Iles war diary, 1914-1919 / G. H. Iles - Page 148
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she returned to the ship, having discovered nothing but were informed by the people that a German ship had previously been laying at anchor in the river for 42 days, - this seems incredible, and may quite possibly been prearranged, - this was supposed to have been about 3 months ago, so all we could do was to weigh anchor and proceed but we remained until
March 7th at 4 am. we got under weigh and proceeded to Mangos Island and where we arrived at 11 am. and cruised around, - finding nothing there we proceeded at 2 P.M. to a rendezvous and to where we duly arrived at 8.30 PM. to await the arrival of our collier.
March 8th at 5 am. H.M.S. Glasgow (made famous by the battle off Coronel and Falklands) appeared on the horizon, in company with our collier – at 6.30 Glasgow anchored abreast of us followed shortly afterwards by collier doing likewise – we were then informed that the 'Glasgow' had just been recommissioned with a new crew at St Vincent and that she was returning to her previous station