A Naval Life

The Story of a Naval Life – narrated by Iain Dunn

Commodore Sir Hugh Justin Tweedie commanded the destroyer flotillas of the Grand Fleet during World War I.

Here is his account of life with the Grand Fleet, and the last act of the war,
the Surrender of the German High Seas Fleet.

You can listen to other audio accounts of the surrender from his daughter Mona who was eight at the time, Lord Cameron, and Midshipman Adam who served with the 20th flotilla of mine-laying destroyers out of Immingham.

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1. Taking up command of the Thirteenth Destroyer Flotilla

2. Rosyth – falling foul of the Admiral Superintendent at Rosyth

3. Organizing the flotilla – combined gunnery and torpedo practice

4. November 1917 – surprising the enemy

5. Promotion to Commodore of the Grand Fleet destroyers

6. Life in Scapa Flow

7. Early 1918 – arrival of the US Battle Squadron

8. The Winter of 1917-1918 – concerns about the readiness of the flotilla

9. A run-in with the Commander in Chief

10. October 1918 – a close encounter with the High Seas Fleet

11. An oil pipe-line from Clyde to the Forth

12. Disaster strikes – destroyers lost in Spring 1918

13. Summer 1918 – moving the Grand Fleet from Scapa to Rosyth

14. November 1918 – Armistice celebrations and a Royal Review

15. November 1918 – Surrender of the German Fleet