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Destroyer, Yarrow S-class

Built in place of W-class WAYFARER, ordered 4.17, G.33 (8.18). Launched 16.3.18 Yarrow. 930 tons, 273(oa), 260(pp)x26x10ft. Turbine 23000shp, 36kts. Armament: 3-4in, 1-2pdr, 4-21in tt. Crew: 90. Grand Fleet 1918. Sold 19.11.29 J. King. All except two of Class completed April 1918 to October 1919, several served in Baltic and Black Sea in 1919-20 and Mediterranean 1919-22. (British Warships 1914-1919/Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906-21)

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Notes:

1. Latitude/longitude, including for days in port, show representative decimal positions for each day, as calculated by the Old Weather project's analysis program. As such, they differ by varying amounts from the positions recorded, usually at noon, in the log pages. In addition, some latitudes/longitudes have been amended in edited logs for errors in the logs, for errors in identifying locations by the analysis program, or simply for greater accuracy. In all cases, refer to the log-page scans for the positions as originally recorded. Not all log pages contain this information and the ships' positions have therefore often been estimated.

2. Full account of any day is available by clicking on the link above that day. Groups of links refer to log book covers and introductory information; some may be blank.

Editor’s notes:

The second line of each day’s entry is the ship’s position at noon, expressed in decimal format.
When anchored, it is the co-ordinates of that harbour.
When at sea, it is the position entered in the log, marked DR for Dead Reckoning when no observation is available.
Sometimes, when no position has been entered and the editor has estimated the position from other information in the log, usually with the help of the Journey Plotter program, it is marked [approx].
Other positions in the log are shown in the traditional degrees and minutes format.

THE VOYAGES OF HMS TORCH (2)
(More detailed plots follow in the text)

JP map overview

(Maps prepared using Journey Plotter, developed by Maikel. The Plots can only be approximate. They are made by joining-up positions on successive days, and sometimes positions are not given. There will therefore be occasions when the ship appears to have travelled overland)

THE VOYAGES OF HMS TORCH (2)
Operations in the North Sea

JP map Torch (2) North Sea

LOG BOOKS – MAY 11TH 1918 to JUNE 30TH 1918


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[These are cover pages or blank.]


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Barometer: aneroid, T Wheeler no.3739

Thermometers for Air Temperature: Position in Ship, After Canopy, not screened

Maker: Kelvin, Bottomley & Baird [Cossers & Sons; from July 1 to September 1]



LOGS FOR MAY 1918


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11 May 1918

Greenock

Lat 55.97, Long -4.76

1.00pm: Took over ship from Messrs Yarrow. Ship at anchor off Greenock.

Oil Fuel on board 212.5 tons. Culinary Coal on board 3.0 tons

5.00pm: Read out & exercised Fire & Collision stations


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12 May 1918

Off Lamlash

Lat 55.53, Long -5.12

8.15am: Weighed & proceeded, course & speed as requisite for Lamlash

9.05am: Stopped & exercised sea boat

10.05am: Arrived Lamlash, anchored

5.15pm: Exercised General Quarters & ‘Abandon ship’


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13 May 1918

Off Lamlash

Lat 55.53, Long -5.12

5.30pm: HMS Maenad anchored in harbour

8.40pm: Weighed & secured to oiler for oil, received 26 tons


[HMS Maenad, 793 ton destroyer, was launched in 1915 by William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton. She was scrapped in 1921.]


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14 May 1918

Clyde to Scapa Flow

Lat 55.28, Long -5.08 [approx]

11.15am: Slipped oiler & proceeded in company with “Maenad”, course & speed as requisite for Scapa [Flow]

11.20am: Passed boom

12.40pm: Ailsa Craig abeam

6.10pm: Exercised ‘Action’ stations

9.39pm: Darkened ship, exercised ‘Night action’ stations

10.00pm: Secured


[Ailsa Craig is a small island in the Clyde estuary at Lat 55.25, Long -5.13.]


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15 May 1918

Scapa Flow

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

6.40am: Course & speed as requisite for entering Scapa Flow

6.50am: Secured to oiler for oil

8.30am: Received 72 tons, left oiler, secured alongside “Diligence”


[HMS Diligence, 3883 ton depot ship, was built in 1907 by D & W Henderson & Co, Glasgow, as “Tabaristan”. She was purchased by the Admiralty in 1913 & renamed, then scrapped in 1926.]


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16 May 1918

Scapa Flow

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

Hands employed as requisite.


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17 May 1918

Scapa Flow

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

6.15am: Slipped & proceeded into Flow for torpedo practice

7.00am: Passed out torpedo firing

8.00am: Anchored for breakfast

8.45am: Weighed & carried on with torpedo firing & 1” aiming

12.20pm: Anchored for dinner

1.30pm: Weighed & carried on with torpedo firing & 1” aiming

3.45pm: Secured owing to engine trouble

4.15pm: Carried on with 1” aiming

5.50pm: Secured alongside “Diligence”

8.40pm: 1 seaman, Petty Officer 1st class, joined


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18 May 1918

Scapa Flow

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

11.00am: Quarters, clean guns

8.15pm: 1 Sub Lieutenant RNVR joined ship from HMS P27


[“P27”, 613 ton patrol boat, was launched in 1915 by JT Eltringham & Co, Willington Quay. She was scrapped in 1923.]


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19 May 1918

Scapa Flow

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

7.30am: Hands to quarters, cleaned guns

10.30am: Sent church party to “Diligence”

11.45am: Church party returned

1.10pm: Granted short leave to starboard watch

6.00pm: Liberty men returned


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20 May 1918

Scapa Flow

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

3.45am: "Maenad" shoved off

6.15am: Discharged 1 officers’ steward III

6.30am: Slipped & proceeded as requisite for torpedo exercises in Flow

9.00am: Carried out torpedo exercises & fired torpedoes

Carried out 1” aiming rifle practice

1.50pm: Carried out torpedo firing

2.30pm: Secured alongside “Diligence”


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21 May 1918

Scapa Flow

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

6.30am: Prepared for Gun Layer’s test & torpedo firing

8.20am: Shoved off from “Diligence”

Carried out Gun Layer’s test & torpedo firing

12.20pm: Secured alongside oiler "Broadmayne", received 47 tons of oil fuel

1.15pm: Shoved off from oiler

1.40pm: Secured alongside “Diligence”

2 Hand Scrubbers & 1 Canvas bucket lost overboard by accident


[SS Broadmayne, 3120 ton tanker, was built in 1888 as “Oka” by Palmer’s Ship Building & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow. She was sold & renamed in 1891. In 1921 she was wrecked in the entrance to Dartmouth.]


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22 May 1918

Scapa Flow and on patrol

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

7.45pm: Shoved off from “Diligence” & proceeded, course & speed as requisite, with “Peregrine” & destroyers

8.00pm: Passed Switha Boom, took station astern of “Peregrine”

9.00pm: Exercised ‘Night action’ stations

11.30pm: Arrived on patrol line


[HMS Peregrine, 1025 ton destroyer, was launched in 1916 by John Brown & Co, Clydebank. She was sold in 1921.

A brief description of the Scapa Flow defences is given in the book by Angus Konstam.

Switha is a small uninhabited island to the South of Scapa Flow]


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23 May 1918

On Patrol

Lat 58.7, Long -2.9 [approx]

8.15am: In stations. Commenced zigzagging every 5 minutes

5.00pm: Evening quarters, carried out evolutions

6.15pm: Secured from evolutions


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24 May 1918

On patrol, in Scapa Flow and on patrol

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

2.05am: Challenged a trawler, no reply. Closed & demanded number (Trawler 3845)

2.15am: Resumed Patrol.

4.00am: Left Patrol, closed “Medina”

4.30am: Took station astern of “Medina”, course & speed as requisite for returning to base

8.15am: Passed Switha Boom

8.45am: Secured alongside oiler “Broadmayne”, received 89 tons oil

9.55am: Shoved off

10.25am: Secured alongside “Diligence”

12.25pm: "Maenad" secured alongside

1.05pm: Hands to quarters, cleaned guns

11.35pm: Slipped & proceeded in company with “Maenad” & “Tancred”


[Trawler 3845 was “ST Morgan Jones”, 278 tons, completed in March 1918 by Fletcher, Son & Fearnall Ltd, Limehouse, London. She was requisitioned as an auxiliary patrol vessel in WW2 and scrapped in 1957.

HMS Medina, 1025 ton destroyer, was launched in 1916 by JS White, Cowes. She was sold in 1921.

HMS Tancred, 1250 ton destroyer, was launched in 1917 by William Beardmore & Co Ltd, Dalmuir. She was scrapped in 1928.]


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25 May 1918

At sea to Rosyth

Lat 57.0, Long -1.8 [approx]

12.35am: Took station on starboard bow of “Temeraire”, course & speed as requisite for proceeding to Cromarty

5.35am: Arrived at Whistle buoy, left Battleships, formed single line ahead, course & speed as requisite in proceeding to Rosyth

9.05am: Took station on port beam of “Maenad”, 5 cables

12.15pm: Took station astern owing to fog

12.30pm: Took station abeam

2.45pm: Inchkeith abeam to port

3.05pm: Passed under Forth Bridge

3.20pm: Secured in Penns, received 50 tons of oil fuel


[HMS Temeraire, 18,894 ton battleship, was launched in 1907 at HM Dockyard, Devonport. She participated in several fleet reviews before war broke out. Her main engagement was the Battle of Jutland. Post war she became a cadet training ship before her scrapping in 1922. She is part of the Old Weather fleet.

Inchkeith is an island in the Firth of Forth, Scotland at Lat 56.03, Long -3.13.]

[Penns, naval moorings]


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26 May 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

7.30am: Quarters, clean guns

10.30am: Landed church party

11.15am: Church party returned

12.30pm: Leave to anchorage of starboard watch

5.00pm: Landed canteen party

7.30pm: Liberty men & canteen party on board


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27 May 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

7.15am: Slipped & proceeded as requisite to fire 1" aiming rifle in Largo Bay

8.15am: Carried out 1” AR firing

11.30am: Secured in Penns

12.30pm: Received 22 tons oil fuel

5.00pm: Landed canteen party


[Largo Bay is in Scotland at Lat 56.2, Long -2.97.]


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28 May 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.20am: Slipped & proceeded as requisite for 1” aiming rifle practice in Largo Bay

9.00am: Carried out 1” AR firing

11.15am: Secured in Penns, received 8 tons of oil fuel.


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29 May 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

7.30am: Shoved off from Penns

8.00am: Secured alongside “Simoom” at no 14 buoy

Hands employed painting & as requisite

1.00pm: Landed percentage of starboard watch

7.15pm: Liberty men returned


[HMS Simoom, 1025 ton destroyer, was launched in Jan 1918 by John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank. She was scrapped in 1931.]


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30 May 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

All day: Hands employed painting ship

1.00pm: Leave to port watch


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31 May 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.08, Long -2.63 [approx]

9.00am: Slipped & proceeded

11.30am: Carried out ‘Battle Practice’ off Bass Rock

Noon: Returned to harbour.

12.40pm: Secured to oiler off Inchkeith for oil, received 13 tons oil fuel

2.45pm: Left oiler, proceeded into harbour

3.40pm: Arrived in harbour, secured to buoy alongside “Simoom”


[Bass Rock is off the coast of Scotland at Lat 56.08, Long -2.63.]


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1 June 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

1.00pm: Hands received monthly pay

4.20pm: Landed canteen party


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2 June 1918

Rosyth and at sea

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.00am: Landed Roman Catholic & Wesleyan church party

9.30am: Hands to divisions & prayers

11.00pm: Church party returned on board

4.50pm: Slipped & proceeded in company with “Noble”, “Munster” & “Simoom”

7.30pm: May Island abeam to starboard – 1 mile


[The Isle of May is off the coast of Scotland at Lat 56.21, Long -2.58.

HMS Noble, 1025 ton destroyer, was launched in 1915 by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd, Govan. She took part in the Battle of Jutland and was scrapped in 1921.

HMS Munster, 1025 ton destroyer, was launched in 1915 by John Thorneycroft, Southampton. She took part in the Battle of Jutland and was scrapped in 1921.]


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3 June 1918

At sea

Lat 59.3, Long 2.8 [approx]

1.34am: Girdleness Light N35W

3.07am: Sighted convoy, 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron formed single line abreast to starboard

3.50am: Zig-zag 8 points every 15 minutes

5.30pm: Passed convoy bearing W


[Girdle Ness Lighthouse is in Scotland at Lat 57.13, Long -2.05.]


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4 June 1918

At sea

Lat 59.4, Long 2.9 [approx]

2.00am: 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron formed line abreast, formed anti submarine screen, zig-zag 8 points every 15 minutes

3.15am: Altered course 16 points port, sighted convoy bearing ENE

3.50pm: Ran into dense fog, lost “Simoom”

4.30pm: “Simoom” rejoined


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5 June 1918

At sea

Lat 59.2, Long 2.7 [approx]

Number on sick list 1


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6 June 1918

At sea to Rosyth

Lat 57.8, Long 0.9 [approx]

7.30am: 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron got out paravanes

11.20am: Sighted land bearing NW

3.00pm: Sighted mines. Stopped & sank 3 mines by rifle fire

4.15pm: Took station 5 cables ahead of “Birkenhead”

5.45pm: Bell Rock SW, 3 miles

6.00pm: Rejoined 3rd LCS, 22 knots

7.45pm: Passed Fidra Gap, courses & speeds as requisite for entering harbour

9.00pm: Secured alongside D Penn & oiled, received 210 tons


[HMS Birkenhead, 5319 ton cruiser, was launched in 1914 at Cammell Laird, Birkenhead as “Pavlos Kountoriotis” for the Greek Navy. She was purchased & renamed by the Admiralty in 1915 and took part in the rescue of the “Caribbean’s” survivors when the latter foundered off Cape Wrath in 1915. She took part in the Battle of Jutland and was scrapped in 1921.

Bell Rock is off the coast of Scotland at Lat 56.43, Long -2.38.]


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7 June 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

6.10am: Slipped & proceeded to 21 buoy

6.30am: Secured alongside “Onslaught” at 21 buoy

7.00am: “Onslaught” slipped

1.00pm: Liberty men landed, hands make & mend

6.30pm: Liberty men returned


[HMS Onslaught, 1025 ton destroyer, was launched in 1915 by the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan. She was scrapped in 1921.]


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8 June 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

2.10pm: Slipped & proceeded alongside “Woolwich”, port side

Secured alongside “Woolwich”, landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed canteen party

7.00pm: Liberty men & canteen party returned


[HMS Woolwich, 3380 ton sea-going depot ship, was launched in 1912 by the London & Glasgow Engineering & Iron Shipbuilding Co, Govan. She was scrapped in 1926.]


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9 June 1918

Rosyth and at sea

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.00am: Landed Roman Catholic & Wesleyan church party

9.00am: Landed Church of England party

11.30am: Church parties returned

2.30pm: Slipped & proceeded

3.15pm: Took station in 3rd division, course & speed as requisite for leaving harbour

6.30pm: May Island abeam to starboard

9.10pm: Zig-zag 2 points every 10 minutes


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10 June 1918

At sea to Northern Base [Scapa Flow]

Lat 58.76, Long -3.06 [approx]

3. 20am: Battle Fleet took up 3rd Cruising Disposition

11.55am: Course & speed as requisite for entering harbour

1.00pm: Secured alongside oiler, received 63 tons

1.40pm: Secured to G1 buoy


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11 June 1918

Northern Base [Scapa Flow]

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

Hands employed as requisite.


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12 June 1918

Northern Base [Scapa Flow]

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

All day: Hands employed refitting & as requisite

1 length canvas hose lost overboard by accident

11.00pm: 1 Petty Officer Gunner’s Mate joined ship


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13 June 1918

Scapa Flow, exercising and return

Lat 58.7, Long -2.85 [approx]

7.15am: Slipped & proceeded in company with 12th Flotilla.

Carried out exercises East of Pentland Skerries with 1st Battle Squadron, 11 & 12 Flotillas

11.45am: Exercised smoke screen with smoke floats

7.00pm: Formed anti-submarine screen on 1st BS

9.00pm: Secured alongside oiler, received 40 tons

10.15pm: Secured to G1 buoy


[The Pentland Skerries are a group of rocks in the Pentland Firth at Lat 58.68, Long -2.9.]


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14 June 1918

Northern Base [Scapa Flow]

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

Hands employed as requisite.


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15 June 1918

Scapa Flow and on patrol

Lat 58.65, Long -2.95 [approx]

6.15am: Slipped & left harbour with “Scimitar”

7.00am: Course & speed as requisite for screening Sweepers.

1.32pm: Left minesweepers, patrolled southern portion of Eastern Patrol at 18 kts.

4.00pm: Rendezvous with “Scimitar” at Pentland Skerries & carried out ‘Active Service Signal’ exercise

5.00pm: Resumed patrol

5.40pm: Fired pom-pom


[HMS Scimitar, 905 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank. She played little part in WW1, spent much of the inter-war period in reserve but participated in the Dunkirk Evacuation and acted as convoy escort in WW2. She was scrapped in 1947.]


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16 June 1918

Patrol and at Northen Base

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

12.34am: Sighted Noss Head N58W

3.00am: Commenced zig-zagging, 17 knots

6.18am: Duncansby Head bore WNW, 2½ miles

9.15am: Relieved by “Maenad” & “Munster” & returned to harbour, course & speed as requisite

9.50am: Passed Switha Boom

10.15am: Secured alongside oiler, received 65 tons

11.40am: Secured alongside “Diligence”


[There are 2 headlands called Noss Head in Scotland. This is probably the one at Lat 58.47, Long -3.0.

Duncansby Head is in Scotland at Lat 58.65, Long -3.03.]


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17 June 1918

Northern Base

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

All day: Hands employed as requisite cleaning & painting ship

3.30pm: Landed port watch for football

7.00pm: Liberty men returned onboard

Lent 1 Sub Lieutenant RN to “Scimitar”


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18 June 1918

Northern Base

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

All day: Hands employed painting & refitting

4.00pm: Gave leave to starboard watch

6.30pm: Liberty men returned on board


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19 June 1918

Northern Base

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

All day: Hands employed refitting & as requisite

4.30pm: Leave to port watch & football party


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20 June 1918

Northern Base

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

All day: Hands painting ship & as requisite

4.30pm: Landed football party

7.00pm: Football party returned onboard


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21 June 1918

Northern Base

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

am: Hands employed refitting & as requisite

1.00pm: Gave leave to the watch. Landed concert & boxing parties. Remainder employed as requisite

4.30pm: Landed football party

7.20pm: Liberty men returned on board


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22 June 1918

Northern Base, at sea for exercises and return

Lat 58.7, Long -2.8 [approx]

7.00am: Proceeded out of harbour with 3rd Division

7.25am: Formed anti-submarine screen on BCs [Battle Cruisers]

8.10am: Pentland Skerries bore S, distance ½ mile

9.30am: BCs carried out firing, speed 30 knots

4.20pm: Pentland Skerries abeam, left BCs and proceeded out of Harbour with Flotilla to hunt a seaplane, course S52E, 20 knots

9.45pm: Passed Switha Boom

10.25pm: Secured alongside oiler, received 72 tons

11.56pm: Shoved off from oiler


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23 June 1918

Scapa Flow and at sea [convoy escort]

Lat 58.80, Long -3.05

12.15am: Secured to G2 buoy

11.45am: Proceeded in company with “Scimitar”

12.10pm: Passed Switha Boom, slow, waited for “Commonwealth”

12.45pm: Took station on port bow “Commonwealth”

1.30pm: Pentland Skerries bore S, course ESE, speed 14.5 knots

5.00pm: Commenced zig-zag, 30° either side course every 10 minutes

[9.00pm: Rendezvous with the convoy and the 3rd LCS (HMS Chatham, flag) en route to Holmengraa; vide log of HMS Commonwealth]

9.20pm: 40° either side

Number on sick list 1


[HMS Commonweath, 15,630 ton battleship, was launched in 1903 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan. She served in the Channel Fleet, then the Grand Fleet. After refitting in 1917 she became a gunnery training ship and was sold in 1921. She is part of the Old Weather fleet.]


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24 June 1918

At sea, convoy escort

Lat 59.7, Long -0.01 [vide log of HMS Commonwealth]

Continued zig-zagging at various angles to course

11.52pm: Dinghy & whaler damaged by sea [strong NE’ly winds f 6-7 in pm, with correspondingly rough seas]

Number on sick list 1


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25 June 1918

At sea, convoy escort

Lat 60.83, Long 2.75 [vide log of HMS Commonwealth]

2.00pm: Three 4" common shell washed overboard

6.10pm: Sighted: Land ESE

[7.00pm: Parted company with old convoy and proceeded to join new; vide log of HMS Commonwealth]

8.00pm: Course as requisite for meeting convoy


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26 June 1918

At sea, convoy escort

Lat 60.51, Long 1.44 [vide log of HMS Commonwealth]

In am: Zig-zag either side of mean course N84W.

In pm: Zig-zag either side of mean SW’ly courses.


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27 June 1918

At sea to Northern Base

Lat 58.59, Long -1.48 [vide log of HMS Commonwealth]

10.00am: Left convoy

3.30pm: Sighted Pentland Skerries N68W

3.45pm: Lother Rock abeam to starboard

4.00pm: Course & speed as required for entering harbour, left “Commonwealth”

4.35pm: Secured alongside oiler, received 132 tons

6.15pm: Shoved off from oiler

6.40pm: Secured alongside “Diligence”

9.10pm: 3 ratings joined ship


[Lother Rock is off the coast of Burray at Lat 58.73, Long -2.97.]


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28 June 1918

Northern Base

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

am: Hands employed refitting & as requisite

Exercised control party at spotting table

2.00pm: Shoved off & proceeded to no. F2 buoy

10.15pm: 1 AB (Seaman Torpedoman) joined ship

Number on sick list 1


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29 June 1918

Northern Base

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

1.00pm: Gave leave to port watch & football party, remainder of hands make & mend clothes

5.00pm: Football party returned

6.00pm: Liberty men returned on board

10.30pm: 1 Stoker Petty Officer rejoined ship from “Diligence”


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30 June 1918

At sea

Lat 58.6, Long -2.2 [approx]

8.30am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour with “Scimitar”

Relieved “Scotsman” & “Scout” on Eastern Patrol

4.06pm: Carried out signal exercise & officer of watch manoeuvres

[page signed John S. Knox Lt]


[HMS Scotsman, 905 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank. She was scrapped in 1937.

HMS Scout, 905 ton destroyer, was launched in 1917 by John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank. She served in the East during WW2 and became an accommodation ship in 1944. She was scrapped in 1946.]


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[These are blank or cover pages.]



LOG BOOKS – JULY 1ST 1918 to AUGUST 31ST 1918


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[These are covers, blank & a list of meteorological instruments.]


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LOGS FOR JULY 1918


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1 July 1918

Eastern patrol and Northern Base

Lat 58.6, Long -2.1 [approx]

12.53am: Pentland Skerries N20E, Noss Head N53W

6.00am: Formed anti-submarine screen on fleet sweepers searching East channel

8.15pm: Passed Switha Boom

8.40pm: Secured alongside oiler, received 79 tons of oil fuel

9.45pm: Shoved off from oiler

10.15pm: Secured alongside “Scout” at no G2 buoy

10.50pm: 1 rating rejoined from sick bay


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2 July 1918

Northern Base

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

1.25pm: Landed football party, remainder of hands as requisite

7.00pm: Football party returned on board

Number on sick list 1


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3 July 1918

from Northern Base

Lat 58.8, Long -3.05

8.30am: Slipped & proceeded with 3rd Division

am: Carried out divisional practice with 1” aiming rifle

Noon: Passed Switha Boom

12.30pm: Secured alongside oiler, oiled 9 tons

1.15pm: Shoved off from oiler

1.30pm: Secured alongside “Scout” at G2 buoy

4.00pm: Gave leave to port watch

7.00pm: Liberty men returned on board


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4 July 1918

from Northern Base

Lat 58.77, Long -3.05 [approx]

9.00am: Slipped and proceeded with “Scotsman” & “Scout”

9.17am: Passed Switha Boom

10.23am: Exercised ‘Action Stations’. Carried out 4” full calibre firing, 10 rounds per gun

12.40pm: Passed Switha Boom

1.15pm: Secured alongside oiler, received 12 tons

1.45pm: Shoved off from oiler

2.05pm: Secured to G1 buoy

4.00pm: Leave to starboard watch

7.00pm: Liberty men returned on board

9.30pm: Discharged 1 ordinary seaman, sick

Number on sick list 1


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5 July 1918

from Northern Base

Lat 58.8, Long -3.05

8.55am: Slipped & proceeded with 3rd Division

9.30am: Passed Switha Boom

Course & speed as requisite for Divisional 1” aiming rifle practice

12.15pm: Passed Switha Boom

1.04pm: Secured alongside oiler, oiled 8 tons

1.33pm: Shoved off from oiler, secured alongside “Scimitar” at G1 buoy

4.00pm: Leave to port watch

7.00pm: Liberty men returned on board

10.30pm: 2 ratings rejoined ship from Sick Bay

Number on sick list 2


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6 July 1918

Northern Base and at sea

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

11.25am: Slipped & proceeded with “Scimitar”

12.15pm: Negative proceed out of harbour

12.35pm: Secured alongside “Scimitar” at G1 buoy

Hands make & mend clothes

5.55pm: Discharged Coxswain, sick, to “Diligence”

7.30pm: Slipped & proceeded with 3rd Screening Group

8.18pm: Passed Switha Boom

Course & speed as requisite for forming anti-submarine screen on 3rd Division Battle Fleet

Number on sick list 1


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7 July 1918

At sea for Rosyth

Lat 57.7, Long -1.5 [approx]

4.00am: Took up day cruising formation

am: Course & speed as requisite for PZ exercise no1

Exercised ‘General quarters’, ‘Abandon ship’, ‘Repel boarders’, ‘Fire stations’ & ‘Collision stations’

11.0am: Secured from ‘General quarters’

pm: Course & speed as requisite for PZ exercise no 2

8.30pm: Exercised ‘Night action stations’

10.30pm: Formed MG 6 [seems to be some sort of formation], negative zig-zag

Number on sick list 1


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8 July 1918

At sea to Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

5.25am: May Island Light abeam to port, 1 mile

6.00am: Passed Fidra Boom

6.20am: Parted company with Battle Fleet & proceeded into harbour

7.35am: Secured in B2 berth in Penns, oiled 80 tons

11.15am: Shoved off, left Penns. Secured alongside “Scimitar” at no.13 buoy

4.00pm: Gave leave to starboard watch

7.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 1


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9 July 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

4.00pm: Landed liberty men, 1 able seaman rejoined ship

7.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 1


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10 July 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder of hands make & mend clothes

7.00pm: Liberty men returned on board

Number on sick list 1


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11 July 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.00am: Steam at 5 minutes notice

All day: Hands employed painting ship & as requisite

Number on sick list 1


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12 July 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.00am: Reverted to usual notice for steam

Noon: Received 19 tons of oil fuel from "Lobster"

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder of hands employed as requisite

5.00pm: “Scimitar” shoved off

7.00pm: “Munster” secured alongside, liberty men returned on board

Number on sick list 1


[RFA Lobster, 160 tons, was launched in 1915 by Osbourne, Graham & Co, Sunderland, converted to a tanker and transferred to Rosyth. She was sold & renamed “Roam” in 1921 and foundered in 1926 with the loss of 2nd Engineer Thomas Woolley.]


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13 July 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30pm: Landed port watch, remainder of hands make & mend clothes

7.00pm: Liberty men returned

9.30pm: Fore part on Foc'sle unshackled. Prepared ship for sea.

Number on sick list 1


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14 July 1918

Rosyth and at sea

Lat 57.0, Long -1.5 [approx]

4.30am: Slipped & proceeded in company with “Scimitar”

5.20am: Passed Oxcars Gate

5.40am: Formed Anti Submarine screen on “Monarch”

9.30am: Commenced zig-zag

10.15pm: Passed Minelaying Squadron

Number on sick list 1


[HMS Monarch, 22,720 ton battleship, was launched in 1911 by Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick. She took part in the Battle of Jutland and was finally converted into a target ship and sunk in 1923.]


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15 July 1918

To Cromarty

Lat 57.68, Long -4.06

12.25am: Pentland Skerries bore N, Swilkie Point bore N40W, Noss Head bore SW

4.35am: Passed Cromarty Boom

5.05am: Secured alongside oiler, received 59 tons of oil fuel

6.15am: Shoved off from oiler

6.35am: Secured to no16 buoy

12.30pm: Landed starboard watch & football party

6.10pm: Starboard watch & football party returned onboard. Landed port watch

9.30pm: Port watch returned onboard

Number on sick list 1


[Swilkie Point is in Scotland at Lat 58.7, Long -3.12.]


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16 July 1918

Cromarty and at sea for Rosyth

Lat 57.68, Long -4.06

11.15am: Medical inspection

12.30pm: Landed port watch, remainder of hands make & mend clothes

5.00pm: Port watch returned onboard, landed starboard watch

10.45pm: Slipped & proceeded in company with “Scimitar”

11.50pm: Passed boom

Number on sick list 1


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17 July 1918

At sea to Rosyth

Lat 56.8, Long -1.8 [approx]

12.07am: Formed anti-submarine screen on “Erin”

5.45am: Commenced zig-zag

8.30pm: Passed Fidra Gap

9.30pm: Secured in Penns in D2 berth alongside “Scimitar”, received 65 tons of oil fuel

11.51pm: Shoved off from Penns

Number on sick list 1


[HMS Erin, 23,000 ton battleship, was launched in 1913 as “Reshadieh” by Vickers for the Turkish Government. She was seized in August 1914 and renamed. Her only significant battle was at Jutland. She was present for the surrender of the German High Fleet and was scrapped in 1923.]


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18 July 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.15am: Secured alongside “Scimitar” at 23 buoy

am: Hands employed refitting, Coxswain rejoined ship

12.30pm: Discharged F Ward, ordinary telegraphist, to hospital

1.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder make & mend

pm: Engineering Lieutenant Commander Dunlop left ship

Engineering Lieutenant Commander Carter joined ship

7.00pm: Liberty men returned on board

Number on sick list 1


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19 July 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

7.30am: Shifted to no 20 buoy

am: Vickers representatives swung ship for adjustment of gun director, hands employed as requisite

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

1.15pm: “Scimitar” secured alongside

7.00pm: Liberty men returned on board


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20 July 1918

Rosyth to Largo Bay

Lat 56.2, Long -2.97

9.30am: Leading Telegraphist joined ship

10.30am: Slipped & proceeded with “Scimitar”

11.15am: Passed Inchkeith Boom

Noon: Anchored in Largo Bay


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21 July 1918

Largo Bay and on patrol

Lat 56.2, Long -2.97

1.30pm: Weighed & proceeded in company with “Scimitar”, course & speed as requisite to join “Valkyrie”

9.00pm: Relieved patrol


[HMS Valkyrie, 1090 ton destroyer, was launched in 1917 by by William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton. She was scrapped in 1936.]


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22 July 1918

On patrol

Lat 56.1, Long -2.8 [approx]

9.30am: “Valkyrie” carried out 1" aiming rifle practice

Exercised control parties


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23 July 1918

Patrol and Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

5.30am: Passed Fidra Gap, parted company with “Valkyrie”

6.15am: Secured alongside oiler, received. 97 tons of oil fuel

7.35am: Shoved off from oiler

8.55am: Secured to no 28 buoy

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

2.30pm: Discharged King, Petty Officer Telegraphist, to “Valhalla”

7.00pm: Liberty men returned


[HMS Valhalla, 1339 ton flotilla leader, was launched in 1917 by Cammell Laird & Co, Birkenhead. She was scrapped in 1931.]


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24 July 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30pm: Landed recreation party, hands employed as requisite

7.30pm: Recreation party returned

Number on sick list 1


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25 July 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

All day: Hands employed as requisite

12.30pm: Landed watch

6.00pm: Received dry provisions

7.00pm: Liberty men returned on board

Number on sick list 1


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26 July 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

All day: Hands employed as requisite

Lost overboard by accident: one boat's crutch

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.00pm: Liberty men returned on board

Number on sick list 1


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27 July 1918

Rosyth to Cromarty

Lat 57.4, Long -1.6 [approx]

6.00am: Slipped & proceeded with “Simoom” & remainder of ½ flotilla

7.00am: Passed Black Rock Gate

5.50pm: Parted company with “Valhalla”

7.00pm: Passed Cromarty booms, entered harbour

8.40pm: Weighed & proceeded alongside oiler, received 40 tons of oil fuel

9.30pm: Shoved off from oiler

9.55pm: Secured to no.8 buoy

Number on sick list 1


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28 July 1918

Cromarty

Lat 57.68, Long -4.06

9.30am: Landed Presbyterian church party

10.30am: Divisions & Prayers

11.30pm: Church party returned

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 1


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29 July 1918

Cromarty and at sea escorting minelayers

Lat 59.6, Long -0.5 [approx]

1.30am: Slipped & proceeded with remainder of ½ flotilla

2.00am: Passed boom

2.30am: Course & speed as requisite to take up anti-submarine screen on American minelayers

8.00am: Noss Island abeam

10.10am: Commenced zig-zag

11.30am: Took up Screen No. 2

7.55pm: No 2 Light buoy abeam


[Noss Island is part of the Shetland group off the coast of Scotland at Lat 60.15, Long -1.02.]


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30 July 1918

At sea with minelayers

Lat 59.6, Long -0.5 [approx]

2.30am: Course & speed as requisite for minelaying

4.10am: Took up no.3 Screening Formation

2.45pm: Commenced zig-zag

7.00pm: No 4 buoy abeam

11.30pm: Pentland Skerries N6.5W

Number on sick list 1


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31 July 1918

At sea

Lat 56.8, Long -1.9 [approx]

6.10am: Parted company with minelayers

am: Carried out manoeuvres

2.30pm: Course & speed as requisite to open out to 2 miles SE of “Simoom”

5.30pm: Closed in to 4 cables

10.45pm: Girdle Ness Light abeam

Number on sick list 1



LOGS FOR AUGUST 1918


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1 August 1918

At sea to Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

1.01am: Bell Rock Light abeam to starboard, 2 miles

2.05am: May Island Light abeam to port

2.45am: Passed Fidra Gap

2nd Division proceeded to Methil

4.00am: Anchored

6.05am: Weighed & proceeded alongside oiler, received 187 tons oil fuel

8.35am: Shoved off from oiler & proceeded up harbour

9.10am: South Black Rock Gate

9.35am: Passed under bridge

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder of hands make & mend

6.30pm: Liberty men returned


[Methil is in Scotland at Lat 56.17, Long -3.02.]


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2 August 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

Lost overboard by accident: 1 Torpedo Director Scotchman, at sea Aug 1st

Dragged for Scotchman

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, hands employed as requisite

4.30pm: Surgeon Probationer left ship (demobilised)

7.30pm: Liberty men returned


[A scotchman is a fitting that prevents movement, presumably in this case some sort of metal bracket]


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3 August 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, make & mend clothes

7.00pm: Liberty men returned


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4 August 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.30am: Sent Church of England church party

11.00am: Church party returned

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, make & mend clothes

7.00pm: Liberty men returned onboard, Coxswain proceeded on leave


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5 August 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder employed as requisite

7.00pm: Shifted to no 13 buoy alongside “Scythe”, liberty men returned, 1 midshipman RN joined from “Agincourt”


[HMS Agincourt, 27,850 ton battleship, was launched in 1913 as “Rio de Janeiro” for the Brazilian Government. She was sold to the Ottoman Empire before completion but was seized by the Admiralty in August 1914 & renamed. She was sold for scrap in 1922.

HMS Scythe, 905 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank. She was scrapped in 1931.]


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6 August 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

Noon: Received 6 tons of oil fuel from "Lobster"

12.30pm: Landed X & Z watches & sports party

7.00pm: Liberty men & sports party returned on board


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7 August 1918

Patrolling Fidra Gap and to Largo Bay

Lat 56.1, Long -2.8 [approx]

8.00am: Slipped & proceeded to Inchkeith for compass correction

10.55am: Landed Naval Officer of “Valhalla” in Leith Roads

11.40am: Patrolling Fidra Gap

5.30pm: Returned to Largo Bay

6.30pm: Anchored


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8 August 1918

Fidra Gap patrol

Lat 56.2, Long -2.9

4.40am: Weighed & proceeded with “Mischief”, patrolling Fidra Gap

11.00am: Relieved by “Scimitar”, anchored in Largo Bay

Noon: Weighed & proceeded with “Fearless” & “Mischief”

12.15pm: Passed Fidra Gap, took station on starboard beam of “Fearless”

8.00pm: Relieved “Champion”, “Scythe” & “Munster”


[HMS Fearless, 3390 ton cruiser, was launched in 1912 at Pembroke Dockyard. She took part in the Battles of Heligoland Bight & Jutland and was scrapped in 1921. She is part of the Old Weather fleet.

HMS Mischief, 1025 ton destroyer, was launched in 1915 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan. She took part in the Battle of Jutland and was scrapped in 1921.

HMS Champion, 3750 ton cruiser, was launched in 1915 by Hawthorn, Leslie & Co, Tyneside. She fought in the Battle of Jutland. After the war she served in various training roles until scrapped in 1934.]


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9 August 1918

At sea

Lat 56.2, Long -2.4 [approx]

4.50am: Course & speed as requisite for exercises with K8

5.20pm: “Fearless” sighted submarine. challenged submarine, correct reply


[HM S/m K8]


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10 August 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30am: Gained touch with 4th Light Cruiser Squadron

2.15am: St Abb’s Head Light abeam to starboard

3.25am: May Island Light abeam to starboard

3.50am: Passed Fidra Gap

4.00am: Parted company with “Fearless”

4.30am: Passed Inchkeith

5.00am: Secured alongside oiler

6.45am: Shoved off from oiler, received 137 tons of oil fuel

7.35am: Secured alongside “Mischief” at no 12 buoy

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, hands employed as requisite

7.00pm: Liberty men returned


[St Abb’s Head Lighthouse is in Scotland at Lat 55.92, Long -2.14.]


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11 August 1918

Rosyth and Largo Bay

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.30am: Landed church party

11.30am: Church party returned

4.25pm: Wireless rating joined ship from “Valhalla”

5.00pm: Slipped & proceeded to Largo Bay with “Munster”

6.40pm: Anchored in Largo Bay

One bucket lost overboard


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12 August 1918

Fidra Gap patrol

Lat 56.1, Long -2.8 [approx]

6.40am: Weighed & proceeded to patrol Fidra Gap with “Munster”

1.00pm: Proceeded to join “Parker” & “Munster” in Largo Bay

1.35pm: Stopped in Largo Bay

2.00pm: Proceeded in company with “Parker” & “Munster”

3.00pm: May Island abeam to starboard

3.30pm: Took station 9 cables abeam of “Parker”

11.30pm: Carried out Night Attack on “Parker”

Midnight: Exercised Night Action


[HMS Parker, 1675 ton destroyer leader, was ordered as “Frobisher” but was renamed before her launch in 1916 by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. She was sold for scrap in 1921.]


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13 August 1918

On patrol

Lat 56.1, Long -2.75 [approx]

12.10am: Secured

3.30am: Opened out to usual distance

5.55am: Sighted submarine bearing N, altered course 6 points port

10.28am: Carried out torpedo attack on “Parker”, exercised ‘Action stations’

5.00pm: Exercised ‘Smoke screen’

8.00pm: Sighted reliefs

9.08pm: “Munster” parted company to board strange vessel, course as requisite for keeping in touch

11.15pm: Altered course to examine lights


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14 August 1918

Patrol and Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

Parted company with “Parker”, “Munster”. Lights proved to be trawlers & buoy

2.00am: May Island abeam

3.00am: Passed Inchkeith

4.00am: Secured in Penns in C2 berth

8.00am: “Munster” came alongside, hands employed refitting & painting ship

Lost overboard by accident: 1 paint brush

pm: Gave leave to 2 watches, remainder employed as requisite

5.00pm: Landed canteen party

7.00pm: Liberty men & canteen party returned


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15 August 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

All day: Hands employed painting ship

9.20am: Discharged 1 wireless/telegraphy rating to “Valhalla”

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

Lost overboard by accident: 1 paint brush

5.00pm: Landed canteen party

7.00pm: Liberty men & canteen party returned


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16 August 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

All day: Hands employed painting ship & as requisite

Noon: Received 33 tons of oil fuel from Port Edgar

Leave rota continues


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17 August 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

Noon: Received 87 tons of oil fuel from Port Edgar

pm: Hands make & mend


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18 August 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

am: Hands make & mend, leave rota continues


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19 August 1918

Rosyth, Fidra Gap patrol and Largo Bay

Lat 56.1, Long -2.8 [approx]

6.55am: “Munster” shoved off

7.00am: Shoved off & proceeded alongside “Munster” at no 13 buoy

am: Surgeon Probationer RNVR joined ship

10.25am: Slipped & proceeded with “Munster”

11.30am: Patrolled Fidra Gap

4.15pm: Left patrol & proceeded to Largo Bay

4.40pm: Anchored


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20 August 1918

Fidra Gap patrol and at sea

Lat 56.1, Long -2.8 [approx]

7.45am: Weighed & proceeded with “Munster”

8.00am: Patrolling Fidra Gap

am: Ordinary seaman training class to instruction

11.00am: Closed Inchkeith for daily signal

11.58am: Proceeded to Largo Bay

12.40pm: Proceeded with “Seymour” & “Munster”

1.25pm: May Island abeam

4.30pm: Took station 5 cables on port beam of “Seymour”


[HMS Seymour, ~1670 ton destroyer, was launched in 1916 by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. She was converted to a minelayer in 1918 & sold in 1930.]


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21 August 1918

At sea

Lat 56.0, Long -1.6 [approx]

4.25am: Took station on port beam 5 cables

5.25am: Commenced zig-zag each 10 minutes

9.45am: Opened out to 3 miles, zig-zag independent

5.00pm: Exercised General Drill

Lost during exercises: 1 Grassline, 1 Reindeer buoy & 1 Lifebuoy

9.00pm: Exercised ‘Night action’


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22 August 1918

To Rosyth and at sea with 3rd Screening Group

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

2.00am: May Island abeam

2.35pm: Passed Fidra Gap

3.05am: Secured alongside oiler in Largo Bay, received 114 tons of oil fuel

6.00am: Proceeded up harbour

7.00am: Passed S Black Rock Gate

7.25am: Secured alongside “Maenad” & “Prince” at no 15 buoy

am: Able Seaman Brant discharged sick

3.50pm: Slipped & proceeded with 3rd Screening Group

4.00pm: Passed Forth Bridge

4.40pm: Passed Inchkeith

5.40pm: Passed Fidra Gap

6.20pm: May Island abeam

Number on sick list 1


[HMS Prince, ~1025 ton destroyer, was launched in 1916 by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd, Govan. She was sold in 1921.]


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23 August 1918

At sea

Lat 56.0, Long -0.1 [approx]

3.00am: Dinghy damaged

8.00pm: Took up order for entering harbour in 2 columns


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24 August 1918

To Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

5.45am: May Island abeam

6.40am: Parted company with Battleships

Proceeded into harbour with 3rd Screening Group, slow both

9.10am: Passed bridge

9.40am: Secured alongside “Wrestler” & “Tower” at no 2 buoy

Hands employed refitting & as requisite

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

4.00pm: Slipped & proceeded to C3 Penn to oil, oiled 96 tons

Landed canteen party

6.30pm: Slipped & proceeded alongside “Prince” in D5 Penn

7.00pm: Canteen party returned


[HMS Wrestler, 1118 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by Swan Hunter. She saw little action in WW1 but had an eventful WW2 finally hitting a mine during the D-day landings in 1944.

HMS Tower, 991 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by Swan Hunter. She was scrapped in 1928.]


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25 August 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

am: Discharged sick, 1 officer's steward

pm: Leave rota continues

Number on sick list 1


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26 August 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

Noon: Received 11 tons of oil fuel from “Oyster”

5.00pm: Landed canteen party

7.00pm: Canteen party returned

Number on sick list 1


[RFA Oyster, 160 ton tanker, was launched in 1915 by Ropner & Son Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees. She was sold & renamed “Wander” in 1922 and sank in 1928 with the loss of 5 men.]


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27 August 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

5.00pm: Canteen leave till 7pm continues

Number on sick list 1


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28 August 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

9.45am: Proceed alongside “Scout” at no 20 buoy

Noon: Received 15 tons of oil fuel. from “Lobster”

6.20pm: 1 wireless rating joined ship from “Centurion”

1 Petty Officer & 1 able seaman left ship

Number on sick list 1


[HMS Centurion, 25,830 ton battleship, was launched in 1911 at HM Dockyard, Devonport. She played a small part in the Battle of Jutland, a minor role in WW2 and was finally sunk as a breakwater to protect a Mulberry harbour after the Normandy Landings in 1944.]


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29 August 1918

Rosyth and at sea

Lat 56.00, Long -3.39 [approx]

11.40am: Slipped & proceeded with “Scout” & “Benbow”

12.20pm: Passed Oxcars Gate

12.35pm: Passed South Black Rock Gate

2.55pm: Commenced zig-zag

3.50pm: Negative zig-zag

4.00pm: Evening quarters, read warrants 1 & 2

4.32pm: Commenced zig-zag

5.10pm: “Scout” reported submarine

5.25pm: Rejoined “Benbow”


[HMS Benbow, 25,400 ton battleship, was launched in 1913 by William Beardmore & Co, Glasgow. She played a minor role in the Battle of Jutland and was scrapped in 1930.]


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30 August 1918

At sea

Lat 56.8, Long -1.2 [approx]

5.50am: Parted company with “Benbow”, joined “Wrestler” & “Munster” & screened American minelayers

2.45pm: Passed no 4 Light buoy

3.18pm: Passed Mark buoys

4.15pm: Course as requisite for minelaying

11.40pm: Copinsay Light bore NbyW, Pentland Skerries N73W


[Copinsay Lighthouse is in the Orkneys at Lat 58.9, Long -2.68.]


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31 August 1918

At sea to Cromarty and at sea to Rosyth

Lat 57.68, Long -4.06

1.15am: Sighted Noss Head abeam to starboard

5.00am: Course as requisite for entering harbour

6.15am: Anchored

6.35am: Weighed & proceeded alongside “Scout” at oiler, received 62 tons oil fuel

11.15am: Discharged 1 telegraphist rating

12.25pm: Slipped & proceeded with “Scout”

4.30pm: Buchan Ness Light abeam

5.15pm: Girdleness Light abeam

7.27pm: May Island abeam

8.40pm: Secured alongside oiler W[est?] of Inchkeith, received 106 tons of oil fuel

10.40pm: Slipped & proceeded to no 23 buoy alongside “Raider”

Midnight: Secured alongside “Raider”

Number on sick list 1


[Buchan Ness Lighthouse is in Scotland at Lat 57.47, Long -1.77

HMS Raider, ~1000 ton destroyer, was launched in 1916 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend. She was scrapped in 1927.]


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LOG BOOKS – SEPTEMBER 1ST 1918 to OCTOBER 31ST 1918


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LOGS FOR SEPTEMBER 1918


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1 September 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.00pm: Liberty men returned


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2 September 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

am: Lost overboard by accident: 2 marlin spikes

Received 10 tons oil fuel from RFA Lobster

12.30pm: Leave rota continues


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3 September 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44


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4 September 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

am: Received 18 tons oil fuel from RFA Lobster

[No leave recorded.]


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5 September 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

am: Received 10 tons oil fuel from MFA Lobster

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

Remainder employed as requisite. Advance party left ship

5.15pm: Payed [sic] monthly advancement

7.00pm: Liberty men returned


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6 September 1918

Rosyth and at sea

Lat 56.1, Long -2.8 [approx]

9.35am: Slipped & proceeded with remainder of 4th Div.

10.45am: Passed South Black Rock Gate

Noon: Passed Fidra Gap

12.18pm: Commenced zig-zag, each 10 minutes

9.16pm: Took up Night Cruising Formation


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7 September 1918

At sea mine-laying

Lat 58.7, Long -2.3 [approx]

5.45am: Destroyers zig-zag

7.30am: Pentland Skerries bore N83W

8.15am: Course & speed as requisite for minelaying

12.25pm: Finished mine laying

12.30pm: Screening “London”

1.30pm: Passed no 4 Light Buoy

1.40pm: Commenced zig-zag

2.35pm: Took station on starboard quarter

3.05pm: Took station astern of “London”

3.23pm: Stopped, assisted “Nessus” [HMS Nessus had just been rammed by the minelayer HMS Amphitrite while zig-zagging in fog about 30 miles East of the Pentland Skerries. She sank on the following day while under tow to Scapa Flow]


[HMS London, 15,000 ton battleship, was launched in 1899 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She took part in the Dardanelles campaign & was converted for mine laying in 1918. She was scrapped in 1920.

HMS Nessus, ~1000 ton destroyer, was launched in 1915 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend.

HMS Amphitrite, formerly an 11,000 ton cruiser, is at this stage a minelayer. She was known to her crew as “Old ‘Am and Tripe” and is an Old Weather vessel.]


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8 September 1918

To Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

6.40am: May Island abeam to starboard

6.45am: Parted company with “London”

8.15am: Secured alongside oiler West of Inchkeith, received 91 tons oil fuel & 2 tons culinary coal from SS Beechwood

10.00am: Proceeded into harbour

10.50am: Secured alongside “Tomahawk” at [no] 21 buoy

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, hands make & mend clothes

7.00pm: Liberty men returned. 1 Midshipman RN discharged to “Agincourt”

8.30pm: Lower boom carried away


[SS Beechwood, 4285 tons, was built in 1900 by CS Swan & Hunter Ltd, Wallsend as “St Dunstan”. She was renamed in 1912 & scrapped in 1934.

HMS Tomahawk, 927 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by Yarrow & Co, Glasgow. She was scrapped in 1928.]


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9 September 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.30am: Mustered sea boots & oilskins

12.30pm: Leave rota continues

5.00pm: 1 Midshipman RN joined ship from “Erin”


[HMS Erin, 23,150 ton battleship, was launched in 1913 as “Resad V” for the Ottoman Empire by Vickers. She was seized by Britain on the outbreak of war and renamed. She took part in the Battle of Jutland, was reduced to the reserve after the Armistice and sold in 1922.]


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10 September 1918

Rosyth, exercising in the Firth and return

Lat 56.2, Long -2.97 [approx]

4.30am: Slipped & proceeded

5.30am: Secured alongside “Ajax”

6.00am: Proceeded alongside tug Dundas, East of Inchkeith

7.08am: Fired torpedo at Light Vessel off Kinghorn Ness

Recovered torpedo

8.35am: Anchored

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

5.15pm: Weighed & proceeded

5.50pm: Fired torpedo at “KG V” [HMS King George V]

6.05pm: Recovered torpedo

7.00pm: Embarked marking party from tug

7.40pm: Secured alongside “Ajax” & disembarked marking party

8.05pm: Secured alongside oiler, received 30 tons oil fuel from SS Beechwood

9.00pm: Proceeded up harbour.

10.00pm: Secured to [no] 21 buoy alongside Tomahawk


[HMS Ajax, 25,830 ton battleship, was launched in 1913 by Scott’s Shipbuilding & Engineering, Greenock. She was present at the Battle of Jutland and scrapped in 1926.

Dundas”, 106 ton paddle tug, was built in 1885 as “Blucher” by Hepple & Co, North Shields. She was renamed in 1914 and scrapped in 1924.

Kinghorn Ness is not listed in modern Ordnance Survey maps. Kinghorn is a place in Fife, Scotland. Ness, in a place name, often refers to a headland or point and so this may be the headland occupied by Pettycur at Lat 56.06, Long -3.18. Confirmed on Admiralty Chart.

HMS King George V, 25,830 ton battleship, was launched in 1911 at HM Dockyard, Portsmouth. She took part in the Battle of Jutland & went to the Mediterranean after the war. She helped to evacuate refugees after the Great Fire of Smyrna in 1922. In 1923 she became part of the training establishment HMS Impregnable and was scrapped in 1926.]


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11 September 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30pm: Leave rota resumed


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12 September 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30pm: Hands make & mend, leave rota continues

7.00pm: Sub Lieutenant Small rejoined ship


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13 September 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

10.00am: Received 16 tons oil fuel from MFA Oyster

12.30pm: Leave to 1 watch

8.30pm: Secured for sea

8.45pm: Unshackled

10.00pm: Pipe down


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14 September 1918

Rosyth, at sea for exercises and return

Lat 56.2, Long -2.3 [approx]

1.25am: Slipped & proceeded

1.50am: Passed Forth Bridge

3.25am: Took station astern of Battleships

4.40am: May Island abeam

5.43am: Formed submarine screen no 6

7.30am: Course & speed as requisite for firing

8.35am: Commenced run I

9.30am: Finished run I. Turned 16 points & commenced run II

11.15am: Finished run II

11.40am: Commenced 2 point zig-zag

12.25pm: Exercised foc’sle gun

3.15pm: May Island abeam, course & speed as requisite for picking up torpedoes for 6th Cruiser Squadron

6.00pm: Secured to oiler off Inchkeith, received 40 tons oil fuel from SS Beechwood

6.50pm: Proceeded up harbour

7.45pm: Secured to no 21 buoy

9.30pm: Advance party returned

10.00pm: Piped down


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15 September 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

10.15am: Landed church party

12.30pm: Leave to watch, pipe down


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16 September 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

11.00am: Received 14 tons oil fuel from MFA Oyster

1.10pm: Landed liberty men & advanced leave party

7.00pm: Exchanged one officers' steward with “Sepoy”


[HMS Sepoy, 810 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton. She was scrapped in 1932.]


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17 September 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.00am: Slipped & proceeded to carry out torpedo practice

9.10am: Weather unsuitable, returned to buoy

12.45pm: Leave to watch


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18 September 1918

Rosyth, exercises and Largo Bay

Lat 56.05, Long -2.6 [approx]

7.30am: Slipped & proceeded

7.50am: Closed with “Furious” & anchored

8.15am: Captain of “Furious” boarded

8.30am: Weighed & proceeded to Largo Bay

9.30am: Arrived Largo Bay, delivered sailing orders to Striking Force

9.45am: Proceeded to Dunbar

10.30am: Acted as target for aeroplanes carrying torpedoes

3.00pm: Fired 2 torpedoes

3.20pm: Proceeded up harbour

4.30pm: Closed “Furious”

4.40pm: Disembarked Captain of “Furious”

5.25pm: Fired 1 torpedo

5.45pm: Fired 1 torpedo

6.20pm: Secured to oiler off Inchkeith

7.00pm: Slipped & proceeded to Largo Bay

9.00pm: Came to starboard anchor in Largo Bay, received 41 tons oil fuel from SS Beechwood


[HMS Furious, 19,826 ton battlecruiser, was launched in 1916 by Armstrong, Whitworth, Wallsend. She was modified to carry aircraft during WW1 and converted & reclassified as an aircraft carrier in 1925. She had an active life in WW2 but became increasingly obsolete and was finally scrapped in 1948

Dunbar is a town in Scotland, but this reference is probably to Dunbar Roads, an anchorage off Dunbar town at Lat 56.0, Long-2.52.]


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19 September 1918

On patrol

Lat 56.17, Long -2.94 [approx]

11.40am: Weighed & proceeded on special patrol in company with “Anzac”

4.00pm: Took station on port beam of “Anzac”

8.45pm: Single line ahead


[HMS Anzac, 1660 ton destroyer leader, was launched in 1917 by William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton, and transferred to the Australian Navy in 1919. She was decommissioned in 1931 & finally sunk as a target ship in 1936.]


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20 September 1918

On patrol and Largo Bay

Lat 55.4, Long -0.6 [approx]

6.15am: Took station on port beam “Anzac”

9.05pm: Single line ahead

11.25pm: Passed Fidra Gap

Midnight: Secured to oiler in Largo Bay


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21 September 1918

Largo Bay to Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

1.00am: Received 84 tons oil fuel from SS Manx Isles

6.00am: Slipped & proceeded up harbour

7.10am: Secured to no 21 buoy

12.40pm: Leave to watch


[SS Manx Isles, 2642 tons, was built in 1905 by William Hamilton & Co, Port Glasgow. She was scrapped in 1929.]


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22 September 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.45am: Landed Wesleyan church party

10.15am: Landed Church of England party

10.30am: Divisions, Captain’s rounds

1.20pm: Leave to watch, pipe down


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23 September 1918

Rosyth and at sea

Lat 56.1, Long -2.75 [approx]

8.00am: Slipped & proceeded with “Wolsey” for torpedo practice

10.20am: Fired one torpedo

11.00am: Searching for “Wolsey's” torpedo

Noon: Relieved Fidra Gap patrol, proceeded up harbour

1.30pm: Secured to oiler off Inchkeith, received 25 tons oil fuel from SS Rion

5.50pm: Slipped & proceeded

7.15pm: Formed MG 6 on 3rd Division of Battle Fleet, course S70E


[HMS Wolsey, 1120 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by John I Thorneycroft & Co, Woolston, Hampshire. She was involved in the Nanking Incident in 1927 and had an active WW2 including convoy escort. She was scrapped in 1947.

SS Rion, 2186 tons, was built in 1889 by Palmer’s Ship Building & Iron Co Ltd. She was sold & renamed in 1924 & again in 1925; she sank after an onboard explosion in 1930.]


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24 September 1918

At sea

Lat 56.6, Long 1.0 [approx]

8.00am: Course & speed as requisite for paravanes

1.00pm: Negative paravanes


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25 September 1918

At sea to Scapa Flow

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

4.30am: Pentland Skerries abeam, formed single line ahead, course & speed as requisite for entering Scapa

5.21am: Passed boom

6.07am: Secured to oiler for oil, received 73 tons oil fuel from SS Oural

7.12am: Slipped

7.42am: Secured to buoy


[SS Oural, 2435 ton, was built in 1887 as “Hans & Kurt” by Sir WG Armstrong, Mitchell & Co Ltd, Low Walker. She was sold & renamed in 1891. After several changes of owner she was renamed in 1932 & scrapped in 1934.]


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26 September 1918

Scapa Flow

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

9.15am: Hands employed scraping & painting, received 14 tons oil fuel from SS Blackstone


[RFA Blackstone, 149 tons, was built in 1914 by A Jeffrey & Co Ltd, Alloa. She was sold out of service in 1921 and her final fate is unknown.]


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27 September 1918

Scapa Flow

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

All day: Hands employed painting ship

1.25pm: Party of 10 hands employed drawing ammunition

9.00pm: First Lieutenant & advance party returned from leave


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28 September 1918

Scapa Flow and at sea

Lat 58.7, Long -3.0 [approx]

7.23am: Slipped & proceeded

7.48am: Formed submarine screen on 4th Division of G[faulty scan]

8.00am: Course & speed as requisite for full calibre firing in Pentland Firth

11.20am: Left 4th Division & formed submarine screen on [faulty scan]

1.40pm: Returned to harbour

2.30pm: Secured to oiler, received 22 tons oil fuel & 2¼ tons culinary coal from SS Kura

3.15pm: Slipped & secured to buoy


[SS Kura, 2391 tons, was built in 1889 by Sir WG Armstong, Mitchell & Co Ltd, Low Walker. She was sold & renamed in 1924 and torpedoed by HMS Tetrarch in 1941.]


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29 September 1918

Scapa Flow

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

10.00am: Landed church party

11.00am: Divisions, Prayers, Captain’s rounds

1.00pm: Pipe down

5.45pm: One officers’ steward joined ship.


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30 September 1918

Scapa Flow and at sea

Lat 58.9, Long -3.05

Noon: Able Seaman Mundy rejoined

1.50pm: Slipped & proceeded with 3rd Screening Group

Lost overboard by accident: 1 cable punch

2.27pm: Passed Switha Boom

3.15pm: Pentland Skerries abeam to starboard

6.30pm: Exercised ‘Night action’ stations

7.35pm: Formed night cruising disposition



LOGS FOR OCTOBER 1918


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1 October 1918

At sea to Rosyth

Lat 56.05, Long -3.0 [approx]

9.50am: Took up station for entering harbour. Formed MG6 on 3rd Division of Battle-Fleet

10.58am: May Island abeam to port

11.30am: Passed Fidra Gap

Noon: Parted company with battleships

12.30pm: Course & speed as requisite for entering harbour

2.05pm: Secured alongside “Tomahawk” at [no] 12 buoy

4.30pm: Proceeded to Penns

4.50pm: Secured in C1 outer berth, received 61 tons oil fuel from Port Edgar base

6.00pm: Proceeded to no 52 buoy

6.45pm: Secured alongside “Tomahawk” at [no] 52 buoy


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2 October 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

am: Hands employed as requisite & securing for sea

11.10am: Proceeded with 3rd Division

12.25pm: Secured alongside “Urchin” in C,6,0

4.30pm: Landed canteen party

7.30pm: Canteen party returned


[HMS Urchin, ~1000 ton destroyer, was launched in 1917 by Palmer’s Ship Building & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow. She was scrapped in 1930.]


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3 October 1918

Rosyth to Granton Roads

Lat 56.03, Long -3.13

7.10am: Slipped & proceeded with 3rd Division, course & speed as requisite for exercises in Forth

7.50am: Passed Oxcar Gate

Fired .303 aiming rifle & Lewis guns

Towed target for “Tomahawk”

11.35am: Secured alongside oiler, received 14 tons oil fuel from SS Rion

Noon: Proceeded to anchorage.

12.25pm: Anchored in Granton Roads

4.00pm: Evening quarters, mustered anti-gas apparatus


[Granton Harbour, Lat 55° 59’N, Long 3° 15’W, is 1½ miles west of the Port of Leith. Most of the facilities were requisitioned by the Admiralty during the war. The ‘Roads’ refers to the deeper water outside the harbour in the Firth.]


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4 October 1918

Granton Roads

Lat 55.99, Long -3.2

7.30am: Weighed & proceeded with 3rd Division

8.00am: Carried out 1” sub-division firing at “Wrestler” target. Exercised ‘General Quarters’

Fired & recovered starboard 18” torpedo

Fired & recovered port 18” torpedo

11.45am: Anchored in Granton Roads

1.30pm: Weighed & proceeded up harbour

2.25pm: Secured alongside “Greenwich”

Hands employed drawing flotilla mails & provisions

5.00pm: Proceeded to Granton

5.55pm: Anchored off “Saumarez”

6.10pm: Weighed & proceeded alongside oiler, received 19 tons oil fuel from SS Beechwood

7.30pm: Proceeded to anchorage

8.15pm: Anchored & distributed flotilla mails & provisions


[HMS Greenwich, 4676 ton destroyer depot ship, was originally built as a cargo ship by William Dobson & Co, Walker, for a Greek company. However, she was acquired by the Admiralty on declaration of war and converted by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson. She served in WW2 in Scapa Flow, was reconverted, sold and renamed “Hembury”. She was finally scrapped in 1970.

HMS Saumarez, 1670 ton destroyer leader, was launched in 1916 by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. She was sold in 1931.]


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5 October 1918

Granton Roads

Lat 55.99, Long -3.2

am: Held Flotilla Regatta

pm: Hands make & mend clothes


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6 October 1918

Granton Roads

Lat 55.99, Long -3.2

9.30am: Hands to Divisions & Prayers

pm: Hands make & mend clothes


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7 October 1918

Granton Roads to Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.15am: Weighed & proceeded up harbour

10.20am: Secured to no 11 buoy

12.30pm: Advance leave party left ship


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8 October 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

7.00am: Rove slip rope

7.15am: Slipped & proceeded alongside “Greenwich” outside “Peregrine” & “Patriot”

am: Hands employed provisioning ship & as requisite

Received 40 tons oil fuel from MFA Oyster

12.30pm: Landed starboard watch, remainder of hands employed as requisite

5.00pm: No: 10 men fall in, told off as requisite

10.10pm: Stoker Smith returned on board


[HMS Patriot, 1000 ton destroyer, was launched in 1916 by Thorneycroft, Southampton. She took part in balloon assisted operations to detect submarines in the North Sea, apparently sinking one. After the war she was transferred to the Canadian Navy and scrapped in 1929.]


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9 October 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

am: Hands employed refitting & as requisite

Noon: 3 Able seamen & 1 Leading seaman joined ship

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

4.00pm: Landed canteen party

7.00pm: Liberty men & canteen party returned


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10 October 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

am: Hands employed painting ship & as requisite

pm: Leave rota continues


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11 October 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

am: Hands employed painting ship & as requisite

pm: Leave rota continues


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12 October 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

am: Hands employed painting ship

12.30pm: Leave to Petty Officers & watchkeepers, hands employed painting ship

Midshipman RN left ship to rejoin “Erin”

4.00pm: Canteen party landed

7.00pm: Liberty men & canteen party returned


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13 October 1918

Rosyth, Granton, Rosyth

Lat 55.99, Long -3.20

7.25am: Slipped & proceeded to Granton

8.25am: Anchored

12.35pm: Weighed & proceeded to Penns

1.30pm: Secured in A1 Penn

Landed liberty men, armourers working on no 2 gun

4.30pm: Landed canteen party

7.00pm: Liberty men & canteen party returned


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14 October 1918

At exercises in Firth

Lat 56.21, Long -2.58 [approx]

6.00am: Slipped & proceeded, carried out exercises with 4th Division

Lost 1 torpedo in position 4 miles, 3.3 cables 276.5° from May Island Light House

1.45pm: Anchored, motor boat sweeping for torpedo

4.30pm: Weighed & carried out torpedo practice with “Tomahawk”

8.10pm: Secured alongside oiler

8.50pm: Shoved off from oiler, received 38 tons oil fuel from SS Beechwood

9.05pm: Anchored


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15 October 1918

Searching Firth for lost torpedo

Lat 56.21, Long -2.58 [approx]

7.00am: Weighed & proceeded up harbour

8.00am: Took diving launch in tow from “Greenwich” & proceeded to search for torpedo

12.30pm: Anchored in position of lost torpedo. Whaler and dinghy swept for torpedo

2.00pm: Sent diver down to search for torpedo

3.20pm: Weighed & proceeded to Methil

5.00pm: Left launch at Methil

5.40pm: Anchored

7.30pm: Weighed & proceeded with 4th Division

8.00pm: Exercised Night Action Stations, carried out night attacks

11.00pm: Anchored

Note in log: Lost overboard as Mark Buoy: 1 Reindeer buoy, 1 boat's anchor 2-4" practice projectiles, 30 fathoms 2½" hemp


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16 October 1918

Methil, Rosyth and Granton

Lat 56.18, Long -3.00

7.15am: Weighed & proceeded to Methil

8.15am: Anchored off Methil

9.05am: Took diving launch in tow & proceeded up harbour

11.35am: Secured alongside “Greenwich” & drew new torpedo

1.00pm: Proceeded to Granton

1.50pm: Secured alongside oiler. Hands employed coaling ship, received 32 tons oil fuel & 2½ tons culinary coal from SS Beechwood

3.50pm: Proceeded

4.00pm: Anchored


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17 October 1918

Exercises in Firth

Lat 56.03, Long -3.14

7.50am: Weighed & proceeded with 4th Division for torpedo practices

Fired torpedo at 5th Division of Battle-Fleet

Noon: Anchored E of Inchkeith

12.35pm: Weighed & carried out torpedo attack on 6th Division of Battle-Fleet

3.30pm: Picked up torpedoes for C'wood [probably “Collingwood”]

5.00pm: Embarked “C'wood’s” working party & closed “C'wood” in Burntisland

6.00pm: Closed “Wrestler” in Largo Bay

Exercised ‘Night action stations”, carried out night attacks

10.00pm: Closed “C'wood” in Burntisland Roads, disembarked working party & torpedoes.

11.05pm: Anchored at Granton


[HMS Collingwood, 20,000 ton battleship, was launched in 1908 at the Devonport Royal Dockyard. Prince Albert (who became George VI) served on her in 1913. She fought at the Battle of Jutland and was scrapped in 1923.

Burntisland is in Fife, Scotland at Lat 56.06, Long -3.23.]


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18 October 1918

Granton, Rosyth, Granton

Lat 55.99, Long -3.2

12.40am: Advance party returned on board

12.30pm: Weighed & proceeded

1.05pm: Anchored off “Saumarez”

1.40pm: Weighed & proceeded

2.20pm: Secured alongside “Greenwich”, embarked flotilla mails, provisions & stores

6.00pm: Proceeded to Granton

6.45pm: Anchored off “Saumarez”, disembarked stores

7.40pm: Weighed

8.00pm: Anchored


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19 October 1918

Granton

Lat 55.99, Long -3.2

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

7.00pm: Drifter No 32 put hole in ship's side, port side abreast 49 frame


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20 October 1918

Granton

Lat 55.99, Long -3.2

10.45am: Divisions & Prayers

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 1


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21 October 1918

Granton, May I. and return

Lat 56.21, Long -2.58 [approx]

6.00am: Called hands, prepared for sea

7.25am: Discharged 3 ratings to Hospital

9.05am: Proceeded with 3rd Group

10.15am: Formed anti-submarine screen on 3rd Division

11.15am: Passed Fidra Gap

11.50am: May Island abeam to port

1.35pm: May Island abeam to starboard

2.15pm: Parted company with battleships

3.00pm: Secured alongside oiler, received 62 tons oil fuel from SS Rion

3.47pm: Proceeded to anchorage

4.06pm: Anchored

6.30pm: Weighed & proceeded with 4th Division, carried out searchlight exercises

9.40pm: Anchored in D4 berth.

Number on sick list 3

Lost overboard by accident: 2 cable punches, 1 large & 2 small fenders


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22 October 1918

Granton, Rosyth, Granton

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

7.30am: Weighed & proceeded up harbour

8.47am: Secured alongside timber jetty Rosyth, hands employed embarking stores

4.30pm: Proceeded

5.15pm: Discharged 7 ratings to Hospital Ship “Berbice”

6.00pm: Anchored

Number on sick list 11


[HMHS Berbice, 2379 tons, was built in 1909 for the Royal Mail by Harland & Wolff, Belfast. She came into service in 1915. She was sold & renamed for the first time in 1922 and was wrecked in 1929.]


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23 October 1918

Granton

Lat 55.99, Long -3.2

8.15am: Proceeded with “Sirdar”

9.00am: Secured alongside oiler, received 18 tons oil fuel from RFA Servitor

10.15am: Proceeded to anchorage

10.25am: Anchored

Aired bedding

12.30pm: Aired Duffel coats, down all bedding

2.30pm: Hands landed for route march

5.20pm: Landing party returned

Number on sick list 18 [The rising sick list was probably due to the so called ‘Spanish Flu’]


[HMS Sirdar, 1075 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan. She was sold in 1934.

RFA Servitor, 1000 ton tanker, was launched in 1914 at Chatham Dockyard. In 1922 she was sold, renamed “Puloe Brani” and towed across the Atlantic. After an eventful career and changes of owner & name she went out of service in 1975.]


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24 October 1918

Granton

Lat 55.99, Long -3.2

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

9.00pm: Captain read books on Naval Actions to ship’s company

Number on sick list 22


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25 October 1918

Granton to Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.50am: Weighed & proceeded

11.15am: Secured alongside “Violent” at no 5 buoy, aired bedding

12.20pm: Secured to no 42 buoy. Discharged 13 ratings & 1 officer to hospital ship “Berbice”

Hands landed for recreation.

6.00pm: Recreation party returned

Number on sick list 24


[HMS Violent, 1300 ton destroyer, was launched in 1917 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend. She was scrapped in 1937.]


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26 October 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

am: Hands painting ship & as requisite

Aired night clothing

Discharged 1 rating to hospital ship “Berbice”

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

3.00pm: Down all night clothing

4.00pm: Landed hands to recreation

7.00pm: Recreation party returned

Number on sick list 25


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27 October 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

10.00am: Divisions & Prayers

Discharged 1 rating to hospital ship

1.30pm: Hands landed for recreation

5.00pm: Recreation party returned

Number on sick list 29


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28 October 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.30am: Proceeded to no 36 buoy

5.00pm: Two signalmen joined ship

Number on sick list 34


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29 October 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

4.00pm: Discharged 2 Engine Room Artificers to hospital ship

Number on sick list 36


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30 October 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

9.00am: Hands to Divisions, inspection of hammocks, aired all night clothing

Noon: Down all night clothing

1.00pm: Landed recreation party, remainder of hands employed as requisite

4.45pm: Recreation party returned

10.00pm: One rating returned from long leave

Number on sick list 37


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31 October 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

9.30am: Slipped

11.00am: Secured alongside oiler, hands employed coaling ship

11.40am: Shoved off from oiler

Noon: Secured to no 36 buoy

Number on sick list 37


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[These are blank or cover pages.]



LOG BOOKS – NOVEMBER 1ST 1918 to DECEMBER 31ST 1918


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[These pages are blank & a list of meteorological instruments.]



LOGS FOR NOVEMBER 1918


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1 November 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

pm: Hands make & mend clothes


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2 November 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

1.15pm: Landed recreation party, remainder of hands employed as requisite

5.30pm: Recreation party returned

1st Lieutenant discharged to Hospital Ship


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3 November 1918

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

9.00am: Paid monthly advancement

pm: Discharged 36 tons of oil to oil lighter, MFA Lobster. Hands employed disembarking ammunition


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4 November 1918

Rosyth to Leith

Lat 55.99, Long -3.19 [approx]

7.00am: Secured ship for docking

11.15am: Proceeded to Victoria Docks, Leith

12.30pm: Secured in basin

6.30pm: Ship’s company proceeded on leave.


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5 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.979, Long -3.173

All day: Hands employed refitting

5.00pm: Landed liberty men


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6 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.979, Long -3.173

All day: Hands employed refitting

5.00pm: Landed liberty men


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7 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.979, Long -3.173

All day: Hands employed refitting

5.00pm: Landed liberty men


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8 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.979, Long -3.173

All day: Hands employed refitting

5.00pm: Landed liberty men


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9 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.979, Long -3.173

am: Hands employed refitting

1.00pm: Landed liberty men


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10 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.979, Long -3.173

Sunday routine


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11 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.979, Long -3.173

Hands employed as requisite


[There is no mention of the Armistice in these logs.]


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12 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.979, Long -3.173

Hands employed as requisite


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13 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.979, Long -3.173

Hands employed refitting


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14 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.979, Long -3.173

Hands employed refitting


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15 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.979, Long -3.173

Hands employed refitting


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16 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.982, Long -3.180

am: Ship left dry dock


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17 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.982, Long -3.180

Sunday routine


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18 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.982, Long -3.180

Hands employed as requisite

4.00pm: Landed liberty men


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19 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.982, Long -3.180

Hands employed refitting


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20 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.982, Long -3.180

Hands employed refitting


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21 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.982, Long -3.180

7.00am: Long leave party returned

am: Hands employed painting ship

1.30pm: Landed liberty men


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22 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.982, Long -3.180

All day: Hands employed as requisite

5.00pm: Landed liberty men


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23 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.982, Long -3.180

All day: Hands employed as requisite

4.00pm: Landed liberty men


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24 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.982, Long -3.180

All day: Hands employed as requisite

1.00pm: Landed liberty men


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25 November 1918

Leith

Lat 55.982, Long -3.180

am: Lieutenant TM Smith joined ship

All day: Hands employed as requisite

4.00pm: Landed liberty men

8.00pm: Lieutenant GS Harding left ship


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26 November 1918

Leith to Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

5.30am: Called hands, prepared to leave docks

7.30am: Slipped & proceeded alongside oiler, received 63 tons of oil fuel from SS Rion

10.50am: Proceeded up harbour

12.15pm: Anchored, embarked ammunition

5.30pm: Weighed & proceeded

6.20pm: Secured to no 42 buoy

Lost overboard by accident: 1 Candle Lamp


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27 November 1918

Rosyth to Scapa Flow

Lat 55.99, Long -3.2

8.45am: Slipped & proceeded

9.25am: Commenced swinging ship for deviation, west of Inchkeith

10.30am: Anchored in Leith Roads

12.10pm: Weighed & proceeded out of harbour

12.47pm: Passed Fidra Gap

3.32pm: Girdleness Light abeam

4.28pm: Buchan Ness abeam

5.10pm: Kinnaird Head abeam

7.05pm: Noss Head Light N60W, Pentland Skerries N15W

7.26pm: Noss Head abeam, Pentland Skerries N, Copinsay N26E

7.47pm: Pentland Skerries abeam to starboard, course & speed as requisite for entering harbour

9.00pm: Secured alongside oiler, received 64 tons oil fuel from RFA Kurumba

Lost overboard by accident: 2 scrubbers & 2 paint brushes


[Kinnaird Head is in Scotland at Lat 57.7, Long -2.0.

RFA Kurumba, 3976 tons, was launched in 1916 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend. She served with the Australian Navy until 1948 when she was sold & renamed, then sold & renamed again in 1955. She was scrapped in 1966.]


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28 November 1918

Scapa Flow

Lat 58.86, Long -3.18

8.00am: Proceeded to Gutter Sound

8.30am: Secured alongside “Tomahawk” at D7 buoy

Hands employed painting ship & as requisite

4.20pm: Leading signalman rejoined from leave


[Gutter Sound lies between small islands within Scapa Flow at Lat 58.86, Long -3.18.]


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29 November 1918

Scapa Flow

Lat 58.86, Long -3.18

8.00am: Shifted berth to 5 minutes notice buoy


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30 November 1918

Scapa Flow

Lat 58.86, Long -3.18

7.30am: Left 5 minutes notice buoy & secured alongside “Tomahawk” at D7

Saturday routine

1.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder of hands make & mend clothes

5.00pm: Liberty men returned



LOGS FOR DECEMBER 1918


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1 December 1918

Scapa Flow

Lat 58.86, Long -3.18

10.00am: Divisions & Prayers

11.15am: Paid monthly advancement to ship’s company

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

8.00pm: Signalman Blackett returned from leave


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2 December 1918

Scapa Flow and at sea

Lat 58.86, Long -3.18

6.30am: Leading Signalman Kench left ship

pm: Provisioned ship

11.20pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour with Flotilla

Lost overboard by accident: 1 paint brush


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3 December 1918

At sea to Dundee

Lat 56.7, Long -2.0 [approx]

Midnight: Took station astern of “Tomahawk”

2.45am: Passed battleship of Revenge class

Noon: Anchored

2.30pm: Thick fog. Stopped engines then anchored

3.25pm: Weighed & proceeded

4.00pm: Passed Bell Light buoy

5.45pm: Anchored in C3 berth, Dundee

6.35pm: Landed liberty men


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4 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

7.00am: Liberty men returned

All day: Hands employed as requisite

4.30pm: Landed liberty men


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5 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

7.00am: Liberty men returned

8.00am: Landed football party

1.00pm: Football party returned

5.00pm: Landed liberty men


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6 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

7.00am: Liberty men returned

9.00am: Quarters, clean guns

11.00am: Long leave party left ship

7.00pm: Liberty men left ship


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7 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

7.00am: Liberty men returned

1.00pm: Liberty men left ship, remainder of hands make & mend


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8 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

7.00am: Liberty men returned

10.30am: Divisions & Prayers

1.00pm: Landed liberty men


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9 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

Weekday leave rota continues


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10 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

12.30pm: Landed coaling party

5.00pm: Coaling party returned


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11 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

1.00pm: Landed liberty men


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12 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

All day: Hands employed painting ship

1.00pm: Landed liberty men


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13 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

Lost overboard by accident: 1 paint brush


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14 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

1.00pm: Landed liberty men, hands make & mend clothes


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15 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

1.00pm: Landed liberty men, hands make & mend clothes


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16 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

3.00pm: Payed [sic] advancement to hands


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17 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

8.00am: 1st Long leave party returned

11.00am: 2nd Long leave party left ship

4.30pm: Landed liberty men


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18 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

Leave rota continues


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19 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

pm: Hands employed coaling ship


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20 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95


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21 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

3.00pm: EO returned off leave


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22 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

10.00am: Sent Church of England church party to “Diligence”


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23 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

12.45pm: Shortened in foul anchor, hands employed clearing anchor

Weighed & proceeded alongside “Diligence”


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24 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

am: Hands employed rigging sheer legs over Engine Room hatch & clearing anchor


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25 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

3.00pm: Able Seaman F Shearer fell overboard; called away lifeboat’s crew & threw lifebuoys overboard. “Diligence's” Patrol Boat proceeded to rescue but Able Seaman Shearer drowned


[Able Seaman Frederick Shearer, ON J 30199 (Portsmouth), born 5 July 1898, was buried at St Andrews Western Cemetery, grave H84.]


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26 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

2.55pm: Proceeded to buoy

3.40pm: Secured to buoy

6.00pm: Raised steam for slow speed to ensure safety [wind rising]


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27 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95


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28 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

am: Returned 34 coaling bags to PCO [Port Coaling Office?]

Long leave Party returned.


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29 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

9.00am: Lieutenant KG Ramsey joined ship [to take command]

10.30am: Sent Church of England party to “Diligence”

5.00pm: Leading Stoker Avis discharged sick to “Diligence”

Number on sick list 1


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30 December 1918

Dundee

Lat 56.46, Long -2.95

am: Lieutenant JN Knox left ship

Number on sick list 1


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31 December 1918

Dundee to Rosyth

Lat 56.25, Long -2.5 [approx]

10.30am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour with flotilla

Exercised action stations

1.40pm: Passed Inchkeith boom

2.15pm: Passed under bridge

3.30pm: Secured to 27 Buoy, “Sirdar” came alongside


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[These are blank or cover pages.]



LOG BOOKS – JANUARY 1ST 1919 to FEBRUARY 21ST 1919


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[These are cover pages, blank & a list of meteorological instruments.]



LOGS FOR JANUARY 1919


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1 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

7.15am: Slipped & proceeded

8.30am: Secured alongside oiler, received 117 tons from RFA Servitor

10.40am: Proceeded alongside collier

11.35am: Proceeded up harbour

12.35pm: Secured to no 32 buoy

7.00pm: Sent cinema party to “Blake”

10.00pm: Cinema party returned


[HMS Blake, 9150 ton cruiser, was launched in 1889 at Chatham Dockyard. She served as a depot ship during WW1 and was scrapped in 1922.]


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2 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

1.00pm: Slipped

1.30pm: Secured to 23 buoy, hands make & mend clothes


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3 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder of hands employed as requisite

6.00pm: Long leave party (8) & 1st Lieutenant proceeded on leave

8.30pm: Liberty men returned


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4 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 1


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5 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

9.00am: Torpedo ratings employed preparing torpedoes

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder make & mend clothes

6.30pm: Liberty men returned on board


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6 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.45am: Slipped & proceeded

Exercised action, fired 1” aiming rifle

11.30am: Secured alongside oiler, received 14 tons oil fuel from SS Servitor

12.30pm: Secured to buoy

4.30pm: Landed liberty men & canteen party

7.30pm: Liberty men & canteen party returned


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7 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.30am: Slipped & proceeded, carried out 1” aiming rifle practice

10.40am: Secured alongside oiler, received 7 tons oil fuel from SS Teakol

11.45am: Secured to buoy

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder of hands employed as requisite

7.30pm: Liberty men returned


[RFA Teakol, 1137 ton tanker, was launched in 1917 by Short Bros, Pallion. She was sold to Shell in 1920 & renamed “San Dario” and was eventually scrapped in 1957.]


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8 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

All day: Torpedo ratings working about torpedoes

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed canteen party

7.00pm: Canteen party returned


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9 January 1919

Rosyth and exercises

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.00am: Slipped & proceeded with “Scimitar”, “Seabear”, “Sirdar”, “Scarab”, exercising with 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron

Picked up 1 torpedo for “Princess Royal”

11.10am: Secured alongside oiler, received 15 tons oil fuel from RFA Thermol

11.39am: Proceeded & returned torpedo to “Princess Royal"

1.00pm: Secured to [no] 16 buoy

3.50pm: Proceeded alongside “Seabear”, pumped up torpedoes

5.00pm: Hands employed carrying ship tests on guns

7.00pm: Proceeded to [no]16 buoy


[HMS Seabear, 905 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank. She was scrapped in 1931.

HMS Scarab, 625 ton river gunboat, was launched in 1915 by Wood, Skinner & Co Ltd, Bill Quay. An outline of her WW2 service is on the Naval History website. She was lent to the Burmese Navy after the war, then scrapped in 1948.

HMS Princess Royal, 26,690 ton battlecruiser, was launched in 1911 by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She took part in both Battles of Heligoland Bight and the Battles of Dogger Bank & Jutland. She was scrapped in 1922 and is part of the Old Weather fleet.

RFA Thermol, 1902 ton tanker, was launched in 1916 by the Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co, Greenock. She was sold & renamed in 1947 and scrapped in 1948.]


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10 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

8.00am: Slipped, carried out torpedo firing

11.45am: Secured to buoy

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder employed drawing slops & as requisite

7.00pm: Liberty men returned


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11 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

am: Received 15 tons oil fuel from MFA Lobster

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, make & mend clothes

4.30pm: Landed canteen party

7.00pm: Liberty men & canteen party returned


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12 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

9.30am: Sent Church of England party to “Diligence”

11.30am: Church party returned

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed canteen party

7.00pm: Liberty men & canteen party returned


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13 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30pm: Landed liberty men & football party

7.00pm: Liberty men returned


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14 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

All day: Hands employed painting ship

12.30pm: Leave to watchkeepers & stokers

4.30pm: Landed canteen party

7.30pm: Liberty men & canteen party returned


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15 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, hands employed coaling ship & as requisite

7.30pm: Liberty men returned


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16 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder make & mend clothes

4.00pm: Evening quarters, read warrant no [blank]

4.45pm: Discharged Stoker Mallaby to “Diligence” for cell punishment, landed canteen party

7.30pm: Liberty men & canteen party returned


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17 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed canteen party

Received 12 tons oil fuel from MFA Lobster

7.30pm: Liberty men & canteen party returned


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18 January 1919

[Log incorrectly dated as 17 January.]

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

am: Received 12 tons oil fuel from MFA Lobster

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed canteen party

7.30pm: Liberty men & canteen party returned


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19 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

10.00am: Sent church party (Church of England) to “Diligence”

10.30am: Hands to Divisions

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed canteen party

7.30pm: Liberty men & canteen party returned


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20 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

am: Hands employed as requisite, returned winter clothing to “Diligence”

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder of hands employed as requisite

pm: Discharged 6 ratings to “Diligence” for demobilisation

7.00pm: Liberty men returned


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21 January 1919

Rosyth

Lat 56.02, Long -3.44

2.45pm: Slipped

3.00pm: Secured to B1 berth in Penns

4.30pm: Landed liberty men till 8am

Landed canteen party

7.00pm: Canteen party returned


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22 January 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

8.00am: Liberty men returned

9.00am: Hands to Divisions, collected duffle coats, oilskins & seaboots

12.30pm: Landed liberty men till 8am, remainder make & mend clothes

5.00pm: Landed canteen party

7.00pm: Canteen party returned


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23 January 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

8.00am: Liberty men returned

am: Hands employed securing ship as for refit & drawing stores

Received 7 tons oil fuel from Port Edgar Base

Payed [sic] advancement to active service ratings

4.00pm: Landed long leave party

Landed starboard watch till 8am, canteen party landed

7.00pm: Canteen party returned


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24 January 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

8.00am: Liberty men returned

12.30pm: Landed liberty men till 8am

4.30pm: Landed canteen party

7.00pm: Canteen party returned


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25 January 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

8.00am: Liberty men returned

12.30pm: Landed liberty men till 8am


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26 January 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

8.00am: Liberty men returned

9.30am: Landed Church of England church party

11.00am: Church party returned

12.30pm: Landed liberty men till 8am


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27 January 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

8.00am: Liberty men returned

12.30pm: Landed liberty men till 8am

3.00pm: Discharged 10 ratings to “Diligence” for demobilization


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28 January 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

Leave rota continues


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29 January 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

am: Received 1 ton Coals, Culinary, from Port Edgar Base

[The log pages in Port Edgar are signed by Sub Lieutenant Mahoney RNVR]


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30 January 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

am: Discharged 4 ratings to “Diligence” for demobilisation


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31 January 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

10.00pm: 1st Lieutenant & advance leave party returned onboard



LOGS FOR FEBRUARY 1919


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1 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

8.00am: Liberty men returned

am: Payed [sic] monthly advancement to hands

12.30pm: Landed liberty men till 8am


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2 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

Leave rota continues

9.30am: Landed Church of England church party

11.00am: Church party returned


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3 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409


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4 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409


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5 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409


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6 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

am: Received 5 cwt coals, anthracite, from Port Edgar Base


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7 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

Leave rota continues


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8 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409


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9 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

am: Received 1 ton Coals, Culinary, from Port Edgar Base


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10 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409


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11 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409


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12 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409


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13 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

am: Received 10 cwt Coals, Anthracite, from Port Edgar Base


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14 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

Leave rota and ship chores continue

am: Received 2 tons Coals, Culinary, from Port Edgar Base


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15 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409


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16 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409


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17 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409


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18 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409


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19 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409


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20 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409


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21 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

8.00am: Liberty men returned, long leave party returned.

11.00am: Ship payed [sic] off


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[These pages are blank and a notice that certain pages have not been filmed.]]


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[These are cover pages.]



LOG BOOKS – FEBRUARY 21ST 1919 TO TO MARCH 31ST 1919


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[These are cover pages, blank & a list of meteorological instruments.]


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(continued)

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

pm: Recommissioned as tender to HMS Blenheim with Portsmouth crew

Exercised fire stations

3.00pm: Landed liberty men to 8am

5.00pm: Discharged 15 ratings to “Diligence” for demobilisation


[HMS Blenheim, 9150 ton cruiser, was launched in 1890 by the Thames Ironwork & Shipbuilding Co, Leamouth. She was scrapped in 1926.]


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22 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

8.00am: Liberty men returned

12.30pm: Landed liberty men till 9.30am, remainder of hands make & mend


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23 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

9.30am: Liberty men returned

1.00pm: Landed liberty men till 8am, remainder of hands make & mend clothes


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24 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

Noon: Payed [sic] advancement to ship’s company


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25 February 1919

Port Edgar

Lat 55.995, Long -3.409

8.00am: Liberty men returned

2.00pm: Shifted berth to B 3 berth

4.00pm: Landed liberty men till 8am


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26 February 1919

Port Edgar to sea

Lat 55.99, Long -3.2

8.00am: Liberty men returned

11.10am: Left Penns & proceeded to Granton

11.55am: Anchored near “Stuart” in Granton Roads

Distributed flotilla mails

1.15pm: Weighed & proceeded out of harbour with Flotilla

2.00pm: Outer Channel Light Vessel abeam

6.10pm: Longstone bore West


[HMS Stuart, 1530 ton destroyer leader, was launched in 1918 by Hawthorn, Leslie & Co, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Between the wars she served in the Mediterranean and Black Sea before she was transferred to the Australian Navy in 1933. She was active in WW2 then scrapped in 1946.

Longstone is an islet in the Farne group off the coast of England at Lat 55.65, Long -1.6.]


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27 February 1919

Rosyth to Plymouth

Lat 51.9, Long 1.6 [approx]

7.39am: Haisboro Light Vessel N60E, 1.4’

8.12am: Would Light Vessel N60E, ½'

8.27am: Newarp Light Vessel abeam to starboard

8.50am: Cross Sands Light Vessel abeam to starboard

10.43am: Orfordness abeam to starboard

11.13am: Shipway Light Vessel abeam

12.40pm: Edinburgh Light Vessel abeam to port

1.00pm: Tongue Light Vessel abeam to port

2.00pm: Gull Light Vessel abeam to port

2.40pm: Dover Light House abeam to starboard

8.18pm: Owers Light Vessel abeam to starboard

8.45pm: St Catherine’s Light NW

9.45pm: St Catherine’s Light abeam, 16 miles


[Haisboro Light Vessel was moored off the Northern end of the Haisboro Shoal which lies at Lat 52.92, Long 1.7.

The Would is a channel through the sands off Norfolk. It lies at Lat 52.9. Long 1.63.

Newarp Light Vessel marks the Newarp Bank at Lat 52.78, Long 1.9.

I have not been able to identify a position for the Cross Sands Lightship and there are 3 ‘Cross Sandbanks’: the North, Middle and South, see map.

Orford Ness is a headland in Suffolk at Lat 52.08, Long 1.57.

Shipway Lighted Buoy, which is probably near the previous Light Vessel, is at Lat 51.57, Long 1.31.

The Edinburgh Light Vessel, now discontinued, marked the Edinburgh Channel of the Thames Estuary at approximately Lat 51.54, Long 1.42.

The Tongue shoal is at Lat 51.5, Long 1.34.

The Gull Light Vessel marked the Gull Stream at Lat 51.3, Long 1.5.

There are several lighthouses near Dover. This one is probably Dover Castle Lighthouse at Lat 51.12, Long 1.33.

The Owers Light Vessel was off Selsea Bill at Lat 50.73, Long -0.78.

St Catherine’s Light is on the Isle of Wight at Lat 50.58, Long -1.3.]


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28 February 1919

Rosyth to Plymouth

Lat 50.38, Long -4.19

4.12am: Start Point Light bore N29E

4.45am: Eddystone Light N65W

5.50am: Eddystone bore N60W

8.15am: Secured alongside oiler, received 108 tons oil fuel from SS Pearleaf

Noon: Proceeded to buoy above Saltash bridge

12.15pm: Secured at buoy alongside "Spear"

Returned Home Destroyer Chart set to Chart depot, Plymouth & drew Mediterranean Chart set

4.00pm: Landed liberty men


[Start Point Lighthouse is at Lat 50.23, Long -3.65.

Eddystone Lighthouse is at Lat 50.18, Long -4.27.

RFA Pearleaf, 5911 ton tanker, was launched in 1916 by William Gray & Co, West Hartlepool as “Gypol” but was taken over by the Shipping Controller in 1917 & renamed. She escaped 2 submarine attacks in WW1 and went on to serve in WW2. She was scrapped in 1947.

HMS Spear, 1200 ton destroyer, was launched on 9 Nov 1918 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Govan. She was scrapped in 1926.]



THE VOYAGES OF HMS TORCH (2) 1919

JP map Torch (2) 1919

LOGS FOR MARCH 1919


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1 March 1919

Plymouth

Lat 50.41, Long -4.2

8.30am: Liberty men returned

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

3.00pm: Landed liberty men


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2 March 1919

Plymouth

Lat 50.41, Long -4.2

8.30am: Liberty men returned

12.30pm: Landed liberty men


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3 March 1919

Plymouth and at sea

Lat 50.41, Long -4.2

8.30am: Liberty men returned

am: Received 5 tons oil fuel from RFA Blackol

4.00pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour with Flotilla

Exercised “Abandon ship” stations


[RFA Blackol, 869 ton tanker, was built in 1906 by Fleming & Ferguson, Paisley, as a barge hopper named “Thames Conservancy Hopper No 5”. She was taken over by the Port of London Authority in 1909 and her name changed accordingly. In 1916 she was chartered by the Admiralty at £235 per month, converted, and her name changed. In 1920 she returned to her owners, then in 1928 she was sold & renamed “Stonewall”, then transferred to South African ownership & finally scrapped in 1951.]


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4 March 1919

Plymouth to Gibraltar

Lat 48.0, Long -6.1 [approx]

3.30am: Sighted USS Settle, exchanged positions

am: Exercised control parties

5.00pm: Evening quarters, exercised collision stations

Number on sick list 1


[USS Settle was probably USS Seattle, 14,733 ton cruiser launched as “Washington” in 1905 by the New York Shipbuilding Co, Camden, New Jersey. She was renamed in 1916 & sold for scrap in 1946.]


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5 March 1919

Plymouth to Gibraltar

Lat 42.6, Long -10.4 [approx]

9.15am: Cape Finisterre bore S25E

9.35am: Passed HMS Earl of Peterboro to starboard

10.17am: Cape Finisterre abeam to port

10.58am: Cape Finisterre N66E

5.00pm: Evening quarters, exercised fire stations

11.35pm: Cape Roca on the port bow

Number on sick list 1


[HMS Earl of Peterborough, 6150 ton monitor, was launched in 1915 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast. She was active in the Eastern Mediterranean but was scrapped in 1921.

Cabo Finisterre is in Spain at Lat 42.88, Long -9.27.

Cabo da Roca is in Portugal at Lat 38.78, Long -9.5.]


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6 March 1919

Plymouth to Gibraltar

Lat 36.6, Long -8.4 [approx]

12.48am: Cape Espichel S54E

1.12am: Cape Espichel S69E, Cape Roco N36E

1.30am: Passed 11 ships in line ahead steering to the North

5.05am: Cape St Vincent Light S41E

6.36am: Cape St. Vincent Light abeam to port 10'

3.33pm: Sighted Rock of Gibraltar

5.00pm: Course & speed as requisite for entering harbour

5.40pm: Secured outside “Tomahawk” alongside S Mole

7.00pm: Landed liberty men

Number on sick list 1


[Cabo Espichel is in Portugal at Lat 38.42, Long -9.22.

Cabo de Sao Vicente Lighthouse is in Portugal at Lat 37.02, Long -9.0.]


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7 March 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

Lost overboard by accident: 1 Oil stone – 4/3/19: 1 hose, canvas – 5/3/19: 4 Crutches – 5/3/19

1.00pm: Landed liberty men, remainder make & mend clothes

Received 156 tons oil fuel from Naval Stores Office, Gibraltar


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8 March 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.00am: Liberty men returned

1.00pm: Landed liberty men, remainder make & mend clothes


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9 March 1919

Gibraltar to Malta

Lat 36.0, Long -4.7 [approx]

9.30am: Slipped

10.23am: Gibraltar Light House N, 1.5'


[Gibraltar Light House is probably the one indexed as Europa Point Lighthouse at Lat 36.12, Long -5.35.]


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10 March 1919

Gibraltar to Malta

Lat 37.4, Long 1.4 [approx]

1.22am: “Speedy” dropped astern – defective steering gear

2.40am: “Speedy” rejoined

4.00pm: Stopped engines, optional hands to bathe

4.50pm: Proceeded

7.45pm: Exercised searchlight

8.22pm: Cape Carbon Light bore SW

9.42pm: Cape Bugoni S57E

10.27pm: Cape Bugoni S40E

11.05pm: Cape Bugoni abeam to starboard, 9.5'


[HMS Speedy, 1075 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by Thorneycroft & Co. In 1922 she sank in the Bay of Marmaris after colliding with a merchant ship.

Cape Carbon Lighthouse is in Algeria at Lat 36.78, Long 5.1.

Cape Bugoni is probably Cap Bougaroun in Algeria at Lat 37.09, Long 6.47.]


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11 March 1919

Gibraltar to Malta

Lat 37.6, Long 9.5 [approx]

8.45am: Cape Carbonara N23E

4.00pm: Stopped engine, optional hands to bathe

Evening quarters, exercised stations for towing & being towed

6.05pm: Proceeded

9.50pm: Sighted Point Albion Light S21W

10.29pm: Point Albion Light S66W


[Capo Carbonara is in Italy at Lat 39.10, Long 9.52.

Point Albion Light may be a reference to the Ras Engela Lighthouse in Tunisia or more probably Cap Blanc, also in Tunisia. These sites are at Lat 37.34, Long 9.74 and Lat 37.33, Long 9.84 respectively.]


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12 March 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.25am: Course & speed as requisite for entering Sliema Creek with 2nd Division

8.45am: Secured head & stern to No 4 & 4A buoy

pm: Make & mend clothes

4.45pm: Slipped and proceeded to Marsa Creek

5.20pm: Anchored alongside lighters

Oiled 146 tons

8.00pm: Proceeded to buoys

9.00pm: Secured head & stern to No 4 & 4A buoys in Sliema Creek


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13 March 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

5.00pm: Landed liberty men


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14 March 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Liberty men returned

5.00pm: Landed liberty men


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15 March 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Liberty men returned

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder make & mend clothes


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16 March 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Liberty men returned

8.30am: Landed Roman Catholic church party

9.30am: Landed Church of England party

12.30pm: Landed liberty men


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17 March 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.30am: Liberty men returned

10.00am: Divisions, ‘A’ gun’s crews to drill

3.00pm: Landed liberty men & football party

11.00pm: Liberty men returned


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18 March 1919

Malta to Mudros

Lat 35.9, Long 17.0 [approx]

5.45am: Slipped & proceeded with Flotilla, negative “Stuart”

am: Exercised control parties


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19 March 1919

Malta to Mudros

Lat 37.4, Long 24.1 [approx]

6.48am: Kittern South Point, S68W

2 small Islets in transit

10.00am: Phalconera: N5E, Anti Milo N75E

3.15pm: Stopped engines & anchored

5.20pm: Proceeded

5.42pm: Tinos N68W, Maghoni [?] (NE corner) S37E


[Kittern refers to the island of Kythera or Cythera in Greece at Lat 36.24, Long 22.99.

The two islets are probably Nisida Avgo at Lat 36.09, Long 23.0, and Nisida Kapello at Lat 36.12, Long 23.01.

Phalconera is indexed as Nisida Falkonera, an islet in Greece at Lat 36.84, Long 23.89.

Ante Milo is indexed as Nisida Antimilos, an islet in the Cyclades group at Lat 36.79, Long 24.24.

Tinos is an island in the Cyclades at Lat 37.60, Long 25.12.

Maghoni is possibly a mis-hearing of Mykoni, an island in the Cyclades at Lat 37.45, Long 25.38.]


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20 March 1919

Malta to Mudros and Gallipoli Bay

Lat 39.8, Long 25.7 [approx]

6.00am: Anchored in Mudros Bay

9.30am: Weighed & proceeded with “Montrose” & 1st Division

2.00pm: Stopped East of Tenedos, sent boat to “Montrose” for provisions

2.20pm: Parted company with “Montrose”, passed through Narrows

5.00pm: Anchored in Gallipoli Bay


[Mudros is indexed as Limani Moudros and is on the island of Lemnos at Lat 39.88, Long 25.25.

HMS Montrose, 1250 ton destroyer leader, was launched in 1918 by Hawthorn, Leslie, Hebburn. She did not see active service in WW1 but was stationed in the Mediterranean for a decade before going into reserve. She had an eventful WW2 and was sold in 1946.

Tenedos has since been transferred to Turkey and is indexed as Bozcaada at Lat 39.83, Long 26.1.

Gallipoli Bay is in Turkey at Lat 40.4, Long 26.65.

The Narrows refers to the channel between the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmaris.]


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21 March 1919

Gallipoli to Constantinople

Lat 40.45, Long 26.8 [approx]

5.45am: Weighed & proceeded

8.10am: Secured alongside “Montrose” & embarked Black Sea & Smyrna mails

Passed through Dardanelles

Exercised General Quarters

11.00am: Zinjur Boza Bank buoy: abeam starboard, ½’

12.30pm: Stopped

1.00pm: Proceeded

4.25pm: Secured alongside oiler, received 36 tons from SS Prometheus

5.25pm: Proceeded to oiler astern, received 141 tons oil fuel from SS War African

9.15pm: “Ruby” secured alongside

10.15pm: “Ruby” proceeded


[Zindjir Bozan Bank is also known as the Diana Shoal and extends from the shore near Chardak Lighthouse which is at Lat 40.39, Long 26.71. The bank is marked by 2 red & white buoys and it is not clear which is referenced. In the ARLHS database, Chardak Lighthouse seems to be indexed as Zincirbozan Banki but the position given is Lat 30.42, Long 26.75.

SS Prometheus, 5570 tons, was built in 1896 by Scott & Co, Greenock, for the Ocean Steamship Co. She was scrapped in 1925.

SS War African, 5218 ton tanker, was launched in 1918 by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Govan. She was sold & renamed for the first time in 1921 and finally scrapped in 1955.

HMS Ruby, ~750 ton destroyer, was launched in 1910 by J Samuel White, Cowes. She was sold in 1921.]


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22 March 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.15am: Proceeded

9.45am: Anchored

Tug “Knight Errant” secured, ship swung for compass adjustment

1.00pm: Landed liberty men, remainder make & mend clothes

7.00pm: Liberty men returned


[Tug “Knight Errant”, 148 tons, was built in 1905 at Lytham. She was hired by the Admiralty 1914-20 and her registration closed in 1924.]


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23 March 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.00am: Divisions

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.00pm: Liberty men returned


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24 March 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

7.10am: Tug “Knight Errant” secured, ship being swing for compass adjustment by Commander N[avigation]. of “Lord Nelson”

8.15am: Dragged anchor & drifted across bows of Turkish barque. Barque's bowsprit carried topmast & 3 ft. of lower mast away. Cleared lower deck. Rigged hand capstan & weighed by hand. Tug towed ship clear.

9.00am: Anchored. Hands employed rigging jury topmast & painting ship

pm: Hands employed rigging jury topmast & painting ship

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.00pm: Liberty men returned

Lost overboard by accident: 1 small syringe, 1 8" single block, 1 shackle from boat's disengaging gear


[HMS Lord Nelson, 15,604 ton battleship, was launched in 1906 by Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Jarrow. She took part in the Dardanelles campaign and served most of the war in the Mediterranean. After the war she moved into the Black Sea and conveyed 2 Russian Grand Dukes to Genoa. She returned to the UK and was sold in 1920.]


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25 March 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

am: Hands employed refitting & painting ship & as requisite

pm: Hands employed painting ship & as requisite

4.00pm: Landed football party & liberty men

6.00pm: Discharged one ordinary seaman sick to “Caesar”

7.00pm: Liberty men & football party returned


[HMS Caesar, 16,060 ton battleship, was launched in 1896 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She was sold in 1921 and is part of the Old Weather fleet.]


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26 March 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

All day: Hands employed painting ship & as requisite

Liberty rota continues

Lost overboard by accident: 1 pair pliers, 2 paint brushes


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27 March 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

1.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.00pm: Liberty men returned

10.00pm: 1 Paymaster Lieutenant RNR, 2 Military Officers & 1 Soldier embarked for passage


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28 March 1919

Constantinople to Novorossisk

Lat 41.8, Long 30.8 [approx]

8.00am: Weighed & proceeded, course as requisite for proceeding up Bosp[h]orus

9.30am: Exercised General quarters

9.40am: Passed “Speedy” steering to SWward

9.57am: Bosphorus Light Vessel SE, ¼ cable


[The Bosphorus Light Vessel should be placed 15 miles North of the entrance.]


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29 March 1919

To Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

9.30am: Course as requisite for entering harbour

9.57am: Anchored close to “Fury”

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

Discharged Paymaster Lieutenant RNR to HMS Grafton

Disembarked military officers and soldier

4.30pm: Weighed & proceeded alongside cement jetty

6.00pm: Landed guard for SS Twickenham (ammunition ship)

7.00pm: Discharged 1 Leading Signalman to "Fury"

1 Leading Signalman joined ship from “Fury”


[Novorossiysk is a Russian port on the Black Sea at Lat 44.72, Long 37.79.

HMS Fury, ~750 ton destroyer, was launched in 1911 by A & J Inglis, Glasgow. She took part in activities in the Dardanelles & was scrapped in 1921.

HMS Grafton, 7350 ton cruiser, was launched in 1892 by the Thames Ironworks & Shipbuilding Company. She took part in the Dardanelles campaign and later was torpedoed but with limited damage. She was sold in 1920 and is part of the Old Weather fleet..

SS Twickenham, 4891 tons, was built in 1912 by Ropner & Sons, Stockton-on-Tees. She was scrapped in 1935.]


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30 March 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

10.30am: Hands to Divisions

1.00pm: Liberty men landed, hands make & mend clothes

5.00pm: 9 ratings for extra guard joined ship from “Grafton”

6.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


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31 March 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

4.30pm: Landed football party

7.00pm: Football party returned

Lost overboard by accident: 1 Ross Rifle Sword bayonet



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LOG BOOKS – APRIL 1ST 1919 TO MAY 31ST 1919


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LOGS FOR APRIL 1919


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1 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

4.30pm: Read warrant no 1, discharged 1 Able Seaman to “Grafton” for cell punishment


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2 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

12.30pm: Hands make & mend clothes. Landed liberty men & football party

4.30pm: Football party returned

6.30pm: Liberty men returned


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3 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men returned


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4 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

8.00am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour, course & speed as requisite for carrying out exercises

Fired 3 torpedoes & recovered

Fired 1" aiming rifle, fired Pom Pom & Lewis gun

12.25pm: Anchored

1.45pm: Weighed & proceeded

3.05pm: Secured to Cement Jetty

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men returned


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5 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

12.30pm: Hands make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men returned


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6 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men returned


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7 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

Leave rota continues

6.45pm: “Grafton” sailed, took over duties of Senior Naval Officer


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8 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

12.30pm: Landed football party

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men & football party returned

Lost overboard by accident: Fenders, large 1: Fenders, small 1


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9 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

3.20pm: Hands to Fire Stations, extinguished small fire on fore bridge

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

4.45pm: "Druid" secured alongside

11.00pm: "Druid" shoved off, received 45 tons fuel oil from HMS Druid


[HMS Druid, 990 ton destroyer, was launched in 1911 by William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton. She took part in the Battles of Heligoland Bight & Dogger Bank and was scrapped in 1921.]


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10 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

12.30pm: Hands make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men returned


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11 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

12.30pm: HMS Grafton returned, "Grafton” took over Senior Naval Officer’s duties

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men returned


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12 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

8.30am: HMS Heliotrope secured alongside

12.30pm: Liberty men landed, hands make & mend clothes

6.30pm: Liberty men returned


[HMS Heliotrope, 1200 ton sloop, was launched in 1915 by Lobnitz & Co, Renfrew. She was scrapped in 1935.]


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13 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

12.30pm: Liberty men landed

5.00pm: “Stuart” secured alongside West side of Cement Jetty & “Northesk” secured alongside

6.30pm: Liberty men returned


[HMS Northesk, ~1000 ton destroyer, was launched in 1916 by Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Ironwork Co Ltd, Hebburn. She was scrapped in 1921.]


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14 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

9.00am: “Stuart” shoved off

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men returned


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15 April 1919

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79


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16 April 1919

Novorossisk and at sea

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

Lost overboard by accident: 1 21" torpedo winch handle

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

4.00pm: Shifted berth to West side of jetty

6.00pm: Refugees embarked

8.00pm: Proceeded out of harbour

11.24pm: Cape Kadosh Light abeam to Port


[Cape Kadosh Lighthouse is variously indexed as Kodoshky Lighthouse or Mys Kodosh but no exact location is given. The Cape, Mys Kodosh, is on the Black Sea coast of Russia at Lat 44.1, Long 39.04.]


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17 April 1919

[18 April in log.]

At sea to Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

9.30am: Divisions, presented Long Service & Good Conduct medal to Mechanician Thomson

10.30am: Secured alongside oiling jetty

12.30pm: Landed liberty men, remainder of hands make & mend clothes

7.00pm: Landed patrol

9.00pm: Received 129 tons oil fuel from Depot

10.00pm: Liberty men & patrol returned


[Batoum is now indexed as Batumi. It is the capital of the autonomous region of Ajara in Georgia.]


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18 April 1919

Batoum to Constantinople

Lat 41.8, Long 40.6 [approx]

9.05am: Two military officers & 1 stoker from “Theseus” embarked

9.20am: Proceeded


[HMS Theseus, 7350 ton cruiser, was launched in 1892 by the Thames Ironwork & Shipbuilding Co. She took part in the Dardanelles campaign and was scrapped in 1921. She is part of the Old Weather fleet.]


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19 April 1919

Batoum to Constantinople & Ismid

Lat 41.7, Long 30.7 [approx]

4.37am: Kerempeh Light S8E

1.40pm: Sighted land on port bow

3.00pm: Sighted Bosphorus Light Vessel

3.24pm: Bosphorus Light Vessel abeam, course as requisite for swept channel

6.00pm: Secured alongside oiler, received 115 tons oil fuel from SS Mexican Prince

Disembarked military officers & discharged one stoker to “Caesar”

10.00pm: Proceeded, course & speed as requisite to Ismid


[Kerempe Lighthouse is in Turkey at Lat 42.02, Long 33.34.

SS Mexican Prince, 3028 ton tanker, was built in 1893 by CS Swan, Hunter, Wallsend. She was sold & renamed later in 1919, converted to a storage tanker after another sale & rename, then finally scrapped in 1938.]


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20 April 1919

Ismid and at sea

Lat 40.75, Long 29.92

12.35am: Anchored in Gulf of Ismid

9.00am: Proceeded alongside Russian destroyer outside "Volya"

Prepared to take Russian destroyer in tow

Noon: Sent Navigating Party to "Schastlivi"

1.30pm: Took Russian destroyer “Schastlivi” in tow with 4½" Wire & 2 8" Hemps

2.35pm: Tow parted

4.10pm: Took “Schastlivi” in tow with 4½" Wire & 1 shackle of cable

Lost overboard by accident: One bottom line


[The Gulf of Ismid is on the Eastern end of the Sea of Marmara. It is in Turkey at Lat 40.75, Long 29.5.

Volya”, 23,789 ton battleship, was launched in 1914 as “Imperator Aleksandr III” by Russud Shipyard Nikolayev. However, she was not completed until 1917 when she was renamed “Volya”. She was later renamed General Alexsayev before she was scrapped in 1936.

Schastlivi”, 1110 ton destroyer, was launched in 1914 by Putilov, St Petersburg. She was captured by the Germans in 1918 and stranded in Oct 1919.]


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21 April 1919

Ismid to Mudros

Lat 40.27, Long 26.56 [approx]

3.00am: Khairsiz Ada Light S72W

3.53am: Fanar Adasi Light Port bow

5.57am: Khairsis Ada Island abeam, 1.7'

Noon: Koudiuk Burnu abeam, port

am: Course & speed as requisite for passage of Dardanelles

3.00pm: Course & speed as requisite for passing South of Tenedos

9.05pm: Kombi Light abeam to port

9.50pm: Anchored & shortened in tow of “Schastlivi”

10.20pm: Slipped “Schastlivi”, weighed & proceeded alongside her

Hauled in tow, tugs took charge of “Schastlivi”

Midnight: Anchored

Lost overboard by accident: Fenders, Large 1: Fenders, Small 3


[Khairsiz Ada Light is indexed as Hayirsiz Ada Lighthouse on the eponymous islet in the Sea of Marmara at Lat 40.64, Long 27.49.

Fanar Adasi Light is probably the one indexed as Fener Adasi Lighthouse on a small island in the Sea of Marmara in Turkey at Lat 40.46, Long 28.0.

Koudiuk Burnu is now indexed as Gocuk Burnu in Turkey at Lat 40.27, Lat 26.57.

Kombi Lighthouse is now in Greece on the island of Limnos at Lat 39.8, Long 29.23.]


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22 April 1919

Mudros

Lat 39.88, Long 25.25

9.15am: Weighed & proceeded alongside oiler

10.05am: Secured alongside oiler, received 128 tons oil fuel from SS War Matron

1.00pm: Proceeded

1.10pm: Anchored, hands make & mend clothes

5.00pm: Drew one 100 Fathom. 12" Cable laid Manilla hawser & 3 large shackles


[SS War Matron, 5259 tons, was built in 1918 by Sir James Laing & Sons Ltd, Deptford, for the Shipping Controller. She was sold in 1919 & renamed “Acasta” in 1921. She retained this name through several owners until she was scrapped in 1953.]


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23 April 1919

Mudros, at sea, Mudros

Lat 39.75, Long 25.4 [approx]

6.00am: Called hands, prepared to tow

9.00am: Weighed & proceeded

9.25am: Anchored in Mudros Bay

11.00am: Took “Schastlivi” in tow with 2 shackles of chain cable, 100 fathoms 12" manilla, 250 fathoms of 4½" wire

11.25am: Kombi Light abeam starboard, 6½ cables

12.33pm: Tow parted

12.35pm: Stopped both

1.15pm: Passed line to “Schastlivi”

1.20pm: Line fouled

Hands employed clearing line & 3½" wires

3.20pm: Anchored

4.00pm: Line clear

Schastlivi” slipped tow (4½" wire, 2 shackles chain cable, 100 fathoms 12" cable, laid manilla) in position 39° 42’N, 25° 11’E

5.15pm: Tugs took “Schastlivi” in tow

Course & speed as requisite standing by “Schastlivi”

8.02pm: Tow parted, prepared to take “Schastlivi” in tow with 3½" wire

10.00pm: “Schastlivi” stranded in position 4 cables W magnetic from Kombi Point Light House

Navigation party abandoned ship

10.30pm: Proceeded into harbour

11.00pm: Anchored

Lost in “Schastlivi”: 12 duffel coats, 13 pairs leather sea boots, 1 watch coat, 13 oilskin suits & sou-westers.

Lost overboard by accident: 2 punches, cable, 2 hammers


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24 April 1919

Mudros

Lat 39.88, Long 25.25

1.00pm: Hands make & mend clothes

Court of Inquiry on stranding of “Schastlivi” held on board “Adamant”


[HMS Adamant, 935 ton depot ship, was launched in 1911 by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. She was scrapped in 1932.]


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25 April 1919

Mudros to Malta

Lat 39.88, Long 25.25

4.30am: Anchored

9.30am: Weighed anchor & shifted berth

2.30pm: Weighed & proceeded

3.05pm: Kombi Light N, 2 miles

3.41pm: North point Strati Island N62W

4.10pm: North point Strati Island N73W, 7¼ miles

8.30pm: Cape Phassa Light S3W

9.40pm: Course as requisite for navigating Doro & Zea Channels

10.42pm: Cape Phassa Light S6E

11.55pm: Sighted St Georgio & Angelestrio Lights


[Cape Phassa lighthouse is indexed as Fasa Lighthouse on the Greek island of Andros & is at Lat 37.97, Long 24.7.

The Doro Channel is between Evvia and Andros in Greece at Lat 38.0, Long 24.67.

The Channel of Zea is between Makronisos and Kea in Greece at Lat 37.67, Long 24.2.

St Georgio Light is probably the lighthouse on the island of St George or Agios Yeorgios south of Cape Sounio at Lat 37.48, Long 23.93.

Angelestrio Light is probably the lighthouse known as Angalistros Lighthouse on the island of Makronisi at Lat 36.27, Long 23.08.]


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26 April 1919

Mudros To Malta

Lat 36.0, Long 21.5 [approx]

2.00am: Course as requisite to pass 2' NW of Belo Pulo Light

4.24am: Belo Pulo S5E

4.31am: Belo Pulo S50E 1¾ miles

6.35am: Cape Malea Light House S60W

10.15am: Kipala Point abeam to starboard


[Belo Pulo Light is usually indexed as Velopoula Lighthouse and is built on an isolated, uninhabited island, Nisida Velopoula, which is at Lat 36.92, Long 23.46.

Cape Malea Light House is indexed as Maleas Lighthouse in Greece at Lat 36.45, Long 23.2.

Kipala Point may be the Cape indexed as Akra Kipoula in Greece at Lat 36.53, Long 22.35.]


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Lost in Russian Torpedo Boat Destroyer “Schastlivi”

2 Shackles of chain cable

1 Boat’s compass

50 fathoms flexible steel wire rope, 2½

2 Electric torches

3 Shackles, joining

1 telescope, small

1 bucket, hand

1 towing slip

3 Hand candle lamps

1 Lamp, portable

1 can, tin, for oil, 2 gallons

3 Lamps, bulkhead

1 Fog Horn

2 Lanterns, magazine

1 Hatchet

2 blocks 2.5

1 Carley Float

1 Lantern, port

1 Lantern, starboard

Cordage, Coir, 3 inch, 113 fathoms

1 Lantern, masthead

1 pair binoculars

Flags, one of each, Nos. 310, 311, 412, 438, 443

[signed] Kenneth G Ramsey, Commanding Officer HMS Torch 26/4/19.


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27 April 1919

At sea to Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.30am: Sighted land bearing W

10.40am: Passed breakwater of Grand Harbour

11.10am: Secured alongside Parlatorio Wharf

11.30am: 3 Ratings joined ship from hospital

12.30pm: Landed liberty men till 8am

6.00pm: Landed canteen party

8.30pm: Canteen party returned


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28 April 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Hands employed disembarking ammunition

am: Discharged 3 ratings sick to RN hospital

12.30pm: Payed [sic] quarterly settlement & monthly advancement to ship’s company

4.30pm: Landed liberty men till 8am

6.00pm: Landed canteen party

8.30pm: Canteen party returned


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29 April 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed refitting

Leave rotas continue


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30 April 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed refitting

3.30pm: Fire stations. Extinguished small fire in engine room

5.00pm: Discharged one stoker sick to “Egmont”


[HMS Egmont was a ‘stone frigate’ or shore base established in the medieval Fort of St Angelo, Birgu, overlooking Grand Harbour.]



LOGS FOR MAY 1919


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1 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed refitting

Leave rota continues


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2 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Shifted berth to alongside “Craigie”

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.00pm: Landed canteen party

10.00pm: Canteen party returned


[HMS Craigie, 800 ton minesweeper, was launched in 1918 by the Clyde Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Port Glasgow. She was scrapped in 1922.]


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3 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed refitting

12.30pm: Hands make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

4.00pm: Landed liberty men

Evening quarters, read warrant no [blank]

Discharged 1 rating to “Egmont” for cell punishment

6.00pm: Landed canteen party

10.00pm: Canteen party returned


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4 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Landed Wesleyan church party

9.00am: Landed Roman Catholic & Church of England church parties

12.30pm: Hands make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

6.00pm: Landed canteen party

10.00pm: Canteen party returned


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5 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Liberty men returned

All day: Hands employed refitting

Leave rota continues


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6 May 1919

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

10.40am: Entered dry dock

Rigged 3 lengths of hose from shore fire main

All day: Hands employed refitting

3.00pm: Ship on the chocks


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7 May 1919

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed refitting

12.30pm: 1 rating rejoined ship from hospital

1.30pm: Read warrant no [blank], discharged one rating to Military Detention Barracks, Corradino


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8 May 1919

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed refitting

4.00pm: Discharged 2 ratings to “Egmont” for standing patrol

6.00pm: 1 rating joined ship from “Stuart”


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9 May 1919

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed refitting

4.00pm: Landed liberty men, leave to port watch till 7am Monday

6.00pm: Landed canteen party

10.00pm: Canteen party returned


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10 May 1919

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Liberty men returned

9.00am: Port watch secured

12.30pm: Hands make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

4.00pm: Landed canteen party

10.00pm: Canteen party returned


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11 May 1919

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Landed Wesleyan church party

10.00am: Landed Church of England party

11.00am: Church parties returned

12.30pm: Hands make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

6.00pm: Landed canteen party

10.00pm: Canteen party returned


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12 May 1919

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Liberty men returned

All day: Hands employed refitting

Leave rota resumes


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13 May 1919

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed refitting

10.00pm: Compared & adjusted barometer with mercurial barometer in chart depot


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14 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Commenced flooding dock

8.00am: Carried out tilt test of director & gun mountings

11.00am: Undocked & secured alongside “War Edensaw”


[SS War Edensaw, 2336 tons, was built in 1918 by the New Westminster Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, New Westminster, for the Shipping Controller. On 25th June 1919 she caught fire approaching Malta from Constantinople. The fire would have been especially disastrous because she had a wooden hull as an anti-magnetic mine precaution.]


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15 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Shifted with “War Edensaw” alongside "Caradoc"


[HMS Caradoc, 4306 ton cruiser, was launched in 1916 by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co, Greenock. She took part in the 2nd Battle of Heligoland Bight and post war supported the anti-Bolshevik forces. She operated off the coast of the USA in the early part of WW2, and later moved into more support roles before being scrapped in 1946. She is part of the Old Weather fleet.]


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16 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed refitting & as requisite

1.30pm: Landed funeral party

2.30pm: Funeral party returned

3.00pm: Discharged 1 rating sick to hospital

4.30pm: Landed liberty men, starboard watch till 8am Monday

6.00pm: Landed canteen party

10.00pm: Canteen party returned


[The funeral was for Lieutenant Commander Martin Arthur Frankland Hood who died on 14 May aged 31. However, his body was finally interred in Nettleham (All Saints) New Churchyard, Lincolnshire, together with the body of Brevet Major Alban John Frankland Hood of the 3rd Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, who was buried there in 1927 but who did not die in war time service.]


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17 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

1.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.00pm: Landed canteen party

10.00pm: Canteen party returned


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18 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

10.00am: Landed Church of England party

11.30am: Church party returned

pm: Make & mend clothes

1.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.00pm: Landed canteen party

10.00pm: Canteen party returned


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19 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Liberty men returned

All day: Hands employed refitting & as requisite

Leave rota resumes


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20 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed refitting & as requisite


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21 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed refitting & as requisite


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22 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed as requisite

pm: Hands employed rigging new masts & as requisite


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23 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed refitting & as requisite

10.30am: Captain of "Blenheim" inspected ship

12.30pm: Payed [sic] monthly advancement to ship’s company


[At this time the Captain of HMS Blenheim was Captain GCW Crispin.]


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24 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed refitting

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

Discharged 1 rating to "Hornet"

1.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.00pm: Landed canteen party

10.00pm: Canteen party returned


[HMS Hornet, ~775 ton destroyer, was launched in 1911 by John Brown & Co, Clydebank. She took part in the Battle of Dogger Bank and, with HMS Jackal, went to the assistance of the grounded HMS Argyll. She was scrapped in 1921.]


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25 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

10.00am: Landed Roman Catholic & Church of England church parties

6.00pm: Shipped 6" spheres on standard compass


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26 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51


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27 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

12.30pm: 1 rating joined ship from “Egmont”

1 rating discharged to “Blenheim”


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28 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Discharged 1 rating to "Blenheim”

All day: Hands employed painting ship

Lost overboard by accident: 2 paint brushes


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29 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Embarked torpedoes

Drew 2 clocks from dockyard

All day: Hands employed cleaning & painting ship

pm: 2 ratings joined ship from "Egmont"

5.00pm: Dockyard men vacated ship. Refit completed


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30 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed embarking ammunition & as requisite

pm: Coaled ship

Carried out basin trial

5.00pm: 1 rating rejoined ship from hospital

7.00pm: Oil lighter secured alongside, oiled 130 tons


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31 May 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Tug secured alongside, proceeded to buoys in Grand Harbour

Swung ship for compass correction

Noon: Tug secured alongside, proceeded to buoys North side of Gun Mounting Wharf

4.30pm: Landed liberty men


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LOG BOOKS – JUNE 1ST 1919 TO JULY 31ST 1919


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LOGS FOR JUNE 1919


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1 June 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed painting ship

pm: Hands make & mend clothes, landed liberty men


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2 June 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

pm: Hands make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

5.30pm: 3 ratings rejoined ship


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3 June 1919

Malta and at sea

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Dressed ship

7.00pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour


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4 June 1919

Malta to Spalato

Lat 38.5, Long 17.6 [approx]

5.00pm: Exercised collision stations

Stopped, hands to bathe

5.28pm: Proceeded


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5 June 1919

At sea to Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

7.47am: Stoncica Light House abeam to port, 1.7’

9.50am: Secured alongside “Steadfast”

12.30pm: Discharged 80 tons oil fuel to "Steadfast"

3.30pm: Proceeded alongside USS Landsdale [sic], oiled 164 tons

Hands to bathe


[Spalato is the Italian name for Split in Croatia. It is at Lat 43.5, Long 16.44.

Stoncica Lighthouse is in Croatia at Lat 43.04, Long 16.27.

HMS Steadfast, 1075 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Jarrow. She was scrapped in 1934.

USS Lansdale, 1060 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 at the Fore River Shipyard, Quincy, Mass. She was scrapped in 1939.]


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6 June 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

7.00am: “Steadfast” sailed

8.00am: Proceeded alongside jetty

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men returned


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7 June 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


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8 June 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 2


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9 June 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


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10 June 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

Ship & leave routine continue

Number on sick list 2


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11 June 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

All day: Hands employed fitting Sceptre gear & as requisite

Number on sick list 3

Lost overboard by accident: one 12" steel rule.


[Sceptre gear seems to refer to gear facilitating the search for radio signals from unknown ships.]


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12 June 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

5.00pm: Discharged 2 ratings, sick, to hospital

6.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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13 June 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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14 June 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 4


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15 June 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

10.00am: Divisions

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 8


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16 June 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 4


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17 June 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

pm: Prepared torpedoes for running

Leave rota continues

Number on sick list 2


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18 June 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

1.00pm: Proceeded out of harbour: course & speed as requisite

Ran & recovered 2 torpedoes

3.10pm: Anchored in St Pietro Cove

Number on sick list 2


[St Pietr Cove is indexed as Sveti Petar Bay in Croatia at Lat 43.72, Long 15.9.]


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19 June 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

5.30am: "Swallow" arrived & proceeded alongside jetty

6.40am: Weighed & proceeded into harbour

7.15am: Secured alongside oiler, oiled 160 tons

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

4.00pm: “Swallow” sailed for Malta, proceeded alongside jetty

8.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 1


[HMS Swallow, 1075 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by Scotts Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Greenock. She was scrapped in 1936.]


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20 June 1919

Spalato to Venice

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

4.00pm: Proceeded, course & speed as requisite for leaving harbour. Exercised ‘Action’

4.45pm: Stopped. Hands to bathe

5.10pm: Proceeded

5.37pm: Murvica Light bore North

7.17pm: Luciette Island Light N37E, 4'

10.20pm: Bianchi Light abeam starboard, 15.5'

Number on sick list 1


[Murvica Lighthouse is in Croatia at Lat 43.47, Long 16.05.

Lucietta Island Light is variously indexed as Otocic Blitvenica or Hrid Blitvenica or Blitvenica and is on an islet off the coast of Croatia at Lat 43.63, Long 15.58.

Bianchi Light is probably the one indexed as Cape Veli Rat Lighthouse on Dugi Island off the coast of Croatia at Lat 44.15, Long 14.83.]


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21 June 1919

At sea to Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

7.49am: Passed Lido Light House

8.48am: Secured head & stern to buoys off Custom House, spread awnings

5.00pm: Landed liberty men, discharged 3 ratings to hospital

10.30pm: Liberty men returned.

Number on sick list 3


[Lido Light House is probably the one indexed as Venetie Entrance Range Front Lighthouse in Italy at Lat 45.43, Long 12.4.]


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22 June 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

10.00am: Landed Roman Catholics

11.00am: RCs returned

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

4.30pm: HMS Cardiff arrived

11.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


[HMS Cardiff, 4260 ton cruiser, was launched in 1917 by the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan. She took part in the 2nd Battle of Heligoland Bight and escorted convoys during WW1. She supported anti-Bolshevik forces after the war. In WW2 she mainly functioned as a gunnery training ship & was scrapped in 1946. She is part of the Old Weather fleet.]


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23 June 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

11.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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24 June 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

10.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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25 June 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

4.30pm: Landed football party & liberty men

10.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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26 June 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

12.30pm: Hands make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

10.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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27 June 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

10.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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28 June 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

7.00am: HMS Cardiff sailed

am: Hands employed painting ship & as requisite

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

Number on sick list 3

Lost overboard by accident: 1 paint brush


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29 June 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

9.30am: Divisions

10.00am: Landed Roman Catholics

11.00am: RCs returned

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

5.00pm: 1 rating rejoined ship from hospital

10.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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30 June 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

Leave rota continues

Number on sick list 2



LOGS FOR JULY 1919


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1 July 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

Noon: Payed [sic] quarterly settlement to ship’s company

Number on sick list 2


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2 July 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

Number on sick list 2


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3 July 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

am: Hands employed fitting & marking shores & as requisite

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

10.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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4 July 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

8.00am: Dressed ship, American ensign at Fore

am: Exercised Action stations & General drill

pm: Exercised firing party in funeral drill

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

Discharged 1 rating sick to Italian hospital & 1 rating rejoined from Italian hospital

10.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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5 July 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

9.00am: Landed funeral party & mourners for burial of the late Stoker Petty Officer Walters, ON. K.30 of HMS Cardiff

10.00am: Half-masted colours

11.00am: Re-hoisted colours

Funeral party returned

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

5.00pm: 1 Rating rejoined from hospital

10.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


[Stoker Petty Officer Harold G Walters died of illness. He is buried in San Michele Cemetery, Plot XV, Prot Sect. Aged 32, he was the husband of Georgina Walters of 3 Wheatfield Rd, Edinburgh, and the son of Mr & Mrs G Walters of 3 Marmion Rd, Henley-on-Thames. On the CWGC website he is listed as from HMS Egmont, a shore establishment in Malta.]


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6 July 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

9.30am: Divisions

10.00am: Landed Roman Catholics

11.00am: RCs returned

1.00pm: Landed liberty men

10.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 1


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7 July 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

10.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 1


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8 July 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

Leave rota continues

Number on sick list 1


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9 July 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

2.00pm: Oil lighter secured alongside, oiled 120 tons

5.00pm: Discharged 1 rating to hospital

Number on sick list 2


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10 July 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

am: “A” gun’s crew to drill

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

4.25pm: HMS Steadfast secured alongside

Landed liberty men

8.49pm: Transferred flag to "Steadfast".

Number on sick list 2


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11 July 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

6.00pm: Discharged Italian mechanic to "Steadfast"

10.00pm: 1 rating joined ship from "Steadfast"

Number on sick list 2


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12 July 1919

Venice to Fiume

Lat 45.0, Long 13.3 [approx]

Midnight: Embarked 3,000 lbs of potatoes for HMS Cardiff

7.45am: 1 Military officer & 2 American Red Cross nurses embarked for passage

8.00am: Slipped & proceeded

8.30am: Stopped off Lido bank to clear weed trap

Course as requisite for safe channels to Gulf of Fiume

3.00pm: Stopped, exercised sea boats crew, fire & collision stations

Hands to bathe

3.50pm: Proceeded

5.00pm: Secured alongside East side of Rudolf mole, placed jetty sentry, spread awnings

6.30pm: Sent 3,000 lbs potatoes to "Cardiff"

Discharged 1 rating to "Cardiff".

Number on sick list 2


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13 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

9.30am: Landed Church of England, Wesleyan, Presbyterian & Non-Conformist parties

10.30am: Landed Roman Catholic church party

11.30am: Church parties returned

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

8.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


[Fiume, now Rijeka, is the premier seaport of Croatia at Lat 45.32, Long 14.44.]


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14 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

8.00am: Landed Lewis gun party for practice firing

12.30pm: Landing party returned

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

8.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


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15 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

All day: Hand employed painting ship & as requisite

Leave rota continues

Number on sick list 2


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16 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

All day: Hands employed painting ship & as requisite

2.00pm: Landed football party

4.30pm: Landed liberty men, football party returned

7.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


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17 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

1.30pm: Shifted ship

HMS Calypso secured alongside mole. Shifted ship alongside "Calypso"

Leave rota continues

Number on sick list 2


[HMS Calypso, 4192 ton cruiser, was launched in 1917 by Hawthorn Leslie & Co. She took part in the 2nd Battle of Heligoland Bight where she took a direct hit on her bridge, killing the Captain and all personnel on the bridge. After the war she transported members of the Greek Royal family to Brindisi when they were forced to abdicate in 1922. One passenger was the toddler who became Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. In WW2 she intercepted 2 German merchant ships before she was sent to the Mediterranean, then was torpedoed by an Italian submarine just 2 days after Italy entered the war: one officer and 38 ratings lost their lives.]


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18 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

7.00am: Exercised General drill & ‘Out bower anchor’

am: Hands employed cleaning & painting ship

Number on sick list 2


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19 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

12.30pm: Landed liberty men & football party, make & mend clothes

4.30pm: Landed liberty men, football party returned

7.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


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20 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

6.30am: Landed Roman Catholics

7.30am: RCs returned

9.30am: Landed Church of England, Presbyterians & Non-Conformist church parties

11.30am: Church parties returned

pm: Make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 2


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21 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

4.30pm: Landed football party

5.00pm: Shifted ship alongside North side of mole

6.30pm: Football party returned

Number on sick list 1


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22 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

5.00am: HMS Calypso sailed

9.00am: Warped ship alongside "Cardiff"

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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23 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

3.40pm: HMS Tobago arrived

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

5.30pm: HMS Steadfast arrived

7.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


[HMS Tobago, 1087 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by Thorneycroft. She was serving in the Mediterranean in 1920 when she hit a mine 10 miles, 66° from Trebizond Light. She was towed to Malta and sold in 1922.]


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24 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

am: Ordinary seamen training class to instruction in "Cardiff"

10.30am: Discharged 2 ratings to "Steadfast" for passage to Malta.

11.40am: "Steadfast" sailed

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

7.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


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25 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

8.30am: "Tobago" sailed

4.30pm: Leave rota continues

Number on sick list 3


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26 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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27 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

9.30am: Landed Church of England, Roman Catholic, Wesleyan, Presbyterian & Nonconformist church parties

11.00am: Church parties returned

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


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28 July 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


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29 July 1919

Fiume to Spalato

Lat 44.0, Long 14.9 [approx]

6.45am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

Course as requisite for Zara Channel

12.32pm: Kasara Light abeam

12.57pm: Molli Island Light abeam

1.41pm: Soko Island abeam

2.45pm: Stopped. Exercised General Drill. Hands to bathe

3.27pm: Proceeded

5.20pm: Anchored in Canale Castelle

Number on sick list 2


[Zara Channel lies between the coast of Dalmatia and the offshore islands of Ugliano etc. Zara is usually indexed as Zadar at Lat 44.12, Long 15.24.

Kasara Light may refer to the island of Kosara, indexed as Otocic Kosara in Croatia at Lat 43.89, Long 15.04 but I cannot trace a lighthouse there.

Molli Island Light is probably Cliff Mulo Lighthouse off the coast of Croatia at Lat 43.51, Long 15.92.

Soko Island may refer to Sokol Island in Croatia at Lat 43.67, Long 15.7.

Canale del Castelli is a bay in Croatia at Lat 43.52. Long 16.37.]


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30 July 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

9.35am: Weighed & proceeded into Spalato harbour

10.15am: Anchored then secured stern to buoy

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

8.30pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


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31 July 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

9.00am: Landed 1 Officer and 14 men for Serbian Memorial Service

pm: Make & mend clothes

4.30pm: Landed funeral & firing party for funeral of the late A. Fowler, Signal Boy, Official No J67552, of HMS Tomahawk

5.00pm: Half masted colours

5.45pm: Funeral party returned, landed liberty men

6.00pm: Rehoisted colours

9.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2

Lost overboard by accident: 1 white Ensign, 3 breadth


[Alick Edward Fowler, Signal Boy, J 67552, aged 17, was the son of James & Sarah Jane Fowler, 137 Carlton Vale, Kilburn, London. At some stage between 1919 and 1923 he was disinterred and reburied in the cemetery at Salonika (Thessaloniki). Such reburials allowed the CWGC to better maintain the graves of those servicemen who were first buried in small or isolated cemeteries.]


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LOG BOOKS – AUGUST 1ST 1919 TO SEPTEMBER 30TH 1919


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LOGS FOR AUGUST 1919


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1 August 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

7.00am: Exercised General drill, ‘Out bower anchor’

11.00am: Payed [sic] monthly advancement to ship’s company

4.30pm: Leave rota continues

Number on sick list 2

Lost overboard by accident: 1 Sheave pin from block of whalers’ falls


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2 August 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

9.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


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3 August 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

9.30am: Divisions

10.30am: Discharged 1 rating sick to USS Olympia

12.30pm: Sent picnic party to USS Olympia, landed liberty men

9.00pm: Liberty men returned

10.00pm: Picnic party returned

Number on sick list 1


[USS Olympia, 5676 ton cruiser, was launched in 1892 by the Union Iron Works, San Francisco. She took part in the Battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish American War and supported the Anti-Bolsheviks after WW1. She transported the body of the US Unknown Soldier from France to the USA and was decommissioned in 1922. She is still preserved at the Independence Seaport Museum.]


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4 August 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

4.30pm: Leave rota continues

7.00pm: 1 rating rejoined ship from USS Olympia

Number on sick list 1

Lost overboard by accident: 1 paint brush


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5 August 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

10.00am: Weighed & proceeded alongside USS Fred J Talbot

1.30pm: Oiled 90 tons

5.00pm: Proceeded to anchorage, secured stern to buoy S8

7.00pm: Landed liberty men

7.30pm: USS F J Talbot sailed

9.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


[USS J Fred Talbott, 1090 ton destroyer, was launched 1918 by William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, and scrapped in 1946.]


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6 August 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

7.00am: Italian TBD "ZF" left harbour

4.30pm: Leave rota continues


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7 August 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

6.30pm: Landed dance party


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8 August 1919

Spalato to Trau

Lat 43.51, Long 16.23

12.30am: Liberty men & dance party returned

6.00am: Called hands, prepared for sea, exercised General drill

Let go 2nd anchor & weighed by deck tackle, ‘Out kedge anchor’, secured

9.00am: Weighed & proceeded, course & speed as requisite, exercised sea boat's crew

10.45am: Anchored in Trau Roadstead, exercised ‘Action’, fired .303 aiming rifle at towed target

Noon: Secured

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

7.30pm: Liberty men returned

9.30pm: Exercised ‘Night Action’, searchlight & fired 303 AR at towed target

10.30pm: Secured


[Trau is in Croatia at Lat 43.51, Long 16.25.]


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9 August 1919

Trau to Port Sordo

Lat 43.4, Long 16.3

9.00am: Weighed & proceeded

Dropped target, fired Pom-Pom

Picked up target

Noon: Anchored in Port Sordo

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, leave to watch 1.30-7.00pm


[Port Sordo is not indexed as such today. However, it is described in a hydrographic survey where it is given as about the middle of the North coast of the island of Solta and is probably Rogac, now the ferry port for the island.]


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10 August 1919

To Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

9.00am: Weighed & proceeded

10.30am: Anchored & secured stern to S18 buoy in Spalato

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

9.00pm: Liberty men returned


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11 August 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

pm: Ordinary seaman training class to instruction

4.30pm: Liberty men landed

9.00pm: Liberty men returned


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12 August 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

pm: Ordinary seaman training class to instruction

4.30pm: Leave rota continues


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13 August 1919

Spalato

Lat 43.5, Long 16.44

am: Exercised control parties and recorders

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

9.30pm: Liberty men returned


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14 August 1919

Spalato to Venice

Lat 44.3, Long 14.4 [approx]

5.12am: Slipped, weighed & proceeded

8.30am: Port Tajer Light bore N43E

9.02am: Divisions, exercised ‘Action’ stations

10.30am: Secured

Noon: Stopped, hands to bathe

4.00pm: Course as requisite for swept channel

5.35pm: Stopped, hands to bathe

5.49pm: Proceeded, course as requisite for entering harbour

7.00pm: Secured alongside "Tomahawk"

8.00pm: Hoisted flag of Rear Admiral Kiddle CB RN. Took over duties of Senior Naval Officer Venice from “Tomahawk”


[Port Tajer Light seems to be indexed as Sestrice Vela Lighthouse and is in Croatia at Lat 38.54, Long 20.9.]

[RA EB Kiddle, British Naval representative on the Inter-allied Council in the Adriatic.]


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15 August 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

4.55am: Slipped & proceeded to allow “Tomahawk” to slip

5.20am: “Tomahawk” sailed

5.55am: Secured head to buoy & stern to piles

am: Hands employed painting ship

pm: Make & mend clothes

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

10.00pm: Liberty men returned


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16 August 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

10.00pm: Liberty men returned, raised steam for slow speed [weather deteriorating]


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17 August 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

1.30pm: Discharged 1 rating sick to Italian Naval Hospital

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

10.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 1


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18 August 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

am: Ordinary seamen training class to instruction, remainder of hands at requisite

4.30pm: Leave rota continues

Number on sick list 1


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19 August 1919

Venice

Lat 45.35, Long 12.40 [approx]

8.00am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour, course & speed as requisite for torpedo running

Ran & recovered 5 torpedoes

12.30pm: Anchored

2.30pm: Weighed & proceeded into harbour

3.15pm: Secured head to buoy & stern to piles off Custom house

4.30pm: Leave rota continues

Number on sick list 1


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20 August 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

All day: Torpedo ratings employed on torpedoes, remainder of hands cleaning ship

4.30pm: Leave rota continues

Number on sick list 2


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21 August 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

am: Torpedo men employed about torpedoes, remainder of hands employed as requisite

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

Received 78 tons oil fuel from Italian Dockyard

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

10.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 2


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22 August 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

am: Torpedo men employed about torpedoes, remainder of hands employed as requisite

pm: Hands employed as requisite

4.30pm: Leave rota continues

Number on sick list 2


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23 August 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

Saturday routine

Number on sick list 2


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24 August 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

Sunday routine

Number on sick list 2


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25 August 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

am: X gun's crew to drill, remainder of hands employed as requisite

pm: Rove new motor boat’s falls & overhauled blocks

4.30pm: Leave rota resumes

3 ratings joined ship from “Cardiff”

Number on sick list 3


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26 August 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

am: Discharged 1 rating sick to Italian Naval hospital

Number on sick list 3


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27 August 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

am: Hands employed as requisite, A & Z guns’ crews to drill

5.00pm: HMS Ivy arrived, 2 ratings joined ship from "Ivy"

Number on sick list 3


[HMS Ivy, 1290 ton sloop, was launched in 1918 by Blyth Ship Builders. She was sold in 1921 but her subsequent career is difficult to disentangle. She was registered in Glasgow as “Sinaloa” in 1922 but later on-line information is contradictory.]


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28 August 1919

Venice

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

am: Hands employed provisioning ship

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.00pm: HMS Martin arrived

8.00pm: Drew rum from “Martin”, transferred flag of Rear Admiral Kiddle to “Martin”

10.00pm: Liberty men returned, discharged 1 rating & 1 Italian mechanic to “Martin”

Number on sick list 3


[HMS Martin, ~750 ton destroyer, was launched in 1910 by Thornycrofts. She was sold in 1920.]


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29 August 1919

Venice to Fiume

Lat 44.92, Long 13.79

7.00am: Slipped & proceeded, course & speed as requisite for leaving harbour

9.10am: Exercised General Quarters

10.10am: Secured from GQs

Noon: Course as requisite for passage between Brioni Island and Pola & thence by swept channel South of Porer Rock

1.47pm: Stopped to swing ship for deviation of compass

1.58pm: Proceeded

5.00pm: Stopped, ‘Hands to bathe’, proceeded

6.00pm: Secured alongside HMS Cardiff


[Brioni Island is usually indexed as Brijuni Island, off the coast of Croatia at Lat 44.82, Long 13.77.

Pola is probably the town indexed as Pulo-Pola in Croatia at Lat 44.87, Long 13.85.

There are two rocks off the coast of Croatia indexed as Hrid Porer, one at Lat 44.67, Long 13.88 and the other at Lat 44.76, Long 13.89.]


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30 August 1919

Fiume to Venice

Lat 44.75, Long 13.9 [approx]

9.05am: Rear Admiral Sinclair & Secretary embarked for passage to Venice

9.10am: Proceeded, course as requisite for passage

5.30pm: Course & speed as requisite for entering harbour

6.15pm: Secured alongside "Martin"

Landed liberty men

10.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


[RA ES Alexander-Sinclair, KCB, RN]


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31 August 1919

Venice to Fiume

Lat 45.42, Long 12.35

9.30am: Divisions

Received 41 tons oil fuel from Italian Dockyard

Noon: Captain TN James RN & Flag Lieutenant embarked for passage to Fiume

1.30pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

4.45pm: Passed between Brioni Island & Pola

7.30pm: Entered harbour

7.55pm: Secured alongside “Cardiff”



LOGS FOR SEPTEMBER 1919


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1 September 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

am: Hands employed warping ship across harbour

11.00am: Secured alongside East side of Rudolf Mole, placed jetty sentry

4.00pm: Payed [sic] monthly advancement to ship's company

Landed liberty men

7.00pm: "Martin" arrived & secured alongside "Cardiff". Rear Admiral Hope hoisted flag

Number on sick list 3


[Rear Admiral George Pipe Webley Hope 1869-1959.]


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2 September 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

6.00am: “Martin” sailed for Venice

am: Hands employed warping ship across harbour

11.00am: Secured alongside "Cardiff”

4.30pm: Liberty men landed

5.00pm: Oiled HMS Cardiff, 104 tons

7.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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3 September 1919

Fiume to Pola and return

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

6.05am: Proceeded

9.30am: Stopped off Brioni Island

10.00am: Proceeded alongside oiling jetty in Pola Harbour

Oiled 178 tons

Noon: Hands to bathe

2.10pm: Proceeded

2.25pm: Anchored in Brioni Bay

3.00pm: Weighed & proceeded

7.15pm: Secured alongside "Cardiff"

Received slops from HMS Ceanothus

Oiled HMS Cardiff 164 tons

Number on sick list 3


[HMS Ceanothus, 1290 ton sloop, was launched in 1917 by Armstrong, Whitworth & Co, Newcastle. She was transferred to the Royal Indian Navy in 1922 and renamed “Elphinstone” but was wrecked in 1925.]


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4 September 1919

Fiume to Pola & return

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

6.00am: Slipped & proceeded

9.50am: Course & speed as requisite for entering harbour

10.00am: Secured at oiling jetty

“A” gun’s crew to drill

Oiled 188 tons

1.10pm: Proceeded

Make & mend clothes

5.15pm: Course & speed as requisite for entering harbour

5.30pm: Secured alongside “Cardiff”

10.00pm: Oiled HMS Cardiff, 160 tons

Number on sick list 3


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5 September 1919

Fiume to Pola & return

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

6.00am: Proceeded

9.35am: Course & speed as requisite for entering harbour

9.50am: Secured alongside oiling jetty

Oiled 186 tons

3.00pm: Proceeded

6.45pm: Secured alongside "Ceres" at breakwater

Number on sick list 3


[HMS Ceres, 4190 ton cruiser, was launched in 1917 by John Brown & Co, Clydebank. She supported Anti-Communist forces after WW1 then went into reserve until WW2 when she was re-commissioned. She was scrapped in 1946 and is part of the Old Weather fleet.]


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6 September 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

5.40am: HMS Cardiff sailed

6.45am: Proceeded, course & speed as requisite for leaving harbour.

7.00am: Anchored

8.45am: Weighed & proceeded into harbour

9.45am: Secured alongside “Ceres” at Ziele [?] Mole

12.30pm: Hands make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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7 September 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

9.00am: Landed Roman Catholic church party

9.30am: Landed Church of England party

11.00am: Church parties returned

12.30pm: Landed liberty men

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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8 September 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

am: X gun’s crew to drill, hands employed as requisite

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3

Lost overboard by accident: 1 hand scrubber


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9 September 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

7.00am: Landed party for route march

11.00am: Landing party returned

4.30pm: Leave rota resumes

Number on sick list 3


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10 September 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

12.30pm: Make & mend clothes, landed liberty men

3.00pm: Recalled liberty men

Number on sick list 3


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11 September 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

5.45am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

6.30am: Anchored. Exercised General drill & ‘Abandon ship’

9.00am: Fired .303 aiming rifle at towed target

9.30am: Weighed & proceeded as requisite for firing

Picked up target & returned to harbour

11.00am: Secured alongside "Ceres” at Maria Theresa Mole

pm: Hands employed painting upper works & as requisite

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

7.00pm: Liberty men returned

Number on sick list 3


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12 September 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

All day: Hands employed painting ship

pm: Slipped warheads, rove new whalers’ falls

6.00pm: Proceeded

6.20pm: Anchored off Whiteheads Works [?]

Number on sick list 2


[Whiteheads may refer to the torpedo factory which had been founded by Robert Whitehead. Although by this time this factory had been sold & renamed, Whitehead’s in Portland still manufactured torpedoes for the Navy so it is possible that the old name was used for the Fiume factory.]


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13 September 1919

Fiume

Lat 45.32, Long 14.44

am: Hands employed painting ship

pm: Make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 2


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14 September 1919

Fiume to Malta

Lat 44.5, Long 14.4 [approx]

2.00am: Embarked British Military Mission & equipment

6.30am: “Cardiff” & “Ceres” left harbour & anchored off Whiteheads

7.15am: Weighed & proceeded alongside “Cardiff”, disembarked BMM

HMS Seraph arrived. 1 rating joined from “Seraph”

8.20am: Proceeded

11.00am: Galliola Island abeam starboard 2 miles

11.24am: Netak Point abeam port, 3 cables

11.55am: South point Sansago Island abeam starboard, 2 miles

1.45pm: Bianchi Point abeam to port

6.52pm: San Andrea Island Light 7¼ miles

Number on sick list 3


[HMS Seraph, 1075 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton. She was sold in 1934.

Otok Galiola is off the coast of Croatia at Lat 44.73, Long 14.18.

Netak Point is the SW extremity of Unie (Unije) Island. There is a lighthouse there which is indexed as Vnetak at Lat 44.61, Long 14.33.

Sansego Island is often indexed as Susak Island off the coast of Croatia at Lat 44.51, Long 14.3.

Isola Sant’ Andrea Lighthouse is off the coast of Italy at Lat 40.05, Long 17.95.]


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15 September 1919

Fiume to Malta

Lat 39.2, Long 18.4 [approx]

9.23am: Cape Otranto

10.20am: Cape St Maria di Leuca S65W

10.41am: Cape St Maria di Leuca N70W

11.57am: Stopped, hands to bathe

12.20pm: Proceeded

12.30pm: Sighted oiler “Boxol” South, 5 miles

12.40pm: Closed “Boxol” & passed 'signal' from “Cardiff”

1.12pm: Proceeded

9.17pm: Cape Spartivento Light abeam to Port

Number on sick list 3


[Capo d’Otranto is in Italy at Lat 40.11, Long 18.52.

Capo Santa Maria di Leuca is in Italy at Lat 39.8, Long 18.37.

RFA Boxol, 2410 ton tanker, was built in 1917 by Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Glasgow. She served through WW2 and was sold & renamed in 1948. In 1951 she was repurchased by the Admiralty for service in the Korean War and finally scrapped in 1959.

Capo Spartivento Lighthouse is in Italy at Lat 37.93, Long 16.06.]


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16 September 1919

At sea to Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

2.18am: Cape Passaro S82W, 15 miles

3.17am: Cape Passaro N53W

6.00am: Course & speed as requisite for entering harbour

6.15am: Passed breakwater.

6.50am: Secured to 9 & 9A buoys in Dockyard Creek

am: Hands employed as requisite for drawing stores etc

pm: Hands employed as requisite, discharged 1 rating to “Egmont”

4.30pm: Landed liberty men, starboard watch till 7am 18th, part of port watch till 7am

Number on sick list 3


[Cape Passero or Passaro is in Sicily at Lat 36.69, Long 15.15.]


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17 September 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed as requisite for drawing stores & ammunition

4.30pm: Landed liberty men

Number on sick list 3


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18 September 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed as requisite & provisioning ship

4.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave till 9pm

10.00pm: Pipe down


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19 September 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.00pm: Leave to port watch till 7am Sunday & part of starboard watch till 7am Saturday

10.00pm: Pipe down


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20 September 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

6.45am: Oil lighter came alongside

7.00am: Coal ship

10.15am: Sub Lieutenant Noakes joined ship

Sub Lieutenant Plumer left for England

Oiled 195 tons

12.30pm: Leave to a part [of watch] from 1.15pm till 7am


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21 September 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.45am: Land Wesleyan church party

9.45am: Land Roman Catholic church party

10.05am: Land Church of England party

11.00am: Pipe down

11.30am: Church parties returned

Noon: Leave to watch & part 1.30pm till 7am

10.00pm: Pipe down


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22 September 1919

Malta and at sea

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.45am: Unshackle

10.00am: Proceeded to swinging buoy & swing for compass deviation

2.00pm: Slipped & proceeded


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23 September 1919

Malta to Smyrna

Lat 35.9, Long 21.1 [approx]

9.45am: Exercised ‘Action’, fired pom-pom (67 rounds)

10.30am: Secure

6.33pm: Cape Matapan 1¼’

7.55pm: Cape Spathi S49E, 2’

9.05pm: Cape Malea abeam, 1½

11.15pm: Belo Pulo Light N61E


[Cape Matapan is often indexed as Akra Tainaron in Greece at Lat 36.39, Long 22.48.

Cape Spathi is indexed as Akra Spathi in Greece at Lat 36.39, Long 22.95.

Belo Pula is indexed as Nisida Velopoula off the coast of Greece at Lat 36.92, Long 23.46.

Cape Malea is indexed as Akra Maleas in Greece at Lat 36.44, Long 23.20.]


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24 September 1919

Gulf of Smyrna

Lat 38.8, Long 26.5 [approx]

5.36am: Doro Light bearing SE, 1¾’

7.40am: Kalya Rocks S32E, 1½’

10.13am: Psara Light bearing S63W

12.20pm: As requisite for proceeding up the Gulf of Smyrna

3.15pm: Secured to HMS Centaur at Smyrna

4.00pm: Commenced oiling

6.00pm: Completed with oil (108 tons)

6.55pm: Proceeded to anchorage

Anchored


[Doro Light may refer to a light on Kavo Doro, indexed as Akra Kafirevs on Evvia in Greece at Lat 38.16, Long 24.59.

Kalya Rocks may be Kaloyeroi Rocks which are at Lat 38.17, Long 25.29.

HMS Centaur, 3750 ton cruiser, was launched in 1916 by Vickers. She took part in sinking the German torpedo boat S20 in 1917. She was scrapped in 1934 and is part of the Old Weather fleet.

Smyrna is now indexed as Izmir in Turkey at Lat 38.45, Long 27.15.]


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25 September 1919

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

Noon: Dinner, hands to bathe

3.00pm: Leave to starboard watch 4pm till 10pm, Petty Officers till 10.30pm

10.00pm: Pipe down


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26 September 1919

Smyrna to Constantinople

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

2 Scrubbers lost overboard by accident

6.30pm: Embarked General Hare CMG DSO & Staff for passage to Constantinople

Weighed & proceeded, course as requisite for Gulf of Smyrna


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27 September 1919

Smyrna to Constantinople

Lat 40.47, Long 26.8 [approx]

5.39am: Ponente Light S72E, 2'

7.00am: Course as requisite for passing through Dardanelles

8.10am: Altered course to close HMS Empress (on fire)

9.00am: Proceeded on original course through Dardanelles

6.00pm: As requisite for entering the Bosphorus

6.45pm: Secured to oiler “War Ghurka”

7.10pm: Complete with oil (53 tons), proceeded alongside "Blenheim"

10.00pm: Pipe down


[Ponente Point Lighthouse is on the island of Bozcaada at Lat 39.84, Long 25.96.

HMS Empress, 2540 ton seaplane carrier, was built in 1907 by William Denny & Brothers, Dumbarton, for the South Eastern & Chatham Railway Co. In 1914 she was requisitioned & converted then returned to her owners in Nov 1919. In 1923 she was sold then scrapped in 1933. She is part of the Old Weather fleet.

SS War Ghurka, 5571 ton tanker, was built in 1918 by Irvine’s Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co Ltd, West Hartlepool, for the Shipping Controller. She was sold in 1920 & renamed for the first time in 1921. She was finally sunk by Japanese bombers in 1941 under her final name “Athelstane”.]


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28 September 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

8.55am: Landed Roman Catholic church party

12.30pm: Leave to watch 1.30pm till 8pm

10.00pm: Pipe down


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29 September 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

11.20am: Hands muster for Medical Inspection

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 8pm, Petty Officers till 10pm


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30 September 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.15am: Divisions. Air bedding

12.50pm: Hands muster for payment

1.30pm: Shoved off from “Blenheim”

2.00pm: Anchored

3.00pm: Weighed

3.20pm: Anchored

3.45pm: Weighed

4.00pm: Anchored

4.45pm: Weighed

5.00pm: Anchored near “Blenheim”, leave to watch till 8pm, Petty Officers till 10pm


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[These are blank or cover pages.]



LOGS FOR OCTOBER 1919


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[These are cover pages or blank.]


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1 October 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

1.00pm: 2 Leading stokers joined ship

4.00pm: Leave to watch till 9.30pm


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2 October 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

8.30am: Weighed & proceeded out of harbour in company with “Tumult” & “Sikh”

Carried out torpedo firing & .303 firing. Fired two torpedoes

12.10pm: Completed exercises & shaped course for harbour

1.00pm: Anchored

4.00pm: Leave to watch 5pm till 10pm, Petty Officers till 12.30am


[HMS Tumult, 927 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by Yarrow & Co Ltd, Glasgow. She was sold in 1928.

HMS Sikh, 905 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by the Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan. She was sold in 1927.]


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3 October 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.15am: Hands fall in, "General Drill", carry out evolutions

10.30am: Return gear, evolutions completed. Hands employed as requisite

1.00pm: 1 Leading seaman joined ship

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 8pm, Petty Officers till 10pm


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4 October 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 8pm, Petty Officers till 10pm


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5 October 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.30am: Divisions, Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 8pm, Petty Officers till 10pm


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6 October 1919

Constantinople

Lat 40.85, Long 29.1 [approx]

9.00am: Weighed & proceeded out of harbour in company with 2nd Division

Carried out torpedo & .303 practice

1.05pm: Anchored off Prinkipo

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 8pm


[Prinkipo is a rendering of the Greek Πρίγκίπος or ‘Big Island’. It is usually indexed as Buyukada at Lat 40.86, Long 29.12.]


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7 October 1919

Prinkipo to Constantinople and return

Lat 40.92, Long 29.00 [approx]

9.00am: Weighed & proceeded as requisite for torpedo exercises & 1" aiming practice

12.30pm: Completed practices, shaped course for Constantinople

12.40pm: Closed "Stuart" off Prinkipo

1.50pm: Anchored in Bosphorus

4.30pm: Weighed & proceeded out of harbour

5.25pm: Anchored off Prinkipo


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8 October 1919

Prinkipo

Lat 40.88, Long 29.13 [approx]

8.30am: Weighed & proceeded in company. Carried out torpedo & gunnery exercises, fired 4 torpedoes.

11.40am: Completed exercises & anchored off Prinkipo

Leave to watchkeepers from 1.30pm till 5pm

6.00pm: Weighed & proceeded in company, carried out gunnery & torpedo exercises, fired 1 torpedo

10.00pm: As requisite for escorting target to harbour

10.40pm: Anchored off Prinkipo


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9 October 1919

Prinkipo

Lat 40.83, Long 29.16 [approx]

9.30am: Weighed & proceeded in company, carried out 4" full calibre firing & fired 1 torpedo

8 cases fired cartridges QF 4" MK IV lost overboard during firing

1.15pm: Completed exercises

2.15pm: Anchored off Prinkipo

6.30pm: Weighed & proceeded in company, carried out 4" night firing

8.30pm: Escorted target to Prinkipo

9.30pm: Anchored off Prinkipo


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10 October 1919

Prinkipo and Constantinople

Lat 40.82, Long 29.16 [approx]

9.30am: Carried out Evolutions, Captain D directing

11.0am: Completed Evolutions

1.15pm: Weighed & proceeded as requisite in company with 2nd Division

2.00pm: Carried out dummy long-range torpedo attack on "Stuart"

Exercised R/T & Sceptre gear

4.30pm: Secured alongside oiler in the Bosphorus off Constantinople

8.00pm: Anchored

8.15pm: Weighed

8.30pm: Anchored

8.40pm: Weighed

9.00pm: Anchored with starboard anchor, let go port anchor, set anchor watch


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11 October 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

7.30am: Weighed port anchor and shortened in starboard anchor

1.30pm: Leave to watch keepers till 8pm

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 8pm, Petty Officers till 10pm


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12 October 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.45am: Divisions

10.00am: Commander of Division inspected ship [log signed by John Landon]

1.30pm: Leave to watch keepers till 8pm

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 8pm, Petty Officers till 10pm


[Cdr JP Landon, Captain of HMS Seraph]


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13 October 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.00am: Weighed & proceeded, course & speed as requisite for Gunnery & Torpedo exercises

Fired 1 Torpedo & carried out Sub Divisional 1" Aiming Rifle

11.00am: Completed exercises

11.45am: Entered harbour & secured alongside “Tumult”

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 8pm, Petty Officers till 10pm


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14 October 1919

Constantinople

Lat 40.82, Long 29.16 [approx]

9.00am: Proceeded out of harbour in company, as requisite for Gunnery & Torpedo exercises

12.20pm: Completed exercises. Shaped cos. for "Bujuk [blank space]"

1.00pm: Anchored

4.30pm: Weighed & proceeded into Constantinople

5.45pm: Secured to a buoy alongside “Tumult”

Leave to watch till 8pm, Petty Officers till 10pm


[The anchorage was probably Bujukada, previously referenced as Prinkipo.]


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15 October 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

3.15am: Guard boat passed

5.05am: Guard boat passed

9.00am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour, carried out 4” sub divisional full calibre firing

11.35am: Completed exercises

12.15pm: Secured to buoy alongside “Tumult”

1.30pm: Leave to watch till midnight, Petty Officers till 12.30am


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16 October 1919

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

1.30pm: Leave to watch till midnight, Petty Officers till 12.30am


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17 October 1919

Constantinople

Lat 40.82, Long 29.16 [approx]

7.30am: Hoisted in Ralkin [?] VIII target

9.00am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

10.00am: Dropped target & anchored

Record for “Tumult” & “Stuart” calibrating

12.45pm: Shaped course for harbour

2.00pm: Secured to oiler

4.00pm: Complete with oil (87 tons)

Secured to buoy alongside “Tumult”

Leave to watch till 8pm, Petty Officers till 10pm

Number on sick list 2


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18 October 1919

Constantinople & Ismid

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.00am: Divisions, air night clothing

Noon: Down night clothing

1.00pm: Empty ammunition cases returned

2.40pm: Slipped & closed “Iron Duke”

2.50pm: Proceeded out of harbour, course as requisite for Gulf of Ismid

5.20pm: Secured alongside Russian Cruiser "Vollyer" & discharged ratings

Number on sick list 2


[HMS Iron Duke, 25,400 ton battleship, was launched in 1912 at Portsmouth Dockyard. She took part in the Battle of Jutland then moved to the Mediterranean where she supported the intervention in the Russian Civil War and the evacuation from Smyrna after the Armistice. She became a gunnery training ship in 1930 and a harbour defence vessel in Scapa Flow during WW2. She was scrapped in 1946.

The Gulf of Ismid is in Turkey at Lat 40.75, Long 29.58.

Vollyer” was probably “Volyer”, a battleship of 23,879 tons, launched in 1914 at the Russud Shipyard, Nikolayev, as “Imperator Aleksandr III”. She was renamed in 1917 and in October 1919 sailed by a crew from “Iron Duke” to Sebastopol and transferred to the White Russians. She assisted in the evacuation of White Russians in 1920 and was subsequently interned by the French who sold her for scrap.]


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19 October 1919

Ismid to Constantinople

Lat 40.75, Long 29.92

am: Hands provision ship

1.00pm: Leading signalman joined ship, discharged 1 leading signalman to “Blenheim”

2.00pm: Embarked officers & ratings

2.30pm: Proceeded as requisite for returning to Constantinople

5.30pm: Secured to buoy alongside “Tumult”

6.00pm: Discharged officers & ratings of the "Emperor of India"


[HMS Emperor of India, 25,400 ton battleship, was launched in 1911 by Vickers, Barrow-in-Furness. She had an uneventful WW1, mainly based in Scapa Flow & refitting during the Battle of Jutland. In 1930 she had to be withdrawn in accordance with the London Naval Treaty and was used as a target in gunnery trials before being recovered & sold for scrap.]


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20 October 1919

Constantinople and at sea

Lat 40.8, Long 28.6 [approx]

3.00am: Hailed guard boat

8.15am: Proceeded out of harbour in company with “Stuart” & 2nd Division

Carried out two full calibre (6” QF) divisional shoot & fired 2 torpedoes on 2nd run

As requisite sweeping for “Tumult’s” torpedo

2.30pm: Shaped course for harbour

3.45pm: Entered harbour & secured to Oiler

4.45pm: Completed with oil fuel (55.0 [tons])

4.50pm: Anchored

5.30pm: Weighed & proceeded out of harbour in company with "Emperor of India" & "Stuart"

5.45pm: Senglio Point abeam

8.10pm: Course & speed as requisite for carrying out dummy night torpedo attack on HMS Emperor of India

9.40pm: Reformed in line


[Senglio Point is almost certainly Seraglio Point in Turkey at Lat 41.0, Long 28.98 now indexed as Seragio Huk.]


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21 October 1919

At sea to Phalerum Bay

Lat 38.5, Long 25.0 DR

2.08am: Khairsiz Ada Light abeam, 2.7' [Hayirsiz Adasi]

2.42am: Hora Light abeam, 4'

5.30am: Course as requisite for proceeding through Dardanelles

7.20am: Cape Helles abeam

1.43pm: Cape Phassa Light abeam

4.45pm: Anchored in Phalerum Bay

5.45pm: Leave to part of watch till 10pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


[Hora Light is indexed as Hoskoy Lighhouse in Turkey at Lat 40.7, Long 27.32. It was prefabricated in France & erected in 1861.

Cape Helles is now indexed as Mehmetcik Burnu in Turkey at Lat 40.04, Long 26.18.

Phalerum Bay is the older name for Phaleron or Faliro not far from Athens at Lat 37.93, Long 23.67.]


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22 October 1919

Phalerum Bay to South Adriatic Sea.

Lat 38.19, Long 21.55 DR

4.00am: Weighed

4.50am: Salamis bearing N55W

4.58am: Salamis bearing North

6.30am: Anchored

6.50am: Weighed & proceeded though Corinth Canal

10.15am: Psaromyto abeam

11.09am: Morno Point abeam

2.50pm: As requisite for Ithaca Channel

3.53pm: Anhamaton Light abeam

4.18pm: Cape Dikato Light abeam

7.12pm: Paxos Light

9.44pm: Inno Light N9E

10.28pm: Inno Light N54E, 11 miles


[Salamis is near to Athens at Lat 37.97, Long 23.48.

The Corinth Canal connects the Gulf of Corinth to the Saronic Gulf of the Aegean Sea.

Psaromyto is indexed as Akra Psaromita on the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, at Lat 38.32, Long 22.19.

Morno Point is indexed as Akra Mornos on the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, at Lat 38.37, Long 21.88.

Ithaca Channel is indexed as Steno Ithaki between the islands of Ithaca & Kefalonia at Lat 38.38, Long 20.64.

It seems likely that Anhamaton Lighthouse was on Kefalonia since there seem to have been no lighthouses on Ithaca. The most likely position is probably the one at Akra Kapri which marks the south eastern corner of Kefalonia. It is at Lat 38.12, Long 20.82

Cape Dikato Light is probably the one indexed as Akra Dhik Halia Lighthouse on Kefalonia at Lat 38.28. Long 20.68.

There are 2 lighthouses on Paxos Island, Laka on the northern tip at Lat 39.23, Long 20.13 and Panagia on an islet off the south east at Lat 39.2, Long 20.3.

Inno Light may refer to the lighthouse on Othonoi Island, now indexed as Kastri Lighthouse at Lat 39.87, Long 19.42.


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23 October 1919

South Adriatic Sea to Pola

Lat 42.3, Long 17.3 [approx]

3.03pm: St Andrea Island abeam

4.44pm: Lucietta Island Light N42E

5.55pm: Bianchi Light N17E

6.24pm: Bianchi Light abeam, 9.6’

8.49pm: Sansego Light N15E

10.15pm: Course as requisite for entering Pola Harbour

10.30pm: Secured alongside oiler “Boxol”


[Sansego is now indexed as Susak Island. The lighthouse is on the highest point at Lat 44.51, Long 14.31.]


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24 October 1919

Pola

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

6.15am: Commenced oiling

9.00am: Completed with oil (91 tons) & proceeded to no 30 & secured alongside "Montrose"

10.00am: "Montrose" sailed for Venice

4.00pm: Leave to watch from 4.30pm to 8.40pm


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25 October 1919

Pola

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.00pm

Hands make & mend


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26 October 1919

Pola

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

1.00pm: Discharged one rating to Italian Naval Hospital

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.00pm


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27 October 1919

Pola

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

All day: Hands employed painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 9pm


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28 October 1919

Pola

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

All day: Hands employed painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to Petty Officers till 9pm


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29 October 1919

Pola

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

6.30am: Sent a working party to HMT Walter Burke

All day: Hands employed painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to Petty Officers till 9pm


[HMT Walter Burke, 275 ton trawler, was launched in 1917 by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough. She was sold in 1922 & renamed “Gonerby” in 1924. She was sold to Spanish owners in 1925 & renamed “Toralla” and finally scrapped in 1976.]


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30 October 1919

Pola

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

pm: Hands make & mend

1.30pm: Leave to Petty Officers till 9pm


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31 October 1919

Pola

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

4.30pm: Leave to Petty Officers till 9pm


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LOG BOOKS – NOVEMBER 1ST 1919 TO DECEMBER 1ST 1919


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LOGS FOR NOVEMBER 1919


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1 November 1919

Pola

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

1.30pm: Leave to Petty Officers till 9.00pm


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2 November 1919

Pola

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

1.30pm: Leave to Petty Officers till 9.00pm


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3 November 1919

Pola

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

pm: Oiled ship, received 50 tons

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.15pm, Petty Officers till 9.30pm


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4 November 1919

Pola

Lat 44.87, Long 13.83

4.05pm: HMS Martin entered harbour & secured alongside

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.15pm, Petty Officers till 9.30pm

Turned over 500 lbs of vegetables to “Martin”


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5 November 1919

Pola to Busi Island

Lat 44.91, Long 13.79 [approx]

9.30am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

10.00am: Anchored off Brioni

11.30am: Weighed & proceeded

3.29pm: Bianchi Point S77E

5.58pm: Port Tojer [Tajer] Light bearing N58E, 3’


[Busi Island is usually indexed at Bisevo Island and is off the coast of Croatia at Lat 42.98, Long 16.02.]


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6 November 1919

Busi Island to Cape Santa Maria di Leuca

Lat 43.5, Long 15.8 [approx]


[The Lighthouse on Cape Santa Maria di Leuca is in Italy at Lat 39.8, Long 18.37.]


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7 November 1919

Cape Santa Maria di Leuca to Malta

Lat 36.4, Long 15.1 [approx]

2.28am: Cape Colonne N85W

3.03am: Cape Colonne abeam N40W, 9.3’

3.07am: Cape Rizzuto S85W

3.34am: Cape Rizzuto abeam N50W, 7.2’

7.27am: Cape Spart-vento N50W

10.22am: Mount Etna abeam, south

11.27am: Cape Rassaro abeam, N80W

1.05pm: Sighted Malta ahead

2.25pm: Course & speed for entering Grand Harbour, Valletta

3.15pm: Secured to buoys in Dockyard Creek

Leave to watch & part till 7am

1 Insulator lost overboard by accident.


[Capo Colonne is in Italy at Lat 39.0, Long 17.2.

Capo Rizzuto is in Italy at Lat 38.9, Long 17.09.

Capo Spartivento is in Italy at Lat 37.92, Long 16.06.

Mount Etna is a volcano in Sicily at Lat 37.75, Long 10.97.

Cape Rossaro is probably Capo Passaro in Sicily at Lat 36.69, Long 15.15.]


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8 November 1919

Malta and at sea for Gibraltar

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.00am: Barometer fell 1½", barometer was later proved to have gone out of adjustment

7.10am: Oil lighter secured alongside

10.00am: Completed with oil, received 140 tons

3.20pm: Paid ship’s company

4.00pm: 1 rating discharged to “Blenheim” & 1 rating joined ship

Gunner T discharged sick to “Blenheim” & one joined (Temp)

Midshipman Harris discharged to “Speedy”

5.00pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

6.23pm: Gozo Light S55W, 4.6’


[Gozo Light is indexed as Giordan Lighthouse or Ta’ Gurdan Lighthouse on the Island of Gozo. It lies at Lat 36.08, Long 14.22.]


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9 November 1919

At sea

Lat 37.25, Long 9.2 DR

1.10am: Pantalleria Light N58W

2.30am: Pantalleria Light S80W

4.35am: Cape Bon S30W, Kaltia S65W

5.08am: Cape Bon N75W, Kaltia S46W

6.01am: Cape Bon S30W. 3.4’

8.24am: [?] Island abeam S23W, 4.8’ [Possibly Ile Pilau; see notes]

9.12am: Cani Rocks N26E, 2.7’

10.25am: Ras Engela abeam, S27W, 3’

11.15am: Passed HMS Caradoc

11.31am: Fratelli Rocks abeam S3W, 3.3’

6.40pm: Cap de Fer S9W, 4.8’

8.40pm: Bougaroni Light S55W

9.56pm: Bougaroni Light S10W


[Pantelleria Lighthouse is on Pantelleria Island at Lat 36.83, Long 11.95.

Cap Bon is in Tunisia at Lat 37.09, Long 11.03.

The identity of ‘Kaltia’ is difficult to determine. The nearest similar coastal place name is Kelibia but the bearings make this unlikely. The obvious landmark would seem to be Cape Farina now indexed as Rass Sidi Ali el Mekki at Lat 37.18, Long 10.28.

There is a small island to the West of Cape Farina, Ile Pilau, at Lat 37.20, Long 10.24.

Cani Rocks are off the coast of Tunisia at Lat 37.35, Long 10.12.

Ras Ennghela is in Tunisia at Lat 37.35, Long 9.74.

Fratelli Rocks are indexed as Rchadet el Khouat off the coast of Tunisia at Lat 37.31, Long 9.41.

Cap de Fer is in Algeria at Lat 37.08, Long 7.17.

Cap Bougaroun Lighthouse is in Algeria at Lat 37.08, Long 6.47.]


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10 November 1919

At sea

Lat 37.2, Long 3.3 [approx]

1.03am: Cape Carbon S10W, 22’

1.39am: Cape Carbon bore S13E, Cape Sigli bore S36W

1.49am: Cape Sigli abeam S10W, 15.2’, Cape Carbon bore S36W

2.14am: Cape Carbon S36E, Cape Sigli S14E, Cape Corbellin S46W

4.34am: Cape Bengut abeam S10W, 12.2’

6.27am: Senja Island Light S4W, 15’

6.40am: Passed “Titania” & 5 submarines [L2, L5, L6, L19 and L20, vide Titania’s log] proceeding Eastward [for Malta and eventually, the China Station]

7.26am: Cape Caxine S4W, 12.8’

9.37pm: Sighted Mesa de Roldan Light N12W

10.15pm: Sighted Cape de Gata N34W

11.09pm: Cape de Gata bearing N7E


[Cap Carbon is in Algeria at Lat 36.76, Long 5.11.

Cap Sigli is in Algeria at Lat 36.9, Long 4.76.

Cap Corbelin is in Algeria at Lat 36.91, Long 4.23.

Cap Bengut is in Algeria at Lat 36.93, Long 3.90.

Iles Sandja are off the coast of Algeria at Lat 36.82, Long 2.36 but I cannot find a lighthouse.

HMS Titania, 3542 ton naval auxiliary, was built in 1915 by Clyde Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Port Glasgow. She was destined for the Royal Hungarian Sea Navigation Co but was requisitioned by the Admiralty and finally scrapped in 1948.

Cap Caxine is in Algeria at Lat 36.81, Long 2.95.

Mesa de Roldan Lighthouse is in Spain at Lat 36.95, Long -1.9.

Cabo de Gata is in Spain at Lat 36.72, Long -2.19.]


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11 November 1919

[10 November in log.]

At sea to Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.00am: Course & speed as requisite for closing Gibraltar

9.30am: Entered harbour & secured to no.8 buoy

10.30am: Officer of the Guard came aboard

pm: Hands employed ammunitioning

1.30pm: Leave to watchkeepers till 7am

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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12 November 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

9.00am: Shift alongside Quay with the aid of tugs


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13 November 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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14 November 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

4.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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15 November 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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16 November 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.10am: Roman Catholic church party landed

8.40am: Church of England party landed

9.40am: Wesleyans etc landed

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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17 November 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

pm: 3½” hawser run off reel, oiled & replaced

5.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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18 November 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

5.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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19 November 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

pm: Coaled ship, received 3 tons

5.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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20 November 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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21 November 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

1.15pm: Football party landed

5.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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22 November 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

11.00am: Provision ship

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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23 November 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.10am: Roman Catholic church party landed

8.40am: Church of England party landed

9.45am: Wesleyan church party landed

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 11.30pm, Petty Officers till 7am


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24 November 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.00am: Proceeded into Dry Dock

Hands employed scraping ship’s bottom

1.30pm: Leave to watchkeepers till 11.30pm

5.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 11.30pm, Petty Officers till 7am


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25 November 1919

Gibraltar [dry dock]

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

7.25am: Range party landed

pm: Barometer returned for "tuning"

2.15pm: Land funeral party

3.10pm: Range party returned

5.00pm: Leave till 11.30pm, Petty Officers till 7am


[The deceased was Stoker William F Soanes, SS/123992, of HMS Cardiff, buried in grave B.4587, Gibraltar (North Front) Cemetery.]


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26 November 1919

Gibraltar [dry dock]

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

7.30am: Range party landed

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 11.30pm, Petty Officers till 7am

3.30pm: New barometer drawn from Naval Stores Office


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27 November 1919

Gibraltar [dry dock]

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

7.30am: Land range party

5.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 11.30pm, Petty Officers till 7am


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28 November 1919

Gibraltar [dry dock]

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

5.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 11.30pm, Petty Officers till 7am


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29 November 1919

Gibraltar [dry dock]

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

7.30am: Landed range party

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 11.30pm, Petty Officers till 7am


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30 November 1919

Gibraltar [dry dock]

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.00am: Chart parties landed

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 11.30pm, Petty Officers till 7am



LOGS FOR DECEMBER 1919


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1 December 1919

Gibraltar [dry dock]

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

1.30pm: Leave to watchkeepers till 7am

5.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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2 December 1919

Gibraltar [dry dock]

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

12.50pm: Range party landed

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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3 December 1919

Gibraltar [dry dock]

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

Overnight leave rota continues


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4 December 1919

Gibraltar [dry dock]

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

1.30pm: Overnight leave rota continues


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5 December 1919

Gibraltar [dry dock]

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

7.30am: Range party landed

5.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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6 December 1919

Gibraltar [dry dock]

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

10.30am: Proceeded out of Dock

11.00am: Secured to Quay

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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7 December 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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8 December 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

am: Oiled ship, received 172 tons

pm: Carry out basin trials, trials unsatisfactory

5.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am

Number on sick list 4


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9 December 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

7.30am: Shifted ship further North

pm: Renewed whalers’ falls

4.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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10 December 1919

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

7.15am: Shifted ship to no 6 buoy

8.15am: Hands employed getting in ammunition

Renewed motor boat’s falls

5.00pm: Leave to watch & part to 10pm

Number on sick list 4


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11 December 1919

Gibraltar to Malta

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

Noon: Slipped & proceeded from harbour

Number on sick list 4


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12 December 1919

Gibraltar to Malta

Lat 37.1, Long 1.1 [approx]

11.50am: Sighted land S38E

2.12pm: Cape Caxine S40E

2.22pm: Cape Caxine S5W, 2½'

5.05pm: Dropped life buoy, exercised sea boat’s crew

7.26pm: Cape Sigli S47E, 8½’

7.47pm: Cape Carbon S47E, 19'

8.05pm: Cape Sigli S2E, 8½'

9.03pm: Cape Carbon S2E, 19'


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13 December 1919

Gibraltar to Malta

Lat 37.5, Long 8.0 [approx]

12.54am: Cape Bougarine [Bougaroun] 4 pts, 14’

1.50am: Cape Bougarine 8 pts, 14’

4.41am: Cape de Fer S13W, 11'

5.38am: Cape de Fer S57W, Cape de Garde S32W

2.25pm: Cani Rocks Light House N72E


[Cap de Garde is in Algeria at Lat 36.97, Long 7.79.]


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14 December 1919

Gibraltar to Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

3.30am: Gozo Light SE

5.44am: Gozo Light S30W, 5'

6.50am: Course & speed as requisite for entering harbour

7.15am: Spanned G1 & G2 buoys

Oiled ship, received 160 tons

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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15 December 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Coaled ship, received 1 ton

12.30pm: Leave to watch & part until 7am

Discharged 5 ratings and 1 officer to “Blenheim”


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16 December 1919

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.00am: Mate King joined ship, Sub Lieutenant Phillips joined ship for passage to “Spear”

12.30pm: Leave to watch & part until 11pm


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17 December 1919

Malta to Piraeus

Lat 36.0, Long 15.2 [approx]

9.50am: Received mails

10.05am: Slipped, course & speed as requisite for leaving harbour


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18 December 1919

Malta to Constantinople

Lat 37.97, Long 22.95 [approx]

10.52am: Passed US Destroyer

12.15pm: Anchored in Corinth Roads

12.35pm: Weighed, course & speed as requisite for passing through Corinth Canal

3.30pm: Anchored


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19 December 1919

Malta to Constantinople

Lat 38.6, Long 24.5 [approx]

5.00am: Weighed, course & speed as requisite for leaving harbour

2.05pm: Course & speed as requisite for entering harbour

2.20pm: Anchored

10.00pm: Weighed, course & speed as requisite for leaving harbour

11.02pm: Lithari Light abeam to port, 3’


[Lithari Lighthouse is on the island of Skiros or Skyros at Lat 38.78, Long 24.68.]


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20 December 1919

Malta to Constantinople

Lat 40.0, Long 25.8 [approx]

3.55am: Cape Thascoli N19E

7.00am: Anchored

8.35am: Discharged 1 officer & 3 ratings to “Coreopsis”

9.20am: Weighed, course & speed as requisite for leaving harbour

2.00pm: Course & speed as requisite for passing through Dardanelles

5.20pm: Anchored

9.00pm: Weighed & proceeded, course & speed as requisite for leaving harbour

11.30pm: Far[?] Adasi on the bow


[Akra Thaskoloi is on the island of Agios Efstratios at Lat 39.53, Long 25.06.

HMS Coreopsis, 1290 ton sloop, was launched in 1917 by Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Glasgow. She operated as a Q ship under the names of “Beardsley” & “Bigott”. She was sold in 1922 but not scrapped until 1924.

Despite the length of the place name at 11.30pm I think it must be Fanar Adasi at Lat 40.63, Long 27.76.]


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21 December 1919

Malta to Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

3.58am: Sighted Stefarno Light Vessel N65E [probably St Stefano Light]

5.14am: Stefarno LV N30E, 4’

6.27am: Course & speed as requisite for entering harbour

7.20am: Made fast to oiler “Plumleaf”

9.45am: Left oiler, received 142 tons

10.00am: Secured to buoy

1.00pm: Leave to watch till 8pm, Chief & Petty Officers till 10pm


[Stefarno Light Vessel is probably St Stefanos Light which is now indexed as Yesilikoy Burnu Lighthouse in Turkey at Lat 40.97, Long 28.83.

RFA Plumleaf, 5916 ton tanker, was built in 1916 by Swan Hunter, Wallsend. She was sunk in Grand Harbour, Malta, in 1942. In 1947 she was raised and sold for scrap.]


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22 December 1919

Constantinople to Batum

Lat 41.24, Long 30.30 [approx]

8.00am: Slipped, course & speed as requisite for leaving harbour

10.55am: Sighted buoy 41° 15’N, 30° 8.5’E

11.16am: Kirpen Island abeam South, 1¼’

2.45pm: Anchored


[Kirpen Island is indexed as Kefken Adasi off the coast of Turkey at Lat 41.22, Long 30.26.]


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23 December 1919

Constantinople to Batum

Lat 41.7, Long 30.8 [approx]

2.25am: HMS Montrose arrived, received mails for Batum, 1 passenger for Batum

3.00am: “Montrose” sailed

7.05am: Weighed, course & speed as requisite for patrol

8.15am: Anchored

11.45am: Weighed, course as requisite

2.30pm: Amastra abeam South, 2’

5.13pm: Cape Kerempeh Light S65E 3'

5.22pm: Cape Kerempeh Light S20E 3'


[Amastra may be the place indexed as Amasra in Turkey at Lat 41.75, Long 32.39.

Kerempe Lighthouse is in Turkey at Lat 42.02, Long 33.34.]


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24 December 1919

At sea to Batum

Lat 41.5, Long 40.3 [approx]

2.30pm: Secured alongside oil jetty, Batum

4.00pm: Leave to watch 5pm until 11pm


[Batum is now indexed as Batumi and is in Georgia at Lat 41.62, Long 41.64.]


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25 December 1919

Batum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

am: Oiled ship, received 119 tons

1.30pm: Leave to watch until 11pm


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26 December 1919

Batum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

1.30pm: Leave to watch until 11pm


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27 December 1919

Batum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

1.30pm: Leave to watch until 11pm


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28 December 1919

Batum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

9.30am: HMS Hibiscus secured alongside

11.50am: HMS Hibiscus proceeded to sea

1.30pm: Leave to watch until 11pm


[HMS Hibiscus, 1250 ton convoy sloop, was launched in 1917 by the Grangemouth & Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd. She served as decoy ship “Palette” until Oct 1918. She was scrapped in 1923.]


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29 December 1919

Batum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

9.30am: Left oil jetty

9.50am: Secured to buoy

4.00pm: Leave to watch 4.30 until 11pm


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30 December 1919

Batum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

12.30pm: Leave to watch 5pm until 11pm

3.40pm: Slipped & proceeded to sea to bring in 2 Turkish sailing ships

5.30pm: Secured to buoy.


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31 December 1919

Batum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

Leave to watch 1.30pm until 11pm


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[These are blank or cover pages.]



THE VOYAGES OF HMS TORCH (2) 1920

JP map Torch (2) 1920

No logs for January & February 1920



LOG BOOKS – MARCH 1ST 1920 TO APRIL 30TH 1920


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[These are cover pages.]


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Handwritten page: This is to certify that this is the original "Log" of H.M.S. "TORCH" for the period: March 1st 1920 to April 30th 1920. Cecil S. Monkes, Sub-Lieutenant, Approved: Kenneth G. Ramsey, Lieutenant in Command H.M.S. "Torch"

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[These pages are blank.]



LOGS FOR MARCH 1920


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1 March 1920

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79


[Novorossisk is indexed as Novorossiysk in Russia at Lat 44.72, Long 37.79.]


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2 March 1920

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

7.00am: Weighed & proceeded alongside Oiler

8.45am: Completed with oil & proceeded to anchorage, received 76 tons oil fuel from RFA Montenol

Number on sick list 1


[RFA Montenol, 2646 ton tanker, was built in 1917 by W Gray & Co Ltd, West Hartlepool. She was sunk by gunfire from HMS Montrose in 1941 after being torpedoed by U159 the previous day.]


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3 March 1920

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

Number on sick list 2


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4 March 1920

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 1


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5 March 1920

Novorossisk to Theodosia

Lat 44.75, Long 37.38

11.25am: Weighed

11.30am: General Schilling & staff came aboard

11.55am: Course & speed as requisite

5.00pm: Cape Chauda N32W, 2.1’

5.07pm: Cape Chauda N13E, 2.1’

6.15pm: Anchored off Theodosia

7.00pm: Disembarked General Schilling & staff

9.00pm: Weighed & proceeded

Number on sick list 1


[Theodosia is often indexed at Feodosiya in the Crimea at Lat 45.04, Long 35.38.

Cape Chauda is indexed as Mys Chauda in Ukraine at Lat 45.0, Long 35.83.

A confidential telegram sent by Admiral de Robeck to the Admiralty in January mentions General Schilling.]


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6 March 1920

Theodosia to Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

1.15am: Passed HMS Hibiscus

7.04am: Entered Novorossisk harbour

7.45am: Anchored in Novorossisk harbour

Noon: Hands make & mend


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7 March 1920

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

Noon: Hands make & mend

Number on sick list 2


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8 March 1920

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

Number on sick list 2


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9 March 1920

Novorossisk

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

11.05pm: Weighed & proceeded as ordered to investigate disturbances at Wireless Telegraphy Station, course & speed as requisite

Number on sick list 2


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10 March 1920

Novorossisk and at sea

Lat 44.72, Long 37.79

12.15am: Anchored off Wireless Telegraphy station

9.15am: Weighed & proceeded into harbour

9.30am: Anchored in Novorossisk

pm: Hands make & mend

1.20pm: Landed football party

3.50pm: Football party returned

8.40pm: Weighed & proceeded

11.35pm: Cape Anapa abeam

Number on sick list 2


[Cape Anapa is often indexed as Mys Ananpskiy in Russia at Lat 44.89, Lat 37.3.]


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11 March 1920

Novorossisk to Theodosia

Lat 44.57, Long 34.8 DR

6.10am: Course & speed as requisite for approaching Theodosia

6.59am: Anchored off Theodosia

9.20am: Weighed & proceeded

10.48am: Cape Megrom N85W

10.55am: Cape Megrom abeam, 1.8'

5.15pm: Exercised "Tow forward"

Number on sick list 2


[Cape Megrom is probably the Cape indexed as Mys Mehanon in Ukraine at Lat 44.79, Long 35.08.]


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12 March 1920

Theodosia to Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.40am: Course as requisite for Bosphorus, speed 20 knots

10.40am: Secured to Oiler

2.30pm: Received 76 tons oil fuel from RFA Perthshire, left oiler & proceeded down harbour

3.00pm: Anchored off Topkapi

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.00pm, Petty Officers till 10.00pm


[RFA Perthshire, 5865 tons, was built in 1893 by Hawthorn Leslie & Co, Hebburn. She was hired by the Admiralty in 1914 as a decoy ship but became a supply ship in the Mediterranean after the war. She was finally scrapped in 1934.

Topkapi is the site of a Palace in Istanbul at Lat 41.01, Long 28.98.]


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13 March 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

pm: Leave to watch till 8.0pm, Petty Officers till 10.0pm


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14 March 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

3.15am: Raised steam for ¼ hour’s notice

1.20pm: Leave for watch till 8.0pm: Petty Officers till 10.0pm


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15 March 1920

Constantinople to Panderma [Bandirma]

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

3.55pm: Weighed

4.00pm: Proceeded out of harbour

6.29pm: Speed as requisite for closing Panderma

7.00pm: Anchored off Panderma


[Panderma is now indexed as Bandirma in Turkey at Lat 40.36, Long 27.96.]


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16 March 1920

Panderma

Lat 40.36, Long 27.96

All day: Hands employed as requisite

Lost overboard: 3 paint brushes, 1 boat’s crutch


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17 March 1920

At sea

Lat 40.48, Long 27.6

6.29am: Weighed & proceeded, course as requisite for Marmara

8.07am: Anchored off Marmara

10.15am: Weighed & shaped course for Pasha Liman

10.45am: Anchored off Pasha Liman

1.20pm: Weighed & proceeded to Arablar

1.40pm: Anchored off Arablar

2.15pm: Weighed & proceeded, course as requisite for proceeding in vicinity of islands south of Marmara

3.07pm: Course as requisite for returning to Panderma

5.17pm: Anchored off Panderma.


[Pasha Liman is a harbour in Turkey at Lat 40.48, Long 27.6.

Arablar is in Turkey at Lat 40.5, Long 27.52.]


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18 March 1920

Panderma

Lat 40.36, Long 27.96

Noon: Hands make & mend


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19 March 1920

Panderma

Lat 40.36, Long 27.96

10.00pm: 3 Military officers & 1 rating joined for passage

Number on sick list 1


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20 March 1920

Panderma to Constantinople (and return)

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

2.45am: Embarked 1 more Military officer

3.00am: Weighed & proceeded, course as requisite for leaving Panderma

6.36am: San Stephano Light N12E

7.20am: Course as requisite for entering the Bosphorus

7.50am: Secured to oiler

9.10am: Complete with oil (received 56 tons oil from SS Plumleaf), proceeded up harbour

9.30am: Anchored off Tophane, discharged Military officers

pm: Midshipman Ransome left ship & Midshipman Allen joined from HMS Marlborough

3.30pm: Embarked 1 Army officer, weighed proceeded

4.40pm: Passed a French (?) destroyer

6.30pm: Course as requisite for closing Panderma

7.34pm: Anchored

Number on sick list 1


[HMS Marlborough, 25,400 ton battleship, was launched in 1912 at Devonport Dockyard. She was damaged during the Battle of Jutland, repaired, and evacuated part of the Russian Royal Family in 1919. She was used as a target for gunnery trials in 1931 and sold in 1932.]


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21 March 1920

Panderma

Lat 40.36, Long 27.96

pm: Hands make & mend

Number on sick list 1


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22 March 1920

Panderma

Lat 40.36, Long 27.96

1.15pm: Port watch employed as requisite. Starboard watch landed for route march

4.45pm: Landing party returned

Number on sick list 1


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23 March 1920

Panderma

Lat 40.36, Long 27.96

1.25pm: J Tabone, Officers’ Steward II, accidentally shot onboard & killed

Number on sick List 1


[The deceased was J. (Guiseppe) Tabone, Officer's Steward 2nd Class, L 5320. He was 29 years old, the son of Guiseppe & Metillde Tabone and was buried in grave I.K.7, Haidar Pasha Cemetery.]


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24 March 1920

Panderma to Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

12.25am: Weighed anchor & proceeded

6.50am: Course & speed as requisite for entering harbour

7.20am: Secured alongside oiler "Plumleaf"

8.30am: Completed with oil & secured alongside HMS Speedy at no 6 buoy

Noon: Make & mend

Leave to watch till 8pm, Petty Officers & Chief Petty Officers till 10pm

1.10pm: Officers & ratings acting as witnesses left ship to attend Court of Inquiry on the late Tabone, Officer’s Steward II

5.25pm: Witnesses returned from Court of Inquiry


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25 March 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

pm: Received 1.5 tons coals, culinary from Naval Stores Office

2.00pm: Leave to watch keepers till 8pm

2.45pm: Coal ship

3.00pm: Complete with coal

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 8pm, Petty Officers & Chief Petty Officers till midnight

Number on sick list; 4 ratings to hospital


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26 March 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

6.10 am: Hailed guard boat

1.15pm: Funeral party left ship

3.30pm: Funeral party returned

4.30pm: Leave rota continues


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27 March 1920

Constantinople to Panderma

Lat 40.6, Long 28.3 [approx]

12.50am: Hailed guard boat

5.45am: Hailed guard boat

9.30am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

10.15am: Stefano Point abeam

1.53pm: Anchored off Panderma

Hands make & mend


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28 March 1920

Panderma

Lat 40.36, Long 27.96

pm: Hands make & mend clothes


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29 March 1920

Panderma

Lat 40.36, Long 27.96

Number on sick list 1


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30 March 1920

Panderma

Lat 40.36, Long 27.96

pm: Hands make & mend clothes


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31 March 1920

Panderma and at sea to Malta

Lat 40.36, Long 27.96

1.10pm: “Tribune” arrived & came alongside

1.40pm: Weighed & proceeded

5.00pm: Passed SS Karla[?], course as requisite for Dardanelles

5.08pm: Passed French destroyer

6.06pm: Anchored off Chanak

6.32pm: Weighed & proceeded down Dardanelles

7.05pm: Seddul Bahr ¾’

8.00pm: Pos. 39 56.5N, 25 59E.


[HMS Tribune, 1075 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by JS White, Cowes. She was sold in 1931.

Chanak is now known as Kanakkale and lies at the narrowest part of the Dardanelles.

Karla[?]” may have been “Karlsbad”, 3819 tons, built in 1909 for Lloyd-Austrian. She ran aground in 1931, renamed “Campidoglio”.

Seddul Bahr is in Turkey at Lat 40.04, Long 26.19.]



LOGS FOR APRIL 1920


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1 April 1920

Panderma to Malta

Lat 36.42, Long 23.17 DR

3.33am: Cape Phassa S15E

3.48am: Cape Phassa abeam, 3.8’

5.16am: Port San Nichola Light S41E, 3'

5.46am: Angalistros Point N41W, 2.7’

6.15am: St Georgio Light N50W, 2.2’

8.00am: Pos. 37 03N, 23 40E.

8.47am: Belo Pulo N54W, 2.7’

11.32am: Cape Spathi S5W, 1’

12.55pm: Cape Matapan abeam

8.00pm: Pos. 36 20N, 20 50E.


[Agios Nikolaos Lighthouse is on the island of Kea at Lat 37.67, Long 24.32.

St Georgio Light is probably the lighthouse on the island of St George or Agios Yeorgios south of Cape Sounion at Lat 37.46, Long 23.94

Angalestrio Light is probably the lighthouse known as Akra Agkalistros on the island of Makronisi at Lat 36.27, Long 23.08.

Belo Pula is indexed as Nisida Velopoula in Greece at Lat 36.92, Long 23.46.]


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2 April 1920

Panderma to Malta

Lat 35.73, Long 15.07

8.00am: Pos. 35 59N, 15 56E.

1.21pm: Course as requisite for approaching Valletta

2.00pm: Entered Grand Harbour

2.25pm: Secured to buoys 2 & 2A in "Magazine trot" [a type of mooring]

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am Monday & to a part till 7am Saturday


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3 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.00pm: Paid monthly payment

1.30pm: Leave to part [of watch] till 7am

2.00pm: Three ratings left ship, sick

Number on sick list 3


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4 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to a part [of watch] till 7am


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5 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Hands make & mend clothes, leave to watch & part till 7am


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6 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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7 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to watchkeepers till 7am

4.30pm: Leave to a watch & part till 7am


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8 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to a watch & part till 7am


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9 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to a watch till 7am Monday, part of watch till 7am Saturday


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10 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to part of watch till 7am


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11 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to part of watch till 7am


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12 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

pm: 1 hammer lost overboard

4.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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13 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51


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14 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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15 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.00am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour for G[unnery] & T[orpedo] exercises

10.20am: Returned to harbour

10.35am: Secured to Nos 2 & 2A Buoys in Magazine Trot

3.45pm: Football party landed

4.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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16 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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17 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Received 102 tons oil fuel from RFA Elmol

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


[RFA Elmol, 1170 ton tanker, was built in 1917 by Swan Hunter, Wallsend. She served through WW2 and was sold in 1961, originally for scrap. However, she was resold and converted into a tank cleaning vessel and finally scrapped in 1978.]


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18 April 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.30am: Landed Wesleyan church party

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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19 April 1920

Malta and at sea

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Received 1.5 tons coals, culinary from Naval Stores Office

pm: Lost by accident one 8" scull from dinghy

5.00pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour


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20 April 1920

Malta to Smyrna

Lat 36.18, Long 20.02

8.00am: Pos. 36 09N, 18 30E

2.30pm: Sighted land on port bow

4.00pm: Exercised ‘Man overboard’ & ‘Fire in heads, starboard side’

8.00pm: Pos. 36 20N, 22 00E.

8.41pm: Cape Matapan abeam, 4.3’

11.31pm: Melea abeam, 1.9’


[Melea is possibly the cape indexed as Akra Maleas on the eastern peninsula of southern Greece at Lat 36.44, Long 23.2.]


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21 April 1920

Malta to Smyrna

Lat 38.50, Long 25.58 DR

1.40am: Belo Pulo abeam

6.20am: Cape Phassa abeam, 1.5’

8.00am: Pos. 37 56N, 24 40E.

10.44am: Kaloyeri Rocks abeam, 6’

12.07pm: Cape Psara abeam, 3’

4.30pm: Course as requisite for entering Gulf of Smyrna

5.31pm: Anchored, discharged mails etc to HMS Bryoni [Bryony]


[Kaloyeroi Rocks are at Lat 38.17, Long 25.29.

Cape Psara may be the point indexed as Akra Trifylli on the Bay of Psara on the island of Psara. Akra Trifylli is at Lat 38.53, Long 25.56.

[HMS Bryony, 1290 ton sloop, was launched in 1917 by Armstrong, Whitworth. She was scrapped in 1938.]


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22 April 1920

Smyrna to Chanak

Lat 39.38, Long 25.57 DR

6.00am: Weighed & proceeded, course & speed as requisite for leaving Smyrna

1.45pm: Sighted land port bow

1.53pm: Course as requisite for entering Mudros

2.51pm: Anchored

Discharged mail & stores to HMS Dublin & RN Depot

4.00pm: Weighed & proceeded

7.22pm: Course as requisite for Dardanelles

8.10pm: Anchored south of Chanak


[HMS Dublin, 5400 ton cruiser, was launched in 1912 at William Beardmore & Co Ltd, Dalmuir. She took part in the Gallipoli landings but was torpedoed & damaged later in the campaign. She had honours for the Battle of Jutland, was sold in 1926 & is part of the Old Weather fleet.

Chanak is now indexed as Cannakale in Turkey at Lat 40.16, Long 26.41.]


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23 April 1920

Chanak to Constantinople

Lat 40.75, Long 28.08

6.05am: Weighed & proceeded up Dardanelles

10.32am: Polakia Burnu bore N85E

11.40am: Fired a torpedo at HMS Senator for exercise

Noon: Stopped to pick up torpedo

3.15pm: Fired 2nd torpedo for exercise

3.35pm: Proceeded as requisite for entering Bosphorus

3.59pm: Secured to oiler

Received 141 tons oil fuel from RFA Perthshire

7.12pm: Completed with oil & proceeded to buoy


[I cannot locate the cape at 10.32am. The nearest name seems to be Palatia at Lat 40.65, Long 27.66.

HMS Senator, 1220 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton. She was scrapped in 1936.]


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24 April 1920

Constantinople to Batum

Lat 41.3, Long 29.2 [approx]

1.30am: Guard boat passed

5.40am: Guard boat passed

10.08am: Slipped and proceeded as requisite up Bosphorus

11.48am: Course N75E

8.00pm: Pos. 41 45N, 31 47E.

9.45pm: A/c N68E.


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25 April 1920

Constantinople to Batum

Lat 42.03, Long 37.25 DR

8.00am: Pos. 42 07N, 36 20E.

2.30pm: Sighted land bearing South

8.00pm: Pos. 41 40N, 39 02E.


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26 April 1920

To Batum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

8.00am: As requisite for closing Batum & entering harbour

9.35am: Secured to No.3 Berth

2.45pm: Completed with oil & proceeded to buoy, received 72 tons oil fuel from Military Governor

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 11pm


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27 April 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 11pm


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28 April 1920

Batoum and at sea

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

2 paint brushes lost overboard by accident

4.30pm: Leave to a watch till 11pm

9.00pm: Recalled all liberty men

11.18pm: Slipped & proceeded


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29 April 1920

Batoum to Adler & Sevastopol

Lat 43.5, Long 38.53 DR

3.08am: Passed HMS Caradoc

8.21am: Secured alongside "Tobago" (HMS)

8.39am: Embarked Russian General. Proceeded, course N80W.


[Adler is in Russia at Lat 43.43, Long 39.92.]


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30 April 1920

At sea to Sevastopol and at sea

Lat 44.62, Long 33.52

5.47am: Sarich Point N20W

6.30am: St. George’s Monastery N15W

7.51am: Course as requisite for entering Sevastopol

8.00am: Secured to buoy

9.15am: Slipped & proceeded alongside HMS Benbow

1.30pm: Paid hands

6.43pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

8.24pm: Sarich Point N83E

8.33pm: Sarich Point abeam, 2.2’


[Sarich Point which may be indexed as Mys Sarych, is in Ukraine at Lat 44.39. Long 33.74.

St George’s Monastery is in Sebastopol, Crimea, at Lat 44.51, Long 33.51.]


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LOG BOOKS – MAY 1ST 1920 TO JUNE 30TH 1920


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[Handwritten] This is to certify that this is the original "Log" of H.M.S. "Torch" for the period May 1st 1920 to June 30th 1920. [Signed] CLD Monkes, Sub Lieut, approved Kenneth A Ramsey, Lieut in Command. H.M.S. "Torch" 1/7/20

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1 July 1920

Reason for exceeding regular speed and consumption: To arrive at Adler Pt. as early as possible to relieve HMS Tobago who had been ordered to Batoum, [signed] Kenneth A Ramsey (Captain)


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1 May 1920


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LOGS FOR MAY 1920


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1 May 1920

At sea to Adler

Lat 43.42, Long 39.91

12.30pm: Course as requisite for closing Adler

12.42pm: Secured to “Tobago”

3.00pm: HMS Tobago left for Batoum

4.00pm: Weighed & proceeded South, anchored

6.25pm: Weighed & returned to Adler

6.57pm: Anchored off Adler


[Adler, now a microdistrict within Sochi.]


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2 May 1920

Adler

Lat 43.42, Long 39.91 [approx]

[Torch’s position at noon is ‘off Telsia’, which has not been traced.]

9.25am: Weighed & proceeded South

10.00am: Anchored off Adler

11.07am: Weighed and proceeded to Telsia

11.47am: Anchored off Telsia

7.15pm: Weighed & proceeded to chase Motor Boat on horizon

8.05pm: Examined Russian Motor Boat "Three Brothers"

8.58pm: Weighed & proceeded to Telsia

9.35pm: Anchored off Telsia

Number on sick list 1


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3 May 1920

Adler to Batoum

Lat 42.7, Long 40.6 [approx]

4.05am: Weighed & proceeded to bring in two transports

4.43am: Stopped & waited

6.30am: Transports not arrived so returned to Telsia

8.29am: The "Admin" [Administrator?] & staff embarked

9.00am: Weighed & proceeded

4.00pm: As requisite for closing Batoum

4.50pm: Secured alongside USS Cole

6.00pm: Leave to watch till 11pm


[USS Cole, 1090 ton destroyer, was launched in 1919 by William Cramp & Sons. She served in WW2 and was sold in 1947.]


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4 May 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

am: Received 125 tons oil fuel from Military Governor

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 11pm


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5 May 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

All day: Hands paint ship

Number on sick list 3


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6 May 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

9.00am: Shift billet. Anchored & secured stern to shore, lost port anchor in 18 fathoms of water

Part of watch drag for anchor

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 11pm

6.00pm: HMS Royal Sovereign arrived off Batoum

7.00pm: HMS Cardiff arrived & anchored in Senior Naval Officer’s berth at entrance to harbour

Patrol landed


[HMS Royal Sovereign, 30,450 ton battleship, was launched in 1915 at the Portsmouth Royal Dockyard. She spent much of WW1 in Scapa Flow, and spent much of WW2 escorting convoys. She was transferred to Russia in 1944 & renamed “Archangelsk”. She was returned to Britain in 1949 & scrapped. Mechanisms from her main guns were used in the construction of the Mk 1 radio telescope at Jodrell Bank.]


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7 May 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

10.30am: Diving party arrived from HMS Royal Sovereign & dived for anchor

1.15pm: Anchor recovered & secured in hawse pipe

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7.30pm, Petty Officers till 8pm


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8 May 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

pm: Hands make & mend clothes


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9 May 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7.30pm


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10 May 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7.30pm


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11 May 1920

Batoum to Gagri

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

6.00pm: Weighed & proceeded, course & speed as requisite for leaving Batoum


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12 May 1920

Batoum to Gagri

Lat 43.28, Long 40.26

6.04am: Anchored off Gagri

6.15am: Weighed & proceeded alongside HMS Marlborough

8.15am: Left “Marlborough” & anchored in 9 fathoms

1.30pm: Special leave to watch keepers till 7.30pm

4.30pm: Special leave to a watch till 7.30pm, Petty Officers till 8pm


[Gagra is a resort on the Black Sea in Abkhazia at Lat 43.28, Long 40.26.]


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13 May 1920

from Gagri to Batoum

Lat 42.7, Long 40.6 [approx]

8.00am: Weighed & proceeded

4.59pm: Stopped, exercised ‘Abandon ship’

5.20pm: Proceeded

5.36pm: As requisite for closing Batoum

6.55pm: Secured to oiler “Appleleaf”, received 53 tons oil fuel

7.35pm: Completed with oil & proceeded to anchorage

8.00pm: Anchored

2 Oars lost overboard (15ft ones)


[RFA Appleleaf, 5891 ton tanker, was built in 1917 by Workman Clark, Belfast. She was scrapped in 1947.]


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14 May 1920

Batoum, on patrol N and return

Lat 42.1, Long 41.6 [approx]

9.45am: Weighed & proceeded north along the coast

Patrolled off Kentrisk

2.00pm: Sent whaler inshore to bring off British Naval Officer

5.57pm: Shaped course for Batoum

6.53pm: Anchored


[Kentrisk may have been Mts’vane Konstskhi in Georgia at Lat 41.69. Long 41.70.]


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15 May 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

1.30pm: Leave to a watch till 7.30pm, Petty Officers till 8pm


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16 May 1920

Batoum and at sea

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

1.15pm: Leave to a watch till 6.30pm

8.50pm: Weighed & proceeded


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17 May 1920

Batoum to Gagri

Lat 43.28, Long 40.26

5.42am: Pitsunda Point N15E

6.18am: As requisite for closing Gagri

7.01am: Anchored

1.15pm: Leave to watchkeepers till 7.30pm

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7.30pm, Petty Officers till 8pm


[Pitsunda is a settlement south of Gagri but the Cape is indexed as Konts’khi Bichvint’a in Georgia at Lat 43.15, Long 40.34.]


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18 May 1920

Gagri

Lat 43.28, Long 40.26

10.12am: Weighed. Carried out 1" aiming practice & fired 2 torpedoes for exercise

12.13pm: Anchored off Gagri

1.30pm: Leave to watch keepers till 7.30pm

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7.30pm


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19 May 1920

Gagri

Lat 43.28, Long 40.26

1.30pm: Leave to watch keepers till 7.30pm

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7.30pm


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20 May 1920

Gagri

Lat 43.28, Long 40.26

1.15pm: Leave to a watch till 7.30pm, Petty Officers till 8pm


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21 May 1920

Gagri

Lat 43.28, Long 40.26

4.15pm: Leave to a watch till 7.30pm, Petty Officers till 8pm


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22 May 1920

Gagri

Lat 43.28, Long 40.26

1.15pm: Leave to a watch till 7.30pm, Petty Officers till 8pm


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23 May 1920

Gagri

Lat 43.28, Long 40.26

1.30pm: Leave to a watch till 7.30pm, Petty Officers till 8pm


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24 May 1920

[25 May in log.]

Gagri

Lat 43.28, Long 40.26

1.30pm: Leave to watchkeepers till 7.30pm

4.30pm: Leave to a watch till 7.30pm, Petty Officers till 8pm


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25 May 1920

[26 May in log.]

Gagri

Lat 43.28, Long 40.26

8.30am: Hands landed for route march

11.50am: Landing party returned

1.30pm: Leave to a watch till 7.30pm

4.30pm: Leave to a watch till 7.30pm, Petty Officers till 8pm


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26 May 1920

Gagri

Lat 43.28, Long 40.26

4.15pm: Leave to a watch till 7.30pm, Petty Officers till 8pm


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27 May 1920

Gagri to Batoum

Lat 42.6, Long 40.8 [approx]

6.45am: Weighed & shifted inshore

8.40am: Weighed & proceeded

9.16am: Dropped depth charge for exercise

9.18am: Proceeded

11.50am: Stopped to bathe

4.30pm: As requisite for closing Batoum

5.20pm: Secured to buoy in Batoum

6.00pm: Leave to a watch till 7.30pm, Petty Officers till 8pm


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28 May 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

4.30pm: Leave to a watch till 11pm


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29 May 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

1.30pm: Leave to a watch till 11pm


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30 May 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

1.30pm: Leave to a watch till 11pm


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31 May 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

3.50pm: Paid monthly payment

4.30pm: Leave to a watch till 11pm



LOGS FOR JUNE 1920


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1 June 1920

Batoum, at sea minesweeping and return

Lat 42.1, Long 41.6 [approx]

7.15am: Unshackled from buoy

7.50am: Slipped & closed HMS Resolution

8.00am: Proceeded South after embarking Commander N from HMS Resolution, as requisite for assisting mine sweeping operations

11.25am: Anchored

3.00pm: Weighed

6.30pm: Returned to Batoum

7.10pm: Secured to buoy in Batoum harbour

8.00pm: Leave to a watch till 11pm


[HMS Resolution, 30,450 ton battleship, was launched in 1915 by Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Iron Co, Jarrow. She served into WW2 becoming a training ship in 1944. She was scrapped in 1948 but one of her 15” guns is displayed in the Imperial War Museum.]


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2 June 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

1.30pm: Leave to a watch till 11pm


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3 June 1920

Batoum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

8.00am: Dress Ship [King’s birthday]

1.30pm: Leave to a watch till 11pm


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4 June 1920

Batoum and at sea

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

6.30am: Slipped

6.45am: Secured alongside HMS Marlborough

9.15am: Completed with oil & coal, received 30 tons oil from HMS Marlborough also 1 ton coals culinary

5.11pm: Proceeded as requisite for leaving Batoum


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5 June 1920

Batoum to Constantinople

Lat 42.42, Long 35.67 DR

11.53am: Stopped, hands to bathe

Noon: Proceeded

8.02pm: Cape Kerempah abeam, 1’

11.15pm: Cape Amastra abeam, 8.7’


[Cape Kerempah is indexed as Kerempe Burnu in Turkey at Lat 42.02, Long 33.34.

Cape Amastra is also indexed as Cape Amasra in Turkey at Lat 41.75, Long 32.38.]


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6 June 1920

To Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

8.26am: Kelix Point bore S25W

8.36am: Altered course to close HMS Royal Sovereign

9.00am: Stopped and discharged W. Parker, Boatswain to "R[oyal] S[overeign]"

9.07am: Proceeded

10.40am: Entered Bosphorus as requisite for Constantinople

11.45am: Secured to oiler at Constantinople

Received 165 tons oil fuel from SS Appleleaf

2.12pm: Proceeded to No.6 buoy

3.00pm: Leave to a watch till 8pm, Petty Officers till 10pm


[Kelix Point may have been the landmark now indexed as Cali Burnu in Turkey at Lat 41.2, Long 29.1.]


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7 June 1920

Constantinople to Chanak via Panderma

Lat 40.7, Long 28.1 [approx]

9.30am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

11.50am: Stopped for bathing

12.01pm: Proceeded under way

1.15pm: As requisite for closing Panderma

2.00pm: Arrived off Panderma

2.07pm: Proceeded

8.17pm: Stopped off HMS Royal Oak to collect & distribute mails

8.23pm: Proceeded

8.45pm: Anchored 7’ South of Chanak


[HMS Royal Oak, 30,450 ton battleship, was launched in 1915 at Devonport Royal Dockyard. She took part in the Battle of Jutland. In 1939 she was anchored in Scapa Flow when she was torpedoed by a U-boat, commanded by Gunther Prien, with the loss of 833 crew. She is now a designated war grave.]


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8 June 1920

Chanak to Mudros & Belobulo [Velopula]

Lat 39.5, Long 25.12 DR

6.00am: Weighed & proceeded

6.24am: Kum Kale abeam, 75'

9.00am: As requisite for entering Port Mudros

9.45am: Anchored

11.13am: Weighed & proceeded as requisite for leaving Mudros

3.26pm: Lithari Point bore S62W

4.57pm: Evolution: ‘Collision, port side forward’, stopped ship

5.02pm: Proceeded

7.27pm: Phassa Light bore S69E

8.00pm: Pos. 27 58N, 24 38E.

9.10pm: S Nikolo Point abeam, 1.8'

10.22pm: S Georgio Light S69E, 3.1’

11.20pm: Sighted Belo Bulo Light [Velopoula]


[Kumkale is in Turkey at Lat 39.98, Long 26.24 and was the site of a WW1 battle preceded by a Naval long range bombardment.]


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9 June 1920

Belobulo to Malta

Lat 36.2, Long 19.97

5.32am: Cape Matapan abeam, 1'

8.00am: Pos. 36 20N, 21 32E.

11.45am: Stopped, hands bathe

11.56am: Proceeded

8.00pm: Pos. 36 08N, 18 13E.


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10 June 1920

At sea to Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

6.45am: Sighted Malta

7.44am: Entered Grand Harbour, secured to buoys in Dockyard Creek

Received 120 tons oil fuel from Naval Stores Office

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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11 June 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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12 June 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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13 June 1920

Malta to Gibraltar

Lat 36.17, Long 13.92 DR

9.00am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

7.00pm: Cape Spa[?] Light S35W, 1½’

8.00pm: Pos. 36 57N, 11 41E.

10.30pm: Cap Bon abeam, 2’


[Cape Spa[?] Light probably refers to Punta Spadillo Lighthouse on Pantelleria at Lat 36.82, Long 12.02.]


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14 June 1920

At sea

Lat 37.2, Long 8.78 DR

1.58am: Cani Rocks abeam, 1’

3.10am: Ras Engela abeam, 3'

5.25am: Cape Serras S15E, 4.5’

8.00am: Pos. 37 15N, 8 23E.

10.38am: Closed HMS Thunderer & embarked Mr Wells, Gunner T, from her

11.07am: Proceeded, HMS Thunderer proceeded to Malta

5.00pm: Evolution ‘Towing aft’

8.00pm: Pos. 37 10N, 5 40E.

9.41pm: Cape Sigli S6W, 4’


[Ra’s Engela is in Tunisia at Lat 37.35, Long 9.75.

Cape Serras is probably Cap Serrat in Tunisia at Lat 37.24, Long 9.22.

HMS Thunderer, 22,274 ton battleship, was launched in 1911 by the Thames Iron Works & Shipbuilding Co. She took part in the Battle of Jutland and after conversion to a training ship in 1922 was scrapped in 1926.]


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15 June 1920

At sea

Lat 36.83, Long 0.83

12.42am: Cape Bengut abeam, 5.1’

3.12am: Cape Matifou abeam, 9.5’

3.42am: Cape Matifou S27E

Cape Caxine S53W

4.19am: Cape Caxine abeam S8W, 8.5’

8.00am: Pos. 36 52N, 2 08E.

8.56am: Cape Tenez S58W

9.15am: Cape Tenez abeam, 18.5’

8.00pm: Pos. 36 37N, 1 32W.

10.20pm: Cape de Gata abeam, 6.9’

11.14pm: Cape de Gata N69E

Pointe del Sabinel N44W

11.52pm: Pointe del Sabinel abeam, 9’


[Cap Benngut is in Algeria at Lat 36.92, Long 3.90.

Cap Matifou is in Algeria at Lat 36.81, Long 3.22.

Cap Tenes is in Algeria at Lat 36.55, Long 1.34.

Cabo de Gata is in Spain at Lat 36.72, Long -2.20.

Punta del Sabinal is in Spain at Lat 36.68, Long -2.7.]


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16 June 1920

To Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

2.22am: Cape Sacortif abeam

7.25am: Sighted land on port bow

8.00am: Pos. 36 08N, 5 00W.

8.25am: Sighted Gibraltar

10.10am: As requisite for entering harbour

10.30am: Secured to No.10 Buoy

10.45am: Discharged ammunition

4.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


[Cape Sacortif is Cabo Sacratif in Spain at Lat 36.68, Long -3.46.]


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17 June 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

9.00am: Mr Bartlett, Gunner T, left for the UK

1.20pm: Leave to watchkeepers till 7am

4.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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18 June 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

am: Taken in hand by Dockyard for annual refit

4.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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19 June 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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20 June 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.30-10.00am: Church parties landed

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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21 June 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

am: Rifle range party left ship

3.20pm: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave rota continues


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22 June 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.00am: Range party landed

3.40pm: Range party returned


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23 June 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.00am: Range party landed

11.45pm: Range party returned


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24 June 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.00am: Range party landed

3.25pm: Range party returned


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25 June 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

4.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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26 June 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.00am: Range party landed

11.45pm: Range party returned

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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27 June 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.10am: Church parties landed as requisite

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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28 June 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.00am: Range party landed


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29 June 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.00am: Range party landed

3.25pm: Range party returned


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30 June 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

am: Received 2.5 tons coals culinary from Naval Stores Office

4.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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LOG BOOKS – JULY 1ST 1920 TO AUGUST 31ST 1920


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LOGS FOR JULY 1920


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1 July 1920

[original wrongly dated 1 June]

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

4.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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2 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

4.30pm: Leave rota continues


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3 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

7.00am: Left 'Wall' towed by tugs

8.30am: Entered No 1 Dock

10.00am: Secured in No 1 Dock

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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4 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

8.30am: Church parties landed as requisite

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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5 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

4.30pm: Leave rota resumes


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6 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37


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7 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37


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8 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37


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9 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37


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10 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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11 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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12 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

4.30pm: Leave rota resumes


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13 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37


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14 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37


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15 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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16 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

10.00am: Undocked

11.30am: Secured alongside Gun Wharf

4.00pm: Completed refit

4.30pm: Leave to a watch & part till 7am


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17 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

am: Hands employed painting ship

Received 156 tons oil fuel from RFA Viscol

Received .75 tons Coals, culinary from Naval Stores Office


[RFA Viscol, 1163 ton tanker, was built in 1916 by Craig, Taylor & Co Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees. She served throughout WW2 but was sold in 1947. Her name was changed to “Frecciamare” in 1950 and she was finally scrapped in 1982.]


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18 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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19 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

4.30pm: Leave rota resumes


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20 July 1920

Gibraltar

Lat 36.15, Long -5.37

Lost overboard: 1 shifting spanner, 14/7/20


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21 July 1920

Gibraltar and at sea

Lat 36.1, Long -5.3 [approx]

9.00am: Swing for compass correction

11.10am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

11.21am: Great Europa Point abeam


[Great Europa Point is normally indexed as Europa Point at Lat 36.11, Long -5.34 while Little Europa Point is to the North West round the tip of the peninsula.]


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22 July 1920

At sea

Lat 37.1, Long 1.6 [approx]

7.33am: Columbi Island abeam, 1¼’

8.46am: Cape Tenez abeam, 75’

8.52am: Worked up for full speed trial

9.44am: Full speed, rock abeam

11.19am: Caxine SE

12.10pm: Stopped for bathe

1.53pm: Jennet Point abeam

2.23pm: Bengut Light abeam

4.10pm: Cape Corbelin abeam, 4½’

5.15pm: Cape Sigli ableam, 7’

10.46pm: Bugoroni abeam


[Ile Colombi is off the coast of Algeria at Lat 36.44, Long 0.82.

Jennet Point is indexed as Cap Djinet in Algeria at Lat 36.88, Long 3.72.

Three lighthouses have been built on Cap Bengut in Algeria. This one was built in 1881 at Lat 36.92, Long 3.9.

Cap Bougaroni is in Algeria at Lat 37.09, Long 6.47.]


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23 July 1920

At sea to Tunis

Lat 37.4, Long 10.1 [approx]

1.27am: Cap de Fer abeam, 4’

3.49am: Cape de Gude [Garde] abeam, 10.5’

9.21am: Fratelli Rocks abeam

10.27am: Ras Engela abeam, 5’

1.35pm: Cape Carthage abeam, as requisite for entering Goletta

2.25pm: As requisite for approaching Tunis

3.30pm: Secured to buoy in Tunis Harbour

5.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


[Cap Carthage is in Tunisia at Lat 36.87, Long 10.36.

Goletta probably refers to the port indexed as La Goulette in Tunisia at Lat 36.82, Long 10.31.

The modern Port of Tunis is at Lat 36.82, Long 10.2.]


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24 July 1920

Tunis and at sea

Lat 36.81, Long 10.27

3.10pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

3.50pm: Anchored off Galetta

4.14pm: Weighed & proceeded

7.00pm: Cape Bon abeam, 1.7'

10.20pm: Pantellaria Light abeam


[Galetta is probably another reference to La Goulette (see 23 July).]


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25 July 1920

At sea to Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

6.00am: Sighted Malta

7.50am: As requisite for entering Grand Harbour, Valletta

8.20am: Secured to buoys in Dockyard Creek

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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26 July 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Received 0.25 tons coals culinary from Naval Stores Office

4.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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27 July 1920

Malta and at sea

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

10.00am: Thermometer broken

Received 164 tons oil fuel from Naval Stores Office

1.20pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour


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28 July 1920

At sea

Lat 36.3, Long 21.25 DR

8.00am: 36 14N, 20 00E.

Pos. 3.45pm: Sighted land on port bow

5.24pm: Cape Matapan N15E

7.00pm: Cape Spathi bore S57E

7.05pm: Cape Spathi bore S12E, 1¼’

7.55pm: Cape Malea abeam, 1½’

8.00pm: Pos. 36 25N, 23 02E.

8.56pm: Cape Malea N22W

9.55pm: Belo Pulo Island abeam [Velopoulo]


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29 July 1920

At sea to Smyrna and at sea

Lat 38.53, Long 26.18 DR

12.52am: St George’s abeam, 3'

1.45am: Angalestrio abeam, 3.7’

2.26am: St Nikolo abeam, 2.7’

4.17am: Cape Phassa Light abeam, 1¾’

7.28am: Kalogen Rock abeam, 8¼'

8.00am: Pos. 38 30N, 25 40E.

8.10am: Psara Light abeam, 1.2'

9.04am: As requisite for Smyrna Gulf

11.16am: Fired & picked up 2 21” torpedoes

2.15pm: Anchored off Smyrna

4.00pm: Weighed & proceeded

6.40pm: Anchored in Port Sahib

9.26pm: Weighed & proceeded


[Kalogen Rock is probably Vrachos Mikros Kalogeros, a rock in the Aegean at Lat 38.17, Long 25.29.

There are 3 lighthouses on Psara island. This one is probably indexed as Kokinopulo or Agios Georgio at Lat 38.53, Long 28.62

The Island of Sahib is at Lat 38.65, Long 26.47.]


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30 July 1920

At sea to Mudros and at sea

Lat 40.0, Long 25.88 [approx]

2.05am: Sigri Point abeam

7.40am: Anchored in Mudros Harbour

9.35am: Weighed & proceeded, fired two torpedoes for exercise

1.58pm: As requisite for entering Dardanelles

3.20pm: Closed HMS Trinidad at Chanak

3.23pm: Proceeded

4.50pm: Anchored off Gallipoli

9.16pm: Proceeded


[Akra Sigri is on the island of Lesvos at Lat 39.19, Long 25.83.

HMS Trinidad, 1075 ton destroyer, was launched in May 1918 by J Samuel White, Cowes. She was sold in 1932.]


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31 July 1920

At sea to Constantinople

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

12.13am: Hora Light abeam, 4.7’

12.45am: Kha[?]is Ada abeam, 2.1'

2.09am: Passed HMS Sportive

2.42am: Crephi Point bore North

6.29am: Oxia Island abeam, 3.5’

6.52am: As requisite for entering Bosphorus

7.25am: Secured to oiler off Constantinople

Received 134 tons oil fuel from SS Appleleaf

10.00am: Completed with oil & proceeded up the Bosphorus to Buyukdere

10.55am: Anchored in Buyukdere Bay

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 8pm, Petty Officers till 10pm


[Hora Light is indexed as Hoskoy Lighthouse in Turkey at Lat 40.7, Long 27.32.

HMS Sportive, 1095 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend. She was sold in 1936.

Kha[?]is Ada may be the islet indexed as Ekin Kayasi off the coast of Turkey at Lat 40.51, Long 27.48.

Crephi Point may refer to Adaardi Burnu in Turkey at Lat 40.97, Long 27.97.

Oxia Island is often indexed as Sivriada in the Sea of Marmara at Lat 40.88, Long 28.97.]



LOGS FOR AUGUST 1920


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1 August 1920

Constantinople and at sea

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

11.10am: Slipped & proceeded to Tophane

Noon: Arrived off Tophane

12.10pm: Embarked passengers & mails & proceeded up Bosphorus

1.00pm: Closed HMS Iron Duke

1.28pm: Arotoli Light abeam, 0.5’

8.00pm: Pos. 42 16N, 30 44E.


[Tophane is in Turkey at Lat 41.03, Long 28.98.

Arotoli Light is probably Anadolu Feneri at Lat 41.22, Long 29.15.]


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2 August 1920

To Sevastopol and Yalta

Lat 44.62, Long 33.45 [approx]

8.37am: Khorson Light abeam, course as requisite for entering Sevastopol

9.15am: Entered harbour & secured to No 6 Buoy.

HMS Ceres & HMS Cardiff at Sevastopol

11.30am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour, course as requisite for proceeding along coast to Yalta

3.30pm: Secured alongside mole

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 11pm


[Khorson Light is probably the lighthouse on Mys Khersones indexed as Khersonessky Light in Ukraine at Lat 44.58, Long 33.38.

Yalta is in the Crimea at Lat 44.5, Long 34.17.]


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3 August 1920

Yalta to Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39

7.20am: Proceeded out of Harbour & proceeded along coast to Theodosia

10.26am: Cape Megamon abeam, 9’

12.15pm: Entered harbour & secured to mole, HMS Tomahawk at Theodosia

Received 64 tons oil fuel from HMS Tomahawk

4.00pm: HMS Tomahawk left for Yalta


[Cape Megamon is probably the promontory indexed as Mys Mehanom in Ukraine at Lat 44.79, Long 35.08.

Theodosia is now known as Feodosia, Lat 45.03, Long 35.38.]


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4 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39

1.30pm: Leave to a watch till 10.30pm


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5 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39

1.30pm: Leave to a watch till 10.30pm


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6 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39

1.30pm: Leave rota continues


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7 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39


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8 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39


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9 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39

1.30pm: Leave to watch keepers till 10.30pm

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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10 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39

8.30am: Left mole

8.40am: Anchored


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11 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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12 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39

1.30pm: Leave rota continues

Number on sick list 3


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13 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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14 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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15 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.00pm


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16 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39

9.00am: Weighed port anchor by ‘Deck Tackle’

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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17 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39

1.30pm: Leave rota continues


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18 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39


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19 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39


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20 August 1920

Theodosia

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39


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21 August 1920

Theodosia to Yalta and at sea

Lat 45.04, Long 35.39

9.30am: Weighed & proceeded into Harbour

10.03am: Anchored in Harbour

12.50pm: HMS Sparrowhawk arrived

2.50pm: Weighed & proceeded to sea, course as requisite for coasting to Yalta

3.45pm: Anchored off Koktebil

4.20pm: Weighed & proceeded

6.45pm: Approaching Yalta

8.00pm: Secured alongside jetty

8.50pm: Proceeded out of Harbour

9.12pm: Aitodor Point abeam


[HMS Sparrowhawk, 1075 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend. She was scrapped in 1931.

Koktebel is in the Crimea at Lat 44.96, Long 35.25.

Yalta is in the Crimea at Lat 44.5, Long 34.17.

Aitodor Point is probably the Cape indexed as Mys Ay-Todor in Crimea at Lat 44.43, Long 34.12.]


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22 August 1920

To Constantinople

Lat 42.0, Long 30.3 [approx]

3.50pm: As requisite for entering Bosphorus

4.30pm: Closed HMS Iron Duke

4.35pm: Proceeded down Bosphorus

5.20pm: Secured to oiler

7.30pm: Completed with oil & proceeded up Bosphorus to Buyukdere

Received 114 tons oil fuel from RFA Perthshire

8.20pm: Anchored in No 5 Berth off Buyukdere


[Buyukdere is in the Bosphorus at Lat 41.16, Long 29.05.]


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23 August 1920

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

6.00am: Hands prepare for General Drill

9.30am: General Drill

10.35am: Evolutions completed

4.30pm: Leave for watch till 8pm, Petty Officers till 10pm


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24 August 1920

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

4.30pm: Leave rota continues


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25 August 1920

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

9.00am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour in company with HMS Sikh to carry out 1" aiming practice.

11.35am: Anchored off Bayukdere [Buyukdere] in No.5 Berth

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

8.15pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour, carried out 1" aiming practice

9.30pm: Returned to harbour

10.00pm: Anchored off Bayukdere in No 5 Berth


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26 August 1920

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

9.00am: Weighed & proceeded out of harbour, carried out 4" full calibre firing & fired 1 torpedo

11.40am: Returning to harbour

12.10pm: Anchored in No 5 Berth off Buyukdere

8.15pm: Weighed & proceeded out of harbour, carried out full calibre firing

9.40pm: Anchored in No.5 Berth


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27 August 1920

Bayukdere to Constantinople & return

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

7.00am: Weighed & proceed as requisite for Constantinople

7.45am: Secured alongside oiler

8.45am: Proceeded to buoy off Dome Le Batche

Received 32 tons oil fuel from SS Appleleaf

12.30pm: 1 Midshipman joined from HMS Ajax

5.15pm: Weighed & returned to Bayuk Dere [Buyukdere]

6.30pm: Secured alongside HMS Blenheim


[Dome Le Batche is probably Dolma Bagche, now indexed as Dolmabahce in Turkey at Lat 41.04, Lat 29.0.]


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28 August 1920

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 8pm


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29 August 1920

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 8pm, Petty Officers till 10pm


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30 August 1920

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

1.30pm: Leave rota continues


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31 August 1920

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

1.15pm: Paid monthly payment


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LOG BOOKS – SEPTEMBER 1ST 1920 TO OCTOBER 31ST 1920


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LOGS FOR SEPTEMBER 1920


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1 September 1920

[1 August in log.]

Bayukdere [Buyukdere]

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

1.30pm: Leave rota continues


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2 September 1920

Bayukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

9.30am: Commenced annual Flotilla Regatta

6.30pm: Regatta finished.


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3 September 1920

Buyukdere to Mudros and at sea

Lat 40.7, Long 28.05 [approx]

6.00am: Weighed bower anchor

7.00am: Proceeded as requisite for Constantinople

7.50am: Arrived off Tophane

8.15am: Joined company with HMS Seraph & shaped course for Dardanelles

3.00pm: Ordered to close HMS Trinidad off Chanak

3.50pm: Rejoined HMS Seraph

5.40pm: As requisite for entering Mudros

6.20pm: Anchored

6.45pm: Embarked 13 ratings for passage to Malta

10.35pm: Weighed & proceeded out of harbour in company with HMS Seraph


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4 September 1920

Mudros to Cape Malea

Lat 37.0, Long 23.7 [approx]

2.50am: Helm jambed

2.52am: Proceeded

3.40am: Lithari abeam

7.20am: Mandili Light abeam, 2’

7.40am: Stopped for bathing

7.55am: Proceeded

10.23am: St Georges Light abeam, N48W

1.01pm: Belo Pulo abeam [Velopoula]

3.00pm: Entering Bay north of Cape Malea

3.35pm: Anchored


[Mandili Lighthouse is on the island of Karistos at Lat 37.93, Long 24.52.]


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5 September 1920

Cape Malea to Malta

Lat 36.15, Long 20.0 [approx]

6.00am: Weighed & proceeded in company with HMS Seraph as requisite for rounding Cape Malea

8.39am: Cape Matapan abeam, 0.75'


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6 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.35am: Sighted Malta NW

9.15am: Entered Sliema Creek & secured between 10 & 10A buoys

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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7 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.30am: HMS Blenheim arrived

11.30am: Proceeded alongside HMS Blenheim

1.30pm: Leave rota continues


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8 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Received 2.5 tons of culinary coal from Naval Stores Office, Malta


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9 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505


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10 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505


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11 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505


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12 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Paid off at Malta. Crew remain in the ship for the present

[signed] Kenneth H Ramsey 12/9/20 Commanding Officer

1.15pm: Leave to watch & part till 11pm


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13 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.30am: Proceeded to Grand Harbour

9.00am: Secured alongside HMS Monarch & recommissioned with new crew

9.45am: Proceeded to No.1 & 1A Buoys, Magazine Trot

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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14 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Oil & store ship. Received 160 tons of oil fuel from Naval Stores Office Malta

4.30pm: Leave to a watch till 7am


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15 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

5.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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16 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour to carry out exercises (G)

11.45am: Returning to harbour

12.30pm: Secured to No. 3 and 3A buoys in Sliema Creek

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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17 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour, carry out G exercises

11.30am: Returned to harbour & secured to No 9 & 9A Buoys in Sliema Creek

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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18 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

11.15am: Medical inspection

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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19 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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20 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Carried out ‘General Drill’ independently

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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21 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour.

Carried out Torpedo running (fired two torpedoes), V-303" practice

11.30am: Secured to No.9 Buoy in Sliema Creek. Foul No.12 buoy with port propeller

3.30pm: Divers examine under port quarter

5.50pm: Buoy cleared


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22 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour. Carried out 1" aiming rifle practice

11.00am: Returning to harbour

11.30am: Secured to No.9 & 9A buoys in Sliema Creek.

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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23 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.15am: Control parties left the ship

10.30am: CP returned

1.00pm: Leave to a watch till 7am


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24 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: Independent "General Drill"


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25 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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26 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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27 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: Independent General drill

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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28 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

5.00pm: Leave rota continues


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29 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: Slipped & proceeded out of Harbour in company with Division

Carry out G[unnery] & T[orpedo] exercises, 1” aiming rifle & fired 1 torpedo

11.30am: Entered harbour

Noon: Secured to buoys in Sliema Creek

7.00pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour, carry out 1" AR night firing

8.30pm: Returned to harbour & secured to buoys


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30 September 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

3.15pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

Carry out 4" full calibre gunlayers’ practice & 4" full calibre night firing

9.40pm: Secured to No.9 & 9A buoys in Sliema Creek



LOGS FOR OCTOBER 1920


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1 October 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: General Drill

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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2 October 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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3 October 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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4 October 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.20am: General Drill. Captain D6 conducting from this ship

10.40am: Return gear

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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5 October 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.15am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

8.35am: Closed HMS Dublin & transferred recording party to her

9.05am: Turned astern of "Seraph" & Division, carry out 4" full calibre single ship firing

Noon: Secured between 9 & 9A buoys in Sliema Creek.

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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6 October 1920

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.45am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour in company

Act as torpedo target for Captain’s firing [firing directed by Captain of flotilla]

1.15pm: Carry out Divisional 4" full calibre & torpedo attack, fired 1 torpedo

3.00pm: Secured to Boiler Wharf in French Creek

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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7 October 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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8 October 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Coaled 3 tons

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

3.20pm: Tugs come alongside, shift to entrance of No.3 Dock

3.50pm: Secured


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9 October 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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10 October 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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11 October 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Received 97 tons oil fuel from Naval Stores Office Malta


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12 October 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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13 October 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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14 October 1920

Malta to Cape Malea

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.00pm: Proceeded to Bighi Bay & secured to No 11 Buoy

Swung ship for compass deviation

6.00pm: Slipped & proceeded out of Harbour


[Bighi Bay is near to the entrance to Grand Harbour at Lat 35.9, Long 14.52.]


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15 October 1920

At sea

Lat 36.27, Long 20.75

2.00am: Mustered sea boat’s crew

5.30am: Mustered sea boat’s crew

8.00am: Pos. 36º 13’N, 19º 10’E.

4.35pm: Sighted land bearing N65E

7.41pm: Cape Malea abeam

8.00pm: Pos. 36º 24’N, 23º 12’E.

11.05pm: Belo Pulo abeam [Velopoula]


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16 October 1920

Belo Pulo to Sea of Marmara

Lat 39.37, Long 25.33 DR

1.42am: St Georgio Light abeam, 5.2’

2.23am: St Georgio S88W, Angars N6E

3.46am: St Nikolo abeam, 4.1'

5.12am: Cape Phassa Light abeam

8.00am: Pos. 38º 15’N, 24º 54’E.

2.30pm: Tenedos Light abeam, 2.5’

3.55pm: Cape Helles abeam, course as requisite for proceeding through Dardanelles

6.21pm: Diana Shoal Buoy abeam, 5’

7.01pm: Dohan Burnu Light abeam, 1.3’

9.43pm: Hornu Burnu Light abeam, 4.5’

10.43pm: Marmara Island Light abeam


[I think that the position at 2.23am was fixed on 2 lighthouses, St Georgio at Lat 37.48, Long 23.93 and Angalistros Lighthouse at Lat 36.27, Long 23.08 (see 25 Apr 1919).

St Nikolo may be the islet Nisida Agios Nikolaos at Lat 37.09, Long 25.7.

Tenedos Light is now indexed as Bati on the island now named Bozcaada at Lat 39.8, Long 26.08.

Cape Helles is now indexed as Mehmetcik Burnu in Turkey at Lat 40.04, Long 26.18.

Diana Shoal extends from the shore near Chardak Lighthouse which is at Lat 40.39, Long 26.71.

Dohan Burnu Light probably refers to the Light Vessel marking the shoal. The shoal is at Lat 40.5, Long 26.95.

Hornu Burnu Light is probably Hora Burnu Lighthouse now indexed as Hoskoy Lighthouse at Lat 40.7, Long 27.82

Marmara Island Lighthouse is in the Sea of Marmara at Lat 40.58, Long 27.57.]


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17 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

3.00am: Exercised seaboat’s crew

5.00am: Exercised seaboat’s crew

6.23am: St Stefano Light abeam

6.52am: As requisite for closing & proceeding up Bosphorus

7.50am: Secured to Oiler "Appleleaf"

Received 150 tons of oil fuel.

10.00am: Completed with oil & proceeded to No.8 buoy in inner harbour

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


[St Stefanos Light is now indexed as Yesilikoy Burnu Lighthouse in Turkey at Lat 40.97, Long 28.83.]


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18 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

1.00pm: HMS Montrose secured alongside

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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19 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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20 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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21 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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22 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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23 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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24 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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25 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99


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26 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

10.30pm: Come to 1 hour notice for steam

3.30pm: 3 hours' notice for steam


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27 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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28 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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29 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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30 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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31 October 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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LOG BOOKS – NOVEMBER 1ST 1920 TO DECEMBER 31ST 1920


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LOGS FOR NOVEMBER 1920


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1 November 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

am: Received 3 tons of culinary coal from Naval Stores Office Constantinople

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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2 November 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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3 November 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

am: Hands prepare for sea & as requisite

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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4 November 1920

Constantinople to position off Odessa

Lat 42.07, Long 29.17 DR

6.30am: Secure ship for sea.

7.00am: Slipped & proceeded up Bosphorus towards Black Sea.

8.00pm: Pos. 43º 55’N, 30º 05’E.


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5 November 1920

Patrolling off Odessa

Lat 46.43, Long 30.83

3.01am: Serpent Island abeam, 1.5"

7.10am: Arrived at rendezvous

8.00am: As requisite for patrolling in vicinity of rendezvous


[Serpent Island is indexed as Ostriv Zmiyinyy in Ukraine at Lat 45.26, Long 30.20.]


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6 November 1920

Off Odessa

Lat 46.43, Long 30.83

6.30am: Course as requisite for patrolling in vicinity of rendezvous

10.15am: HMS Centaur & transport arrive in 46° 11’[N], 30° 47’E

10.45am: Closing HMS Centaur

1.00pm: Anchored 2’ S69W from HMS Antrim, 13’ S7W from Cape Fontan

7.00pm: Searchlight onshore bearing N17W


[HMS Antrim, 10,850 ton cruiser, was launched in 1903 by John Brown & Co Ltd, Clydebank. She was sold in 1922 and is part of the Old Weather fleet.

Cape Fontan is indexed as Mys Velykyy Fontan and is in Ukraine at Lat 46.38, Long 30.75.]


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7 November 1920

Patrol

Lat 46.13, Long 30.65

2.15pm: Weighed & proceeded to rendezvous

4.43pm: Closing HMS Centaur

5.20pm: Anchored close to “Centaur”


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8 November 1920

Patrol off Odessa

Lat 46.43, Long 30.83

8.00am: Weigh & close tug “Loret” [?]

8.30am: Anchored in original position

9.30am: Embark refugees from tug & proceed alongside SS Wakopmund

2.40pm: Anchor in same position as before, HMS Centaur N52W, 3 cables

Transport sails for Constantinople with refugees


[SS Wakopmund may have been “Swakopmund”, 5638 tons, built as Florida in 1903 by Bremer Vulkan, Vegesack. After changes of owner and name she became Swakopmund in 1907 when operated by the Hamburg Amerika line. In 1919 she was acquired by the British Government but sold & renamed in 1921. She was scrapped in 1929.]


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9 November 1920

Patrol off Odessa

Lat 46.43, Long 30.83

No lights sighted during Middle Watch

9.29am: Weigh & proceed with "Centaur"

9.59am: "Centaur" anchors at rendezvous.

10.16am: Anchored 2 miles west of rendezvous

5.09pm: Weigh & close "Centaur"

5.20pm: Anchored S25W 3 cables from “Centaur”

8.30pm: Search light bore S78W

Search light bore N8W


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10 November 1920

Odessa to Constantinople

Lat 45.8, Long 30.6 DR

7.00am: Weighed & proceeded alongside HMS Centaur

8.15am: Complete with 20 tons of oil & proceed to close small boat coming from shore

9.10am: Take refugees from small boat & turn over to them six "Red" prisoners

9.50am: Proceed alongside "Centaur" & transfer refugees

10.01am: Course S25E astern of "Centaur"

1.10pm: Stopped, proceeded alongside "Centaur"

1.28pm: Embarked refugees & mails & parted company from HMS Centaur

3.05pm: Serpent Island abeam, 4.1 miles

8.00pm: Pos. 41º 08N, 30º 00’E.


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11 November 1920

To Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

6.45am: Sighted land S10W

9.05am: Entered Bosphorus, course as requisite

10.15am: Secured to oiler "Perthshire"

1.10pm: One fender lost overboard by accident

1.15pm: Completed with oil, 166 tons, & proceeded to buoy

Secured to No.5 buoy, hands employed as requisite

4.15pm: Leave to watch till 10.30, Petty Officers till 11pm


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12 November 1920

Constantinople to Sevastopol

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

6.55pm: Slipped & proceeded down Bosphorus for Black Sea

11.15pm: Passed HMS Hibiscus bound for Theodosia


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13 November 1920

To Sevastopol and return to Constantinople

Lat 44.62, Long 33.52

2.15am: Exercised sea boat’s crew

6.00am: Exercised sea boat’s crew

10.15am: Sighted land

10.34am: As requisite for entering Sevastopol via right channel along coast

11.50am: Entered harbour, speed as requisite

12.20pm: Proceeded out of harbour

12.40pm: Entered Stielitska Bay

1.00pm: Secured alongside HMS Tumult

3.00pm: Proceeded out of Bay

3.25pm: Entered Sevastopol Harbour

4.00pm: Secured to Pontoon in South Bay, embarking 150 persons for passage to Constantinople

5.25pm: Leave Pontoon

6.04pm: Passed outer boom

6.43pm: Khersones Light bearing NE


[Stielitska Bay is often indexed as Strilets’ka Bukhta in the Crimea at Lat 44.6, Long 33.47.]


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14 November 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

1.45am: Passed HMS Dianthus steaming S43W

8.55am: Course as requisite for proceeding up the Bosphorus

10.15am: Secured alongside Galata Quay

Disembarking passengers

2.30pm: Left Quay

2.45pm: Secured alongside HMS Shamrock at No.5 buoy


[HMS Shamrock, 1075 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 at the Doxford Yard, Sunderland. She was scrapped in 1936.

HMS Dianthus, 1290 ton sloop, was launched in 1917 by Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Glasgow, sold in 1921 & renamed “Guerrero” in 1922. She was scrapped in 1938.]


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15 November 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

6.00am: Clear all bags & hammocks off Mess Deck ready for fumigating ship

8.00am: First party for de-lousing landed

9.00am: Second party for de-lousing landed

9.45am: All Mess Decks closed down and fumigating commenced

11.00am: Third party for de-lousing landed

7.00pm: Commenced opening up Mess Decks


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16 November 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

8.30am: Ship's company returned to the ship

Hands cleaning ship

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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17 November 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

am: Hands painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm, Petty Officers till 11pm


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18 November 1920

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.40am: HMS Shamrock left Harbour

Received 3 tons of culinary coal from Naval Stores Office Constantinople

12.30pm: HMS Tobago arrived

4.30pm: Leave rota continues


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19 November 1920

Constantinople and at sea

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

5.30am: HMS Tobago shoved off

7.30am: Slipped and proceeded alongside oiler

8.00am: Embarked two Military Officers & 7 other ranks

11.44am: Completed with oil, received 129 tons of oil fuel from RFA Perthshire

Proceeded as requisite towards Black Sea

8.00pm: Pos. 41º 39’N, 31º 01’E.

11.25pm: Sighted Cape Amastra S52E


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20 November 1920

At sea

Lat 42.63, Long 34.93

3.53am: Kerempeh Burnu abeam, 13 miles

8.00am: Pos. 42º 30’N, 34º 31’E.

8.00pm: Pos. 42º 21’N, 37º 16’E.


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21 November 1920

To Batum

Lat 41.67, Long 41.63 [approx]

5.15am: Sighted land 2 points on starboard bow

5.45am: Sighted land 2 points on port bow

8.00am: Pos. 42º 05’N, 40º 51’E.

10.13am: Poti Light bearing N64E

10.33am: Poti Light bearing N44.5E

10.43am: Poti Light bearing N32E

11.30am: Approaching Batum

12.40pm: Anchored

3.30pm: Leave to watch till 6pm


[Poti Lighthouse is in Georgia at Lat 42.13, Long 41.66.]


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22 November 1920

Batum to Poti

Lat 41.7, Long 41.65 [approx]

11.28am: Weighed & proceeded

1.16pm: Poti Light bearing N20.5E

1.31pm: Poti Light bearing N34.5E

2.10pm: Entered harbour

2.30pm: Secured alongside Centre Mole


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23 November 1920

Poti

Lat 42.15, Long 41.65

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 5pm


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24 November 1920

Poti

Lat 42.15, Long 41.65

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 5pm

4.35pm: HMS Tumult arrived


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25 November 1920

Poti to Cape Unieh

Lat 42.15, Long 41.65

3.00pm: Left Poti

8.00pm: Pos. 41º 48’N, 40º 12’E.


[Cape Unieh is indexed as Tashane Burnu in Turkey at Lat 41.15, Long 37.29.]


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26 November 1920

On patrol

Lat 41.08, Long 37.87 DR

6.25am: Sighted land 2 points on starboard bow

8.00am: Pos. 41º 15’N, 37º 46’E.

8.57am: Cape Yasun abeam

10.45am: Cape Yasun abeam

8.00pm: Pos. 41º 26’N, 38º 45’E.


[Cape Yasun is indexed as Yasun Burnu in Turkey at Lat 41.14, Long 37.68.]


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27 November 1920

Patrol line to Batum

Lat 41.75, Long 40.72 DR

8.00am: Pos. 41º 15’N, 39º 45’E.

4.03pm: Course as requisite for approaching Batum via swept route (S12W)

4.45pm: Entered harbour

6.40pm: Secured between buoys in harbour

HMS Ceres in anchorage outside Harbour


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28 November 1920

Batum

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 6pm


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29 November 1920

Batum to Poti

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

7.45am: Slipped & proceeded alongside HMS Ceres

Received 167 tons of oil fuel from HMS Ceres

3.00pm: Completed with oil & proceeded

5.00pm: Entered Poti Harbour

5.10pm: Secured alongside HMS Tumult


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30 November 1920

Poti

Lat 42.15, Long 41.65

9.00am: Read "Articles of War" to ship's company

2.30pm: HMS Tumult left harbour



LOGS FOR DECEMBER 1920


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1 December 1920

Poti

Lat 42.15, Long 41.65

1.00pm: Shifted into inner Basin

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 5pm


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2 December 1920

Poti

Lat 42.15, Long 41.65

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 5pm


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3 December 1920

Poti

Lat 42.15, Long 41.65

9.40am: Exercised ‘General Quarters’

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 5pm

Lost overboard by accident: 1 butcher’s steel


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4 December 1920

Poti

Lat 42.15, Long 41.65

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 5pm


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5 December 1920

Poti to Batum & Cape Yasun

Lat 42.15, Long 41.65

1.15pm: Leaving harbour

3.43pm: Closing Batum

3.55pm: Secured alongside HMS Ceres

5.30pm: Left Batum

8.00pm: Pos. 41º 49’N, 41º 20’E.

10.00pm: Exercised sea boat’s crew


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6 December 1920

on Patrol

Lat 41.17, Long 37.85

8.00am: Pos. 41º 20’N, 37º 49’ E.

8.50am: Vona Point abeam

9.30am: Boarded small coasting boat

9.50am: General Quarters, carry out 1” aiming rifle practice

12.30pm: Boarded small boat

1.32pm: Vona Point bore W/N, 1 mile

3.51pm: Puga Island SSE

5.30pm: Kara Point bore S25E

8.00pm: Pos. 41º 25’N, 39º 29’E.

10.00pm: Exercised sea boat’s crew

11.50pm: Sighted steamer, altered course S32E, [speed] 12 knots to close


[Vona Point is indexed as Carn Burnu in Turkey at Lat 41.12, Long 37.79.

Puga Island is indexed as Giresun Adasi in Turkey at Lat 40.93, Long 38.44.

Kara Burnu is in Turkey at Lat 41.04, Long 38.93.]


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7 December 1920

On patrol

Lat 41.03, Long 40.08 DR

12.49am: Put searchlight on steamer & read name "-?- Ferdinand of Fiume”: steering about N65E

7.20am: Making Cape Ieros

8.00am: Pos. 41º 13’N, 39º 32’E.

9.30am: Boarded small boat

9.40am: Proceeded

9.50am: Carried out 1” aiming rifle practice

10.15am: In target & proceeded

10.16am: Cape Ieros bore S89W, 10 miles

As requisite for patrol to the Eastwards along coast

1.32pm: Prios Point abeam

3.08pm: Loris Point abeam

8.00am: Pos. 41º 50’N, 40º 55’E.

10.00pm: Exercised sea boat’s crew


[Fiume was a free state which existed 1920-24. It was the centre of major political disputes after WW1 and is now part of Croatia.

Cape Iero or Yero is also referred to as Yoros Burun in Turkey at Lat 41.11, Long 39.42.

Prios Point is probably Pirios Point now indexed as Fener Burnu in Turkey at Lat 41.04, Long 40.51.

Loris Point is probably Cape Loros which is somewhere near modern Kemerkoy in Turkey at Lat 41.13, Long 40.77.]


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8 December 1920

Patrol to Batum & Poti

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

2.40am: Exercised sea boat’s crew

8.00am: Approaching Batum

8.20am: Secured alongside RFA Montenol in Batum Harbour

10.35am: Completed with oil, received 120 tons of oil fuel & 1.4 tons of culinary coal

Left harbour

10.40am: Anchored close to HMS Ceres

12.55pm: Weighed & proceeded

2.55pm: Altered course to close Poti

3.25pm: Entering harbour

3.55pm: Secured to buoy inside Inner basin


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9 December 1920

Poti

Lat 42.15, Long 41.65

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 5pm

pm: Hands make & mend clothes


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10 December 1920

Poti

Lat 42.15, Long 41.65

1.15pm: Leave rota continues


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11 December 1920

Poti

Lat 42.15, Long 41.65


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12 December 1920

Poti

Lat 42.15, Long 41.65


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13 December 1920

Poti to Batum and at sea

Lat 41.66, Long 41.65

9.00am: Leaving harbour

10.48am: Closing Batum

11.07am: Entered harbour & secured alongside HMS Tumult

1.30pm: Leaving harbour

8.00pm: Pos. 42º 02’N, 39º 48’E.


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14 December 1920

At sea

Lat 42.57, Long 34.78

2.10am: Exercised sea boat’s crew

8.00am: Pos. 42º 27’N, 36º 04’E.

7.11pm: Light bearing S20E

8.00pm: Pos. 42º 14’N, 32º 54’E.

10.00pm: Exercised sea boat’s crew

10.47pm: Cape Anastra [Amasra?] bore S12E

11.17pm: Cape Anastra bore S30E


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15 December 1920

To Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

2.00am: Exercised sea boat’s crew

4.30am: Exercised sea boat’s crew

6.20am: Sighted land on port beam

8.35am: Altered course approaching Bosphorus

9.30am: Entered Bosphorus

10.45am: Secured to oiler “Brambleleaf”

Received 102 tons oil fuel

11.45am: Completed with oil & proceeded to No.8 buoy

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm

Received 2 tons of coal from Naval Stores Office Constantinople


[RFA Brambleleaf, 5912 ton tanker, was launched in 1916 as “Rumol” by Russell & Co, Port Glasgow, but renamed before entering service in 1917. She was torpedoed in 1942 and towed to Alexandria, repaired and converted into a storage hulk. She was scrapped in 1953.]


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16 December 1920

Constantinople and at sea

Lat 40.53, Long 27.67

8.00am: Slipped & proceeded to sea

8.47am: Light abeam

11.55am: Fener Adasi Light abeam

3.03pm: Gallipoli Light abeam, as requisite for the Dardanelles

3.27pm: Galata Light abeam

4.10pm: Came to 10 knots to close HMS’ Shark & Splendid

5.00pm: Cape Helles N20W

5.17pm: Rabbit Island abeam


[Gallipoli Light is indexed as Gelibolu in Turkey at Lat 40.42, Long 26.68.

Galata Fener or Lighthouse is in Turkey at Lat 40.32, Long 26.59.

HMS Shark, 1075 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend. She was scrapped in 1931.

HMS Splendid, 1075 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend. She was scrapped in 1931.

Rabbit Island is indexed as Presa Adasi in Turkey at Lat 39.93, Long 26.05.]


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17 December 1920

At sea

Lat 36.37, Long 22.52 DR

12.35am: Light flashing 15 seconds, abeam N63W, 19.5 miles

1.25am: Doro Light bore S24W, Light flashing bore N35W

3.51am: Doro Light abeam, 1.4miles

5.52am: Red flashing light abeam, 3.75 miles

8.00am: Pos. 37º 18’N, 23º 58’E.

9.05am: Working up to full power trial

9.45am: Belo Pulo N54W [Velopoula]

10.46am: Cape Malea Light N54W

11.38am: Matapan N86W, end of Island S36E, reducing speed

Speed reached 32 knots

12.16pm: Matapan abeam

12.25pm: Cape Matapan N60E

8.00pm: Pos. 36º 10’N, 20º 13’E.


[Doro Light may be Dana Light on Poros Island at Lat 37.53, Long 23.47.]


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18 December 1920

To Malta

Lat 36.02, Long 15.27

8.00am: Pos. 36º 05’N, 16º 14’E.

1.30pm: Sighted Malta ahead

3.00pm: Approaching Valletta

3.30pm: Entered Grand Harbour

4.00pm: Secured between buoys H and H1 in Dockyard Creek

5.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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19 December 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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20 December 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed painting ship

Received 149 tons of oil fuel from Naval Stores Office Malta

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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21 December 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed painting ship and drawing stores

4.30pm: Leave to watch till midnight


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22 December 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.03am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

Carry out 4" full calibre firing & act as torpedo target for two runs

11.30am: Returning to harbour

11.50am: Entered harbour

11.55am: Port engine broke down

Noon: Tugs take ship in tow

12.30pm: Secured to H and H1 buoys in Dockyard Creek

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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23 December 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.00am: Read ‘Court Martial returns’ to ship's company


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24 December 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Overnight leave rota continues


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25 December 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Carry out Sunday's routine


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26 December 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51


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27 December 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Discharge ammunition into lighter

1.15pm: Overnight leave continues


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28 December 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Tugs shifted ship to French Creek under 40 ton Crain [sic]

Ship in Dockyard hands

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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29 December 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

Spanner No.25A (Torpedo) lost overboard

5.00pm: Leave rota continues


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30 December 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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31 December 1920

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Overnight leave rota continues


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THE VOYAGES OF HMS TORCH (2) 1921

JP map Torch (2) 1921

LOG BOOKS – JANUARY 1ST 1921 TO FEBRUARY 28TH 1921


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LOGS FOR JANUARY 1921


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1 January 1921

[1920 in log]

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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2 January 1921

[1920 in log]

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave rota continues


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3 January 1921

[1920 in log]

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Landed range party

3.55pm: Range party returned

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


No logs for 4&5 January



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6 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Landed range party

3.25pm: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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7 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

7.15am: Shifted berth by tug

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am

2.45pm: Range party returned


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8 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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9 January 1921

[1920 in log]

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

10.00am: Church parties landed

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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10 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

3.45am: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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11 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

3.45am: Range party returned

4.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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12 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

3.45am: Range party returned

4.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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13 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

3.45am: Range party returned


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14 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

2.10am: Range party returned

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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15 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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16 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.15am: Divisions

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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17 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

3.30am: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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18 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

2.25am: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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19 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

3.30am: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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20 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

3.30am: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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21 January 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

8.45am: Tugs shift “Torch” & “Tumult” into No 5 Dock

1.10pm: Docked

3.30am: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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22 January 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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23 January 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

10.00am: Divisions, ship’s company mustered by open list

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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24 January 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.20am: Range party fall in

3.35pm: Range party returned


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25 January 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

3.35pm: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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26 January 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

3.35pm: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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27 January 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

3.35pm: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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28 January 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

2.35pm: Range party returned

4.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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29 January 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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30 January 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.30am: Church parties landed

9.15am: Divisions & rounds

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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31 January 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

3.00pm: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am



LOGS FOR FEBRUARY 1921


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1 February 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

2.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am

3.35pm: Range party returned


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2 February 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

11.30pm: Range party returned

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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3 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

10.25am: Left No.5 Dock & secured alongside HMS Tuscan at Hamilton Wharf

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


[HMS Tuscan, 927 ton destroyer, was launched in 1919 by Yarrow & Co Ltd, Glasgow. She was scrapped in 1932.]


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4 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

11.35pm: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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5 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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6 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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7 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Landed range party

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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8 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Landed range party

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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9 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Landed range party

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am

3.35pm: Range party returned


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10 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Landed range party

3.20pm: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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11 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Range party landed

7.30am: Shifted by tugs to Boiler Wharf

1.35pm: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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12 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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13 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.30am: Divisions & Rounds, read ‘Court Martial Returns’ to ship's company

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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14 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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15 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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16 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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17 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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18 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8: 30am: Slipped & proceeded to No 11 Buoy, Bighi Bay, to swing compasses

Weather too bad for swinging, return to Boiler Wharf

10.00am: Proceed to Magazine Trot [a type of mooring]

10.40am: Secured to No 2 & 2A buoys

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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19 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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20 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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21 February 1921

Malta, at sea for speed trial and return

Lat 36.1, Long 14.4 [approx]

8.36am: Slipped & proceeded to No 11 Buoy, Bighi Bay

Swung ship for adjustment of compasses.

10.15am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

10.20am: Working up to full speed

10.47am: Full speed, course as requisite for proceeding round Islands South about

12.47pm: Easing down [after achieving 32.5 knots]

1.10pm: Entered harbour

1.30pm: Secured to No 2 & 2A buoys, Magazine Trot

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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22 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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23 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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24 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.30am: Moved by tug to Hamilton Wharf

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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25 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.895, Long 14.523

9.00am: Take in oil fuel & water

10.00am: Leave Wharf & proceed to No 11 Buoy, Bighi Bay

Swing for adjustment of compasses

Slipped & proceeded to Sliema Creek

12.30pm: Secured to No 9 & 9A Buoys

2.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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26 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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27 February 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: Church parties landed

9.30am: Divisions & rounds

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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28 February 1921

Malta and at sea

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Prepare ship for sea

6.02pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

6.18pm: Course S88E on port beam of “Speedy”

6.30pm: Take station astern

7.00pm: Commenced ‘economy trial’ at 12 knots

11.15pm: Exercised sea boats crew


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No logs for March and April



LOG BOOKS – MAY 1ST 1921 TO JUNE 30TH 1921


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LOGS FOR MAY 1921


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1 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

1.30pm: Leave to Chief Petty Officers & Petty Officers till 12.30am


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2 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.30am: General drill

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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3 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

10.00am: Exercised control parties

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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4 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

Noon: Leave to watch 1.30pm till midnight


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5 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 24.30


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6 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.30am: General Quarters

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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7 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

8.00am: Aired night clothing

4.30pm: Leave to a watch till 12pm


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8 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 12pm [sic]


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9 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

7.30am: HMS Sparrowhawk arrived

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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10 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10pm

8.30pm: HMS Shark arrived


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11 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

11.30am: HMS Sparrowhawk sailed

1.30pm: Leave to watch till midnight


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12 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

All day: Hands employed painting ship

4.00pm: Leave to watch 16.30 till midnight


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13 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

All day: Hands employed painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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14 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

8.00am: Aired night clothing

1.30pm: Leave to watch till midnight


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15 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

10.00am: Divisions, ‘Articles of War’ read to ship’s company

1.30pm: Leave to watch till midnight


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16 May 1921

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.00am: HMS Sikh arrived

9.30am: General drill

10.40am: HMS Sikh secured alongside


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17 May 1921

Constantinople and at sea

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

10.07pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour


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18 May 1921

At sea

Lat 39.78, Long 25.88

1.04pm: Stopped starboard engine

3.19am: Marmara Light abeam S12E

4.26am: Khairsiz Ada abeam

7.31am: Gallipoli Light abeam, course as requisite for Dardanelles

8.00am: Pos. 40º 24’N, 26º 40’E.

8.40am: Ahead both engines

9.10am: Closed HMS Sparrowhawk off Chanak

11.18am: Tenedos Light abeam, 4’

2.30pm: Sigri Point abeam S77E, 6’

5.48pm: Psara Island abeam, stopped port engine

8.00pm: Pos. 37º 55’N, 25º 50’E.

10.45pm: Flashing Light every minute at N82½E, 7.4’


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19 May 1921

To Rhodes

Lat 36.46, Long 28.23

1.53½am: Spasis Point abeam, 6.1’

8.00am: Pos. 36º 23’N, 47º 40’E.

10.20am: Kum Burnu abeam S8E, 1.7’

10.22am: Both engines ahead, as requisite for closing Rhodes Town

10.40am: Anchored off Rhodes

1.40pm: Weighed & proceeded

7.02pm: Light House abeam

8.00pm: Pos. 35º 25’N, 29º 43’E.


[Spasis Point may have referred to Spano Point on the NW coast of Piscopi Island sometimes known as Telos or Tilos. The point is now indexed as Punta Volcheri at Lat 36.47, Long 27.3.

Kum Burnu was probably Kara Burun, now indexed as Ala Burun, in Turkey at Lat 36.55, Long 27.98.]


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20 May 1921

At sea to Haifa

Lat 34.1, Long 33.20

4.10am: Sighted land off port bow

7.11am: Paphos Light N29E, Cape Gata S78E, Cape Arnouti N9W

8.00am: Pos. 34º 33’N, 32º 31’E.

9.35am: Exercised night action station

5.20pm: Sighted land ahead

8.20pm: Akka Light S59E, Cape Carmel S1E

9.05pm: Anchored off Haifa, HMS Stuart & Tumult at Haifa


[Paphos Point Lighthouse is in Cyprus at Lat 34.75, Long 32.6.

Cape Gata is in Cyprus at Lat 34.57, Long 33.04.

Cape Arnouti is indexed as Akrotirio Arnaoutis in Cyprus at Lat 35.11, Long 32.28.

Akko Lighthouse (also indexed as Acco Lighthouse) is in Israel at Lat 32.92, Long 35.08.

Cape Carmel is in Israel at Lat 32.83, Long 34.96.

Haifa Harbour or Nemal Hefa is in Israel at Lat 32.83, Long 35.0.]


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21 May 1921

Haifa to Jaffa

Lat 32.83, Long 35.0

4.45am: Weighed & proceeded alongside HMS Stuart to take in oil (70 tons)

11.45am: Left HMS Stuart & lay off

Noon: Proceeded

2.00pm: Hammamm Island abeam, 3.5’

3.10pm: Sighted HMS Iron Duke & Ajax off Jaffa

4.15pm: Anchored off Jaffa, HMS’ Iron Duke (flying flag of Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean) & Ajax at Jaffa


[Hammamm Island is Hammam Island or le Yonim in Israel at Lat 32.56, Long 34.9.

Jaffa is in Israel at Lat 32.05, Long 34.75.]


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22 May 1921

Jaffa

Lat 32.05, Long 34.74

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 6.45pm


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23 May 1921

Jaffa to Malta

Lat 32.05, Long 34.74

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 6.45pm

9.00pm: Weighed & proceeded


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24 May 1921

Jaffa to Malta

Lat 33.05, Long 30.88

2.10am: Exercised sea boat’s crew

8.00am: Pos. 32º 48’N, 32º 01’E.

8.00pm: Pos. 33º 31’N, 28º 53’E.


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25 May 1921

Jaffa to Malta

Lat 34.48, Long 24.78

8.00am: Sighted land (Crete) bearing N/W

8.00am: Pos. 34º 30’N, 25º 53’E.

3.23pm: Raso Pudinke Light abeam, 11 miles

8.00pm: Pos. 34º 49’N, 22º 50’E.


[Raso Pudinke Light may refer to the lighthouse on Gavdos Island at Kavos Pudunki now Akra Kefali at Lat 34.86, Long 24.04. That lighthouse was destroyed in WW2 although a replica was built in 2003.]


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26 May 1921

Jaffa to Malta

Lat 35.27, Long 18.63

8.00am: Pos. 35º 13’N, 19º 48’E.

8.00pm: Pos. 35º 34’N, 16º 44’E.


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27 May 1921

At sea to Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

2.00am: Exercised sea boat’s crew

5.13am: Sighted Malta

6.35am: Entered Grand Harbour

7.00am: Secured to No 3 & 3A Buoys, Magazine Trot

9.20am: Medical Inspection of ship's company

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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28 May 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Air night clothing

Noon: Down night clothing

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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29 May 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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30 May 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.40am: Oil lighter came alongside

5.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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31 May 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: Slipped & proceeded to Sliema

10.10am: Secured to No 9 & 9A Buoys, Sliema Creek

4.00pm: Paid monthly payment, leave to watch & part 5pm till 7am



LOGS FOR JUNE 1921


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1 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.00am: Landed all available for ‘Drill’

11.30am: Landing party returned

5.00pm: Leave to watch & part till 7am


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2 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.00am: General leave to starboard watch till 7am Saturday

4.30pm: Leave to part of watch till 7am


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3 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.00am: Dress ship overall, White Ensign at the Main [King’s Birthday]

10.30am: Leave to part of watch till 7am

Noon: Royal Salute

7.10pm: Undress ship


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4 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

10.30am: HMS Sepoy sailed

Noon: General leave (48 hours) to port watch till 7am Tuesday


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5 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.00am: Dress ship overall with Italian Ensign at the Main

Church parties landed as requisite


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6 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.20am: Landed range party

11.30am: Read “Warrant”


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7 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.30am: Landed range party

8.00am: Stores arrived alongside

8.30am: Landed Educational Test at FEC

Remainder of hands paint ship

Torpedo class & Gunnery class at ‘Attack’ & ‘Plotting’ tables

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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8 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.30am: Landed range party

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am

3.30pm: Range party returned


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9 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.20am: Landed range party

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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10 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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11 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.00am: Air night clothing

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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12 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.20am: Roman Catholic church party landed

9.20am: Presbyterian & Church of England parties landed


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13 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.30am: General drill

10.30am: Drills completed


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14 June 1921

[12 June in log]

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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15 June 1921

[13 June in log]

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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16 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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17 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

11.00am: Carried out W/T & ‘range clock’ [range clock: a clockwork device for continuously estimating range for targeting guns]

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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18 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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19 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Church parties landed as requisite

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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20 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

6.15am: Carry out General Drill

7.15am: Completed evolutions

4.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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21 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.15am: Coal ship

10.00am: Exercised control parties

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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22 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.00am: Dress ship overall [Coronation day]

9.40am: Exercised small arm parties

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

7.30pm: Undress ship


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23 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.30am: Exercised small arm parties on board

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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24 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.05am: HMS Trinidad sailed

10.00am: Exercised ‘Action’

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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25 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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26 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Church parties landed as requisite

1.15am: Leave to watch till 7am


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27 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

6.15am: General drill

7.15am: Evolutions completed

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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28 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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29 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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30 June 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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[These are blank or cover pages.]



LOG BOOKS – JULY 1ST 1921 TO AUGUST 31ST 1921


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[These are cover pages, details of fuel consumption during full power trial & a list of meteorological instruments.]



LOGS FOR JULY 1921


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1 July 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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2 July 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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3 July 1921

Malta and at sea

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 9pm

8.00pm: Prepare ship for sea

11.11pm: Slipped & proceeded in company with "Tribune” & “Sparrowhawk”


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4 July 1921

Malta to Constantinople

Lat 36.13, Long 18.58

3.00am: Exercise sea boat’s crew

8.00am: Pos. 36º 03’N, 17º 13’E.

Noon: Sighted HMS Bryony proceeding East

4.00pm: Stopped for bathing

4.25pm: Proceeded

8.00pm: Pos. 36º 13’N, 21º 08’E.

11.00pm: Exercised sea boat’s crew


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5 July 1921

Malta to Constantinople

Lat 37.25, Long 24.17

1.27am: Cape Matapan N47E

2.52am: Cape Matapan N17E

5.00am: Lighthouse abeam, 2.1’

8.00am: Pos. 36º 42’N, 23º 33’E.

11.25am: Stopped for bathing

11.55am: Proceeded

4.00pm: Stopped for bathing

4.30pm: Proceeded

4.36pm: Phassa Light abeam, 3’

8.00pm: Pos. 38º 22’N, 24º 58’E.

11.59pm: Sigri Light abeam, 9.2'


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6 July 1921

Malta to Constantinople

Lat 40.75, Long 27.83 DR

3.10am: Tenedos Light abeam S69E, 2.5'

4.52am: Cape Helles abeam, as requisite for Bosphorus

5.55am: Off Chanak

7.58am: Gallipoli Light abeam N40E

8.00am: Pos. 40º 28’N, 26º 48’E.

9.30am: Exercised control parties

2.50pm: As requisite for closing Constantinople

3.20pm: Entered Bosphorus

3.35pm: Secured to USN destroyer buoy

3.40pm: Slipped

4.05pm: Secured to oiler “Montenol”

6.00pm: Completed with oil, received 127 tons, proceeded to Buyukdere

6.50pm: Anchored in Buyukdere Bay

HMS’ Sparrowhawk, Speedy, Tribune & Stuart at Buyukdere


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7 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

4.30pm: Come to 2½ hours' steam – emergency destroyer

5.00pm: Leave to Petty Officers till 8pm


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8 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

9.30am: Exercised General Quarters

11.50am: ‘Articles of War’ read to ship’s company

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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9 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

6.00am: HMS Tribune sailed

9.00am: Aired night clothing

11.00am: HMS Shark arrived

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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10 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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11 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

7.50am: HMS Trindad arrived

8.05am: HMFA Berbice arrived

9.40am: General Drill, HMS Stuart conducting

10.45am: Evolutions completed

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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12 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

8.00am: Raise steam for 2½ hours' notice, emergency destroyer

8.45am: Commanding Officer boarded HMS Stuart

9.00am: HMS Stuart sailed

4.00pm: HMS Blenheim arrived

5.00pm: Leave to Petty Officers till 10pm


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13 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

8.50am: Fog lifted

1.30pm: Control parties exercised in HMS Stuart

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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14 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

8.00am: Dressed ship overall

8.20am: Exercised ‘Night cruising stations’

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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15 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

9.05am: HMS Speedy arrived

10.00am: HMS Sparrowhawk sailed

Captain D[estroyer] VII [flotilla] arrived onboard & inspected ship

11.30am: Captain left

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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16 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

7.00am: HMS Spear arrived

8.00am: Air night clothing

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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17 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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18 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

8.00am: Came to 2½ [hours'] notice for steam – emergency destroyer

9.30am: Carry out General Drills

10.30am: Evolutions completed

1.15pm: Leave to Petty Officers till 10pm


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19 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

8.00am: Air bedding, revert to 4 hours' notice for steam

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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20 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.30, Long 29.20 [approx]

7.34am: Slipped & proceeded North in company with HMS Trinidad & Sikh

8.40am: Joined up with HMS Stuart & 4 destroyers & carried out manoeuvres

10.00am: Carry out LTO [Leading Torpedo Man] torpedo firing, fired four torpedoes & all recovered

1.50pm: Returning to Buyukdere

2.20pm: Secured alongside oiler “Montenol”, received 29 tons oil fuel

2.30pm: HMS Tribune & Senator arrived

2.55pm: Secured alongside HMS Blenheim for local refit

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 11pm

5.30pm: Flotilla returned to harbour. HMS Shark & Trinidad left

7.30pm: HMS Sportive proceeded to Beicos


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21 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

7.45am: HMS Sepoy arrived

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 11pm


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22 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 11pm


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23 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

8.00am: Air night clothing

1.10pm: Leave to watch till 11pm


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24 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

1.00pm: Leave to watch till 11pm

3.50pm: HMS Sudan arrived


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25 July 1921

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

7.25am: HMS Shark arrived

8.00am: Landed every available man for inspection by the Commander in Chief

12.20pm: Landing party returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 11pm

7.05pm: Discharged star shell & shrapnel to HMS Sepoy


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26 July 1921

Buyukdere and at sea

Lat 40.77, Long 28.37 DR

8.30am: Slipped & proceeded in company with HMS Tribune

8.47am: Stopped off “Iron Duke”, proceeded south

9.30am: Secured to no 6 Buoy, slipped after embarking passengers for Malta

11.01am: San Stefano N24W

4.06pm: Stopped for bathing

5.24pm: As requisite for proceeding down Dardanelles

7.10pm: Closed HMS Swallow off Chanak

8.00pm: Pos. 40º 02’N, 26º 19’E.


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27 July 1921

To Malta

Lat 36.47, Long 23.22

12.30am: Sigri Light N30E

2.41am: Lithari Light abeam

2.45am: Exercised sea boat’s crew

8.00am: Pos. 37º 25’N, 24º 05’E.

8.00am: Passed HMS Seraph bound north

10.37am: Belo Pulo [Velopoula] Island N55W, 6.5’

12.45pm: Cape Malea abeam

2.49pm: Cape Matapan abeam

4.00pm: Stopped for bathing

4.20pm: Proceeded

8.00pm: Pos. 36º 17’N, 20º 47’E.


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28 July 1921

To Malta

Lat 35.95, Long 15.52

8.00am: Pos. 36º 07’N, 16º 53’E.

2.00pm: Sighted “Melita”

2.55pm: Entered Grand Harbour

3.15pm: Secured to buoys in Dockyard Creek

Disembarked passengers

5.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


[SS Melita, 13,967 tons, was launched in 1917 by Barclay, Curle & Co, Glasgow, for the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. She was sold for scrapping in 1935 but was bought from the merchants, renamed “Liguria” and used as a troopship. In 1941 she was scuttled in Tobruk roads after being damaged in an air raid. She was raised in 1950 then towed to a breaker’s yard.]


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29 July 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

6.00am: Hands employed getting up ammunition

8.10am: Torpedoes discharged to torpedo store

4.20pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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30 July 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

6.00am: Hands employed disembarking ammunition at Ordnance Depot

11.30am: Ammunition party returned

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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31 July 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Church parties landed as requisite

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am



LOGS FOR AUGUST 1921


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1 August 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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2 August 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.30am: HMS Tribune & Tomahawk left

10.00am: Discharged 1 rating to “Egmont”

pm: Hands make and mend clothes

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am

1.30pm: 1 rating joined ship from “Egmont”


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3 August 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.15am: Tug “Respond” secured alongside

8.00am: Slipped from buoy & towed to no 5 Dock

9.00am: Hands employed scrubbing ship’s bottom

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


[Tug “Respond”, 842 tons, was built in 1919 by the Ayrshire Dockyard Co Ltd, Irvine. She was transferred to Alexandria in 1943 and scrapped in 1956.]


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4 August 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed getting out cable

pm: Hands make and mend clothes

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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5 August 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed chipping ship’s side

pm: Hands make and mend clothes

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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6 August 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

pm: Hands make and mend clothes

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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7 August 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Church parties landed as requisite

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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8 August 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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9 August 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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10 August 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.00am: Hands getting cable

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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11 August 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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12 August 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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13 August 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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14 August 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Church parties landed as requisite

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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15 August 1921

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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16 August 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.15am: Commenced to "flood dock"

9.30am: Undocked from No 5 Dock & secured to Hamilton Wharf

10.00am: Hands employed provisioning ship & getting in torpedoes

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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17 August 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

6.30am: Hands painting ship

am: Hands ammunition ship

pm: Received 131 tons of oil fuel from Naval Stores Office, Malta

Received 3.5 tons of culinary coal from NSO, Malta

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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18 August 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

6.30am: Hands employed painting ship & getting in ammunition

am: “Egmont's” working party getting in ammunition


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19 August 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.32pm: Slipped

2.10pm: Secured to No 11 Buoy, Bighi Bay, for adjustment of compasses

3.12pm: Slipped & returned to Hamilton Wharf

5.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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20 August 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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21 August 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Church parties landed as requisite

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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22 August 1921

Malta to Taormina and at sea

Lat 38.38, Long 15.38

7.12am: Slipped & proceeded

1.00pm: Course as requisite for closing Taormina

1.20pm: Anchored off Taormina

8.45pm: Weighed & proceeded


[Taormina is in Sicily at Lat 37.85, Long 15.29.]


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23 August 1921

At sea to Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

12.15am: Passed strange man of war steering north

12.43am: Cape Murro di Porco abeam, 5.1’

6.15am: Sighted Malta

6.55am: Entered Sliema Harbour

7.00am: Stopped

7.25am: Proceeded to Grand Harbour

8.00am: Secured to G & G1 buoys Dockyard Creek

10.00am: Oiler came alongside, received 54 tons of oil fuel

11.15am: Oiler left

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

5.00pm: Raise steam to 1 hour's notice

6.00pm: Revert to normal notice for steam


[Capo Murro di Porco is in Sicily at Lat 37.0, Long 15.34.]


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24 August 1921

Malta and at sea

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

11.00am: Raise steam & prepare for sea

2.05pm: Slipped & proceeded in company with HMS Tumult

8.00pm: Pos. 35º 57’N, 16º 24’E.


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25 August 1921

At sea

Lat 36.13, Long 21.47

2.30am: Exercised sea boat’s crew

8.00am: Pos. 36º 02’N, 20º 24’E.

1.38pm: Parted company with HMS Tumult

2.15pm: Working up for full power trial

2.32pm: Cape Matapan abeam

2.57pm: Commenced trial

3.18pm: Spathi Light abeam

5.10pm: Easing down to 18 knots

7.01pm: St Georgio abeam

7.43pm: Angarlestro Point abeam N50W, 3’ [Angalistro(s)]

8.00pm: Pos. 37º 39’N, 24º 13’E.


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26 August 1921

To Constantinople and at sea

Lat 40.80, Long 28.40 [approx]

3.06am: Sigri Light abeam S61E, 13½’

4.57am: Tenedos Light abeam S65E

6.25am: Entered Dardanelles, course as requisite for proceeding up Dardanelles

7.00am: Passed HMS Caradoc proceeding south

7.20am: Passed Greek destroyer “IEPA” proceeding west

8.00am: Pos. 40º 21’N, 26º 37’E.

8.19am: Gallipoli Light NW, 7’

2.25pm: As requisite for entering Bosphorus

2.55pm: Stopped off F.A. to discharge mails [Fleet Anchorage?]]

3.25pm: Proceeded as requisite for Beikos

4.05pm: Stopped off “Iron Duke” & discharged mails

4.12pm: Proceeded for Buyukdere

4.25pm: Closed HMS Blenheim

4.50pm: Proceeded to FA Constant [Fleet Anchorage, Constantinople?]

5.40pm: Secured to oiler “Brambleleaf”, received 153 tons oil fuel

8.30pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour


[“IEPA” was probably “Ierax” a destroyer of 800 tons launched in 1911 by Cammell Laird, Birkenhead. After a varied career she was scrapped in 1946.]


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27 August 1921

At sea to Khilia Liman [Khelia Liman]

Lat 40.2, Long 26.37

1.26am: Fener Adasi Light abeam S13E, 6’

5.11am: Gallipoli Light abeam, course as requisite for Dardanelles

7.00am: Secured alongside HMS Serapis at Khelia Liman, HMS Tumult & Sirdar in company

8.00am: Air night clothing

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7.30pm


[HMS Serapis, 809 ton destroyer, was launched in 1918 by William Denny & Bros, Dumbarton. She was scrapped in 1934.

Khelia Liman seems to be the bay in Turkey indexed as Kilya Koyu Limani at Lat 40.2, Long 26.37.]


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28 August 1921

Khelia Liman

Lat 40.2, Long 26.37

7.30am: HMS Blenheim arrived

1.20pm: Leave to watch till 7.30pm


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29 August 1921

Khelia Liman

Lat 40.2, Long 26.37

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7.30pm


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30 August 1921

Khelia Liman

Lat 40.2, Long 26.37

7.00am: Clear mess decks of all gear

9.30am: HMS Torch & Serapis exchange crews

1.40pm: “Walter Burke” trawler weighed & proceeded

7.00pm: Sub Lieutenant joined the ship from “Blenheim”


[“Walter Burke”, 275 tons, was launched in 1917 at Smith’s Dock, Middlesbrough She was sold in 1922, renamed Gonerby in 1924, sold again in 1925 & renamed Toralla. She was finally scrapped in 1976.]


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31 August 1921

Khelia Liman to Malta

Lat 40.2, Long 26.37

3.50am: HMS Blenheim weighed & proceeded

8.45am: Landing party left ship

2.35pm: HMS Tuscan arrived & anchored

3.10pm: Landing party returned on board

4.00pm: Slipped from HMS Serapis & proceeded in company with HM Ships “Tumult” & “Tuscan”

4.40pm: Passed HMS Somme steering NE

7.55pm: Sighted Sigri Light S10E


[HMS Somme, 1075 tons, was launched in 1918 at Fairfield Shipyard, Govan. She was scrapped in 1932.]


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[These are blank or cover pages.]



LOG BOOKS – SEPTEMBER 1ST 1921 TO OCTOBER 31ST 1921


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LOGS FOR SEPTEMBER 1921


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1 September 1921

Khilia Liman to Malta

Lat 36.65, Long 23.42 DR

1.10am: Lithera Light abeam N60W

3.10am: Deck watch found broken

4.00am: Doro Light abeam to port

4.20am: Cape Phassa Light abeam to starboard

6.00am: Cape Spathi abeam to starboard

7.05am: Tamelos abeam to starboard, 3.5'

2.27pm: Kithera Light S50W

2.33pm: Kithera light abeam, 1.2’

3.54pm: Cape Matapan N57E

4.22pm: Matapan abeam to starboard, 5.6’


[Kithera Light probably refers to Kapsali Lighthouse on the island of Kythera at Lat 36.15, Long 23.0.]


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2 September 1921

Khilia Liman to Malta

Lat 36.08, Long 18.40

3.30am: Passed Dutch SS Grandje steering East

5.35am: Passed HMS Blenheim, proceeding to Malta

11.33am: Stopped for bathing

3.30pm: Stopped for bathing


[SS Grandje was probably SS Oranje, 4437 tons, built in 1903 by Maatschappij voor Scheeps- en Werktuigbouw Fijenoord N.V., Rotterdam, for Stoomvaart Maatschappij ‘Nederland’, Amsterdam. She was sold & renamed in 1924 & scrapped in 1936.]


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3 September 1921

At sea to Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

5.00am: Sighted land ahead

6.40am: Secured to 1 & 1G buoy

Received 91 tons of oil fuel from Naval Stores Office, Malta

8.20am: Divisions with night clothing

8.40am: Oiler XIII came alongside

11.15am: Shifted billet from 1 & 1G buoys to 1 & 1A buoys

pm: Hands make and mend clothes

4.00pm: 1 signal rating left ship for trawler “Moy”

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am


[Trawler “Moy”, 324 tons, was built in 1917 by Cochran & Sons Ltd, Selby, named “Alexander Hills,” as a minesweeper for the Admiralty. She was recommissioned as “Moy” in 1920, sold for civilian use in 1946 and eventually, after several changes of name & owner scrapped in 1952.]


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4 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.30am: Wesleyans & Presbyterians landed

10.00am: Roman Catholics & Church of England church parties landed

11.03am: Church parties returned on board

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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[Log page crossed through.]


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5 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

7.30pm: Leave to part of watch till 10pm


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6 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.30am: Ship paid off, proceeded alongside "Diligence"

Old crew discharged to "Diligence". New crew commissioned ship

11.15am: Slipped & proceeded to Sliema

11.50am: Secured to No 4 & 4A buoys, Sliema

1.30pm: Hands fall in, clean ship

2.30pm: Exercise fire stations (both watches)


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7 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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8 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Transmitting Station control party at exercise

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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9 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.15am: 1 Leading Seaman to discharged to HMS Diligence, sick

Transmitting Station parties closed up

2.00pm: 1 stoker left ship to join “Diligence”

3.30pm: Stoker Petty Officer Budge left ship for hospital

4.30pm: Leave to watch keepers till 7am

Lost overboard: rudder for motor boat

Number on sick list 1


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10 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.15am: Box of ammunition transferred to “Diligence”

1.00pm: Leave to watch till 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 2


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11 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.00am: Hands told off as requisite

8.25am: Roman Catholics to land for church

9.30am: Church of Englands to land for church

10.00am: Pipe down

10.30am: RCs arrived on board

11.45am: C of Es arrived on board

1.15pm: Leave to watch till 7am

Number on sick list 2


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12 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.00am: Provision ship

9.30am: Hands to exercise ‘General Drill’

11.00am: Hands replace gear

10.00pm: Pipe down

Number on sick list 2


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13 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

All day: Hands employed painting ship

2.30pm: 1 Petty Officer left ship for HMS Diligence

1 Ordinary Seaman joined from HMS Diligence

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

Lost off fore stay: holder for lamp

Number on sick list 2


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14 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.00am: 1 Able Seaman left for “Diligence” (sick)

8.15am: Mr Bell, Gunner, discharged to hospital

All day: Hands painting ship

2.00pm: 1 Ordinary seaman left ship for HMS Diligence

7.00pm: Burned searchlight

Number on sick list 3


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15 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: Hands paint ship

Two paint brushes lost overboard by accident

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 4


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16 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Gunnery Instructor from HMS Diligence on board instructing guns’ crews

1.30pm: Hands painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

Number on sick list 4


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17 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.00am: Divisions with night clothing

Noon: Hands make & mend clothes

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

4.30pm: HMS Blenheim left Grand Harbour for England

Number on sick list 4


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18 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.30am: Roman Catholic & Church of England church parties landed

11.05am: Church parties returned

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

Number on sick list 4


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19 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.05am: “Tuscan” left 2 & 2A buoys for Somerset Wharf

8.56am: “Tumult” left for firing

10.45am: Leading signalman discharged to hospital

1.00pm: “Tumult” returned

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

Number on sick list 5


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20 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: Exercised gunnery control parties

1.30pm: Hands painting ship

2.30pm: 1 rating, Leading signalman, joined ship

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

Number on sick list 5


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21 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.30am: “Tumult” left 2 & 2A buoys for Z & Z1 buoys

9.30am: Spotting parties landed for instruction

Hands painting ship

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 4


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22 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 5


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23 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.30am: Exercise night action guns crews

2.30pm: Ordinary signalman joined ship

Number on sick list 3


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24 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

Number on sick list 3


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25 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.30am: Landed church parties

11.05am: Church parties returned

Number on sick list 3


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26 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: Hands at General Drill

Number on sick list 3


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27 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.95, Long 14.57 [approx]

9.05am: Proceeded out of harbour for torpedo & firing exercises to NE

9.47am: Fired torpedo

10.02am: Picked up torpedo, proceeded

10.32am: Fired 2nd torpedo

10.42am: Picked up torpedo

11.03am: Carried out .303 firing

11.50am: Secured

11.55am: Stopped, 3 miles out

12.35pm: Proceeded to carry out 1” aiming rifle practice

1.00pm: Ceased fire

2.00pm: Secured to 4 & 4A buoys Sliema

6.10pm: Slipped, proceeded out of harbour

6.48pm: Proceeded to carry out 1” aiming rifle practice

7.10pm: Stopped

7.20pm: Proceeded

8.00pm: Secured to 4 & 4A buoys Sliema

Number on sick list 3


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28 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: 2 Stoker Petty Officers discharged to HMS Diligence & 1 Telegraphist (1 stoker PO sick)

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 4


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29 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.30am: Oil ship, received 75 tons oil fuel

9.30am: Received 2 tons 12 cwt culinary coal

11.30am: Leading signalman rejoined ship

1.30pm: Hands employed as requisite. 1 signalman discharged to HMS Diligence

Number on sick list 3


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30 September 1921

Malta

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

2.30pm: Mr Bell, Gunner, rejoined ship

5.00pm: 1 Stoker Petty Officer joined ship

Number on sick list 3



LOGS FOR OCTOBER 1921


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1 October 1921

Malta and at sea

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.45am: Divisions with night clothing

1.30pm: Telegraphist joined ship. 31 ratings & 4 officers joined ship taking passage

2.30pm: 15 bags of mail for HM Ships

8.40pm: Slipped & proceeded to sea

10.10pm: Passed steamship steering NW

Number on sick list 2


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2 October 1921

Malta to Constantinople

Lat 36.20, Long 19.25

1.00am: Passed steamship steering NW

2.00am: Sighted steamship steering E

2.30am: Exercised sea boat’s crew

2.45pm: Passed sailing ship steering E

3.25pm: Passed steamship steering WNW

6.45pm: Passed steamship steering N38½W

7.15pm: Sapienza Island Light port N25E

7.48pm: Sapienza Island Light abeam

8.30pm: Sighted steamship ahead

9.00pm: Cape Matapan Light on port beam

9.10pm: Sighted Spathi Light ahead

10.30pm: Matapan Light abeam

11.40pm: Cape St Elia Light

11.53pm: Cape Spathi 2¼ miles on starboard beam

Number on sick list 2


[Sapienza Island Lighthouse is in Greece at Lat 36.75, Long 21.7.

Matapan Light is now indexed as Tainaro Lighthouse in mainland Greece at Lat 36.38, Long 22.48.

I cannot find a lighthouse named Cape St Elia, however, there was one listed in 1916 at Mount St Elias on the island of Milos at Lat 36° 40’ 22”, Long 23° 24’ 15”. This corresponds to the current index position of Mount St Elias on the island.]


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3 October 1921

Malta to Constantinople

Lat 38.68, Long 25.1 [approx]

5.38am: St Georgio abeam

8.38am: Passed HMS Emperor of India

8.47am: Cape Phassa Light abeam to starboard

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

3.20pm: Passed SS Prinkisos

4.55pm: Tenea[?] Island Light House abeam, 1½ miles [Tenedos?]

7.00pm: Stopped both off HMS Shark anchored in Dardo Bay

7.06pm: Proceeded

7.15pm: Bokali Kaki Light abeam

7.20pm: Korlik Burnu Light abeam

8.57pm: Reduced speed & dropped target, course & speed as requisite for firing

9.30pm: Ceased firing: in target

Midnight: “Taroome”, British, Batum to Malta

Number on sick list 2


[SS Prinkisos may be a mis-spelled “Prinkipos”. It is possible that this refers to “Prinkipo”, 1259 tons, built in 1921 by Schiffs & Dockbau Werft Flender for the Hamburg-Amerika Line. She was sold & renamed for the first time in 1925 to Norwegian owners as Otto Jarl and eventually sunk in 1941. However, another source gives the initial owners as Deutsche Levant Line but her sale in 1925 is the same, although her tonnage is reported as 1419 grt. However, the ship Prinkipo, 1419 tons, owned by Hamburg Amerika is reported as built in 1922 but still sold in 1925 and called “Otto Jarl”.

Bokali may be Bugali but I cannot locate a lighthouse. The fort, now indexed as Bugali Kalesi, is at Lat 40.23, Long 26.38. It is famous in antiquity as being near the site where Leander swam the Hellespont and Lord Byron repeated the feat in 1810.

Korlik Burnu may correspond to Saltik Burnu at Lat 40.23, Long 26.53.

I cannot locate Dardo Bay.

It is possible that Taroome may be a mis-written “Aroona”, 3116 tons, built as “War Typhoon” in 1918 by Sir Raylton Dixon & Co, Middlesbrough. She was deleted from the Lloyds list in 1956 after her sale to Chinese owners.]


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4 October 1921

At sea to Constantinople

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

7.05am: Seraglio Light abeam

7.25am: Secured alongside “Brambleleaf”

1 Telegraphist discharged to “Stuart”

Received 140 tons oil fuel

11.10am: Slipped from oiler & proceeded up harbour

12.05pm: Secured alongside HMS Serapis

3.00pm: 8 depth charges taken on board

5.45pm: HMS Serapis shortened in, let go starboard anchor in [no] 10 berth Buyuk Dere [Buyukdere]

HMS Serapis weighed & slipped

7.00pm: Leave to watch till 9.30pm

9.30pm: 2 telegraphists joined ship. 1 telegraphist discharged to “Montrose”

Number on sick list 2


[Seraglio Light is indexed as Fenerbahce Lighthouse in Turkey at Lat 40.97, Long 29.03.]


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5 October 1921

Buyukdere to Beicos

Lat 41.13, Long 29.09

9.30am: Weighed & proceeded

9.45am: Stopped, took over Guard Destroyer, Beicos, from HMS Tomahawk

9.50am: Proceeded

10.00am: Anchored

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.30pm

Number on sick list 2


[Beicos is now indexed as Beikos or Beykoz in Turkey at Lat 41.14, Long 29.09.]


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6 October 1921

Beicos

Lat 41.13, Long 29.09

4.00pm: 1 telegraphist joined ship from Montrose

4.56pm: “Ajax” left Beicos

5.00pm: Weighed & proceeded, course as requisite to ship berth

5.20pm: Anchored

At immediate notice throughout the dark hours, 1 gun at 20 minute notice for firing star shell

Connected up telephone cable

Number on sick list 2


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7 October 1921

Beicos

Lat 41.13, Long 29.09

8.00am: One stoker discharged to hospital

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.30pm

9.00pm: 1 Stoker Petty Officer joined ship from HMS Montrose

Gun layers on immediate notice throughout dark hours

Number on sick list 3


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8 October 1921

Beicos

Lat 41.13, Long 29.09

8.00am: Divisions, night clothing

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.30pm

5.10pm: USS Overton passed steering north

Number on sick list 2


[USS Overton, 1308 ton destroyer, was launched in 1919 by New York Shipbuilding. She was sold in 1945.]


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9 October 1921

Beicos

Lat 41.13, Long 29.09

10.00am: Hands to muster by the Ledger

10.30am: Prayers

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.30pm

Number on sick list 2


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10 October 1921

Beicos

Lat 41.13, Long 29.09

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.30pm

Number on sick list 2


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11 October 1921

Beicos

Lat 41.13, Long 29.09

am: One rating (Tel) discharged to “Montrose”

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.30pm

Number on sick list 2


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12 October 1921

Beicos

Lat 41.13, Long 29.09

7.00am: USS Williamson arrived & tied up alongside oiling jetty

All day: Hands painting ship

2.00pm: USS Williamson left for Constantinople

3.00pm: HMS Centaur arrived & anchored off Beicos

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.30pm

6.00pm: One rating (Tel) joined ship

Number on sick list 2


[USS Williamson, 1190 ton destroyer, was launched in 1919 by New York Shipbuilding. She served until decommissioned in 1945.]


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13 October 1921

Beicos

Lat 41.13, Long 29.09

7.00am: 2 ratings (Tels) discharged to “Montrose” & 2 joined from “Montrose”

All day: Hands painting ship

10.00am: Captain’s rounds


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14 October 1921

Beicos

Lat 41.13, Long 29.09

pm: Two carpenters do repairs on board from “Centaur”

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.30pm

Number on sick list 2


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15 October 1921

Beicos

Lat 41.13, Long 29.09

7.45am: Divisions with night clothing

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.30pm

Hands make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 2


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16 October 1921

Beicos

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

8.00am: Telephones returned to “Centaur”

9.07am: Weighed & proceeded alongside oiler

9.55am: Secured alongside “Brambleleaf”

10.30am: Let go from oiler & proceeded to No 6 Buoy. Received 31 tons oil fuel

11.45am: Secured to No 6 Buoy

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 2


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17 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

2.00am: Mail received from “Tribune” for UK

7.00am: “Tribune” proceeded to Chanak

am: Hands exercising evolutions

Shifted from No 6 Buoy to No 5

Number on sick list 2


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18 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

All day: Hands painting ship

am: 1 Able Seaman discharged to “KG V”, sick [HMS King George V]

2.00pm: “Seraph” arrived & proceeded alongside oiler

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.30pm

8.30pm: “Seraph” left oiler & proceeded to buoy of Tophane quay

Number on sick list 3


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19 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

am: HMS Serapis arrived

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 9.30pm

Number on sick list 3


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20 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

10.30am: “Tuscan” arrived & proceeded to oil

Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm

Hands make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 3


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21 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

am: Stoker Graham informed before ship’s company that notation of his participation in VC Ballot has been entered in his Service Certificate

pm: 2 Able seamen joined ship

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 3


[When a ship’s company as a group performed with great gallantry, names put forward by officers, petty officers and seamen could be entered into a ballot for the award of VC. This only seems to have been used in WW1 and only 7 such awards were made to naval personnel.]


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22 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

7.30am: Divisions with night clothing

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30am

Hands make & mend clothes

6.00pm: One Able Seaman discharged to “Berbice”, sick

Number on sick list 1


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23 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.30am: Church parties landed

10.30am: Divisions & Prayers

11.30am: Church parties returned

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 11.59pm

Number on sick list 2


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24 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

am: Hands exercise evolutions

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10pm

7.30pm: HMS Centaur arrived

Number on sick list 2


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25 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

pm: 1 rating (able seaman) joined ship

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 2


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26 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

am: Drill parties landed for FX [Field Exercises]

9.30am: HMS Serapis sailed

11.30am: Drill parties returned

2.30pm: “Serapis” returned to buoy

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 12pm [midnight?]

5.30pm: “Berbice” sailed for Malta

Number on sick list 2


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27 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 40.82, Long 28.77 DR

8.00am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour, “Serapis” & “Tuscan” astern

8.55am: “Somme” & “Serapis” proceeded as in previous orders

9.30am: Formed astern “Tuscan”

9.55am: As requisite for torpedo attack

10.20am: Stopped both to pick up torpedo

11.20am: As requisite for torpedo attack

11.45am: Stopped both to pick up torpedo

1.00pm: Formed single line as requisite for entering harbour

1.35pm: Secured alongside oiler “Brambleleaf”, received 25 tons oil fuel

2.30pm: Secured to No 5 Buoy

4.25pm: 1 stoker joined ship

4.45pm: Leave to watch to 12pm [midnight?]

Number on sick list 1


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28 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

am: One shipwright from “Cardiff” doing repairs

pm: Hands painting ship

1.00pm: Four ratings joined ship from Depot

2.00pm: Italian Battleship fired salute 12 guns & broke Greek ensign

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10pm

8.00pm: Four ratings discharged to “Serapis” for passage to Malta

“Serapis” sailed for Malta

Number on sick list 0


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29 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

7.30am: Divisions with night clothing

am: Italian cruiser fired salute 13 guns for Italian Admiral, French cruiser fired 13 guns & broke Italian ensign

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 12pm

Hands make & mend clothes

5.30pm: HMS Centaur left harbour

Number on sick list 0


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30 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

8.30am: Church parties landed

11.00am: Church parties returned

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 12pm

Hands make & mend clothes


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[These are duplicate log entries.]


31 October 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

7.30am: “Tuscan” left harbour

8.30am: Control parties closed up

11.00am: Italian battleship fired 13 gun salute

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

1.30pm: 9 rifles & bayonets received from “Sikh”

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10pm

5.30pm: Italian cruiser fired 17 gun salute & broke out American flag


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LOG BOOKS – OCTOBER 31ST 1921 TO DECEMBER 31ST 1921


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Cover of log from 31st October 1921 to 31st December 1921

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[Cancelled page for Sunday 7 Nov.]



LOGS FOR NOVEMBER 1921


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1 November 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.00am: Drill parties landed

11.30am: Drill parties returned

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10pm, concert party till 12.30am

4.00pm: Paid monthly money

13 rifles & bayonets sent to “Sikh”

8.00pm: Mis musters paid monthly money


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2 November 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 12pm

13 rifles & bayonets received from “Sikh”


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3 November 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 40.9, Long 28.9

8.30am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour, “Sikh” & “Seraph” astern

9.30am: Course as requisite for torpedo exercise

9.55am: Fired torpedo

10.15am: Picked up torpedo

10.20am: Course as requisite for torpedo exercise

11.10am: Stop both

11.15am: Course as requisite for torpedo exercise

Noon: Stop both

12.05pm: Proceeded

1.15pm: Ship secured to No 5 Buoy

Italian cruiser fired 17 gun salute


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4 November 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

am: Italian cruiser fired 21 guns at intervals of 4 mins

9.45am: Half Mast colours

11.15am: Rehoisted colours

Flag of Rear Admiral 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron transferred to “Centaur”

pm: Hands painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10pm

HMS Chrysanthemum sailed for Malta


[The colours may have been half-masted for George H Beak, Cadet Paymaster, who died of illness on “Iron Duke”.

HMS Chrysanthemum, 1311 ton sloop, was launched in 1917 by Armstrong Whitworth. She was a convoy escort in the closing phase of WW1 then stationed in the Mediterranean until 1938, after which she was docked on the River Thames as a drill ship. She was decommissioned in 1988 and finally scrapped in 1995 after a brief interlude as a film set.]


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5 November 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

7.30am: Divisions with night clothing

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 12pm

Hands make & mend clothes


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6 November 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

8.30am: Church parties landed (Roman Catholic)

9.30am: Divisions & Prayers

11.30pm: Church parties returned

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 12pm


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7 November 1921

Constantinople fleet anchorage

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

8.30am: Slipped & proceeded alongside oiler

8.55am: Secured alongside oiler “Montenol”

9.40am: Let go from “Montenol”, proceeded to buoy

11.40am: Secured to Z Buoy, Tophane

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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8 November 1921

Tophane, Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

pm: 8 depth charges turned over to “Seraph”

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10pm


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9 November 1921

Tophane, Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

pm: Hands painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 12pm


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10 November 1921

Tophane, Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

All day: Hands painting ship

1.30pm: Leave for watch till 12pm (football party)


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11 November 1921

Tophane, Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

8.00am: Dressed ship

10.55am: Undress ship

Ensign at half mast, 2 minutes silence

Noon: Rehoist Colours, dress ship

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10pm (concert party 12pm)

Hands make & mend clothes

5.00pm: Undress ship


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12 November 1921

Tophane, Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 11.59pm

Hands make & mend clothes


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13 November 1921

Tophane, Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

8.00am: Dressed Ship

9.00am: Church parties landed

10.30am: Divisions & Prayers

11.30am: Church parties returned

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 12pm

Hands make & mend clothes


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14 November 1921

Constantinople and at sea

Lat 40.7, Long 27.63

7.10am: Slipped & proceeded, course as requisite for leaving harbour

10.00am: Marmon Island right ahead [probably Marmara Adasi or Marmara Island.]

3.44pm: Passed HMS Benbow steering NE

4.40pm: Anchored off Chanak, disembarked mails

5.10pm: Weighed & proceeded

6.13pm: Cape Hillo Light abeam [probably Cape Helles Lighthouse, now Mehmetcik Lighthouse]

7.35pm: Tenedos Light abeam

10.41pm: Sigri Light abeam, 3½ miles


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15 November 1921

At sea to Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

3.42am: Drepano Light abeam to port, 3½ miles

4.26am: Loryk Light abeam, distance 1 mile

5.30am: As requisite for entering Smyrna Channel

6.20am: Channel Light abeam, anchored

1.00pm: Firing & mourning party landed

2.15pm: Ensign at half mast to 15.30

4.30pm: Funeral party returned onboard

Leave to watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Sick berth steward joined ship from HMS Tumult


[There were 3 islands named Drepano in this area of Turkey. This one, Nisida Drepanon, at Lat 38.69, Long 26.72, is also indexed as Orak Adasi. The lighthouse (feneri), which is not indexed in most directories, is described in this Turkish coastguard site.

I cannot trace the lighthouse referred to at 4.26am.

Channel Light is probably the lighthouse at the entrance to present day Izmir. This is now indexed as Degirmen Burnu or Foca (ancient Phocaea) at Lat 38.67, Long 26.75.

The funeral was probably that of Herbert W Hartless, Able Seaman J19492, of HMS Tumult.]


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16 November 1921

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

9.00am: Weighed & shifted billet

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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17 November 1921

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm

Hands make & mend clothes


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18 November 1921

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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19 November 1921

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm

Hands make & mend clothes


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20 November 1921

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

8.00am: Dress ship, Italian ensign broken at Foremast

9.30am: Church parties landed

10.00am: Divisions & Captain’s rounds

11.30am: Church parties returned

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm

Hands make & mend clothes


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21 November 1921

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

am: Gunnery control parties at exercise

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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22 November 1921

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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23 November 1921

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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24 November 1921

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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25 November 1921

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm


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26 November 1921

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

8.30am: Divisions with night clothing

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm

Hands make & mend clothes


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27 November 1921

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

9.30pm: Divisions & Prayers

10.00pm: Church parties landed

11.30pm: Church parties returned

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 10.30pm

Hands make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 1


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28 November 1921

Smyrna to Malta

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

2.10pm: Weighed & proceeded

7.48pm: Psara Light abeam, 3 miles

8.50pm: Kaloveri Rock Light S14W

9.58pm: Kaloveri Light abeam to port, 7½ miles

11.00pm: Cape Thassa Light abeam to port, 3 miles

Number on sick list 1


[Psara Light is probably the one on the island of Psara indexed as Kokinopulo or Agios Georgios at Lat 32.53, Long 25.62.

Kaloveri Rock Light possibly refers to the site at Kaloyeroi Rocks at Lat 38.17, Long 25.29 or Kalogeros at Lat 36.77, Long 24.51 but I cannot find a lighthouse at either site.

Cape Thassa Light may refer to Cape Phassa Lighthouse at Lat 37.97, Long 24.70 which would make Kaloyeroi Rocks the most likely landmark at 8.50pm.]


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29 November 1921

At sea

Lat 38.26, Long 21.57 DR

1.00am: St Georgio Light flashing S49W [Agios Georgios]

1.28am: Port St Nikolo Red Light abeam, 3.8’

2.03am: Mandri Light 2.0 miles on starboard beam

3.28am: Pleva Island Light abeam, 2½’

4.15am: Konick Light abeam 1½ miles

6.25am: Passed entrance of [Corinth] Canal

10.46am: Drepano Light abeam

11.03am: Morno Light N60W

11.20am: Ant Rheon starboard beam [Antirhion]

12.38pm: Cape Pappeas Light abeam, 2½ miles

3.00pm: Zante Light abeam, 1½’

23.30pm: Exercised sea boat’s crew

Number on sick list 1


[Port St Nikolo Lighthouse is at Lat 37.67, Long 25.31.

Mandri Light. is probably Akra Anga[r]listros Lighthouse which marks the Mandri Reef & lies at Lat 37.65, Long 24.11.

Phleva Island Light or Nisida Fleva Light is at Lat 37.77, Long 23.76.

Konkhi or Koghi Lighthouse is at Lat 37.87, Long 23.45.

The Corinth Canal links the Saronic Gulf to the Gulf of Corinth and is some 4 miles long but is too narrow for most modern commercial ships.

Drepano Light is in the Gulf of Corinth at Lat 38.3, Long 21.87.

Morno Light is indexed as Akra Mornos on the northern shore of the Gulf at Lat 38.37, Long 21.87

Ant Rheon is Andirrio or Antirrio on the northern shore of the Gulf and now at the northern end of the bridge across the Gulf. It lies at Lat 38.33, Long 21.64

Cape Pappeas is probably Cape Pappas, now indexed as Akra Araxos, at the exit to the Gulf of Corinth at Lat 38.22, Long 21.37, but I cannot trace a lighthouse.

There are 4 lighthouses on Zante or Zakinthos. This one is probably Keri at Lat 37.65, Long 20.81 or possibly the one at Akra Kryoneri, approximately Lat 37.8, Long 20.9.]


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30 November 1921

To Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.20am: Sighted coast of Sicily NW/N

10.00am: Sighted Malta right ahead

11.30am: Sighted Valletta Harbour Breakwater abeam

12.30pm: Moored up to G & G1 buoy

Hands to muster for medical inspection

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

Number on sick list 1



LOGS FOR DECEMBER 1921


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1 December 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Dress ship, White Ensign at mast head

11.00am: Dental inspection

Hands for monthly payment

Noon: General leave to port watch 1/12/21 to noon 3/12/21

4.30pm: Leave to part of watch till 11pm

Number on sick list 1


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2 December 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.00pm: 1 rating (coxswain) joined ship

pm: Commander RL Hamer took over command from Commander VS Butler

4.00pm: 1 rating, officer steward, joined ship

4.30pm: Leave to part of watch till 11pm


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3 December 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.30am: Divisions with night clothing

am: Two ratings discharged to HMS Yarmouth (Coxswain & Officer Steward)

Noon: Leave to starboard watch till noon Monday

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

4.30pm: Leave to part of port watch till 11pm

6.00pm: Yeoman of Signals joined ship


[HMS Yarmouth, 5360 ton cruiser, was launched in 1911 by the London & Glasgow Co. During WW1 she captured 2 German colliers and took part in the Battle of Jutland. She was scrapped in 1929 and is part of the Old Weather fleet.]


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4 December 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

10.00am: Divisions & Captain’s rounds

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

4.30pm: Leave to part of watch till 11pm


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5 December 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.00pm: One rating (signalman) discharged to “Diligence”

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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6 December 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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7 December 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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8 December 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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9 December 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed painting ship

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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10 December 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

11.00am: Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am

3.00pm: 1 rating left ship for “Laburnum”

1 rating joined ship from “Laburnum”


[HMS Laburnum, 1219 ton sloop, was launched in 1915 by Charles Connell & Co, Scotstoun. She had an active WW1, mainly based in Britain protecting merchant shipping. In 1922 she went to New Zealand, then transferred to Singapore in 1935. She was scuttled in Singapore in 1942, raised to be used as a breakwater in 1946 & finally scrapped in 1967. She is part of the Old Weather fleet.]


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11 December 1921

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.00am: Hands muster by the ledger

10.00am: Church of England & Roman Catholic Church parties landed

1.30pm: Leave to watch till 7am


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12 December 1921

Malta

Lat 35.91, Long 14.53 [approx]

8.45am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

9.00am: Joined Flotilla off breakwater

10.40am: Made smoke, course & speed as requisite for tactical exercises

11.40am: Ceased smoke screen

11.50am: Carried out flotilla torpedo attack on battleships

12.15pm: Completed exercises

12.40pm: Stopped engines outside breakwater

1.20pm: Proceeded into Sliema Harbour

2.00pm: Secured to No 4 & 4A Buoys


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13 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Hands employed painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am


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14 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

11.00am: Commander Hamer discharged to hospital

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

C Foster Hall, Lieutenant, signs log page


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15 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Medical stores received on board

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

5.45pm: “Senator”, “Seraph”, “Sepoy” proceeded to sea for exercises

6.00pm: Canteen leave till 10pm

6.45pm: “Senator”, “Seraph”, “Sepoy” returned to harbour

Number on sick list 1


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16 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

5.30pm: 2 tons of coal, 21 tons of oil fuel received

6.00pm: Canteen leave till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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17 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.00am: Divisions with night clothing

Weekend leave rota continues

Number on sick list 1


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18 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.25am: Roman Catholics landed

9.45am: Wesleyans & Church of England landed

10.10am: RCs returned onboard

11.50am: Wesleyans & C of E parties returned on board

1.30pm: Range parties till 11.30pm

Weekend leave rota continues

Number on sick list 1


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19 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

6.30am: Range party landed

1.00pm: 1 rating discharged to “Diligence”

3.30pm: Range party returned onboard

4.30pm: Leave to range party to 11.30pm

Leave to part watch till 7am

Number on sick list 2


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20 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

6.30am: Range party landed

am: 1 Petty officer stoker discharged to “Diligence”

3.45pm: Range party returned onboard

4.30pm: Leave to range party to 11.30pm

Leave to port watch till 7am

Number on sick list 2


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21 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

6.30am: Range party landed

8.30am: “Stuart”, “Montrose”, “Serapis” & “Somme” slipped for exercises

3.00pm: “Tumult” proceeded alongside “Diligence”

3.30pm: Range party returned onboard

4.15pm: “Stuart”, “Montrose”, “Serapis” & “Somme” returned to harbour

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am, range party to 11.30pm

7.00pm: 1 stoker Petty officer discharged to “Diligence”

8.00pm: “Sepoy” & “Seraph” returned to harbour

Number on sick list 2


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22 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.00am: Range party landed

3.30pm: Range party returned

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 10pm

Number on sick list 2


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23 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: 1 Stoker Petty Officer joined ship

10.00am: “Montrose” proceeded to sea

12.30pm: “Montrose” returned to harbour

2.00pm: 1 Able Seaman joined ship from “Diligence”

4.30pm: Overnight & canteen leave rota continues

Number on sick list 1


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24 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.30am: Divisions with night clothing

11.00am: Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

3.00pm: Medical Officer on board with spraying treatment

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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25 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: Divisions, church parties landed

11.00am: On extra stern wire

1.30pm: Leave to port watch & part till 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 1


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26 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.00am: Hands landed [for] route march

Noon: Leave to starboard watch & part till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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27 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: 1 telegraphist discharged to “Egmont”

Hands employed painting ship

1 stoker discharged to “Diligence”

10.30am: Sick Berth Steward on board with spraying treatment

11.00am: HMS Spear proceeded to Gibraltar

12.45pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

pm: Hands employed painting ship

2.00pm: Commander RL Hamer rejoined ship from hospital

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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28 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

5.00am: “Serapis” proceeded to sea

7.00am: “Somme” proceeded alongside “Diligence”

All day: Hands employed painting ship

11.00am: Staff surgeon on board with spraying treatment

pm: 1 stoker rating joined ship

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

5.00pm: “Serapis” returned & secured to No 10 & 10A Buoys

6.00pm: Canteen leave till 10pm

[RL Hamer signs log page]


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29 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.30am: Medical inspection

Surgeon staff on board with spraying treatment

1 Ordinary seaman II discharged to “Diligence”

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

2.00pm: Colours half mast

3.00pm: Colours rehoisted

5.30pm: 1 Leading seaman joined ship from “Diligence”

6.00pm: Leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10pm

Paint Brush lost overboard by accident


[Colours half-masted possibly for the funeral of Philip T Pain, Petty Officer 273033, of HMS Iron Duke who died the previous day.]


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30 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

All day: Hands employed painting ship

10.30am: Surgeon on board with spraying treatment

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm


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31 December 1921

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.45am: Hands to divisions with night clothing

10.00am: Medical officer on board with spraying treatment

11.00am: Captain’s rounds

1.00pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

1.10pm: Paid quarterly settlement

1.30pm: Starboard watch painting ship

3.00pm: “Speedy” arrived & secured to 8 & 8A Buoys


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[These are blank or cover pages.]



THE VOYAGES OF HMS TORCH (2) 1922

JP map Torch (2) 1922

LOG BOOKS – JANUARY 1ST 1922 TO FEBRUARY 28TH 1922


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[These are cover pages, blank & a list of meteorological instruments.]



LOGS FOR JANUARY 1922


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1 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.25am: Roman Catholics landed

9.45am: Hands to Divisions, church parties landed

11.00am: Surgeon on board with spraying treatment

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Leave to 2nd part port watch till 10pm


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2 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Land every available man.

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am


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3 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Surgeon on board with spraying treatment

pm: Shut down all machinery

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

Socket for columns light lost overboard by accident


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4 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Spotting table party to drill at Fort Manuel

Surgeon on board with spraying treatment

Control parties to drill

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10pm


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5 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: “Serapis” proceeded alongside “Diligence”

1 Yeoman of Signals discharged to “Diligence”, sick

1 Ordinary seaman III joined from “Diligence”

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

pm: Draw slops

Hands make & mend clothes

Director test

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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6 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Exercise ‘General Quarters’

Surgeon on board with spraying treatment

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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7 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

10.00am: Surgeon on board with spraying treatment

“Tomahawk” arrived & secured to 9 & 9A buoys

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

6.00pm: Leave to 1st part of port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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8 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.30am: Divisions

Landed Church Parties

11.00am: Surgeon on board with spraying treatment

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd starboard watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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9 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

am: Hands to ‘General Drill’

12.45pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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10 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

10.00am: Surgeon on board with spraying treatment

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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11 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.30am: Slipped & proceeded to sea for exercises

8.45am: Assumed organization no 1, courses as requisite for manoeuvring by W/T

10.00am: Stopped engines off entrance to Sliema Harbour

10.35am: Proceeded into Harbour

11.00am: Secured to No 4 & 4A buoys

3.50pm: “Swallow” arrived & secured to No 12 & 12A buoys

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm

Lost overboard: one spring hook by accident

Number on sick list 1


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12 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.30am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

9.10am: Dropped target, course as requisite for carrying out 1” aiming rifle practice

10.15am: Stopped & picked up target

10.50am: Proceeded as requisite for entering harbour

11.20am: Secured to No 4 & 4A buoys

Leave to port watch on arrival till 7am

12.15pm: Hands make & mend clothes

Sick Berth Steward on board with spraying treatment

5.40pm: Slipped & proceeded to sea for exercises

6.00pm: Course & speed as requisite for carrying out 1” aiming rifle practice

6.55pm: Completed exercises, proceeded into harbour

8.00pm: Secured to No 4 & 4A buoys

Number on sick list 1


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13 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

10.00am: Surgeon on board with spraying treatment

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

5.00pm: “Serapis” slipped & proceeded to Gibraltar

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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14 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.45am: Divisions with night clothing

10.00am: Surgeon on board with spraying treatment

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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15 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.45am: Divisions, church parties landed

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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16 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.00am: “Tribune” arrived & secured to no 10 & 10A buoy

9.30am: General Drill

10.00am: 1 Leading stoker discharged to “Diligence”, sick

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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17 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

10.00am: Surgeon on board with spraying treatment

pm: Guns’ crews to drill

1.35pm: “Montrose” arrived & secured to 3 & 3A buoys

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 2


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18 January 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.30am: “Swallow” sailed for Syracuse

9.10am: Guns’ crews to loading drill

1.30pm: 1 rating, Yeoman of Signals, joined ship from “Diligence”

3.00pm: Drew slops from “Diligence”

5.00pm: Recording party arrived on board from “Montrose”

5.40pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

5.55pm: Stopped off harbour entrance, “Stuart”, “Speedy” & “Trinidad” in company

8.50pm: Course & speed as requisite for carrying out single ship night firing practice

9.48pm: Ceased fire & fired one torpedo

10.05pm: Picked up torpedo

10.45pm: Course & speed as requisite for entering harbour

11.30pm: Secured to no 4 & 4A buoys

11.40pm: Recording party left ship

Number on sick list 2


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19 January 1922

Malta

Lat 35.95, Long 14.55 [approx]

8.00am: 1 rating, ordinary seaman I, sick on shore

8.20am: Recording party arrived on board from “Montrose”

8.35am: Slipped & proceeded to sea

9.00am: Took station astern of “Stuart” to join torpedo target line for “Seraph” carrying out Captain’s Director Officer firing practice

9.45am: Course as requisite for recovering torpedoes

11.50am: Proceeded, took station astern of “Stuart”

12.45pm: Course as requisite for carrying out single ship daytime firing practice

1.18pm: Opened fire

1.22pm: Ceased fire

1.30pm: Closed on “Tomahawk” & transferred recording party

2.25pm: As requisite for carrying out gunlayers’ firing practice astern of “Speedy”

3.10pm: “Speedy” returned to harbour

3.30pm: Closed on tug towing target

4.20pm: Stopped engines, “Tomahawk” closed & transferred recording party

4.50pm: Proceeded, course as requisite for entering Grand Harbour, “Tomahawk” sailed for Smyrna

5.20pm: Secured to H & H1 Buoys, Dockyard Creek, Grand Harbour

Lost overboard: 3 2 pdr cylinders by accident

Lost overboard: 4 4" QF [Quick Firing] cylinders by accident

Number on sick list 2


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20 January 1922

Dockyard Creek, Grand Harbour, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.45am: Ammunition lighter secured alongside

All day: Hands employed getting out ammunition

10.00am: Surgeon on board with spraying treatment

12.45pm: Issued slops

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

3.40pm: Ammunition lighter returned

Number on sick list 2


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21 January 1922

Dockyard Creek, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Hands employed disembarking ammunition

10.00am: Sick Berth Attendant on board with spraying treatment

11.00am: Captain’s rounds

2.00pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

Number on sick list 2


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22 January 1922

Dockyard Creek, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.00am: Sick Berth Attendant on board with spraying treatment.

10.00am: Divisions. Church parties landed

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

Number on sick list 2


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23 January 1922

Hamilton Wharf, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.10am: Secured “Respond” tug alongside

7.12am: CSI rejoined ship from sick on shore

7.15am: Slipped & proceeded to Hamilton Wharf

7.45am: Secured alongside Hamilton Wharf

am: Discharged 4 torpedoes to Depot in “Petulant” tug

Sick Berth Attendant on board with spraying treatment

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


[“Respond”, 842 ton tug, was launched in 1918 by Ayrshire Dockyard Co Ltd, Irvine. She was scrapped in 1956.

Petulant”, 100 ton tender, was launched in 1880 as “Sir James Jones”. She acted as a tender to depot ships or as a training establishment & was sold to Zammitt, Malta in 1927.]


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24 January 1922

Hamilton Wharf, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Sick Berth Attendant on board with spraying treatment

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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25 January 1922

Parlatorio Wharf, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.55am: Slipped from Hamilton Wharf & proceeded to sea for exercises

am: Secured to Parlatorio Wharf

11.20am: Secured oiler XIII alongside to empty all tanks

Returned 170 tons of oil fuel to Naval Stores Office, Malta.

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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26 January 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: HM Tug Cracker secured alongside

8.50am: “Somme” left No 3 Dock, secured alongside Hamilton Wharf

9.05am: Slipped from Parlatorio Wharf

9.50am: Docked in No 3 Dock

12.45pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

pm: Starboard watch employed cleaning ship

Electric light party earthed ship

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


[HMT Cracker, 772 ton paddle tug, was launched in 1899 by the London & Glasgow Engineering & Iron Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Govan. She was scrapped in 1956.]


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27 January 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Sick Berth Attendant on board with spraying treatment

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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28 January 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Sick Berth Attendant on board with spraying treatment

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

Discharged 1 Yeoman of Signals to “Diligence”

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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29 January 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Sick Berth Attendant on board with spraying treatment

10.00am: Church parties landed

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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30 January 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed cleaning cable lockers

Discharged 1 stoker to “Diligence”, sick

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

pm: Discharged 1 Able Seaman to “Diligence”

1 Able Seaman joined ship from “King George V”

6.00pm: Leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 2


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31 January 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: 1 Leading stoker joined ship from “Diligence”

Sick Berth Attendant on board with spraying treatment

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1



LOGS FOR FEBRUARY 1922


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1 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Sick Berth Attendant on board with spraying treatment

12.45pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10pm


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2 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Received 0.25 tons of culinary coal from Naval Stores Office, Malta

Sick Berth Attendant on board with spraying treatment

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm


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3 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Sick Berth Attendant on board with spraying treatment

Received 0.25 tons culinary coal from Naval Stores Office, Malta

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10pm


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4 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Sick Berth Attendant on board with spraying equipment

Received 1 ton of culinary coal from Naval Stores Office Malta

1.30pm: Leave to Starboard watch to 7am

Hands to make & mend clothes

1 telegraphist rating joined ship

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch to 10 pm


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5 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

10.00am: Church parties landed

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10pm


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6 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.00am: Ship’s company disembarked to St Nicholas Bastion

All day: Ship’s company employed painting mess decks

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10pm


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7 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed painting mess decks

9.00am: Read no 45 warrant

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10pm


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8 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed painting mess decks

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm


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9 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed painting mess decks

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10pm


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10 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed painting mess decks

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10pm


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11 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

4.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard till 10pm


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12 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

10.00am: Divisions, landed church parties

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

4.30pm: Canteen to 1st part port till 10pm


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13 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.30am: Hands returned on board ship

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10pm


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14 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10pm


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15 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed drawing stores

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10pm


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16 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

1 Leading seaman discharged to “Diligence”

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm


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17 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10pm


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18 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Ensign half mast

1 Engine Room Artificer I joined ship from “Diligence”

1 Stoker Petty Officer discharged to “Diligence”, sick

11.00pm: Captain’s Rounds

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

2 ratings joined ship from “Diligence”, 1 Stoker Petty Officer, 1 Petty Officer Telegraphist

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10pm


[The lowered ensign may have been to mark the death of Harold Holmes, Engine Room Artificer 270288, who died of illness on HMS Blenheim that day.]


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19 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

10.00am: Divisions, landed church parties

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10pm


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20 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands chipping funnels

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm


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21 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands chipping funnels

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10pm


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22 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: 2 months’ stores received aboard

pm: Stoker Petty Officer joined ship from “Diligence”

1 Stoker Petty Officer discharged to “Diligence”

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10pm


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23 February 1922

No 3 Dock, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed chipping funnels

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st [part] starboard watch till 10pm


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24 February 1922

Hamilton Wharf, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.30am: Flooded dock

10.00am: Proceeded out of dock

10.45am: Secured to Hamilton Wharf

1 telegraphist discharged to “Diligence”, sick

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port [watch] to 10pm


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25 February 1922

Hamilton Wharf, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.15am: “Vimiera” secured to Somerset Wharf

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


[HMS Vimiera, 1090 ton destroyer, was launched in 1917 by Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend. She was involved in evacuating troops from Boulogne then operating in the North Sea and Channel. In 1942 she was sunk by a mine in the Thames Estuary with the loss of 96 men.]


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26 February 1922

Hamilton Wharf, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

10.00am: Divisions, landed church parties

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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27 February 1922

Hamilton Wharf, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.30am: Oiler secured alongside

pm: Hands employed painting

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

Completed with 245 tons oil fuel

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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28 February 1922

Hamilton Wharf, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Dressed ship with masthead flags [for the wedding day of Princess Mary]

9.00am: Piped leave to starboard watch till 7am

Hands employed painting

11.00am: Issued monthly payment

1.30pm: Leave to 1st part port to 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

5.30pm: 1 telegraphist joined ship from “Diligence”

Number on sick list 1


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[These are blank or cover pages.]



LOG BOOKS – MARCH 1ST 1922 TO APRIL 30TH 1922


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[These are cover pages, blank, fuel consumption table and a list of meteorological instruments.]



LOGS FOR MARCH 1922


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1 March 1922

Hamilton Wharf, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed provisioning ship

“Calypso” came out No 5 Dock & secured to Corodino Wharf

“Bryony” proceeded into No 5 Dock

“Seraph” secured to Hamilton Wharf

11.25am: Proceeded into Dockyard Creek & secured to H & H1 Buoys

pm: Hands employed loading ammunition lighter

“Benbow” proceeded out of harbour

Received 4 torpedoes from Torpedo Engineer Officer

4.30pm: Leave to port watch to 7am

6.00pm: Leave to 2nd part starboard watch to 10pm


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2 March 1922

Dockyard Creek, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands employed ammunition ship

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave 2nd part port watch till 10pm


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3 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.00am: Slipped & proceeded to Sliema harbour

8.00am: Secured to 4 & 4A Buoys

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

4.50pm: “Splendid” arrived in Sliema harbour & secured to 12 & 12A Buoys

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch


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4 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.45am: Divisions with night clothing

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

Hands to make & mend clothes

4.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm


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5 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.45am: Divisions, landed church parties

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10pm


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6 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

All day: Hands painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10pm


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7 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.30am: “Sikh” arrived into Sliema & secured to 9 & 9A Buoys

All day: Hands painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10pm


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8 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

All day: Hands painting ship

11.00am: 1 Able Seaman discharged to “Diligence”, sick

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch to 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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9 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

8.40am: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour, destroyers at Sliema in company

8.40am: Formed divisions, line ahead, disposed abeam. Course & speed as requisite for carrying out manoeuvring exercise

10.05am: Assumed organization no 4, 2nd ½ of flotilla parted company

10.45am: Ceased manoeuvring exercise & formed astern of “Stuart”

11.20am: Proceeded into harbour

11.45am: Secured to no 4 & 4A Buoys

pm: Hands employed painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10pm

7.45pm: “Shark” arrived & secured to Z buoys

8.00pm: 2nd half flotilla returned to harbour

Number on sick list 1


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10 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

All day: Hands painting ship

8.30am: “Shark” proceeded out of harbour

am: 3 Engine Room Artificers & 3 stokers joined ship from “Diligence”

11.25am: “Shark” arrived & secured to Z buoys

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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11 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.45am: Divisions with night clothing

11.00pm: Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

Hands to make & mend clothes

6.00pm: Canteen to 1st part starboard watch till 10pm


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12 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.30am: Hands mustered by open list

10.00am: Landed church parties

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Leave to 1st part port [watch] till 10pm

7.30pm: “Stuart's” range party joined ship

11.00pm: “Stuart” sailed

Number on sick list 1


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13 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.00am: “Shark” secured to 5 & 5A buoys

8.45am: “Stuart’s” range party left ship for range

am: 1 Engine Room Artificer joined ship from “Sportive”, 1 ERA discharged to “Sportive”

Drew slops from “Diligence”

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

3.30pm: Range party returned on board

4.00pm: Issued slops

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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14 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

6.30am: “Shark” slipped 5 & 5A buoys & secured to Z buoys

6.45am: “Stuart” arrived & secured to 5 & 5A buoys

8.30am: “Stuart’s” range party landed

Henderson’s Gyro test party on board

Medical inspection of ship’s company

pm: 1 depth charge received

3 ratings discharged to “Diligence”, sick: 1 Leading bookkeeper, 1 Leading telegraphist, 1 Leading stoker

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

5.00pm: Range party discharged to “Stuart”

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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15 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.00am: “Sportive”, “Serapis”, “Spear”, “Sikh” & “Sirdar” proceeded to sea

9.10am: “Shark” & “Splendid” sailed

11.00am: “Shark” secured to Z buoys

11.30am: “Splendid”, “Shark”, “Spear”, “Sirdar” & “Sportive” returned to harbour

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

Hands to make & mend

“Serapis” returned to harbour

1 Leading stoker & 1 Leading bookkeeper joined ship from “Diligence”

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10pm

6.30pm: “Shark”, “Sportive”, “Sirdar” & “Serapis” proceeded to sea

8.30pm: “Shark”, “Sportive”, “Sirdar” & “Serapis” returned to harbour

Number on sick list 2


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16 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

10.00am: Captain’s rounds

pm: 1 stoker discharged to “Pegasus”

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 2


[HMS Pegasus, 3368 ton seaplane/aircraft carrier, was launched in 1917 by John Brown & Co, Clydebank. She was scrapped in 1931.]


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17 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

9.10am: “Spear” & “Sirdar” proceeded to sea for exercise

9.15am: “Tumult” arrived & secured alongside & to no 4 & 4A buoys

Received small arm ammunition

1 stoker discharged to “Diligence”

11.25am: “Tribune” arrived & secured to no 8 & 8A buoys

2.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

4.00pm: 1 signalman joined ship from “Stuart”

4.45pm: “Spear” returned to harbour

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch to 10pm

Number on sick list 2


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18 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

7.30am: Divisions with night clothing

am: 1 Able Seaman joined from “Diligence”

3 Engine Room Artificers & 2 stokers discharged to “Diligence”

Medical inspection

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10pm

1 stoker joined ship from “Splendid” taking passage to “Clematis”

Number on sick list 1


[HMS Clematis, 1250 ton sloop, was launched in 1915 by the Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co, Grangemouth. She was sold in 1931.]


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19 March 1922

Sliema

Lat 35.907, Long 14.505

10.00am: Landed church parties

1 stoker joined ship from “Diligence”

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10pm


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20 March 1922

Sliema to Port Said

Lat 35.9, Long 14.55

8.30am: “Tumult” hauled off alongside “Stuart”

Slipped & proceeded out of harbour

9.10am: Stopped engines off harbour entrance, Navigating Officer of “Diligence” on board

Received mail for Egypt

9.15am: Worked engines as requisite to adjust compasses off Grand Harbour

11.50am: Complete adjustments of compasses, stopped engines

Noon: Proceeded

6.15pm: Placed lookouts

8.00pm: Pos. 35º 40’N, 16º 41’E.


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21 March 1922

Malta to Port Said

Lat 35.18, Long 20.67

5.30am: Lookouts fell out

5.57am: Checked deviation of sun compasses by sun azimuth

8.00am: Pos. 35º 17’N, 19º 47’E.

am: Exercised all control parties

4.00pm: Exercised sea boat’s crew dropping lifebuoys

Lost overboard: 1 lifebuoy

4.40pm: Proceeded

8.00pm: Pos. 35º 17’N, 22º 42’E.

11.40pm: Sighted Gavdos Light House S80E


[Gavdos Lighthouse is situated on the small island of Gavdos, south of Crete. The lighthouse is at Lat 34.84, Long 24.06.]


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22 March 1922

Malta to Port Said

Lat 34.05, Long 26.35

12.30am: Gavdo Light S86E

1.28am: Gavdo Light abeam

8.00am: Pos. 34º 06’N, 25º 28’E.

am: Fired 2 pdr pom-pom firing 23 rounds, 2 rounds thrown overboard, cartridges having been struck

8.00pm: Pos. 33º 18’N, 28º 09’E.


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23 March 1922

Malta to Port Said

Lat 31.92, Long 31.52

7.25am: Sounding boom rigged

8.00am: Pos. 32º 08’N, 30º 55’E.

10.40am: Dropped depth charge

12.30pm: Sighted Damietta Light 2 points on starboard bow

3.40pm: Sighted Port Said High Light 3 points on starboard bow

5.45pm: Stopped engines off Port Said Harbour, pilot came on board

5.55pm: Proceeded

6.25pm: Anchored SE Navy House

7.00pm: Weighed anchors, shifted billet

7.20pm: Anchored 2 cables E of Navy House

7.45pm: Secured stern to shore


[Damietta Lighthouse is one of a cluster of lighthouses: Damietta Port at Lat 31.48, Long 31.75, Damietta/Dumyat at Lat 31.52, Long 31.85 or Massabb Dumyat at Lat 31.53, Long 31.85.

Port Said High Lighthouse is probably the 2nd Lighthouse built to mark the port. When constructed in 1869 it was the tallest lighthouse in Africa. It has now been superseded by a lighthouse built in 1997.]


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24 March 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

pm: Diving boat alongside, diver clearing starboard propeller

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10.30pm


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25 March 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

7.30am: Divisions with night clothing

11.00pm: Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

Hands to make & mend clothes

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10.30pm


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26 March 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

7.30am: “Ceres” sailed for Malta

8.00am: Dressed ship [the birthday of the Sultan, King Fuad I of Egypt.]

10.00am: Landed church parties

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

6.00pm: Undress ship

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10.30pm


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27 March 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 10.30pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10.30pm

Landed 1 Petty Officer, canteen patrol


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28 March 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

9.30am: “Ajax” arrived, secured to buoy


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29 March 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10.30pm


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30 March 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

11.00am: Captain’s storeroom rounds

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

Hands to make & mend clothes

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10.30pm


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31 March 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

am: Exercised General Quarters

1 Engine Room Artificer discharged to hospital

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1



LOGS FOR APRIL 1922


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1 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

7.45am: Aired night clothing

10.30am: Paid quarterly settlement

11.00am: Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

Hands make & mend clothes

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10.30pm

11.00pm: Anchors dragged 50 yds WSW

Number on sick list 1


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2 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

12.30am: 1 Petty Officer discharged to depot, taking passage in SS War Diwan

7.00am: Put extra wires & grass hemp astern

10.00am: Landed church parties

pm: Hands employed shifting ship

2.00pm: Pilot on board, tugs alongside, weighed both anchors, shifted billet

2.45pm: Starboard anchor 1¼ cables NE of Navy House, port anchor ¾ cable NE of Navy House

3.00pm: Pilot & tugs left ship

3.45pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


[SS War Diwan, 5561 ton tanker, was built in 1919 by Lithgows Ltd, Port Glasgow. She joined the Royal Fleet Auxiliary in 1936 & sank after hitting a mine in 1944.]


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3 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

7.00am: “Ajax” sailed for Malta

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10.30pm

Landed 1 Petty Officer, canteen patrol

Number on sick list 1


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4 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

8.00am: Aired bedding

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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5 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

8.45am: “King George V” arrived into harbour

Ship’s steward from “Caradoc” mustering stores

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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6 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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7 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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8 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

7.30am: Divisions with night clothing

11.00am: Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

Hands to make & mend clothes

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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9 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

7.45am: “Cornflower” arrived, secured stern to Navy House

10.00am: Landed church parties

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


[HMS Cornflower, 1175 ton sloop, was launched in 1916 by Barclay, Curle & Co, Glasgow. From 1934 she was based in Hong Kong and sank during the Japanese invasion in 1941. She is part of the Old Weather fleet.]


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10 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

pm: Drew slops from “King George V”, issued slops

4.00pm: Discharged 1 stoker to “Cornflower” for “Clematis”

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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11 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

All day: Hands employed painting ship

am: “Cornflower” weighed & proceeded to sea

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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12 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st [part] starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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13 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

11.00am: Captain’s rounds

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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14 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

9.30am: Divisions, landed church parties

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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15 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

7.30am: Divisions, aired night clothing

11.00am: Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

Hands to make & mend clothes

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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16 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

9.30am: Landed church parties

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st [part] starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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17 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

am: Hands employed transporting ammunition

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

Hands make & mend clothes

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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18 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

am: Exercised control parties

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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19 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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20 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

10.00am: Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

Hands make & mend clothes

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st [part] starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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21 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

am: Exercised General Quarters

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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22 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

7.45am: Aired night clothing

10.15am: “Iron Duke” arrived

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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23 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

9.30am: Landed church party

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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24 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

Lost by accident: 1 police whistle

am: Landed small arm companies

“Serapis” arrived

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st [part] starboard watch till 10.30pm

“Iron Duke” & “Serapis” proceeded to sea

Number on sick list 1


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25 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

am: Landed small arm companies

pm: Hands employed painting ship

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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26 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10.30pm


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27 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

am: Landed small arm companies

Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

Hands make & mend clothes

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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28 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

am: Landed small arm companies

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 1st part starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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29 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

7.45am: Divisions, aired night clothing

11.00am: Captain’s rounds

12.30pm: Hands to make & mend clothes

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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30 April 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

9.30am: Landed church parties

12.45pm: “Seraph” arrived & secured to Navy House

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

6.30pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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LOG BOOKS – MAY 1ST 1922 TO JUNE 30TH 1922


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LOGS FOR MAY 1922


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1 May 1922

Port Said

Lat 31.25, Long 32.31

7.30am: “Pegasus” arrived into harbour

8.30am: Issued monthly payment

10.00am: Officer of Guard arrived on board

3.15pm: Pilot arrived on board

4.25pm: Proceeded out of harbour

5.30pm: Stopped engines, obtaining deviation of compasses

7.06pm: Damietta Light S85W

7.55pm: Damietta Light S40W

Number on sick list 1


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2 May 1922

Port Said to Constantinople

Lat 33.45, Long 29.00

7.30am: Stopped both, hands to bathe

7.43am: Proceeded

8.00am: Pos. 30º 17’N, 29º 30’E.

9.50am: Streamed target, course as requisite for carrying out 1” aiming rifle practice

10.20am: Ceased fire, picked up target

10.40am: Course & speed as requisite for carrying out torpedo sight test

10.55am: Fired torpedo

11.10am: Picked up torpedo

11.16am: Proceeded

11.20am: Made smoke as requisite for exercise

11.37am: Stopped making smoke

4.32pm: Stopped both, hands to bathe

4.50pm: Proceeded

8.00pm: Pos. 34º 30’N, 27º 32’E.

8.15pm: Course & speed as requisite for carrying out night firing 1” aiming practice


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3 May 1922

Port Said to Constantinople

Lat 36.77, Long 25.23

3.30am: Cape Sidero Light abeam, 5.5'

8.00am: Pos. 36º 04’N, 25º 38’E.

8.45am: Cape Dorion N61E, Cape Akrotirion N18E

9.36am: Altered course to pass East of Kaimes Island

10.33am: Cape Moropetio abeam

11.00am: Exercised Lewis Gun crew, fired 2pdr pom-pom

11.56am: Malta Peak 2° on port beam

2.00pm: Turko Island abeam, 5’

3.00pm: Course & speed as requisite for entering Delos SWT

3.05pm: Dili Point abeam

3.35pm: Anchored, Remanti Island N5W, Mount Cynitons N59E

3.45pm: Shut down

Lost by accident: 1 hand scrubber


[Cape Sideros Light is often indexed as Akra Sideros Lighthouse on the island of Crete at Lat 35.32, Long 26.31.

Cape Dorion could be Cape Vorion on the island of Anafi. It lies at Lat 36.41, Long 25.77.

Cape Akroririon is indexed as Akrotiri on the island of Santorini at Lat 36.36, Long 25.35.

Kaimes Island could have been Nisida Palaia Kammeni at Lat 36.40, Long 25.38, Nisi Nea Kammeni at Lat 36.4, Long 25.4 or Nisida Kimina at Lat 36.42, Long 25.32.

Cape Moropetio was probably Akra Mavropetra on Santorini at Lat 36.48, Long 25.39.

Malta Peak is indexed as Akra Malta on the island of Sikinos at Lat 36.71, Long 25.18.

Turko Island is also indexed as Nisida Viokastro and is off the larger island of Paros at Lat 37.15, Long 25.3.

Delos is an island in the Cyclades at Lat 37.39, Long 25.27.

Dili Point is the north-western point of the islet of Kherroniso and 200 yds off the Eastern shore of Dili Strait. Kherroniso is at Lat 37.37, Long 25.26.

Remanti Island is probably Nisida Megalos Rematiaris or Nisida Kato Rematiaris at Lat 37.39, Long 25.26.

Mount Cynitons is probably the Mount Cynthus or Kinthos described in the pilot guide but I cannot identify it in modern indices.]


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4 May 1922

Port Said to Constantinople

Lat 38.62, Long 25.92

6.15am: Weighed & proceeded out of Dili

6.45am: Kako Bt abeam, ¼’ distance

7.00am: Cape Armenisti ½ mile on beam

8.00am: Pos. 37º 43’N, 25º 25’E.

9.36am: Kaloyeroi Rocks abeam

Exercised control parties, fired Lewis gun

11.20am: Psara Light abeam

3.02pm: Course & speed as requisite for anchoring in Mityleni Roads

3.26pm: Anchored

7.50pm: Lit up for wireless


[There is a Kako Point on the Island of Delos now indexed as Akra Morti at Lat 37.41, Long 25.28.

Cape Armenistis is on the island of Mykonos at Lat 37.5, Long 25.32.

Mytilene is on the island of Lesbos at Lat 39.11, Long 26.56.]


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5 May 1922

Mytileni

Lat 39.10, Long 26.57

am: Lit up no 2 boiler for wireless

11.00am: Shut down

4.00pm: Lit up no 2 boiler for wireless purposes

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 10pm

6.15pm: Shut down

8.15pm: Lit up no 2 boiler for wireless

8.30pm: Shut down


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6 May 1922

Port Said to Constantinople

Lat 39.50, Long 26.03

8.05am: Weighed & proceeded

9.22am: Cape Tomari

10.12am: Cape Skanirmia abeam

11.00am: Cape Molivo abeam, altered course as requisite for entering Molivo Roads

11.48am: Cape Baba abeam

2.22pm: Course & speed as requisite for passage through Dardanelles

3.55pm: Anchored, “Sportive” & “Somme” in company

4.00pm: Dressed ship overall [Accession Day]

5.45pm: Leave to port watch till 8pm

7.45pm: “Somme” proceeded to Constantinople


[Akra Tomari is on Lesbos at Lat 39.34, Long 26.42.

Cape Skanirmia probably refers to Cape Skammia now indexed as Akra Korakas on Lesbos at Lat 39.39, Long 26.34.

Cape Molivo or Akra Molyvos is on Lesvos at Lat 39.37, Long 26.17.

Cape Baba or Baba Burun is at Lat 39.48, Long 26.14.]


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7 May 1922

Khilio Liman [Khelia Liman]

Lat 40.2, Long 26.37

8.03am: Weighed & proceeded, course & speed as requisite for anchoring in Khilio Liman Bay

8.22am: Anchored

1.15pm: Leave to starboard watch till 8pm

5.00pm: “Calypso” passed steering North

“Trinidad” passed steering South


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8 May 1922

Khilio Liman

Lat 40.2, Long 26.37

9.00am: Leave to men to visit battlefield till 8pm

8.00pm: Weighed & proceeded, course as requisite to shift billet 1½ cables to northward

9.20pm: Anchored


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9 May 1922

Khilio Leman to Constantinople

Lat 40.78, Long 28.12 DR

6.05am: Weighed & proceeded, course as requisite for leaving Dardanelles

7.44am: Diana Shoal Light Buoy abeam, 1 mile to starboard

10.03am: Zan Ada Khan abeam

Control parties exercised

1.40pm: Khaish Dagh right ahead

2.15pm: Stefano Point abeam, distance 1 mile

2.40pm: Course & speed as requisite for entering Bosphorus

2.45pm: Seraglio Light abeam

3.15pm: Secured to oiler “Belgol” no 8 buoy, received 174 tons oil fuel

1 Able Seaman discharged to Calypso, sick. Engineering Lieutenant Commander Thackara joined ship

5.50pm: Slipped & proceeded out of harbour, course & speed as requisite for proceeding to Tuzla

7.30pm: Anchored, Yavourz & Sparrowhawk at anchor off Tuzla

Number on sick list 1


[The Diana Shoal is marked on this map where the Hellespont enters the Sea of Marmara North East of Gallipoli.

The only small island (Ada in Turkish) which fits the course from the Diana Shoal is Khairsiz Ada at Lat 40.64, Long 27.49.

Khaish Dagh is about 3 miles East of the Princes Islands off the coast of Turkey. Its neighbouring peak, Aidos Dagh, now indexed as Aydos Dagi, is at Lat 40.93, Long 29.26.

RFA Belgol, 2640 ton tanker, was built in 1917 by Irvine’s Shipbuilding & Drydock Co Ltd, West Hartlepool, for the Admiralty. She was finally scrapped in 1958.

Tuzla is a coastal town on the Sea of Marmara at Lat 40.83, Long 29.30.

There is no RN ship which fits the first anchored ship at 7.30pm. She may have been the mis-spelled Turkish TNS Yavuz, 23,000 ton battleship, launched in 1911 as SMS Goeben by Bloehm & Voss, Hamburg, and transferred to the Ottoman Empire in 1914. She was decommissioned in 1950 and scrapped in 1973.]


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10 May 1922

Tuzla

Lat 40.817, Long 29.265

9.00am: “Sparrowhawk” proceeded to Constantinople

am: Landed armed guard & confiscated white ensign flown without authority at the Tuzla Palace hotel

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 8pm

Number on sick list 1

Lost overboard by accident: 1 hand scrubber


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11 May 1922

Tuzla

Lat 40.817, Long 29.265

10.30am: Captain’s rounds

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 8pm

Number on sick list 1


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12 May 1922

Tuzla

Lat 40.817, Long 29.265

9.30am: Exercised General Quarters

10.15am: Secured

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 8pm

Number on sick list 1


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13 May 1922

Tuzla

Lat 40.817, Long 29.265

6.30am: Weighed starboard anchor & shifted billet in order to facilitate communication with Military onshore

7.50am: Divisions, aired night clothing

11.00am: Captain’s rounds

1.15pm: Leave to starboard watch till 8pm

Hands make & mend clothes

pm: Engineering Commander Robins discharged from ship

Number on sick list 1


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14 May 1922

Tuzla

Lat 40.817, Long 29.265

9.30am: Divisions & Divine Service

1.15pm: Leave to port watch till 8pm

Number on sick list 1


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15 May 1922

Tuzla

Lat 40.817, Long 29.265

All day: Hands employed painting ship

4.30pm: Weekday leave rota resumes

Number on sick list 1


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16 May 1922

Tuzla

Lat 40.817, Long 29.265

All day: Hands employed painting ship

Number on sick list 1


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17 May 1922

Tuzla

Lat 40.817, Long 29.265

All day: Hands employed painting ship

9.30pm: Carried out night firing with 1” aiming rifle & 2 pdr pom-pom at moored target

Number on sick list 1


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18 May 1922

Tuzla

Lat 40.817, Long 29.265

7.30am: Aired bedding

am: Hands employed painting ship

Fired 1 belt of 2 pdr pom-pom ammunition at moored target

pm: Hands to make & mend clothes

1 2 pdr pom-pom shell thrown overboard, damaged

Number on sick list 1


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19 May 1922

Tuzla

Lat 40.817, Long 29.265

9.30am: Exercised ‘Action’ & ‘Cruising stations’

10.20am: Secured

Lost by accident: one Boatswains Call overboard

Number on sick list 1


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20 May 1922

Tuzla

Lat 40.817, Long 29.265

7.45am: Divisions, aired night clothing

11.00am: Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 8pm

pm: Hands to make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 1


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21 May 1922

Tuzla

Lat 40.817, Long 29.265

9.45am: Hands mustered by the ledger, Divine Service

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 8pm

Number on sick list 1


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22 May 1922

Tuzla to Constantinople

Lat 40.9, Long 28.93

8.00am: Weighed & proceeded out of harbour

8.40am: Weighed “Sparrowhawk”, course & speed as requisite to carry out dummy torpedo attack

9.00am: Course & speed as requisite to carry out exercise II

9.30am: Course as requisite to carry out exercise III

9.45am: Fired torpedo

10.00am: Recovered torpedo, course as requisite to carry out exercise IV

10.40am: Stopped both while “Sparrowhawk” recovered torpedo, transferred Tuzla orders to “Sparrowhawk”

11.00am: Took “Sparrowhawk” in tow

11.40am: Stopped tow

Noon: “Sparrowhawk” took “Torch” in tow

12.20pm: Stopped tow

12.30pm: Parted company with “Sparrowhawk”

1.50pm: Streamed target, course as requisite for carrying out 1” aiming rifle practice

2.15pm: Picked up target, proceeded, course as requisite for entering Bosphorus

3.20pm: Secured alongside oiler “Belgol” at no 8 buoy, fleet anchorage

4.35pm: Slipped oiler & proceeded to Tophane

5.35pm: Secured to Z buoy, secured stern ashore

7.00pm: Leave to port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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23 May 1922

Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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24 May 1922

Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

8.00am: Dressed ship overall [Empire Day]

2.00pm: Hands mustered for medical inspection

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 10pm

5.00pm: 1 Able Seaman rejoined ship from “Calypso”

8.20pm: Undressed ship

Number on sick list 1


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25 May 1922

Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

10.30am: Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 12 midnight

pm: Hands to make & mend clothes


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26 May 1922

Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

7.00am: “King George” sailed [probably “King George V”]

8.00am: Dressed ship overall [Queen Mary’s birthday]

8.45am: HMS Benbow arrived into harbour

1.45pm: “Ceres” arrived into harbour

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 10pm

6.40pm: “Cardiff” sailed

10.00pm: “Calypso” sailed


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27 May 1922

Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

11.00am: Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 12.30am

pm: Hands to make & mend clothes

8.45pm: 1 rating discharged to “Ceres”, sick


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28 May 1922

Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

7.15am: “Sikh” arrived into harbour

9.00am: 2 ratings joined ship from “Sikh”

10.00am: Divisions, landed church parties

1.30pm: Leave to port watch to midnight

Number on sick list 1


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29 May 1922

Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

9.30am: General drill

10.10am: Landed small arm companies

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 1


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30 May 1922

Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

11.30am: 1 rating rejoined ship from “Ceres”

4.30pm: Leave to port watch to 10pm


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31 May 1922

Constantinople

Lat 40.95, Long 29.0 [approx]

7.45am: “Sportive” proceeded to sea

8.30am: Slipped & proceeded to sea, “Sikh” took station astern

8.40am: Seraglio Point abeam

9.00am: Course & speed as requisite for carrying out Exercise II

9.10am: Sighted “Sparrowhawk” & “Sportive”

10.00am: Negative Exercise II, formed single line ahead

10.25am: Course as requisite for Exercise IV

11.10am: Course & speed as requisite for carrying out Exercise III

11.34am: Fired 1 torpedo

Noon: Stopped both, recovered torpedo

12.15pm: Parted company & proceeded

1.25pm: Course as requisite for carrying out 1” aiming rifle practice

2.00pm: Picked up target, course as requisite for entering harbour

2.25pm: Seraglio Point abeam

3.00pm: Secured to oiler “Belgol” & no 8 buoy, fleet anchorage, received 21 tons oil

3.45pm: Slipped & proceeded to no 2 buoy, Tophane

4.00pm: “Sportive” arrived into harbour

4.45pm: Secured to no 2 buoy

5.30pm: Leave to starboard watch to midnight

7.30pm: 1 rating discharged to “Ceres”, sick



LOGS FOR JUNE 1922


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1 June 1922

Constantinople

Lat 41.03, Long 28.99

8.45am: Landed small arm companies

11.30am: Received slops on board from “Benbow”

1.00pm: Issued monthly payment

Issued slops

4.30pm: Leave to port watch to midnight


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2 June 1922

Moda Liman

Lat 41.0, Long 29.01

9.15am: Hands mustered for medical inspection

9.35am: Slipped & proceeded as requisite for anchorage in Moda Liman

10.00am: Anchored

pm: Hands employed painting ship

5.00pm: Leave to starboard watch to 11pm

5.30pm: 1 rating rejoined ship from “Ceres”

1 paintbrush lost overboard by accident


[Moda is now part of Istanbul and the harbour (limani) is indexed as Haydarpasa at Lat 41.0, Long 29.2.]


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3 June 1922

Moda Liman

Lat 41.0, Long 29.01

8.00am: Dressed ship overall [for the King’s birthday]

am: Hands employed painting ship

1.30pm: Leave to port watch to 11pm

Hands to make & mend clothes


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4 June 1922

Moda Liman

Lat 41.0, Long 29.01

8.00am: Dressed ship overall, Italian ensign at fore

10.00am: Divisions, Divine Service

1.15pm: Leave to starboard watch to 11pm


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5 June 1922

Moda Liman

Lat 41.0, Long 29.01

7.00am: “Sportive” sailed for Tuzla

All day: Hands employed painting ship

10.30am: “Sparrowhawk” passed en route for Constantinople

pm: Issued soap & tobacco

4.00pm: “Sparrowhawk” proceeded to sea

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm


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6 June 1922

Moda Liman to Beicos

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

7.00am: Weighed & proceeded as requisite for entering harbour

7.35am: Secured to no 4 buoy, fleet anchorage

am: Hands employed painting ship

Hands employed coaling ship

3.45pm: Slipped & proceeded, course as requisite for proceeding up Bosphorus to Beicos

4.30pm: Anchored

Leave to starboard watch till 11pm


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7 June 1922

Beicos

Lat 41.13, Long 29.09

pm: 1 rating discharged to “Ceres”, sick

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm


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8 June 1922

Beicos to Paulo Liman

Lat 40.75, Long 29.65

5.00am: Mr JW Bill, Gunner T, discharged to “Ceres”, sick

7.00am: Weighed & proceeded for Fleet Anchorage

7.35am: Stopped engines off HMS Benbow, 1 rating joined ship

7.50am: Proceeded out of harbour

8.50am: Altered course off South end of Prinkipo

9.25am: Stopped engines in Paulo Liman

10.15am: Proceeded to Tuzla

10.40am: Stopped engines off HMS Sportive & HJMS Yavuz

10.50am: Proceeded

11.40am: Altered course, Dil Burnur abeam

12.20pm: Yarindje bore North

1.25pm: Anchored

3.00pm: Weighed & proceeded, course as requisite for leaving Gulf of Izmid

3.50pm: Altered course off Toz B[?] for anchoring in Paulo Liman

4.25pm: Anchored


[Paulo Liman is in Turkey at Lat 40.84, Long 29.28.

Dil Burnu is in Turkey at Lat 40.75, Long 28.52.

Yarindje is probably Yaremdji in Turkey at Lat 40.78, Long 29.73.

The Gulf of Ismid is the large bay to the East of Yaremdji, now sometimes indexed as Korfez.

I think the landmark at 3.50pm is now indexed as Tuz Burnu which lies at Lat 40.8, Long 29.26]


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9 June 1922

Paulo Liman and at sea

Lat 40.84, Long 29.28

1.30pm: Leave to port watch & 2nd part starboard till 6.45pm

Hands to make & mend clothes

9.20pm: Weighed & proceeded, course as requisite for leaving harbour


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10 June 1922

Paulo Liman to Khelia Liman

Lat 40.2, Long 26.37

2.10pm: Sighted Fener Adasi Light bearing S65W

3.19am: Light abeam, Khair[?] Ada bore S73W [Khairsis Ada?]

3.30am: Hora Light bore N88W

4.24am: Khairsis Ada Light abeam

7.20am: Diana Shoal Light Buoy abeam

7.40am: Course as requisite for passage through Dardanelles

9.05am: Altered course round Niagara Kalessi

9.15am: Altered course to close on “Sparrowhawk” at anchor in Dardan Bay

9.30am: Proceeded, course & speed as requisite for anchorage at Khelia Liman

9.45am: Anchored

11.00am: Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 8.30pm

Hands to make & mend clothes


[Dardan Bay is described in 19th century pilot guide.

Dardan Bay (lat 40° 9' N, long. 26° 24' E). — To the north of Chanak Point the coast curves and forms a bay, which is 1 mile across from north to south.’

Niagara Kalessi is probably Nagara Kalessi. The fort is referred to in a 19th century pilot guide

Nagara Point (lat 40° 12' N, long. 26° 2' E), a long, low, sandy spit, which projects to the westward from the coast hills 1,600 yards, is distinguished by a large white square fort, Nagara Kalessi, at the northwest angle of which there is a mosque, also white, frequently mistaken for the lighthouse. This fort is built on the site of the ancient castle of Abydos: there is a battery ^ miles southeast from it, and another one south of Abydos Point.’]


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11 June 1922

Khelia Liman

Lat 40.2, Long 26.37

9.45am: Divisions, Divine Service

1.15pm: Leave to port watch till 8.30pm


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12 June 1922

Khelia Liman and at sea

Lat 40.03, Long 26.22

10.45am: Weighed & proceeded

11.00am: Stopped engines Dardan Bay, drew provisions

11.10am: Proceeded as requisite for Cape Helles

12.10pm: Stopped engines off V beach, Cape Helles

12.45pm: Proceeded for anchoring off W beach

1.10pm: Anchored

2.40pm: Proceeded as requisite for passing East of Rabbit Island

3.35pm: Gadoro Island abeam

3.50pm: Oino Island abeam

6.10pm: Syargi Light abeam

6.37pm: Skanmia Point abeam

7.00pm: Cape Tomari abeam

8.00pm: Pos. 39º 008.5’N, 26º 36.5’E.

9.20pm: Karmen Adasi Island abeam, 1 mile

9.45pm: Anchored


[V & W beaches were landing sites on Cape Helles during the Gallipoli Campaign.

Gadoro Island is indexed as Ortafener Adasi off the coast of Turkey at Lat 39.84, Long 26.1.

Oino Island is probably Oinos Point on Bozcaada Island off the coast of Turkey at Lat 39.8, Long 26.08.

Syargi Light was probably Sivriji Light, now Sevrice Lighthouse in Turkey at Lat 39.47, Long 26.24.

Skanmia Point is now indexed as Akra Korakas on Lesbos at Lat 39.39, Long 26.34.

Cape Tomari is now indexed as Akrotiri on the coast of Lesbos at Lat 39.33, Long 26.42.

Karmen Adasi is an island off the Turkish coast now indexed as Karaada at Lat 38.9, Long 26.84.]


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13 June 1922

Gulf of Sandarli to Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

6.50am: Weighed & proceeded, course as requisite for leaving Gulf of Sandarli

7.15am: Plati Island abeam

7.59am: Cape Hydra abeam

8.00am: Pos. 38º 45’N, 26º 44’E.

8.25am: Drepano abeam

10.00am: Altered course for entering Smyrna Harbour

10.15am: Reduced speed & passed through Sanjak Kalessi gate

10.45am: Anchored

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 10.30pm

1 Sick Berth Atendant joined ship from “Tumult”

Assumed duties of Senior Naval Officer Smyrna


[Gulf of Sandarli is also indexed as Candarli Korfezi in Turkey at Lat 38.88, Long 26.96.

Plati Island is off the coast of Turkey & is now indexed as Tavsan Adasi at Lat 38.85, Long 26.88.

Cape Hydra is in Turkey at Lat 38.74, Long 26.74 and is also indexed as Aslan Burnu.

Drepano is a very common name in the Med. This one is Nisida Drepanon.

Smyrna Harbour is now indexed as Izmir Limani in Turkey at Lat 38.45, Long 27.15.

Sanjak Kalessi is now indexed as Deniz Kuvvetleri Sancakkale Kislasi in Turkey at Lat 38.41, Long 27.02.]


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14 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

7.00am: HMS Tumult proceeded to Constantinople

1.00pm: Leave to starboard watch till 10.30pm

Midnight: Greek destroyer “Spendoni” & sloop “Aknon” left harbour


[Greek destroyer “Sphendoni”, 350 tons, was built in 1907; she served with the Royal Navy in WW2 and was scrapped in 1945.

Aknon” may have been the “Aktion” a converted merchant ship of 450 tons, built in 1915 and in service from 1920-30.]


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15 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

10.00am: Captain’s rounds

2.15pm: Leave to port watch till 10.30pm


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16 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

am: 2 ratings discharged to hospital, sick

2.15pm: Leave to starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 2


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17 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

7.45am: Divisions, aired night clothing

10.30pm: Captain’s rounds

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 10.30am

Number on sick list 2


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18 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

9.45am: Divisions, landed church parties

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 2


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19 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

9.00am: Hands mustered for medical inspection

2.15pm: Leave to port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 2


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20 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

6.00am: Hands aired bedding

2.15pm: Weekday leave rota continues

Number on sick list 2


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21 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

Number on sick list 2


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22 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

8.00am: Dressed ship overall, white ensign at the main [for Coronation day]

Noon: Italian cruiser “Venezia” fired 21 gun salute, white ensign at the main

3.00pm: Greek sloop “Mykono” sailed

Number on sick list 2


[Venezia”, 3,500 ton cruiser, was launched in 1912 as “SMS Saida” by CNT Monfalcone as part of the Austro-Hungarian Navy. She took part in the Battle of the Strait of Otranto in 1917 and after the war was ceded to Italy & renamed. She became an accommodation ship in 1930 and was scrapped in 1937.

Mykonos”, 336 ton converted merchant vessel, was built in 1905 and served from 1921-23.]


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23 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

Number on sick list 2


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24 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

8.40am: Divisions, aired night clothing

Landed Guard of Honour to attend unveiling of War Memorial at British Consulate

Italian cruiser “Agordat” sailed

11.30am: 1 Able Seaman rejoined ship from hospital

Number on sick list 2


[“Agordat”, 1340 ton cruiser, was launched in 1899 at the Castellamare Shipyard. She was scrapped in 1923.]


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25 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

9.45am: Divisions, church parties landed

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 2


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26 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

9.20am: Control parties to drill

Noon: Half-masted colours

2.15pm: Weekday leave rota resume

2.30pm: Rehoisted colours

3.00pm: Greek TB “Sphendoni” arrived

Number on sick list 2


[The tribute may have been to Victor F Foster, Signalman J71403, of “Iron Duke” who was drowned on 24th June.

TB Sphendoni or Sfendoni was built in 1907, served with the Royal Navy 1941-45 & was scrapped in 1945.]


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27 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

6.00am: Hands aired bedding

5.30pm: Italian cruiser “Agordat” arrived

Number on sick list 2


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28 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

8.00am: Half masted colours

Hands mustered for medical inspection

6.30pm: Greek sloop “Alphios” arrived

Number on sick list 2


[“Alphios” was probably “Alpheos”, 420 ton ex-gunboat, built in 1884 by the Thames Iron Works. She was converted to a survey vessel in 1919.]


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29 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

am: Captain store room rounds

6.45pm: Greek sloop “Alphios” sailed

Number on sick list 2


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30 June 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

9.15am: Hands to general drill

10.15am: Secured

Number on sick list 2


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[These are blank or cover pages.]



LOG BOOKS – JULY 1ST 1922 TO AUGUST 31ST 1922


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[These are cover pages, blank, and a list of fuel consumption and meteorological instruments.]



LOGS FOR JULY 1922


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1 July 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

7.45am: Divisions with night clothing

Noon: 1 rating joined ship from hospital

12.15pm: Issued monthly pay

1.30pm: Leave to port watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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2 July 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

9.45am: Divisions, landed church parties

1.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 10.30pm

Number on sick list 1


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3 July 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

2.15pm: Weekday leave rota resumes

Number on sick list 1


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4 July 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

Number on sick list 1


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5 July 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

6.00am: Hands aired bedding

am: 1 rating discharged to hospital, sick

Number on sick list 2


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6 July 1922

Smyrna

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

am: 1 rating discharged to hospital, sick

Captain’s store room rounds

Number on sick list 3


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7 July 1922

Smyrna to Port Iero

Lat 38.45, Long 27.15

6.25am: “Bryony” arrived into harbour

“Sirdar” arrived into harbour

11.20am: “Iron Duke” arrived into harbour

Noon: Italian cruiser “Venezia” saluted the flag of Admiral Brock with a salute of 17 guns

1.45pm: 4 ratings discharged to “Iron Duke”, sick

2.15pm: 4 ratings joined from “Iron Duke”

2.25pm: Weighed & proceeded

2.55pm: Passed through gate

7.50pm: Course & speed as requisite for entering Port Iero

8.05pm: Sidero Island abeam, as requisite for anchorage

8.40pm: Anchored & secured alongside “Tumult”

Number on sick list 3


[Admiral Sir Osmond Brock, C-in-C Mediterranean]


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8 July 1922

Port Iero

Lat 39.1, Long 26.47

8.00am: Piped down for Regatta

9.00pm: 1 rating joined ship from “Shark”

Number on sick list 3


[Port Iero on the island of Lesbos]


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9 July 1922

Port Iero

Lat 39.1, Long 26.47

9.30pm: 1 rating discharged to “Tumult”

Number on sick list 3


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10 July 1922

Port Iero and at sea

Lat 39.1, Long 26.47

am: Paid final distribution of Naval Prize Fund to ship’s company

1.00pm: “Tumult” sailed for Smyrna

5.00pm: 3 ratings joined ship from “Marlborough”

6.30pm: Weighed & proceeded, took station astern of “Montrose”

8.00pm: Pos. 38º 41’N, 20º 34’E. Altered course N68W taking station of “Iron Duke” & “Centurion”

Midnight: Increased speed, switched off navigation lights

Number on sick list 3


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11 July 1922

Port Iero to Constantinople

Lat 39.87, Long 25.8 DR

12.20am: Stopped engines owing to stokehold machinery trouble

12.30am: “Iron Duke” abeam, Sigri Light bore N23E

12.45am: Proceeded

1.36am: Resumed station astern of “Montrose”

3.45am: Sighted Skyros Island bearing SW

4.00am: Starboard watch to cruising stations

4.45am: ‘Action stations’

5.45am: Secure

7.50am: Formed astern of “Montrose”

8.00am: Pos. 39º 49’N, 25º 10’E.

8.30am: Hauled out of line

8.45am: Resumed position in line, course & speed as requisite for manoeuvring exercise

11.35am: Altered course to take up screening position B, Diagram 6 on “Iron Duke”

11.55am: In station 6 cables 56° on port bow of “Iron Duke”

1.50pm: Took station astern of “Montrose”

3.50pm: Course as requisite for entering Dardanelles

4.45pm: Proceeded ahead of “Stuart”

5.10pm: Anchored off Bokali Kallissi

8.25pm: Weighed & proceeded

8.30pm: Formed astern of “Stuart”, course as requisite for passing through Dardanelles

8.45pm: Reduced speed & hauled out of line owing to loss of water in Boiler 2

9.05pm: Resumed station

9.45pm: “Senator” took station astern of “Stuart”, “Torch” forming astern of “Senator”

10.00pm: Diana Shoal Buoy abeam


[Bokali Kalissi was probably Bokali Kalessi, a fort now often indexed as Bigali Kalesi in Turkey at Lat 40.23, Long 26.38.]


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12 July 1922

At sea to Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

12.20am: Hoya Light abeam to port

12.40am: Khairsiz Ada Light abeam to starboard

5.25am: Stepano Point N37E [Stefano]

5.45am: Plati Island S70E

6.10am: Formed line ahead, as requisite for entering harbour

7.25am: Secured alongside “Stuart” at no 6 buoy Fleet Anchorage

8.15am: “Iron Duke”, “Marlborough”, “Benbow” arrived in harbour

12.10pm: Slipped & proceeded

12.30pm: Secured alongside RFA oiler “Belgol” at no 9 berth, fleet anchorage, received 230 tons oil

3.40pm: Slipped & proceeded to no 6 buoy

5.00pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11.30pm


[Hoya Light may refer to Hora Lighthouse in Turkey at Lat 40.7, Long 27.31.]


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13 July 1922

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

2.15pm: Leave to port watch till 11.30pm


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14 July 1922

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

8.00am: Dressed ship overall, French ensign at the fore [Bastille Day]

2.15pm: Leave to port watch till 11.30pm

4.30pm: 2 ratings discharged to “Iron Duke”

Number on sick list 1


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15 July 1922

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

5.00am: “Sparrowhawk” sailed for Tuzla

8.00am: Divisions, aired night clothing

Mr Bell, Gunner T, rejoined ship from hospital

11.00am: Captain’s rounds

2.15pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11.30pm

8.00pm: 1 rating joined ship from “Marlborough”

Number on sick list 1


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16 July 1922

Constantinople

Lat 41.02, Long 28.99

9.30am: Divisions, landed church parties

1.15pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

Number on sick list 1


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17 July 1922

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

9.15am: Slipped, formed single line ahead

10.50am: Anchored

2.15pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

4.00pm: Evening quarters, read warrant no 4 & 5

Number on sick list 1


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18 July 1922

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

7.30am: Aired bedding

am: Landed small arm companies

2.15pm: Leave to port watch till 11pm

Number on sick list 1


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19 July 1922

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

2.15pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

Number on sick list 1


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20 July 1922

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

am: Hands employed painting ship

Captain’s store room rounds

TS party to drill [Transmitting Station?]

1 rating discharged to “Maine”, sick

2.15pm: Leave to port watch till 11.30pm

9.30pm: 1 rating discharged to “Main”, sick

1 rating joined ship from “Stuart”


[RFA Maine, 5981 ton liner, was launched as SS Panama in 1902 by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan, for the Pacific Steam Navigation Co Ltd. She was purchased by the Admiralty in 1929, renamed “Maine” and converted to a hospital ship. She was scrapped in 1948.]


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21 July 1922

Buyukdere

Lat 41.16, Long 29.05

7.00am: “Sepoy” proceeded out of harbour

am: Exercised concentration party

2.15pm: Leave to starboard watch till 11pm

9.00pm: 1 rating joined ship from “Maine”

Lost by accident: 1 lamp, pattern 330: 1 hand scrubber


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22 July 1922

Buyukdere to Malta

Lat 40.78, Long 28.12 DR

6.00am: “Somme” weighed & proceeded

7.00am: Weighed & proceeded & closed “Iron Duke” off Beicos

7.25am: Received despatches & proceeded as requisite for fleet anchorage

7.55am: Stopped engines at fleet anchorage, received mails & ratings 23, 3 discharged to “Marlborough”. 1 military officer joined ship

8.00am: Pos. 41º 02’N, 29º 01’E.

8.15am: Proceeded, course as requisite for leaving Bosphorus

9.35am: Stopped engines, discharged 6 ratings to “Somme”

9.52am: Half speed

2.14pm: Khair Siz Aido [Khairsiz Ada] Light House abeam, 1 mile on starboard beam

3.46pm: “Somme” took station 4 cables NW of “Torch”

4.00pm: Course as requisite for drop firing depth charge

4.04pm: Dropped depth charge from starboard thrower, 1 mile West of Kamir

4.10pm: Stopped, hands to bathe

4.25pm: Proceeded

5.15pm: Diana Shore [Shoal] Buoy abeam

7.37pm: Ponente Point abeam, 2½ miles

8.00pm: Pos. 39º 46’N, 25º 52’E.

9.59pm: Sigri Light abeam, 16½ miles


[Kamir is now often indexed as Kemer and is in Turkey at Lat 40.42, Long 27.07.

Ponente Point is on the island of Bozcaada at Lat 39.84, Long 25.96.]


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23 July 1922

Buyukdere to Malta

Lat 36.58, Long 23.33 DR

2.20am: Sighted Phasa Light bearing S18W

2.35am: Cape Doro Light bore S44W

3.32am: Cape Doro Light abeam, 5 miles

5.42am: R Lt Niello Red Light abeam to port

6.20am: Angalastro Point abeam, 2¼ miles

7.20am: Stopped engines, hands to bathe

7.50am: Proceeded

8.00am: Pos. 37º 26’N, 23º 54’E.

10.37am: Belo Hilo abeam, 4¾ miles [Belo Pulo or Nisida Velopoula?]

1.00pm: “Somme” took station on starboard beam, “Tumult” on port

3.00pm: “Tumult” reduced speed & parted company

3.03pm: Cape Matapan abeam, 1 mile

8.00pm: Pos. 36º 18’N, 20º 40’E.


[R Lt Niello Red Light may refer to a red light on the lighthouse at Akra Agiou Nicolaou at Lat 37.67, Long 24.31 on the Greek island of Kea.]


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24 July 1922

Buyukdere to Malta

Lat 35.92, Long 16.42

7.30am: Stopped engines, hands to bathe

7.50am: Proceeded

8.00am: Pos. 36º 06’N, 17º 09’E.

9.55am: Dropped target, course as requisite & carried out 1” aiming rifle, 2 pdr pom-pom & Lewis gun practice

10.55am: Proceeded

5.28pm: “Somme” took station astern

6.30pm: Secured to H & H1 buoys at Dockyard Creek

7.00pm: Medical inspection, discharged 14 ratings to “Egmont”

7.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

Lost overboard: Handles locking 3 Lewis Gun

Number on sick list 2


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25 July 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: 1 rating discharged to “Splendid”, 1 to “Egmont”, 1 to Bighi Hospital

2.15pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

“Tumult” arrived & secured alongside

1 rating joined ship from “Tuscan”

Lost by accident: 1 broom & 1 holder for Columbo Light

Number on sick list 2


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26 July 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

All day: Hands disembarking ammunition

9.30am: “Montrose” arrived & secured to G & G1 buoys

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

Number on sick list 2


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27 July 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.20am: Tug “Ancient” secured alongside. Slipped & proceeded to Bormla Wharf

Secured alongside “Tumult”

1 rating discharged to “Egmont”, sick

4.30pm: Leave to port watch till 7am

5.00pm: 1 rating discharged to “Egmont”, for dockyard

Number on sick list 3


[“Ancient”, 690 ton paddle tug, was launched in 1915 by Thorneycroft as “Veteran”. She was sold in 1954.]


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28 July 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.25am: Tug “Ancient” secured alongside, shifted billet

7.45am: Secured to Hamilton Wharf

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 4


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29 July 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

Hands make & mend clothes

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 3


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30 July 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.15am: Landed church parties

Divisions, 1 rating discharged to “Egmont”, sick

Mr John W Bell, Gunner T, was severely admonished by the Commanding Officer for improperly leaving the ship contrary to the direct orders of the Commanding Officer [signed] JW Bell


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31 July 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: 1 rating discharged to “Egmont”, sick

4.30pm: Weekday leave rota resumes

Number on sick list 4



LOGS FOR AUGUST 1922


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1 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

pm: Paid quarterly settlement & monthly advance

1 rating joined ship from “Speedy”

Number on sick list 4


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2 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

Number on sick list 4


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3 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.00am: 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron proceeded to sea

11.55am: Read warrant no 6

1.15pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

Hands to make & mend clothes

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 4


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4 August 1922

Hamilton Wharf, Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

11.00am: 3rd Light Cruiser Squadron arrived into harbour

4.30pm: General leave to port watch till 7am Monday

Leave to 1st part starboard watch till 11pm

Number on sick list 4


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5 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.15pm: Leave to 2nd part starboard watch till 11pm

Hands to make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 4


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6 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

10.00am: Divisions, landed church parties

1.15pm: Leave to 1st part starboard watch till 11pm

Number on sick list 4


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7 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

pm: 1 rating rejoined ship from “Egmont”

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am

5.00pm: 3 ratings joined ship from “Benbow”

6.00pm: Canteen leave to 1st part port watch till 10pm

Number on sick list 4


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8 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

8.00am: Slipped Hamilton Wharf

Docked into No 3 Dock

pm: Hands employed surveying cable

4.30pm: Weekday leave rota continues


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9 August 1922

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: 1 rating rejoined ship from hospital

Number on sick list 3


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10 August 1922

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 2


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11 August 1922

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Leave to starboard watch till 7am Monday

Leave to 1st part port watch till 11pm

Number on sick list 2


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12 August 1922

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

1.30pm: Leave to 2nd part port watch till 11pm

Hands to make & mend clothes

3.45pm: 1 rating rejoined ship from “Egmont”

Number on sick list 2


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13 August 1922

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

10.00am: Divisions, landed church parties

1.30pm: Leave to 1st part port watch till 11pm

Number on sick list 1


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14 August 1922

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: Weekday leave rota resumes

Number on sick list 1


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15 August 1922

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

Number on sick list 1


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16 August 1922

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.00pm: Read warrant no 7

Number on sick list 1


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17 August 1922

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

11.00am: Read warrant no 8

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 1


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18 August 1922

Malta[dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

4.30pm: 1 rating rejoined ship

Number on sick list 0


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19 August 1922

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

pm: Hands make & mend clothes

Number on sick list 0


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20 August 1922

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.30am: Church parties landed, Divisions

Number on sick list 0


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21 August 1922

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: 1 rating (telegraphist) joined ship

Number on sick list 1


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22 August 1922

Malta [dry dock]

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

pm: 1 rating (telegraphist) discharged to “Diligence”


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23 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

6.30am: Flooded Dock

am: Undocked by tug “Ancient”

Secured alongside “Chrysanthemum” at Parlatorio Wharf


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24 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

pm: Hands to make & mend clothes

6 ratings discharged from ship

4.30pm: 4 ratings joined ship


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25 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51


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26 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

7.25am: Tug “Cracker” secured alongside, cast off, proceeded alongside Hamilton Wharf

am: 1 rating discharged to “Tuscan”


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27 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

9.00am: Church parties landed

10.00am: Divisions


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28 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51


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29 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

pm: “Tuscan” secured alongside


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30 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51


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31 August 1922

Malta

Lat 35.89, Long 14.51

am: Hands employed transferring Gunner’s and Coxswain’s stores to “Tuscan”

Noon: Paid monthly payment

pm: Hands employed transferring stores etc to “Tuscan”

4.00pm: Quarters. Crew transferred to “Tuscan” ‘


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