Shipboard newspaper kept on HMS KENT, 1914.

The item is loose inserted into corner slits of page 99. The newspaper is of 12 pages and the particular image shown is of page 5.

For the men of HMS Kent, a tense, three-month search then followed for the elusive but dangerous Dresden. Humorous poems and stories written for the ship’s on-board newspaper helped to pass the time.

Object Details

ID: WHR/2/99
Type: Manuscript
Display location: Not on display
Date made: 1914
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: 1 pamphlet/newspaper
Parts: Bound volume 'HMS Kent Log of War Commission 1914 - 1917 Volume 1'. (Manuscript)