Signal log containing a journal kept by Lieutenant-Commander George Gipps, between 1 August 1914 and 13 February 1915. It mainly covers his service on the battleship HMS TRIUMPH (1903) during the Siege of Tsingtao (Qingdao) in China. The written record is supported by photographs, charts, drawings and newspaper cuttings.

Some of the photographs show personnel of the 2nd Battalion, The South Wales Borderers, and the 36th Sikhs, who landed at Lao Shan Bay to assist the Japanese forces which later occupied the German naval base at Tsingtao. The journal ends with the TRIUMPH at Port Said, bound for the Dardanelles campaign.

Some additions have been made in a different hand. Loose envelopes and a typescript draft found in the volume indicate that the notes were made by Commander Harry Pursey. The draft is for his paper on the Siege of Tsingtao, based on Gipp’s journal.