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  World War 1 at Sea - In Memory of

HARRY RUSSELL, later OBE, Executive Chef of the Cunard Line and his service on HMS Caronia, 1914-16 (Part 2 of 3)

with thanks to his Great Granddaughter Eleanor Williams

Some of Caronia's engine room personnel (click to enlarge)

on to HMS Caronia, Part 3 of 3

 
 
 

44/45/46 - Pilot boat Sandy Hook, built 1902, 361grt, in collision and sunk off New Jersey on 27 April 1939

 
 

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49 - Believed to be 4.7in gun with shield
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53
54/55 - HMS Glory, battleship, escorted Canadian troop convoy in October 1914, joined North American and West Indies Station as flagship, transferred to Mediterranean June 1915 (Conway's All the World's Warships 1906-1921)

 
 

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61 - Believed to be with US schooner Edward B Winslow off American coast on 14 April 1915. No casualties and minimal damage (www.chriscunard.com)
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63/64/65 - and no safety equipment!

 
 

66 - Presumably now a storeroom/67 - Mascot No 2

 
 

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70 - HMS Glory (see 54/55)
71 - HMS Essex, armoured cruiser, served in North America and West Indies (NA&WI) Station
72 - HMCS Niobe, 1st class cruiser, also NA&WI. Paid off at Halifax October 1915, disarmed as depot ship (Conway's All the World's Warships 1906-1921)

 
 

73 - HMS Glory
74 - RMS Lusitania, another Cunard liner, sailed from New York 1 May 1915, torpedoed and sunk off S Ireland on 7 May with the loss of some 1,198 passengers and crew

 
 

75 - HMS Caronia
76 - Semaphore apparatus
77- Possible supply boat alongside; possibly HMS Essex in background

 
 

78 - RMS Adriatic, White Star liner on Liverpool-New York route
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80 - Dutch SS Noordam, Holland America Line, stopped by HMS Caronia on 8 September 1914 according to her log book. Ship appears to have been released I
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82 - HMS Carnarvon, armoured cruiser, North America & West Indies Station 1915-18

 
 

83
84 - Signalman probably taking down signal from Yeoman of Signals
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