Scrubbed decks & flats before breakfast. Aired bedding. Mustered bedding at Divisions. Mess deck painting party all day. 

May 4th 1915

Cook of Mess. Started coaling at 5.30. Took in 420 tons. Finished before breakfast. Cleaned ship in forenoon. Cleaning Quarters in afternoon. Had dance in evening.

May 3rd 1915

Scrubbed decks and mess decks before breakfast. Cleaned and went to Divisions. Cook of Mess. Church in forenoon. Presentation to Lady Beatty after dinner. Admiral made a speech. 2nd part of Starboard Watch landed. Lovely day and had very nice walk abour Queen’s ferry. Coaling tomorrow. 

May 2nd 1915

Holystoned decks before breakfast. Cleaned flats in forenoon and then gun quarters. Paid during dinner hour. Pipe down in afternoon except for getting in meat and spuds. Quarters at 4 o’clock. Cook of Mess tomorrow. Spent dog Watches preparing dinner.

May 1st 1915

Scrubbed decks and quarters clean guns before breakfast. Got nets out in forenoon. Mess deck painting party. Got nets in first thing in afternoon and then carried on painting foremost mess deck. 

April 30th 1915

Scrubbed decks & mess deck before breakfast. Had Divisions and told off to clean Sailing Pinnace out. 4″ guns crews to drill from 10.30 to 11.15. Make & mend in afternoon. Quarters at 4 o’clock. Funeral of chap who was killed in Collier.

April 29th 1915

Scrubbed decks and cleaned guns before breakfast. Got in awnings in afternoon. White Searchlight crews to drill at 10.30. Took awning etc. over to hulk in afternoon. Provisioning ship. Stowed 6 cases of cordite in first dog. Had dance on deck in evening.

April 28th 1915

Still painting ship. Painted ships side in forenoon & afternoon. Cleaning quarters at 3.15. Duty Sub. Got in first picket boat at 8 o’clock. Had dance on upper deck with Colin in evening. Slept under foreshelter deck.

April 27th 1915

Hands shifted into painting rig first thing. Holystoned decks before breakfast. Started painting directly after breakfast. Painted stump derrick in forenoon and hatches in afternoon. Plowman got German Measles. Plowman went to hospital with German Measles.

April 26th 1915 a

April 26th 1915 b

Scrubbed decks and cleaned flats before breakfast. Cleaning into No 3’s during breakfast hour and mustered by open list afterwards. Church in forenoon. Spent afternoon on upper deck with Colin. Very fine day. Quarters at 4.p.m. Chap who got hurt in collier yesterday died.

April 25th 1915

Ed: The sailor who died that day was Harry Glanfield, 20, of Kingsteignton, Devon. The link is to the Devon Heritage site.