Iles war diary, 1914-1919 / G. H. Iles - Page 167
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Bay at 7o/c am. "Mardeillaise" and "Isis" were also laying at anchor, whilst "Caesar" and "Charydis" [Charybdis] were alongside dockyard wall – At 9 am we proceeded to go alongside dockyard wall for refit – "Charydis" had her bows severely battered in as the result of a collision with one of the West Indies fruit boats
July 4th [1916] "Marseillaise" departed am.
July 5th "Caesar" went out for firing courses
July 7th at 6 am. "Carnarvon" anchored in Grassy Bay
July 9th at 2 PM. "Isis" went to sea.
July 13th at 9 am we entered floating dock.
July 14th one of our lads, A.B. McKenzie met with a nasty accident in dry dock by one of the piles falling upon him, striking him in the back, he was in consequence conveyed to the Naval Hospital
July 25th At 6.30 am. "Cumberland" went out to Grassy Bay and there anchored. Suffolk alongside dockyard wall to coal etc