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Manuscript account (15pp), with typed transcription (9pp), written up shortly after the events described and detailing his experiences of the Battle of Dogger Bank on 24 January 1915 while serving as a Royal Navy Yeoman of Signals in the Harwich Force destroyer HMS MIRANDA, giving a vivid account of the 'dash', in company with other 3rd Destroyer Flotilla ships, to engage with the elements of the German High Seas Fleet reported to be heading for Dogger Bank in the North Sea, narrating the ensuing battle as he witnessed it from MIRANDA, with particular reference to the actions around the German armoured cruiser SMS BLÜCHER, which was crippled and sunk by torpedoes from HMS ARETHUSA, the author describing the "sickening" sight of many of her crew being killed in their fall from the decks as she went down, and the rescue of survivors in the water (made more hazardous by gratuitous bombing by a German seaplane); with two photographs of Ramsay and his wife (?) and of MIRANDA and BLÜCHER during the battle.
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Manuscript account (15pp), with typed transcription (9pp), written up shortly after the events described and detailing his experiences of the Battle of Dogger Bank on 24 January 1915 while serving as a Royal Navy Yeoman of Signals in the Harwich Force destroyer HMS MIRANDA, giving a vivid account of the 'dash', in company with other 3rd Destroyer Flotilla ships, to engage with the elements of the German High Seas Fleet reported to be heading for Dogger Bank in the North Sea, narrating the ensuing battle as he witnessed it from MIRANDA, with particular reference to the actions around the German armoured cruiser SMS BLÜCHER, which was crippled and sunk by torpedoes from HMS ARETHUSA, the author describing the "sickening" sight of many of her crew being killed in their fall from the decks as she went down, and the rescue of survivors in the water (made more hazardous by gratuitous bombing by a German seaplane); with two photographs of Ramsay and his wife (?) and of MIRANDA and BLÜCHER during the battle.
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