WWI Midshipman's Diary Northern Patrol HMS Crescent, Alsation, Invincible
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SCRIMGEOUR'S |
A bound book with illustrated cover representing the small scribbling diary with endpapers to match in NEAR FINE condition in a NEAR FINE dust wrapper which only covers half the book.. 304 pages £8.00 plus P & P |
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Blurbs
Scrimgeour's wartime diaries and letters have been transcribed and compiled by descendant Richard Hallam and historian and screenwriter Mark Beynon.
An introduction by Professor Andrew Lambert provides further naval and historical context. Andrew Lambert is Laughton Professor of Naval History in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London. His work focuses on the naval and strategic history of the British Empire between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War. He lectures around the world and has published a number of highly respected books and articles.
When 19-year-old Alexander Scrimgeour lost his life in HMS Invincible at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, he left an exceptional legacy — his personal diaries and letters spanning the years 1910 to 1916. Concentrating on the years of the First World War, this book presents a rare and unique insight into the naval war through the eyes of a young midshipman. Full of sharp observations and warm wit, Alexander is at once the articulate and opinionated Royal Navy officer musing on the U-boat menace and the characters of his superiors, and the precocious adolescent reprimanding his mother, enjoyi4 'cocktails and fizz' at the Adelphi, or pining for his society sweetheart. Alexander Scrimgeour is one of the lost generation, but his voice still resonates almost a century later in these revelatory private writings, and will linger in the memory long after the last fateful pages are turned.
"I was very sorry to miss the cricket week,
as I had been looking forward to it for
months, but am perfectly contented, as I
have been looking forward to war ever
since I was a baby, and considering there
has been no naval warfare for over one hundred years, we ought to think ourselves
very, lucky that we have come in for it."
5' AUGUST 1914
"Rape, Ravage and Rant are the German
watchwords in this war. Right, Revenge &
Retrenchment shall be ours."
17' SEPTEMBER 1914
Contents
- List of Charts and Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword by Richard Hallam
- Introduction by Mark Beynon
- 'Rule Britannia': The Royal Navy in 1914 by Professor Andrew Lambert
- List of Abbreviations
- 1914
- 1915
- 1916
- Appendices
- I: Notes on Officers from the End of the 1914 Diary
- II: The Times Editorials on the Blockade, 1915
- III: Extracts from Chapter VI, Boatwork, from Manual of Seamanship, Vol. 1, 1905
- IV: Reports of Senior Officers of the Third Battle Cruiser Squadron, Battle of Jutland Official Despatches, 1916
- V: Account from the First Gunnery Officer of the Derfflinger, from Chapter VIII, Kiel and Jutland
- Index
LIST OF CHARTS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
- Rough Plan of the Disposition of Grand Fleet Before Commencing Sweep of the North Sea
- Lerwick Harbour
- Scapa Flow
- Sketch Map of Cromarty Firth Harbour
- Sketch Plan Showing Armament on HMS Crescent
- Pentland Firth
- Sketch Map of German North Sea Coast Showing Kiel Canal
- Plan Showing Arrangement of Turbines and Steam Pipes in Engine Room, HMS Alsatian
- N.W. Coast of Scotland and the Hebrides
- Faeroe Islands
- Liverpool
- Sketch Map Showing Disposition of Patrols of the 10th Cruiser Squadron on March 1st 1915
- Title Page of the Journal for the Use of Midshipmen
- The Lochs Roag
- Page 1 of the Journal for the Use of Midshipmen
- Busta Voe
- Page from the 1915 Diary
- Plate 8a from the Battle of Jutland Official Despatches
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