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Description: | Microfilm copy of an ms dairy (21pp) written during his service as Commander of the cruiser HMS DRAKE, the flag ship of Rear-Admiral W L Grant, commanding the 6th Cruiser Squadron (13 July - 19 August 1914 and 26 October - 29 November 1914), sailing to Scapa Flow and performing patrol work in the North Atlantic; and a microfilm copy of three ms diaries of his service as Commander of HMS CHANGUINOLA (96pp) (1 February - 31 December 1915) and as Acting Captain (1 January 1916 - August 1917), attached to the 10th Cruiser Squadron (or Northern Patrol) whose responsibility was to patrol the waters between Iceland and the north of Scotland and intercept all merchant ships proceeding to Germany or neutral ports, including ms tables showing the number of ships boarded, distance run and average speed, while describing the organisation of the patrol line, highlighting difficulties including the boarding of ships and the delicate handling of neutral shipping, the weather, the indifferent quality of some RNR officers, discipline and threats of a U-boat attack, athletics and sports events to combat boredom, the loss of HMS AVENGER, coming under fire by a German submarine, and picking up survivors from the Q-ship HMS CHAGFORD; a fourth diary covers his service as Naval Attaché at the Hague (30 January - 2 November 1918) where his primary responsibility was for those officers interned in Holland under international law, describing visits to the internment camp at Groningen, the outcome of a conference on the exchange of prisoners of war, the scandal that followed the consular official (Maxse)'s attempt to publish libellous letters discrediting Oppenheimer, and the execution of Captain Charles Fryatt of the SS BRUSSELS; with microfilm copies of a selection of letters written to his wife (August 1914 - November 1918) which concern the war and events at The Hague.
Cataloguer JSK
Catalogue date 2002-05-01 | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | 10th Cruiser Squadron armed merchant cruiser HMS DRAKE Royal Navy 6th Cruiser Squadron HMS CHANGUINOLA | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brocklebank, H C R | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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