{"id":216,"date":"2016-03-01T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T14:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=216"},"modified":"2016-06-01T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:44:07","slug":"1-march-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/03\/01\/1-march-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"1 March 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another fine day; we are still in sight of the African coast, but no nearer in. I was officer of the watch from 6 am to 2 pm, in charge of the submarine guard. At about ten o&#8217;clock we passed the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips25'>Galita Islands<\/span>, one biggish one and several small cone-shaped ones. They looked very wild and rocky.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>About half past ten we had a message from a French steamer saying a submarine had fired two torpedoes at her, but missed, so we had all the men paraded at their boats with life belts on and the boats all ready to be lowered away. The Captain told us to make the men keep their life belts on all day and he began steering a zig-zag course. By noon today from noon yesterday we have run 334 miles and are only 250 miles from <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips100'>Malta<\/span> now. We ought to get there early tomorrow morning.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We had to stop for an hour last night as we burst a steam pipe.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We passed <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips60'>Cape Bon<\/span>, the northernmost point of Africa, at about four o&#8217;clock. The sea became very smooth &amp; only towards evening and seemed alive with porpoises, they came close alongside the ship.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The sea is full of phosphorus tonight and very calm.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The men have got to wear their life belts now, night and day, till we get in.<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips25','The Galite Islands are a rocky group of islands off the north coast of Tunisia.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips60','The northernmost point of Africa is generally considered to be Ras ben Sakka, near the Tunisian city of Bizerte. The Cape Bon peninsula is to the northeast.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips100','From 1915, Malta became known as the \u2018Nurse of the Mediterranean\u2019 due to it\u2019s role as a hospital island.'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another fine day; we are still in sight of the African coast, but no nearer in. I was officer of the watch from 6 am to 2 pm, in charge of the submarine guard. At about ten o&#8217;clock we passed the Galita Islands, one biggish one and several small cone-shaped ones. They looked very wild &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/03\/01\/1-march-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1 March 1916<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1408,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1408"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}