Royal Navy
Found in 105 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 03 Jul 1942 - 28 Aug 1942
(Untitled), 02 Oct 1942 - 31 Oct 1942
(Untitled), 05 Mar 1942
(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), 13 Dec 1907
(Untitled), c 1917
Note by [Lord Fisher, earlier Sir John Fisher] that if the recent return of British shipping losses is correct Arthur Balfour [later Lord Balfour] [First Lord of the Admiralty] was right to reprimand Admiral Sir John Jellicoe [later Lord Jellicoe] for saying that the German submarine menace had been grappled with effectively.
(Untitled), 19 Sep 1933
Letter from Lord Lloyd [earlier Sir George Lloyd] (30 Portman Square, London) to WSC urging him to accept an invitation from the Navy League to speak at Gravesend [Kent] on the naval and shipping situation.
(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), 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), 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
Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the defence of trade. [Incomplete typescript, initialled by WSC].
(Untitled), 04 Feb 1915
Admiralty intercepted message, giving a German official communique declaring the waters around Great Britain and Ireland a war region, and warning that hostile merchant ships and possibly neutrals would be attacked.
(Untitled), 17 Aug 1942
(Untitled), 1948
(Untitled), 14 Jun 1948
Note from "G R G A" [Commodore George Gordon Allen] to WSC commenting on the despatches concerning Mediterranean convoy operations to Malta, suggesting the most important operation was "Pedestal" in August 1942. [initialled; annotated by WSC's literary assistant Denis Kelly].
(Untitled), [1948]
(Untitled), 31 Jul [1947]
Comments by [Commodore George Gordon] Allen on [the proofs of the London Gazette supplement of] "The Battle of Sirte [Libya]" [for the supplement see CHAR 20/241/218-227]. [initialled].
(Untitled), 1947
Page proofs for a supplement to the London Gazette entitled "The Battle of Sirte [Libya] of 22nd March, 1942", reprinting contemporary despatches and reports from Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Station (2 June), and Rear Admiral Philip Vian, Commanding Fifteenth Cruiser Squadron (31 March), with later Admiralty footnotes. [annotated by ?Kathleen Hill, WSC's secretary].