrival at Montevideo after the Battle of Coronel and to conditions on the lower deck, particularly under wartime routine. Some mathematical calculations and graphs have been written at the end of the diary.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 2000-11 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Cartwright, L V | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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