Wartime 'line-book', 1944-46, with additional material relating to Elkins' command of the DIDO and the courts-martial for the loss of the submarines SEAL and OSWALD. | Royal Museums Greenwich

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Wartime 'line-book', 1944-46, with additional material relating to Elkins' command of the DIDO and the courts-martial for the loss of the submarines SEAL and OSWALD.

Wartime 'line-book' 1944-46 with additional material relating back to the war 1950-54, Elkins' command of the DIDO and the courts-martial proceedings arising from the loss of the submarines SEAL and OSWALD.

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ID:	ELK/5
Type:	Manuscript
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Elkins, Robert Francis
Date made:	1944-1954-12-31; 1944-01-01 - 1954-12-31 1944-1954
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Parts:	Elkins, Sir Robert Francis, Vice-Admiral, 1903-1985. (Manuscript) Midshipman's journal, Atlantic Fleet for HOOD January 1921-April 1922, WRYNECK Apr-May 1922, WILD SWAN May-Aug 1922 and HOOD August 1922-June 1923. (Manuscript) (ELK/1) Reports and notes on the 1931 Invergordon mutiny, and letters, 1966-67, from Captain Stephen Roskill. (Manuscript) (ELK/2) Wartime 'line-book', 1938-42, about the escape of Elkins and Captain Leslie Hulls from a prisoner of war camp 1940, with some related letters. (Manuscript) (ELK/3) Wartime 'line-book', 1940-44, relating to Elkins' command of the RENOWN, plus letters from Sir James Somerville. (Manuscript) (ELK/4) Wartime 'line-book', 1944-46, with additional material relating to Elkins' command of the DIDO and the courts-martial for the loss of the submarines SEAL and OSWALD. (Manuscript) (ELK/5) Official report (copy) on Elkins and Leslie Hulls' escape from St Valery-en-Caux and crossing of the Channel in the yawl CYPRIS, 8-26 June 1940. (Manuscript) (ELK/6) First draft of Elkins' memoirs, n.d. (Manuscript) (ELK/7) A selection of sea shanties arranged for orchestra, n.d. (Manuscript) (ELK/8) Details of arrangements for Royal Occasions, including the Royal Wedding, 1947, the Silver Wedding Thanksgiving Service, 1948, and the Funeral of King George VI, 1952. (Manuscript) (ELK/9) Letters and news-cuttings relating to Len Wincott's book and his visit to England in 1974, and Elkins' television interview and remarks to the press. (Manuscript) (ELK/10) Report (plus copy) 'Aftermath of the Invergordon Mutiny', with covering letter written by Elkins to Commander H Pursey in 1975. (Manuscript) (ELK/11) Facsimile copy of the 'Times' dated 7 November 1805. (Manuscript) (ELK/12) Cutting from the 'Times' dated 16 November 1981, concerning the retirement of Admiral Hyman Rickover. (Manuscript) (ELK/13)

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