Description
Object description
Incomplete ms action diary (ca 35pp) kept in the cruiser HMS PHOEBE and containing a minute by minute record of the ship's operations in the Mediterranean from August 1942 - February 1944, including the Pedestal convoy to Malta and the Anzio landings, and then with the Eastern Fleet, July - October 1944; two bound volumes of extracts from 'Full Moon', a light hearted ship's magazine produced in HMS PHOEBE during her service in the Eastern Fleet between April and October 1945 and containing humorous ts articles, verses and letters and original and newspaper cartoons referring in particular to living conditions and social activities in the ship and the prospects of demobilisation; a collection of ms and ts scripts for use in ship's concerts; a good group of naval signals relating to VE and VJ Days; an illuminated scroll presented to Pollard, PHOEBE's Chaplain RNVR from 1943 to 1945, by the ship's engine room department in June 1945; and an identified group photograph of HMS PHOEBE's officers including Pollard
Content description
Incomplete ms action diary (ca 35pp) kept in the cruiser HMS PHOEBE and containing a minute by minute record of the ship's operations in the Mediterranean from August 1942 - February 1944, including the Pedestal convoy to Malta and the Anzio landings, and then with the Eastern Fleet, July - October 1944; two bound volumes of extracts from 'Full Moon', a light hearted ship's magazine produced in HMS PHOEBE during her service in the Eastern Fleet between April and October 1945 and containing humorous ts articles, verses and letters and original and newspaper cartoons referring in particular to living conditions and social activities in the ship and the prospects of demobilisation; a collection of ms and ts scripts for use in ship's concerts; a good group of naval signals relating to VE and VJ Days; an illuminated scroll presented to Pollard, PHOEBE's Chaplain RNVR from 1943 to 1945, by the ship's engine room department in June 1945; and an identified group photograph of HMS PHOEBE's officers including Pollard
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1992-09