Frank Swannell Diaries: Part I
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| − | Move out 5:15 - get your peashooter ready - go aft & see 2 R.N. gunners prepare our 4.7 for action - some 40 ships leave with us - 2 destroyers & | + | |
| + | Move out 5:15 - get your peashooter ready - go aft & see 2 R.N. gunners prepare our 4.7 for action - some 40 ships leave with us - 2 destroyers & Monitor in offing - over 50 ships enter when gate in U-boat nets opened - chalk cliffs of France very distant. | ||
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| + | Fine day - pass the Lizard 4pm - Eddystone light in the evening. Steering zig-zag course and with lights dowsed | ||
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| + | Last day of zig-zag course - 15 degree W. of danger zone. Service by Purser in morning & by our clerical friend in evening - unbelievably narrow the church has made England what it is | ||
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| + | BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 5 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1916. | ||
Revision as of Dec 1, 2015, 3:42:15 PM
On Cunard liner "Ascania"
Move out 5:15 - get your peashooter ready - go aft & see 2 R.N. gunners prepare our 4.7 for action - some 40 ships leave with us - 2 destroyers & Monitor in offing - over 50 ships enter when gate in U-boat nets opened - chalk cliffs of France very distant.
Fine day - pass the Lizard 4pm - Eddystone light in the evening. Steering zig-zag course and with lights dowsed
Last day of zig-zag course - 15 degree W. of danger zone. Service by Purser in morning & by our clerical friend in evening - unbelievably narrow the church has made England what it is
BC Archives, MS-0392 Box 1 Volume 5 / FRANK SWANNELL PAPERS / Diary and enclosures, 1916.