{"id":218,"date":"2016-03-02T14:47:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T14:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/?p=218"},"modified":"2016-06-01T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T14:08:57","slug":"2-march-1916","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/03\/02\/2-march-1916\/","title":{"rendered":"2 March 1916"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Went up on deck soon after six and we passed about three miles off the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips22'>[Galite] Islands<\/span>, but it was very close and we could see them well. We lay about three miles off the harbour for a short time while a patrol boat came out and told us the route we were to take. We couldn&#8217;t get a mail onshore, as we had hoped. There is a very strong wind blowing and a nasty, choppy sea. I payed the men out this afternoon. There seemed to be a good many <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips37'>men-of-war<\/span> in the harbour at <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips100'>Malta<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Tomorrow we get into an area where <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips12'>a French transport<\/span> was sunk on Feb 26th. The Captain thinks it is probable we shall see something, so has given us the plan of action. If the submarine appears ahead he is going to try and ram her; if she appears on either side he is going to try to get stern on to her and go for all he&#8217;s worth, and the same if she appears astern. We&#8217;ve got a submarine guard of 48 men divided into six detachments on the fo&#8217;castle, one on the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips31'>saloon deck<\/span> on the port side amidships, one on the starboard side, and two on the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips112'>poop<\/span>. I am to have charge of one of the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips112'>poop<\/span> detachments and we&#8217;ve got to keep up a volley fire on her periscope. I think I&#8217;ve got a very good post as our <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips26'>twelve pounder<\/span> is mounted on the <span class='tooltipsall tooltipsincontent classtoolTips112'>poop<\/span>, so we ought to do some good between us.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Shall turn in early.<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips12','The SS <em>La Provence<\/em>, sunk by torpedo on February 26<sup>th<\/sup> 1916.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips22','The Galite Islands are a rocky group of islands off the north coast of Tunisia.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips26','A type of gun \u2013 \u2018twelve pounder\u2019 refers to it\u2019s projectile weight.'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips31','The deck on the same level as the saloon, often used by passengers'); <\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips37','An expression used to describe a type of ship, usually a powerful warship.'); <\/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><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> toolTips('.classtoolTips112','The highest deck of a ship, usually on the roof of the cabin in the stern of the ship'); <\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went up on deck soon after six and we passed about three miles off the [Galite] Islands, but it was very close and we could see them well. We lay about three miles off the harbour for a short time while a patrol boat came out and told us the route we were to take. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/2016\/03\/02\/2-march-1916\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2 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-218","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\/218","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=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ww1digitaldiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}