Royal Navy
Found in 85 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 21 Aug 1913
Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the defence of trade. [Incomplete typescript, initialled by WSC].
(Untitled), 24 Aug 1913
Letter from Admiral Sir Reginald Custance to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the defence of trade.
(Untitled), 08 Sep 1913
Letter from [WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] sending a memorandum [not present] on British trade protection in time of war. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 01 Sep 1913
Minute from [WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] on trade protection, particularly the policy of arming merchant steamers. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 13 Feb 1913
Letter from Admiral Sir Alfred Winsloe, [Admiral Commanding China Station] (HMS Minotaur, Hong Kong) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] with an account of his visit to the French colony at Saigon [later Vietnam], arrangements for joint British and French action against Germany in Far Eastern waters in case of war, pay levels and the problems of transferring officers from merchant shipping to the Navy.
(Untitled), 21 Aug 1913 - 14 Apr 1914
Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on trade protection on and after the outbreak of war. [Typescript, written August 1913, with hand-written revisions, April 1914; see also CHAR 13/26/83-84].
(Untitled), 14 Apr 1914
Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the re-draft of his memorandum of August 1913 on trade defence [see CHAR 13/26/39-50]. [Carbon copy].
(Untitled), 05 Mar 1942
(Untitled), 30 Jun 1942
Telegram from Minister of State in the Middle East [Richard Casey] to WSC marked "personal and most secret" reporting on the latest situation in Egypt and commenting on RAF mobilisation, arrangements for the defence of the Delta, and the plans of Admiral Henry Harwood [Commander in Chief Mediterranean] for supporting the Eighth Army and evacuating merchant shipping from Alexandria [Egypt].
(Untitled), 17 Aug 1942
(Untitled), 01 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1943
(Untitled), 04 Sep 1939 - 30 Sep 1939
(Untitled), 01 Nov 1939 - 30 Nov 1939
(Untitled), 01 Dec 1939 - 31 Dec 1939
(Untitled), 06 Sep 1939
Memorandum from WSC on "Publicity regarding destruction of or damage to enemy submarines, British warships and merchant vessels".
(Untitled), Jan 1940
(Untitled), Feb 1940
(Untitled), Mar 1941
Letter from WSC to 1st Lord Maclay [former Minister of Shipping] on his memorandum about the Ministry of Shipping, reassuring him that the Ministry and Admiralty are on far better terms than during the last war.
(Untitled), 01 Mar 1941 - 31 Mar 1941
(Untitled), 01 Aug 1941 - 31 Aug 1941
(Untitled), 03 Nov 1914
Extract from the Times, giving an Admiralty announcement warning that German mines have been scattered in the open sea on the trade route between the United States and Liverpool via Northern Ireland; also making the whole of the North Sea a military area, and warning merchant shipping of the dangers. [Typescript copy].
(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.