Iles war diary, 1914-1919 / G. H. Iles - Page 265
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April 27th Was spent holding an enquiry into the loss of our late shipmate, Callaghan.
April 29th We received orders to prepare for sea, and in due course we were ordered to weigh anchor and proceed on convoy duties at 6 P.M. – the weather at the time being fair and bright.
April 30th During the forenoon we picked up our Scandinavian convoy and proceeded on our course for Bergen.
May 1st At 4 P.M. our convoy entered Bergen having fortunately having lost no ships this time and as speedily as possible the returning convoy came out to sea, and our course was shaped for Lerwick, - weather was still nice and fine.
May 2nd During the last dog watch (6 to 8 PM) the leading ships entered Lerwick and as soon as we saw that all were perfectly safe we shaped our course for our base, putting on a good speed en route
May 3rd At 7 am. we once again arrived off Charlestown and dropped anchor, and