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Description: | British shipwright served with Royal Navy in GB coastal waters, Mediterranean and North Sea, 1914-1918.
REEL 1: Background in Garston, Liverpool: apprenticeship as shipwright; attitude to outbreak of war; nature of work in dockyard; use of horses; memory of gun carriages practising in Garston Park; brother in served in Bantams; question of obtaining news about war. Aspects of period as shipwright with Royal Navy, 1914-1918: duties arming ships and submarines; types of guns; transferred to torpedo boat in Mediterranean; memory of capturing German ships; description of conditions aboard submarine; attacks by German ships; transferred to gunboat in North Sea; nature of armaments and role escorting merchant ships. Various aspects of post-war life and employment: memory of friends killed on Western Front; attitude to post-war conditions; importance of Liverpool in ship building; post-war employment including building lifeboats for Mauretania.. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Kitney, Cliff | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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