Todd war diary, 3 August 1914-29 February 1916 / Arthur Todd - Page 111
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little craft. In a way she had seen more active Service than any other ship afloat having been present at Coronel - for a short time - the Falkland Islands battle - and later at Juan Fernandez where the Dresden was destroyed. We were proud to be in her company and looked forward to the chance of meeting her officers.
The Glasgow had due an extensive refit in Rio as she had been badly battered at Coronel and had been hurt subsequently at the Falklands but now she showed little trace of her close call. By all the rules she should have been at the bottom of the Pacific with her flag ship. The gallant Monmouth, whose skipper had ordered the Glasgow to get away, and her 25000 horse power had preserved this ship to fight another day and wreak vengeance on her former foes. So in company we proceeded North and now began to get into wireless touch with the Gloucester and Liverpool coming South. One night the message came telling us of the Capture of the Macedonia by the Northern squadron and we now felt sure that the Kampung would not be there to meet us. Two nights later just as we reached the rendezvous we heard that the Kronprinz had interned in Newport News U.S.A. The Macedonian in sighting our cruisers had shouted a warning over the sea to the Kronprinz and the Huns seeing that the game was up made for shelter. In the darkness of night the Kronprinz ran the gauntlet of our patrolling cruiser off the American coast and went in and interned.
She was at her last gasp.
Badly battered by foul weather, and overcome by troubles and the hundred and one defects which a ship inevitably develops when she is forced