Started winter Routine. Hands called at 6 o’clock. Breakfast & fall in at 7.25. Provisioning in forenoon. Nearly all hands told off for provisioning party. Remainder scrubbed decks with sand. Cook of Mess. Scrubbed out at 9.30. Dinner at 11.15 under new Routine. Raining & snowing in afternoon. Got platform up under port gangway.

November 9th 1915