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Description: | British officer served aboard HMS Tiger with 1st Battlecruiser Sqdn based at Rosyth, 1914-1916; present at Battle of Dogger Bank, 1/1915; present at Battle of Jutland, 31/5/1916-1/6/1916; served aboard HMS Inconstant, 1916-1918; served with Torpedo and Mining Electrical School at HMS Vernon, Portsmouth, 1923-194 ; dismantled first magnetic mine in the Thames estuary, 1939
REEL 1 Background attending Royal Naval College, Osborne, 1909-1914. Aspects of outbreak of First World War and period aboard HMS Mars, 8/1914. Recollections of service as midshipman aboard HMS Tiger, 1st Battle Cruiser Sqdn, Battlecruiser Fleet based at Scapa Flow and Rosyth, 1914-1915: conditions of service and status as midshipman; attitude to German sailors; opinion of Grand Fleet; move to Rosyth; efforts to counter German raids on East coast. Recollections of Battle of Dogger Bank, 1/1915: action station roles looking for U Boats and as messenger to captain in conning tower; visibility; situation; effects of German shells hitting HMS Lion; confused situation following transfer of Beatty to HMS Attack and consequent escape of German battlecruisers; sinking of SMS Blucher; question of effect of long ranges and vulnerability to plunging shells; damage to ship; personal morale; casualties; perceived risk of U Boats. Recollections of Battle of Jutland, 31/5/1916-1/6/1916: lack of forewarning.
REEL 2 Continues: action stations on starboard 6" gun battery; accuracy of early German fire; sinking of HMS Queen Mary and HMS Indefatigable; question of battlecruiser vulnerability to plunging shells; effects of German shells hitting HMS Lion; turn north and reactions to seeing Grand Fleet open fire; German turn away and destroyer torpedo attack; losses in 1st Cruiser Sqdn; reaction to sight of sinking HMS Invincible; nature of inconclusive night actions; damage to ship; accuracy of German range finders; gas mask; personal morale under German shell fire; meeting with 2nd Battle Sqdn, 1/6/1916. Recollections of action in pursuit of German light cruisers during service as sub lieutenant aboard HMS Inconstant, 6th Light Cruiser Sqdn, 1916-1918: ineffectiveness of long range fire; officer's close escape form bursting shell; support form HMS Repulse; breaking off action on arrival of German battleship reinforcements. Recollections of period with Torpedo and Mining Electrical School, HMS Vernon, Portsmouth, 1939-1945: pre-war role in development of non-contact magnetic and acoustic mines.
REEL 3 Continues: ships lost from non-contact mines; German seaplane missions dropping mines in estuaries; discovery of magnetic mines exposed in low water at Shoeburyness, 11/1939, including sending for nonmagnetic brass tools, discovery of safety pin nearby, removal of magnetic firing devices, detonators and priming charges, report to Churchill, examination of mine at HMS Vernon and subsequent development of magnetic mine sweeper; nature of British magnetic mine. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | IWM | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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