Item 01: R. T. Vowles diary, 22 August 1915-23 February 1916 - Page 60
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of an old type blazing away at some object inland, every shot making the sand fly in clouds. There were 5 cruisers & one battle cruiser, Three stood at the mouth of the canal, long slender masts & like grey wasps .
Dinner consisted of pea soup, that without a word of lie set like candle grease as soon as it got cold. This is an absolute fact, so one may guess the soup it was .I had a biscuit & a cup of water, the biscuits being hard enough to stand a brace & bit.
After dinner the warship began firing away, as we afterwards found to find the range of several points where an attack is expected at any moment. HMS JUPITER she now [night] stands off the shore with her guns trained, a dark smudge of black, grim death ready in an instant to send an iron foundry of shells into the enemy. Two other cruisers & a big battle cruiser stand right in the mouth of the canal, also ready to reply to the attack. Two