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Anon: : DIARY OF H.M.S. QUEEN ELIZABETH January to May 1915

Unattributed.Printed by George Waterston & Sons Ltd.,EDINBURGH AND LONDON,1919.

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UK,slim,small 8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued, 1st edn.[Unattributed publisher but listed printer: George Waterston & Sons Ltd.,EDINBURGH AND LONDON.Printed by permission of the Admiralty but only for private circulation to Officers and Men.] NFINE.No owner inscrptn.Publisher's sharp-cornered, original plain navy blue cloth bds with plain white endpapers; each cover with an impressed,single-line bordered panel,the front panel containing bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters within it.Rear board with some light, sporadic flecking but nothing too detrimental or obtrusive.Top+fore-edges ubiquitously aged - as usual/normal - given the books age,100+ years old; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim,small 8vo HB,1st edn,4-50pp includes short,daily diary entries spanning from the first,21st April,1915 to the last,26th May,1915 (3.a.m. Anchored in Scapa Flow and joined the Grand Fleet.),12pp contemporary b/w photographs - includes frntis and contemporary b/w portrait photograph of the ship's Captain and 2pp b/w regional map diagrams - all interspersed throughout the text and the book,appendices I+II (Log of Trawler 448 - a damaged ship - then repaired by crew members of HMS Queen ELizabeth,before recommencing minesweeping duties,and also Honours gained by Officers and Men of the ship's crew in connection with the Dardenelles operations.); plus [unpaginated] b/w photographic frntis,b/w circular vignette illustrated title page (illustration of Queen Elizabeth I. sat on throne.) and 2pp blanks at rear of the book. Very scarce item and would be an important addition to any collection of WW1 Royal Navy ephemera. Short daily diary entries made during the first World War.This is the diary of the ship,H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth.It was the first R.N. ship to carry the name,the first entirely fuel-oil powered ship in the Royal Navy and also the first to carry 15 inch guns.Its commanding officer was Commander C.M. Forbes and Captained by G. P. W. HOPE,R.N. Launched on 16 October 1913 at Portsmouth, Hampshire,after being built in that Dockyard,and commissioned 22 December,1914.Whilst she was still undergoing testing,sea trials and workups in the Mediterranean,the ship was directed to the Dardanelles for the Allies intended attempt to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war.She was the only dreadnought battleship to participate,though a number of battlecruisers and pre-dreadnought battleships were also involved and present.The ship became the flagship for the preliminary naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign,leading the first line of British battleships in the battle of 18 March 1915. During the attempted military invasion of the Gallipoli on 25 April,H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth was the flagship for General Sir Ian Hamilton, commander of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force.After the sinking of H.M.S. Goliath by a Turkish destroyer on 12 May,H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth immediately withdrew to a safer position. She joined Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas's 5th Battle Squadron (consisting of Queen Elizabeth-class battleships) of the Grand Fleet based at Scapa Flow,but she missed the Battle of Jutland due to being in dock for maintenance.Her other wartime service generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea. On May 31st,1916 the main British and German battle fleets engaged each other in the North Sea off the coast of Denmark. Remembered as ‘Jutland’ by the British and ‘Skagerrak’ by the Germans,this enormous battle involved 279 ships and was the largest naval engagement of the First World War.Both sides suffered heavy losses of ships and men and the result was one of the most keenly felt disappointments of the war,with neither side achieving a decisive victory. In the terms of losses inflicted,the Germans had grounds for claiming a tactical victory. Fourteen British ships had been sunk and 26 damaged,compared to eleven sunk and 30 damaged on the German side.Total British casualties including captured survivors came to 6,945 compared to 3,058 German. HMS Queen Elizabeth became the Grand Fleet Flagship on Admiral Sir David Beatty’s appointment as Admiral of the Fleet 1917 and saw the German High Seas Fleet internment at Scapa Flow at the end of the First World War,when the terms of surrender were given to Admiral Von Reuter on board. Her battle honours: DARDANELLES,1915 - CRETE, 1941 - SABANG,1944 - BURMA 1944-45. H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth later served in several theatres during the Second World War,the Mediterranean Fleet,the Home Fleet,then the Eastern Fleet. Placed in reserve in August,1945,she was eventually paid off in June,and ultimately scrapped in July 1948. 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UK,slim,small 8vo HB, 1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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