Royal Navy
Found in 179 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 21 Nov 1914
Telegram from the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleet [Admiral Sir John Jellicoe], to Admiralty, on the proposed southward sweep by the Grand Fleet, stating that it would be unwise to move the Fleet in conjunction with a seaplane operation. [Carbon].
(Untitled), [1913]
Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the defence of the East Coast of Britain, pointing out the inadequacy of 4 cruisers, 74 destroyers and torpedo boats and 18 submarines for maintaining a regular patrol and outlining measures to improve the effectiveness of the coast watch, including the use of territorial forces and aerial squadrons. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 20 Oct 1942
(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 Mar 1942 - 30 Mar 1942
(Untitled), 01 Apr 1942 - 30 Apr 1942
(Untitled), 01 May 1942 - 31 May 1942
(Untitled), 02 Oct 1942 - 31 Oct 1942
(Untitled), 01 Dec 1942 - 31 Dec 1942
(Untitled), 22 May 1942 - 08 Jul 1942
(Untitled), [Aug 1942]
Memorandum [submitted by Sir Edward Bridges, Secretary to the Cabinet] examining proposition by the Lord Privy Seal [Sir Stafford Cripps] for co-operation between the Services through an overall commander. [See CHAR 20/56B/129-134 for Cripps's proposition].
(Untitled), 04 Mar 1942 - 28 May 1942
(Untitled), 24 Nov 1942 - 26 Nov 1942
Memorandum by Professor A V Hill [Member, War Cabinet Scientific Advisory Committee] on Science and the U-boat War addressed by the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee to all MP's; includes covering note by Edward Salt, Deputy Chairman, Parliamentary and Scientific Committee.
(Untitled), 24 Jan 1942
Telegram from Commanders in Chief (Middle East) to WSC giving details of German and Allied army strengths at the beginning of "Crusader" [codename for British North African operation], including details of losses on both sides and reasons for Allied success.
(Untitled), 02 Jun 1940 - 30 Jun 1940
(Untitled), 01 Jul 1940 - 31 Jul 1940
(Untitled), 01 Nov 1940 - 30 Nov 1940
(Untitled), 06 Jun 1940
Draft minute from WSC to 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound] and copied to First Lord [of the Admiralty, A V Alexander, later 1st Lord Alexander of Hillsborough] insisting that Operation Paul [mining of Scandinavian shipping channels to prevent ore being exported to Germany] go ahead in some form; suggests aerodromes at "Bardufoss" and "Skaanland" [both Norway] be bombed.
(Untitled), 05 Jun 1940
(Untitled), 20 Oct 1941
(Untitled), 30 May 1915
Admiralty Air Department memorandum on the Disposition of Aircraft [printed].
(Untitled), 02 Jan 1915
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on superiority of German submarine design, blaming the former Controller of the Navy, Vice Admiral Charles Briggs, also on coastwise coal traffic and North Sea fishing.
(Untitled), 02 Jan 1915
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher, 1st Sea Lord to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on superiority of German submarine design, blaming the former Controller of the Navy, Vice Admiral Charles Briggs, also on coastwise coal traffic and North Sea fishing [typescript copy].
(Untitled), 10 Nov 1911
(Untitled), [Mar] [1914]
Draft of speech [by WSC] to the House of Commons on the Naval Estimates, particularly on oil, praising the efforts of the Royal Commission on Liquid Fuel, and on naval aviation, stating that Britain was well behind Germany in airship design and construction. [Carbon copy].