Todd war diary, 3 August 1914-29 February 1916 / Arthur Todd - Page 101
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[Page 101]
And we had a large fleet upon her trail and her time was becoming short.
The following German ships had never been sunk away from home: Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, Leipzig, Dresden, Konigsberg, Karlsruhe, Emden, Cap Trafalgar, Kaiser Wilhelm de Grosse
The Geier, Condor, Prinz Eitel Friedrich had been captured or interned.
All these had gone within six months not a bad performance for a Navy which according to English people was doing nothing and according to the Huns was hiding in its bases.
Each night in the journey South the Admiral dined some of us in his quarters aft and what a portentous feed was offered.
Game and fish, things we hadn't seen for months except when a local Izaak Walton [famous for writing The Compleat Angler] caught a couple of gudgeons over the side - appeared from nowhere and we now began to suspect the numerous crates and boxes we took aboard with the Admiral at the Abrolhos. They were stuffed full of food & so with the aid of our "friging" he was able to put on a dinner fit for the Gods and well worth the agony of struggling