Description
Object description
Photocopied ms Midshipman's Journal (140pp) covering his service in HMS HOOD, the flagship of the Battle Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet, May 1920 - March 1921 and September 1921 - January 1922, and in HMS WHIRLWIND (1st Destroyer Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet), March - August 1921, giving the usual details of ship's routine, evolutions, gunnery and fleet exercises as well as covering HOOD's cruise in Scandinavian waters (June 1920) and the accidental loss of the submarine HMS K5 in Home Waters (January 1921), together with a ts letter (1p) from Commander H M Daniel RN concerning the HMS ROYAL OAK courts-martial in 1928, and a ts transcript (573pp) of his diary, with 33 related sketches and 19 photographs, recording his employment by the International Council for Non-Intervention in Spain, November 1937 - February 1939, as a Sea Observing Officer taking passage in neutral merchant ships sailing to Spanish ports during the Spanish Civil War to ensure that their cargoes did not include war materials, and including full accounts of all his voyages to Spain, conditions at Spanish ports (where air raids were not infrequent), and the views of men of many nationalities on the political situation in Europe and the fighting in Spain.
Content description
Photocopied ms Midshipman's Journal (140pp) covering his service in HMS HOOD, the flagship of the Battle Cruiser Squadron of the Atlantic Fleet, May 1920 - March 1921 and September 1921 - January 1922, and in HMS WHIRLWIND (1st Destroyer Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet), March - August 1921, giving the usual details of ship's routine, evolutions, gunnery and fleet exercises as well as covering HOOD's cruise in Scandinavian waters (June 1920) and the accidental loss of the submarine HMS K5 in Home Waters (January 1921), together with a ts letter (1p) from Commander H M Daniel RN concerning the HMS ROYAL OAK courts-martial in 1928, and a ts transcript (573pp) of his diary, with 33 related sketches and 19 photographs, recording his employment by the International Council for Non-Intervention in Spain, November 1937 - February 1939, as a Sea Observing Officer taking passage in neutral merchant ships sailing to Spanish ports during the Spanish Civil War to ensure that their cargoes did not include war materials, and including full accounts of all his voyages to Spain, conditions at Spanish ports (where air raids were not infrequent), and the views of men of many nationalities on the political situation in Europe and the fighting in Spain.
History note
Cataloguer RWAS
History note
Catalogue date 1988-04