Ouvry, John Garnault Delanaize (Oral history)

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British officer served aboard HMS Tiger with 1st Battlecruiser Sqdn, Battlecruiser Fleet in GB coastal waters and North Sea, 1914-1916; served aboard HMS Inconstant, 6th Light Cruiser Sqdn in North Sea, 1916-1918; served with Torpedo and Mining Electrical School at HMS Vernon, Portsmouth, GB, 1939

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REEL 1 Aspects of period as cadet with Royal Naval College, Osborne, GB, 1909-1914: joining college, 1909; reaction to outbreak of First World War and period aboard training cruiser HMS Mars, 8/1914. Recollections of period as midshipman aboard HMS Tiger, 1st Battlecruiser Sqdn, Battlecruiser Fleet in GB coastal waters and North Sea, 1914-1915: conditions for and status as midshipman; attitude to Germans; opinion of Grand Fleet; move to Rosyth; efforts to counter German raids on East coast. Recollections of operations aboard HMS Tiger, 1st Battlecuiser Sqdn, Battlecruiser Fleet during Battle of Dogger Bank, 1/1915: action station roles looking for German submarines and as messenger to captain in conning tower; visibility; effects of German shelling of HMS Lion; transfer of Admiral David Beatty to destroyer HMS Attack; escape of German battlecruisers; sinking of SMS Blucher; damage to HMS Lion; question of effect of long ranges and vulnerability to shells; damage to ship; personal morale; casualties; threat of German submarines. Recollections of operations as aboard HMS Tiger, 1st Battlecruiser Sqdn, Battlecruiser Fleet during Battle of Jutland in North Sea, 31/5/1916-1/6/1916: lack of forewarning of action. REEL 2 Continues: action stations on starboard QF 6 Inch Naval Gun battery; accuracy of early German fire; sinking of HMS Queen Mary and HMS Indefatigable, 31/5/1916; question of battlecruiser vulnerability to plunging shells; effects of German shells hitting HMS Lion; turn north and reaction to seeing Grand Fleet open fire; German turn away and destroyer torpedo attack; losses in 1st Battlecrusier Sqdn; reaction to sight of sinking HMS Invincible, 31/5/1916; nature of inconclusive night actions; damage to ship; accuracy of German range finders; gas mask; personal morale under German shell fire; meeting with 2nd Battle Sqdn, Grand Fleet, 1/6/1916. Aspects of operations as officer aboard HMS Inconstant, 6th Light Cruiser Sqdn in North Sea, 1916-1918: ineffectiveness of long range fire; officer's narrow escape form bursting shell; recieving support from HMS Repulse; breaking off action on arrival of German battleship reinforcements. Recollections of period as officer with the Admiralty Torpedo, Mining and Electrical School, HMS Vernon, Portsmouth, GB, 1939: pre-war role in development of non-contact magnetic and acoustic mines. REEL 3 Continues: ships lost from non-contact mines; German seaplane missions dropping mines in estuaries; discovery of German magnetic mines exposed in low water at Shoeburyness, 11/1939, including sending for non-magnetic brass tools, discovery of mine's safety pin nearby, removal of magnetic firing devices, detonators and priming charges; report to First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill; examination of magnetic mine at HMS Vernon and subsequent development of minesweepers; reiteration of discovery of mine's safety pin; contrast in nature of German and British magnetic mines.

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Category: Sound
Related period: 1945-1989 (production), First World War (content), First World War (association), Second World War (association)
Creator: IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (Recorder)
Ouvry, John Garnault Delanaize (Interviewee/Speaker)
Production date: 1986-04-15
Dimensions: whole: Duration 90, Number Of Items 3
Catalogue number: 9260

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