Royal Navy
Found in 49 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), Jan 1940
(Untitled), 07 Jul 1941
Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt on plan for the defence of the Atlantic: He comments on implications of U-boat attacks for convoys and escorts, and regrets Senator Wheeler's indiscretion revealing the destination of United States expedition recently departed from Newfoundland [later part of Canada] for Iceland. [Telegram has been bound incorrectly, with first page at back].
(Untitled), 01 Mar 1941 - 31 Mar 1941
(Untitled), 31 Oct 1942
Letter from WSC to the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] with major points of joint strategy: expansion of shipping convoys against U-boat attack; increase of food imports in 1943; more American troops to Britain; increasing bombing, night bombing and using aircraft against U-boats.
(Untitled), 01 Aug 1940 - 01 Sep 1940
(Untitled), 03 Nov 1939
Printed paper by WSC for the War Cabinet entitled "Statement by the First Lord to the French Admiralty"; discusses the uses of "asdics" [anti-submarine detection indicator], the necessity of defeating U-boats to control the seas, and future strategy.
(Untitled), Sep 1939-May 1940
(Untitled), 01 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1943
(Untitled), 14 Sep 1941
Telegram from WSC to General Jan Smuts [Prime Minister of South Africa] on the commitment of the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to attacking Axis ships within proscribed waters.
(Untitled), 03 Jul 1942 - 28 Aug 1942
(Untitled), 02 Oct 1942 - 31 Oct 1942
(Untitled), 01 Dec 1942 - 31 Dec 1942
(Untitled), 02 May 1942
(Untitled), 17 Mar 1942
Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC regarding naval matters: suggests that the United States reinforce the British Home Fleet and that British ships are used to replace the HYPO Force or to do the whole escorting job [to Diego Suarez, Madagascar, in operation "Ironclad"]; states that tanker sinkings are very disturbing; comments on the role of American destroyers and trawlers in the Atlantic; suggests measures for dealing with the submarine menace.
(Untitled), 18 Mar 1942
Telegram from the President of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt, to WSC outlining details of the United States naval force assigned to report for temporary duty with the British Home Fleet; states that a similar detachment will be kept on "this side" to "head off enemy when he comes into open Atlantic.".
(Untitled), 04 Sep 1939 - 30 Sep 1939
(Untitled), 01 Oct 1939 - 31 Oct 1939
(Untitled), 01 Dec 1939 - 31 Dec 1939
(Untitled), 23 Jul 1942
Letter from WSC to Stanley Bruce [High Commissioner for Australia in London] thanking him for the note on Soviet convoys, stressing the importance of controlling sea communications.
(Untitled), 1948
(Untitled), [1947]
Page proofs [for a supplement to the London Gazette] entitled "Sinking of the German Battleship Bismarck on 27th May, 1941" reprinting contemporary despatches and reports from Admiral Sir John Tovey, Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet (5 July), and Vice-Admiral James Somerville, Flag Officer Commanding Force H (4 June), with an appendix and later Admiralty footnotes. [annotated by ?Kathleen Hill, WSC's secretary].