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Description: | Detailed ms diary, in 6 volumes, covering his service as a midshipman RNR (RN from August 1916) in the battleship HMS THUNDERER (2nd Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet) from December 1913 - December 1916, including the Battle of Jutland, and as a sub-lieutenant in the sloop POPPY, employed on anti-submarine patrol and convoy escort duties on the Coast of Ireland station at a time of considerable U-boat activity in the NW and SW Approaches (February 1917 - April 1918) and then on anti-submarine hydrophone patrols with the Northern Patrol based on Scapa Flow (April - June 1918). The most interesting entries relate to the Grand Fleet's anxieties about, and precautions against, the threat of submarine or air attack in the first months of the war, the suggestions of prejudice among RN officers against RNR officers and Jews, and his fellow officers' social life afloat and ashore throughout the war, while there are references in the 1917 - 1918 diaries to the sinking of a number of British merchant ships and to the loss of the cruiser HMS DRAKE (2 October 1917), the destroyer HMS WOLVERINE (12 December 1917), the destroyer HMS RACOON (9 January 1918) and the armed merchant cruiser CALGARIAN (1 March 1918). With the diaries is a copy of a monthly magazine (1935) containing a brief account by Goldrich of his naval career.
Cataloguer RWAS
Catalogue date 1986-12-10 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Merchant Navy cruiser Northern Patrol POPPY (HMS) destroyer sloop DRAKE (HMS) CALGARIAN U-boat destroyer (1910) armed merchant cruiser THUNDERER (HMS) First Battle of the Atlantic 1914-1918 HMS WOLVERINE Anti-submarine Warfare 1914-1918 Royal Navy 2nd Battle Squadron North Sea Battle of Jutland 1916 First World War battleship Atlantic Ocean Grand Fleet RACOON (HMS) German Navy | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Goldrich, Robert | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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