Personal war diary of Nathaniel John Wakeham, item 43

• February 2, 2018 11:41:58 Robert Morgan

  another Christmas has come round and we are still at war but the empire's confidence in you remains determined to win.  May God bless you and protect you George R.  Immediately after this signal we received Captain D's greetings:-  Raise steam for 20 knots by 4:30pm for patrol off Skros enemies submarines reported.  A very enjoyable Christmas. NO. 

  Dec 26th   At sea escorting.  

  Dec 27th   At sea escorting received SOS from French Battleship Gaulois struck by Torpedo off Cape Matapan she sank bu only 4 casualties. 

  Dec 28th   Arrived Moudros 8am. 

  Dec 29th   At Moudros.  

  Dec 30th 31st   At sea escorting. 

  January 1st   At sea. SS Ivania chased by sub but escaped. 

  Jan 2nd   Arrived Moudros 8am.   

  Jan 3rd 4th   At Moudros.

  Jan 5th 6th 7th   At sea escorting. Plenty of submarines. 

  Jan 8th   Arrived Moudros 8am.  Taken in hand for boiler cleaning .  HMS Cornwallis sunk by submarine off Malta Casualties 13 killed.   seaplane carrier sunk by gun fire off Asia Minor.  Casualties 1 officer 4 men 

  Jan 9th to 12th   Boiler cleaning and more mountan climb  ... 

  Jan 13th 14th 15th   At sea escorting.

  Jan 16th   Arrived Moudros 8am.

  Jan 17th   Left for Dardanelles patrol very bad weather. arrived on patrol 10:45am. Being there is no shooting going on we go to tactics,  no object. 

  Jan 18th   Doing tactics otherwise as per usual. At 11am trawler hoisted signal for minesin sight we iinvestigated but found nothing. 

  Jan 19th   On patrol.  More tactics and weather worse, enemy opened fire on one of our aeroplanes flying over Cape Helles but she returned safely. 

  Jan 20th   Left patrol escorting sub E25  9am sight mine right ahead of us, sunk mine and arrived Moudros 1pm. 

  Jan 21st   At Moudros  NE gale not sorry to be in Harbour

  Jan 22nd   Still at Moudros. 

  Jan 23rd    Left for Dardanelles patrol at 4:30pm. 

  Jan 24th  Received SOS from SS Rammetezon in collision at 4:25am with ship name not known.  Received signal to close Triad VA yacht as she needed assistance.  Left patrol at full speed met Triad at 9am, but could get along alright. Triad   

• February 2, 2018 11:25:28 Robert Morgan

  another Christmas has come round and we are still at war but the empire's confidence in you remains determined to win.  May God bless you and protect you George R.  Immediately after this signal we received Captain D's greetings:-  Raise steam for 20 knots by 4:30pm for patrol off Skros enemies submarines reported.  A very enjoyable Christmas. NO. 

  Dec 26th   At sea escorting.  

  Dec 27th   At sea escorting received SOS from French Battleship Gaulois struck by Torpedo off Cape Matapan she sank bu only 4 casualties. 

  Dec 28th   Arrived Moudros 8am. 

  Dec 29th   At Moudros.  

  Dec 30th 31st   At sea escorting. 

  January 1st   At sea. SS Ivania chased by sub but escaped. 

  Jan 2nd   Arrived Moudros 8am.   

  Jan 3rd 4th   At Moudros.

  Jan 5th 6th 7th   At sea escorting. Plenty of submarines. 

  Jan 8th   Arrived Moudros 8am.  Taken in hand for boiler cleaning .  HMS Cornwallis sunk by submarine off Malta Casualties 13 killed.   seaplane carrier sunk by gun fire off Asia Minor.  Casualties 1 officer 4 men 

  Jan 9th to 12th   Boiler cleaning and more mountan climb  ... 

  Jan 13th 14th 15th   At sea escorting.

  Jan 16th   Arrived Moudros 8am.

  Jan 17th   Left for Dardanelles patrol very bad weather. arrived on patrol 10:45am. Being there is no shooting going on we go to tactics,  no object. 

  Jan 18th   Doing tactics otherwise as per usual. At 11am trawler hoisted signal for minesin sight we iinvestigated but found nothing. 

  Jan 19th   On patrol.  More tactics and weather worse, enemy opened fire on one of our aeroplanes flying over Cape Helles but she returned safely. 

  Jan 20th   Left patrol escorting sub E25  9am sight mine right ahead of us, sunk mine and arrived Moudros 1pm. 

  Jan 21st   

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• February 2, 2018 00:41:30 Robert Morgan

  another Christmas has come round and we are still at war but the empire's confidence in you remains determined to win.  May God bless you and protect you George R.  Immediately after this signal we received Captain D's greetings:-  Raise steam for 20 knots by 4:30pm for patrol off Skros enemies submarines reported.  A very enjoyable Christmas. NO. 

  Dec 26th   At sea escorting.  

  Dec 27th   At sea escorting received SOS from French Battleship Gaulois struck by Torpedo off Cape Matapan she sank bu only 4 casualties. 

  Dec 28th   Arrived Moudros 8am. 

  Dec 29th   At Moudros.  

  Dec 30th 31st   At sea escorting. 

  January 1st   At sea. SS Ivania chased by sub but escaped. 

  Jan 2nd   Arrived Moudros 8am. 

  
  

  
  

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• February 2, 2018 00:40:53 Robert Morgan

  another Christmas has come round and we are still at war but the empire's confidence in you remains determined to win.  May God bless you and protect you George R.  Immediately after this signal we received Captain D's greetings:-  Raise steam for 20 knots by 4:30pm for patrol off Skros enemies submarines reported.  A very enjoyable Christmas. NO. 

  Dec 26th   At sea escorting.  

  Dec 27th   At sea escorting received SOS from French Battleship Gaulois struck by Torpedo off Cape Matapan she sank bu only 4 casualties. 

  Dec 28th   Arrived Moudros 8am. 

  Dec 29th   At Moudros.  

  Dec 30th 31st   At sea escorting. 

  January 1st   At sea. SS Ivania chased by sub but escpaed. 

  Jan 2nd   Arrived Moudros 8am. 

  
  

  
  

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