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1916.
However, during the course of the day the Admiralty ordered us back to our base, so evidently the German ships had returned to their base.
March 7.
Another "coal ship" found us all ready again.
March 11.
After a few days spell, we were off again, but only for a few hours, as we were ordered to return. It was rumoured that we were part of a fleet employed in a sweeping operation to catch some German minelayers which were known to be out laying mines. The light cruisers were said to have caught them, & brought in many prisoners, but the whole operation was kept extremely quiet. The movements of the fleet had to be kept a dead secret, only known to the Admirals in command, on account of the activity of enemy agents & spies round the Firth of Forth.
March 14.
A few days later we left Rosyth for Scapa flow, where we carried out gunnery & torpedo exercises, in perfect weather. Our stay here lasted a week, & then we returned to our new base.
March 22.
Our next adventure commenced two days later,
March 24.
when we went out to support an air raid by seaplanes on Tondern, in Schleswig-Holstein where there were Zeppelin sheds. We got to the north of Heligoland, & close to the Dutch coast, arriving there about 5am the following morning, when "action stations" was sounded off.
March 25.
The seaplane carrier was supported by destroyers & light