Iles war diary, 1914-1919 / G. H. Iles - Page 300
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until we reversed our course and followed in the wake of the German Fleet dividing them from their harbours of refuge and which would probably never again witness their arrival – The battleship of the French Navy Admiral Aube and also the destroyers "Henry" and "Mayon" took part in the surrender of the enemy fleet.
The enemy ships were brought to anchor north east of Inchkeith in respective lines about noon surrounded on all sides by various powerful squadrons of our own ships - and each German warship had to be very thoroughly searched by a corresponding ships search party of men selected from one of our destroyers and which had been known to have fought that individual ship or its namesake previously, - thus the "Melbourne" had to search the German Light Cruiser "Nurmberg" as we had searched so many thousands of miles for her in the Pacific Ocean whilst the "Sydney" had to supply a search