Scrubbed decks with sand before breakfast and then carried on with paintwork. Started cleaning screws in forenoon until 10.30 when recording party sounded off. Got under way about 10.30. Action Stations about 11 o’clock. Heavy gun firing 4 rounds per gun . Kept Yaw Record in lower conning tower. Good firing. 2nd part Starboard piped to dinner early and dropped hook about 1.45. Down in flats in afternoon. Put out to sea in 1st dog, leaving Scapa returning to Rosyth. Put clocks on again. Saw Lord Burghersh re commission in R.N.V.R.

(Ed: The name of the Lord is virtually impossible to decipher. I can’t imagine a Lord being on the Lion full time but Frank does not mention going ashore. The name comes up again on the 18th. He may be referring to someone on the ship’s staff, perhaps a junior officer. The Lord designation may be slang or a derogatory name for this person. If someone can figure out the spelling at least, I would be very grateful.) 

Edited April 26, 2016 thanks to the comment below.

August 16th 1916