Item 01: J. E. Morrison diary, 13 October 1917-29 October 1918 - Page 123
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were badly damaged. The observer & pilot 2 men were badly shaken but otherwise none the worse. They were on their way out from the hydrodome to seek Hun submarines & had 4 56 lbs bombs suspending & as luck happened the bombs stuck to the machine & did not explode otherwise they would have been blown up & hundreds of us killed & injured that were on the beach bathing at the time. The remains was taken to pieces & placed on motor lorries & taken back to the base.
25.7.18
Ship's bottom painted antifouling paint. Also both propellors were taken off & after stern tubes repacked. The propellors each weigh 9 tons 14 cwt. & at 8 am towed out of dock & made fast at the coal wharf, took in 1000 tons of coal bunkers.
A barge full of case petrol oil towed from Alexandria to Port Said by a armed trawler. 2 submarines appeared when half way. The subs got the barge & fired on the trawler. The crew abandoned ship the sub took them prisnors & emptied some of the cases of oil into the subs. A British sloop heard the wireless calls & went to the trawlers assistance