Volume Twelve - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - further aspects - The Bristol Channel District Guide - selected articles - [1934 Edition] . . . .

Name of Ship.	Date of Departure.	Date returned.
Lady Ismay	Dec. 2, 1914	Sunk Dec. 21, 1915
Britannia	Feb. 5, 1915	April 8, 1919 - To Glasgow
Glen Usk	Feb. 5, 1915	April 11, 1919
Ravenswood	July 1, 1915	March 5, 1919
Albion	July 1, 1915	Feb. 15, 1919
Barry (now Waverley)	July 24, 1915	Sept. 27, 1919 - To Troon
Waverley	May 30, 1917	March 17, 1919
Glen Rosa	May 30, 1917	March 23, 1919

It will be seen from this list that the old veterans, the " Waverley, " and " Ravenswood, " and the bonny little " Albion " and " Glen Rosa, " as well as the later and larger vessels of the fleet, went forth on the " great adventure, " and braved, oft-times, the fury of the heavy gales on work for which they were certainly never intended. And, in spite of all the dangers, they came back.

" The Devonia Unit. "

In this unit figured the " Devonia, " the " Brighton Queen, " the " Westward Ho ! " the " Cambria, " and the " Glen Avon. "

In the early days of the war - from December, 1914, to January, 1915 - they were engaged in sweeping the mines laid by German cruisers, including the " Von Der Tann, " after the bombardment of the North East Coast, and from Scarborough they went to the Thames Estuary, where they helped in keeping the Channel routes clear of mines, at times bombed by aircraft.

Next they are found off Beachy Head, owing to submarine activity there, during which a local trader was sunk. Early in March of 1915, the flotilla was employed in sweeping clear, to allow our old-class cruisers to bombard the germans on the Belgium Coast, and once again the Bristol boats were attacked by aircraft.