Story
Arthur William Grist served aboard H.M.S. Fearless.
Place of Service
HMS Fearless was flotilla leader of the 1st Destroyer Flotilla and was transferred to the Harwich Force shortly after the war began. She participated in the Battle of Heligoland Bight and the Cuxhaven Raid. She was transferred to the Grand Fleet in early 1915 and played a minor role in the Battle of Jutland the following year. She was converted into a submarine depot ship shortly afterwards and briefly deployed to Russia later in the year. She later became the flotilla leader of the 12th Submarine Flotilla, initially based in Scapa Flow, but later in Rosyth. In early 1918, she accidentally rammed and sank a submarine from a different flotilla as part of an incident that sardonically came to be known as the Battle of May Island.