Iles war diary, 1914-1919 / G. H. Iles - Page 257
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Mar 10th About noon bad weather began to hover about us and the glass was falling, and ere long to became so very bad that the ships of the convoy got separated, and had to reduce speed, and which resulted in our delay for a considerable time, getting the convoy together again.
Mar 11th At 8 am the convoy began to enter Bergen and the return convoy proceed to sea at 9 a.m. – we then all shaped our course for Lerwick the weather becoming much calmer
Mar 12th The convoy entered harbour during the forenoon, the U.S.A. battleships and destroyers returned to Rosyth, and as soon as we were able we also proceeded to Rosyth, and
Mar 13th arrived there at midnight anchoring off Charlestown.
Mar 14th During the forenoon we replenished coal bunkers, and owing to several cases of mumps the ship was placed in quarantine
Mar 18th We again coaled ship at 6 30 a.m.
Mar 20th At 6.30 am the squadron proceeded to the firing ground to carry out sub-calibre