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Description: | British boy seaman trained at HMS Powerful and HMS Ganges, GB, 1913; served aboard HMS Hercules and HMS Surly in GB coastal waters, 1913-1916
REEL 1 Background in Poole and Portland, 1897-1913: family; education; employment. Recollections of training as boy seaman with training ships HMS Powerful and HMS Ganges, 1913: reasons for enlisting as boy seaman; reaction of parents to his enlistment; passing medical; reception on arrival at HMS Powerful; washing facilities.
REEL 2 Continues: character of mess decks; purpose of ditty box; enforcement of discipline; inspections and cleaning of mess; description of swimming pool and swimming instruction.
REEL 3 Continues: contrast in accommodation and messing between HMS Powerful and Shotley Barracks, HMS Ganges. Recollections of period as boy signaller aboard HMS Hercules in GB coastal waters, 1913-1915: going ashore during courtesy visits to coastal towns; cleaning ship and signal equipment; canteen messing on board; method of preparing 'Ush'.
REEL 4 Continues: preference for canteen messing; organisation of watch system; reasons why ship was a happy ship; rum ration; memories of outbreak of First World War and effects on Royal Navy, 8/1914.
REEL 5 Continues: intensification of drills and watches after outbreak of war; patrol work from Scapa Flow; use of war charity gifts; conditions in Portsmouth Barracks, 1915. Aspects of operations as boy signaller aboard HMS Surly, 1915-1916: escort duties in Channel; living conditions aboard ship; effect of introduction of hostilities only personnel. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hutchings, William Alfred | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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