Telegram from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Secretary of the Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], the Chief of Staff [Vice-Admiral Sir (Frederick) Doveton Sturdee] and the Trade Division, proposing the formation of a National Armed Transport Service, utilising armed merchant cruisers for trade protection. [Typescript copy, on Colonial Office notepaper].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] on the need for decisive action against the Austrian Fleet, as taking priority over all other Mediterranean operations. [Typescript copy on Colonial Office notepaper].

Report by Admiral Sir [Archibald] Berkeley Milne [Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean] to the Admiralty, on the escape of the German ships Goeben and Breslau, with comments by [Prince Louis of Battenberg, 1st Sea Lord, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], annotated by WSC, "The explanation is satisfactory, the result unsatisfactory". [Typescript copy].

Admiralty statement on the action off Heligoland [Germany]. [Carbon].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Secretary [Sir (William) Graham Greene] and the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], on Japan's offer to provide warships to relieve British warships on the China Station. WSC suggests that they ask for two armoured cruisers capable of hunting in the Marshall Islands, and two or three light cruisers to hunt for the Emden in the Indian Ocean. [Typescript copy on Colonial Office notepaper].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Secretary [Sir (William) Graham Greene] and the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] on forces available for operations in the narrow seas. WSC states that this should consist of a small number of good modern ships, and suggests that the "Bacchante" class cruisers be withdrawn from the area. [Typescript copy].

Minute from WSC, [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Secretary [Sir (William) Graham Greene] and the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] on the work of M Branch on the drafting and transmission of orders connected with the movement of ships. WSC suggests that the War Registry be made a section of M Branch, attached to the War Staff. [Typescript copy on Colonial Office notepaper].

List of reinforcements of the Fleet between the outbreak of war and the end of December 1914. [Carbon].

Admiralty list of ship movements, including Japanese ships. [Typescript].

Statement by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [the Press] on German mine-laying operations in the North Sea and Irish Sea. [4 carbon copies].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher], Admiral Sir Arthur Wilson, and the Chief of Staff, Admiralty [Vice-Admiral Henry Oliver] on his anxiety about German submarines in the English Channel: WSC asks them to prepare plans for the bombardment of Zeebrugge and Ostende [Belgium] as soon as possible. [Typescript copy on Colonial Office notepaper].

Admiralty memorandum on the warship construction programme, 1914-16. [Typescript copy on Colonial Office notepaper].

Admiralty statement on the sinking of the Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue in the North Sea [on 22 September]. [Carbon].

Admiralty statement on German mine-laying activities in the North Sea and the Irish Sea. [Carbon].

Admiralty memorandum on the establishment of the Royal Naval Division. [Carbon].

Precis of a conversation between WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty and the French Naval Attache [Jean, Comte de Saint-Seine], on co-operation between the two navies on the outbreak of war. [Carbon copy].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on provision of Divisional Cavalry for the Royal Naval Division. [2 carbon copies].

Incomplete Admiralty paper to the Cabinet on the warship construction programme, including the contribution of ships from Canada. [Printed].

Admiralty memorandum on the gross total of naval expenditure of Europe 1900-1914, showing the British percentage. [Printed].

Admiralty memorandum on the battleship programme, 1914-15, prepared by the Sea Lords at WSC's request. [Printed].

Admiralty memorandum on the genesis of the 60 per-cent standard for British naval supremacy over Germany, prepared by Captain Thomas Jackson, Director of the Intelligence Division, March 1913, and circulated to the Cabinet, January 1914. [Printed].

Admiralty memorandum on the Treasury Paper "Navy Estimates 1914-15", prepared by the Sea Lords at WSC's request for circulation to the Cabinet. [Printed].

Admiralty memorandum giving extracts from WSC's speeches as First Lord on the battleship programme, 1912-13. The memorandum was circulated to the Cabinet, who were considering the proposal to reduce the battleship programme of 1914-15 from four ships to two, and to reverse the decision of June 1912 on reducing forces in the Mediterranean. [Printed].

Admiralty memorandum giving an extract from a statement by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Wilson, prepared for the Committee of Imperial Defence on relative naval strength in Britain and Germany. [Printed for circulation to the Cabinet, 2 copies].