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No case to answer? / Evershed, Bill

Evershed, Bill	Journal Article
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Publication	2013.
Summary/Abstract	A Las my start in HMS Bermuda could have been disastrous. In clearing out the officers files of the previous commission, I had piled these up in the kneehole of my desk, awaiting a chance for them to be destroyed. Now we had in the Captain's office a young sailor - we will call him Snodgrass - who was the messenger.

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Maritime Strategy ; Naval Strategy ; Maritime Security ; Military Threats ; Naval Security ; British Navy ;
Naval War ; Royal British Navy ; Submarine Strategy ; Naval Officers - RN ; Sussex ; Maritime Deployment

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Towards the Great War: the China station from August 1913 into 1914 / Parkinson, J M

Parkinson, J M	Journal Article
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2013.

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A century ago, in August 1913, the Commander in Chief, China Station was Vice Admiral Martyn Jerram. From England via the Atlantic, North America and the Pacific he had arrived at Hong Kong from Vancouver on 14 March 1913 in the CPR steamer empress of India (5,943 grt). There, on 29 March 1913, he assumed command of the station in succession to Admiral Sir Alfred Winsloe who on that day sailed for England in the P and O SS India (7,911 grt.).As befits the era, the wade-Giles from Romanisation is used where relevant.

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Maritime Strategy ; Naval Strategy ; Maritime Security ; China ; India ; Hong Kong ;
America ; Military Threats ; Pacific Region ; England ; Naval Security ; British Navy ;
Naval War ; Great War ; World War - I ; United States - US ; Indian Ocean Region - IOR ; Royal British Navy ;
Submarine Strategy ; China station ; Central Pacific Region - CPR ; Vice Admiral Martyn Jerram ; Wade-Giles ; Romanisation ;
P and O SS India ; Admiral Sir Alfred Winsloe ; Naval Officers - RN ; History - 1913 ; History - 1914

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