H.M.S. M33. An archive of research material compiled by D. Whitfield Junior centred around his father's diary written in 1919 while on-board the M33, 24pp., 18cm x 11cm, the archive also includes approximately 64 postcards of ships and Russia, including photographic postcards titled 'Evacuation of Tuapse', 'Dead Horses' and 'Ships Sunk to Form Breakwater', newspapers, cuttings, photocopies, and a few books. Note: the diary covers a period directly after the First World War when British forces were still stationed on the Murmansk Coast and remained there in part due to frozen ports and also to protect the inhabitants of North Russia from the spreading ravages of Bolshevism. The diary does not really discuss the Russian Relief Force in any great detail but does provide an impressions of a young sailor, new to the Royal Navy as a Signalman. The diary does discuss the Russian use of mines as well as various bombardments. After the Russian expedition M33 was converted for the use as a minelayer training ship and in 1925 was renamed H.M.S. Minerva. In 2014 it was handed over to the National Museum of the Royal Navy and a programme of conservation was undertaken. The following year she was open to the public within the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. She is one of only three surviving Royal Navy warships of the First World War.