Item 01: Fred Hamilton-Kenny letter diary, 29 August-19 October 1914 - Page 37
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[Page 37]
a day's trip with these chaps - Not that there was very much chance of this being allowed but I wanted the experience & should have gone like a shot if I'd been allowed - Lucky I waited - Out here – you know – with all the crowd no one thinks of danger or of the future - We heard yesterday that we are supposed to have done very well to get here & that we ran a very big risk – hence the darking - Our men I told you made a torpedo tube & one & all meant to have launched or at any rate attempted to launch one – bang – at any ship that bailed us up - If we'd blown up the Protector by mistake I wonder what the Admiralty wd - have said!!!
Well, well - Moore I didn't see much of but poor Scarlett's end is tragic – that beautiful bright cynical boy & poor Besant, thoughtful with a sweet smile & a kind voice & a lovely manner - Then there's the men – the Stokers - Dare devils - You should see a submarine & yet for a few shillings – sometimes but one extra per week these chaps cheerfully & willingly risk their lives – day by day – week in & week out & think nothing of it