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Description: | British seman served as stoker served aboard HMS Prince George, HMS Swiftsure, HMS Viking and HMS Enchantress in GB coastal waters and Mediterranean, 1909-1914; served aboard HMS Rattlesnake in Mediterranean, 1914-1917
REEL 1: Recollections of service as stoker with Royal Navy, 1909-1919: family; training on Lord Nelson and training ship HMS Renown; duties in barracks; drafted to battleship HMS Prince George and duties as stoker; drafted to HMS Swiftsure with Mediterranean Fleet; opinion of captains; daily routine and duties; shore leave; drafted to HMS Enchantress, 1912; description of cleaning boilers; drafted to HMS Viking; drafted to HMS Rattlesnake in Mediterranean, 1914; duties; based in Mudros and patrol duties in Dardanelles; minesweeping; memory of seeing HMS Triumph sinking; weather conditions; collision with French merchant ship; story of muster bags; repairs in Malta; returned to GB, 1917; messing arrangements; duties as leading stoker; duties aboard Royal Yacht cutter.
REEL 2 Continues: pay; conditions in boiler room; various memories of HMS Vindictive, HMS Westminster, HMS Iron Duke and HMS Renown; training courses; opinion of officers; daily routine as stoker; inspections; opinion of warrant engineers. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Baynham, Henry | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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