Usual Sunday Routine. Intended to land in afternoon but not enough boat accomodation again. Lovely day so read and stalled on upper deck in afternoon and evening. Zepps visited neighbourhoods but did not come anywhere near the Fleet. Dropped bombs on Edinburgh & Leith. *
April 2nd 1916
Saturday Routine. Cook of Mess. Paid in forenoon. Lady Munition Workers visited ship in afternoon. Make & mend. Head down. Lovely day.
April 1st 1916
Exercise Action in forenoon. Started painting screens to where “Secure” had sounded. Stopped painting in afternoon except to finish off where we had started as ship is going to be painted a different colour next week.
March 31st 1916
Cleaned outside of pinnace in forenoon. Part of ship in afternoon.
March 30th 1916
Got nets ready for going out before breakfast as there was a buzz that a submarine was skulking around. Aired bedding in forenoon. Told off part of Starboard should have landed in afternoon but found they had not enough boat accommodations, so we did not go.
March 29th 1916
Saturday’s Routine, before breakfast and in forenoon. 1st part of Watch provisioned from “Chesterfield”. Make & mend in afternoon. Got head down. Lovely day. Duty port.
March 28th 1916
Arrived Rosyth about 9.45. Started coaling from ‘Fernhill” about 10.30 Lovely day. Took in 1760 tons and finished about 6.0 pm. Cleaned ship by about 7.30. Very glad to turn in.
March 27th 1916
Had Middle Watch. Seemed a very long one. Glad to get into rack (?) once again. Scrubbed decks before breakfast. Started scrubbing mess deck but had only just started when “Action” sounded off. Thought there would be something doing this time. Supposed closed up all afternoon. “Secure” sounded about noon and so another disappointment. Heard afterwards that 15 German Battleships had been out, and as we had no supports, perhaps it was just as well we did not meet them. Head down in afternoon. Had first Watch. Rotten Watch. Ship washing down horribly the whole time.
March 26th 1916
Had morning Watch. Hands called at 3.45. Action Stations at 4.0.AM. Supporting air raid on German Fleet. Closed up all day until 5.0. pm.except for meals. Lovely day for an action but unfortunately nothing doing. Heard air raid was a success but do not know any definite details. Destroyers gone back to Vil (?). Think we are repeating dose(?) tomorrow.
March 25th 1916 A
March 25th 1916 B
Did not get much sleep as Stokers were returning bags & wheeling barrows about all night. Red and White watchs called at 3.15. Fell in at 4.0. White Watch on foc’sle. Got under way about 6.A.M. Exercise Action in forenoon. Notice on board to the effect that we should be near the German coast about 5.a.m. tomorrow and so good chance of scrap. Had last dog.
March 24th 1916