Put out to sea about 12.30. German High Sea Fleet supposed to be out.
May 29th 1915
May 29th 1915
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Category Archives: A Diary of War
May 28th 1915
Action stations in forenoon.
May 28th 1915
May 27th 1915
Scraped pinnace all day. 4″ gun drill in forenoon.
May 27th 1915
May 26th 1915
Joined up with side party & painted over ship’s side. Carried on until 5.0.p.m. Boxing Competitions in evening.
May 26th 1915
May 25th 1915
Left off jerseys for summer. Search light training in forenoon & then carried on with pinnace all day.
May 25th 1915
May 24th 1915
(Whit Monday).. Starboard Watch aired bedding & hung blankets on line. Scrubbed decks & cleaning quarters before breakfast. Scraping sailing pinnace all day.
May 24th 1915
May 23rd 1915
Whit Sunday. Scrubbed decks & flats & went to cleaning quarters before breakfast. Divisions and church in forenoon. Some hands told off to take in painters stones etc. Pipe down in afternoon. Lovely day so got head down on upper deck. Duty Sub. Got paint down in 1st dog. Worked derrick in last dog. Slept under fore-shelter deck.
May 23rd 1915
May 22nd 1915
Thick fog came on about 12 o’clock. Very hard to find way along channel. Nearly ran into one island. Managed to get through outer gates and then anchored. Both watches called about 1.30 to get nets out. Finished about 3.0.a.m. Got head down on Mess Table and did not turn in. Hands called at 5.15. Shifted into coaling rig straight away. Fog still pretty thick. Breakfast at 6.30. Fog lifted about 9.30 and so got in nets and got under way again. Moored at Rosyth. Coaled from Agnes Duncan. 720 tons. Started about 11 o’clock. Finished at 1.30. Had dinner & cleaned up ship n afternoon.
May 22nd 1915
May 21st 1915
Scrubbed upper deck & cleaning quarters before breakfast. Cleaned in No 2’s. Commander in Chief, Sir John Jellicoe, came on board. Ships company marched past. Put out to sea about 11.0.am. Very misty when we left. Buzz that escorting destroyer sighted submarine just outside harbour.
May 21st 1915
May 20th 1915
Holy stoned decks before breakfast. Went just outside harbour about 8. o’clock. Fired 2 rounds per gun 13.5. Good firing. Cleaned paintwork on upper deck in forenoon. On Mess deck in afternoon. Sub-calibre firing. Returned to harbour in 1st dog. Pipe down in afternoon. Had watch from 10.30 to 1.30 AM.
May 20th 1915