From Dartmouth to the Dardanelles: A Midshipman's Log

AT 2 a.m. on the following morning we stopped both engines just outside Valetta Harbour; the guard-boat came alongside and gave us instructions to proceed to Port Said, and ther...

Nobly, nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the north-west died away; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish ’mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar la...

AS we turned out next morning the white cliffs of Portland loomed faintly through the mist ahead, and when we were within half a mile of the Shambles lightship the seven other s...

THERE are grey old Admirals in our land Who never have stood where now _you_ stand: Here on your feet, in His Majesty’s fleet, With a real live enemy close at hand!

CRASH!—Bang!—Cr-r-r-ash! I woke with a start, and sitting up in my hammock gazed around to see what had so suddenly roused me. Some of the midshipmen were already standing on th...

TWO days after leaving Zanzibar we reached Mombasa, and since no native labour was available, and the heat was too great to allow of our working by day, we commenced coaling at...

AT 4 o’clock that afternoon the _Lord Nelson_ anchored in Mudros Harbour, and shortly afterwards we were mustered on deck and then disembarked and taken to the store-ship _Fauve...

THIS summer term of 1914, destined surely to be the most momentous in the whole history of the College, nevertheless pursued its normal course until July 18, on which date began...

Your troth was broken ere the trumpets blew; Into the fight with unclean hands you rode: Your spurs were sullied, and the sword you drew Bore stain of outrage done to honour’s c...

MY first term at Dartmouth commenced on the 7th of May 1914—previously I had, of course, been through the regulation two years at Osborne College in the Isle of Wight.

“MOBILISE!” On Saturday the 1st of August, the Captain, standing at the main entrance to the College, opened the fateful telegram which contained only that one momentous word. I...

WE left the Cape about the 16th of February 1915. For several days previous to our departure we were busy taking in a quantity of stores suggestive of a land campaign.