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1915.
long journey. The Post Office, faithful to its contract, even delivered turkeys which had left Australia 5 months previously, & these told their own elequent tale. However, in less than 24 hours, all semblance of the huge mail had disappeared.
April. 11.
One Sunday evening all ships were ordered to raise steam for full speed, & we proceeded to sea at 11 p.m. Nobody knew exactly for what purpose we were going out, but, apparently, large bodies of troops were being despatched across the Channel, & we were out to prevent the German Fleet making a raid on our transports. For 4 days we patrolled the North Sea, but we saw no enemy, except the periscope of a submarine. Immediately this was sighted the whole Fleet was ordered to zig-zag at full speed, until we were well out of danger. The policy of zig-zagging was carried out at regular intervals day & night on all occasions, in order to frustrate attacks by hostile submarines.
April. 14.
While at Sea H.M.S. "Lion", which had been badly damaged in the North Sea action of January 26th. off the Dogger Bank, joined up with us & now took her place in the Battle cruiser fleet, having been repaired & made serviceable. For a few days we were kept in a very restless state by the Admiralty. Sometimes we