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Description: | British seaman served as engine room artificer aboard training ships HMS Venus, HMS Essex and HMS Edgar in GB coastal waters, 1911-1914; served aboard HMS Galatea in North Sea, 1916-1918, including Battle of Jutland, 1916; served aboard submarines Nautilus and K15, 1918-1919
REEL 1: Aspects of period HMS Venus, HMS Essex and HMS Edgar in GB coastal water, 1911-1914: role and duties of engine room artificer; recruitment and training; joined navy in 1907 age 14; four year years apprenticeship at Fishguard establishment; description of training ships; accommodation; reason for joining Royal Navy; father's naval service; education; opinion of training and food; leave; description of training; sporting activities; opinion of instructors and discipline; story of artificers social club; turbines and oil fuel; refitting ships.
REEL 2 Continues: categories of artificers; opinion of education; training as fitter and turner; daily routine; tests; social background of parents; period as leading seaman aboard HMS Venus; story of red badge; duties; posted to HMS Essex; opinion of ship and attitude to prevalence of sodomy; opinion of captain and crew; daily routine and duties; types of boilers; use of fusable plugs; pay.
REEL 3 Continues: story of sexual abuse of boy seaman aboard HMS Essex; question of promotion; opinion of stokers; amusing story of tug; nature of general duties as engine room artificer; training as torpedo man; drafted to HMS Edgar; in barracks at outbreak of war, 8/1914; general duties. Aspects of operations aboard HMS Galatea in North Sea, 1916-1918: drafted as torpedo artificer to HMS Galatea at Scapa Flow; crew; description of ship and armaments; part of 1st Light Cruiser Sqdn; opinion of Capt Sinclair; description of operations during Battle of Jutland, 5/1916; damage to ship and casualties; problem with steering gear.
REEL 4 Continues: role as scouting ship for Admiral Beatty; opinion of outcome of Battle of Jutland; story of volunteering for submarines, 1918. Aspects of operations aboard submarines Nautilus and K15, 1918-1919: question of training; point system; crew and duties; messing arrangements; opinion of Nautilus; amusing story of losing gun; story of collecting H class submarine from America; damage to submarine and repairs; pay.
REEL 5 Continues: sailed to Bermuda, 11/1918. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Leggatt, Alfred | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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