Royal Navy
Found in 1960 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 20 Mar 1933
Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (Tingewick House, Buckinghamshire) to WSC reporting the sale of the American publishing rights [to his naval memoirs], expressing the fear that chapter 1 may be boring for the ordinary reader and recalling the good effect relating to the influence of Vickers which WSC had when he came to the Admiralty.
(Untitled), 17 Apr 1933
Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (Tingewick House, Buckinghamshire) to WSC on his account of the naval action in the Heligoland Bight in August 1914 and his disagreement with Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee over the "Broad Fourteen Patrol".
(Untitled), 18 Jul 1934
(Untitled), 22 Apr 1912
(Untitled), 17 May 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] (Hotel Excelsior, Naples [Italy]), to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fuel. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/14/115-116 for original].
(Untitled), 03 Jun 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] (Hotel National, Lucerne [Switzerland]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on members and work of the Commission. [2 typescript copies; original at CHAR 13/14/120-121].
(Untitled), 17 Jun 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] (Hotel National, Lucerne [Switzerland]), to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the composition and remit of the Commission. [Typescript copy; original at CHAR 13/14/122-131].
(Untitled), 24 Jun 1912
Note by Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher on "Battleships and Trade in the Mediterranean", stressing the necessity of holding up or destroying hostile flotillas of submarines and destroyers before a war or trade fleet could be at large there. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/14/133-136 for original].
(Untitled), 24 Aug 1912 - 26 Aug 1912
Letter from Engineer Lieutenant Charles Hawkes, Joint Secretary, Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines, to Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher, enclosing a report on a meeting with William Reavell, on the manufacture of internal combustion engines in Europe. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/14/155-159 for original].
(Untitled), 29 Aug 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the Commission, particularly meeting with Dr George Beilby on the possibility of producing oil from coal. Fisher asks WSC to keep the letter "deadly secret and never mention it", stating that it was not a dream, nor the "outpouring of a diseased imagination". [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/14/160-164 for original].
(Untitled), 31 Aug 1912
Transcript of a letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to Sir Francis Hopwood [Additional Civil Lord of the Admiralty, later 1st Lord Southborough] on oil storage, the fleet's peacetime consumption of oil, the work of the Commission, equipment for the storage of oil, the need for reserves and the price of oil. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/2-16 for original].
(Untitled), 04 Sep 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fired battleships. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/49-51 for original].
(Untitled), 05 Sep 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fired ships. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/52-55 for original].
(Untitled), 11 Sep 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the work of the Commission, particularly the possibility of distilling oil from coal. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/56-57 for original].
(Untitled), 13 Sep 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel], (Kilverstone Hall, Thetford, Norfolk) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the proposed oil-fired battleship "The Incomparable", which would be able to go around the earth without refuelling. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/58 for original].
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912
Telegram from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel], (Kilverstone Hall, Thetford, Norfolk) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil tankers. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/59-62 for original].
(Untitled), 10 Oct 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the work of the Commission and oil supply. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/67-68 for original].
(Untitled), 08 Nov 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil engines, also on warship construction, advising him not to "fiddle about Destroyers etc" but to concentrate on the submarine. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/72 for original].
(Untitled), 27 Nov 1912 - 28 Nov 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC] on the Commission's report, recommending oil storage on a basis of peace-time expenditure; Fisher asks Marsh to show it to WSC. Includes note from WSC saying that 4 years peacetime oil supply is excessive and would be the strongest argument for continuing to rely on coal. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/75-78 for original].
(Untitled), 28 Dec 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the Parsons Turbine Engine developed by Sir Charles Parsons. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/79-83 for original].
(Untitled), 31 Jan 1912
Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on Admiralty organisation, including the roles of the Sea Lords and Additional Civil Lord. [Printed; incomplete].
(Untitled), Feb 1912
Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Cabinet on naval standards of strength, in relation to Germany and Austria, for 1920-1921. [Printed].
(Untitled), 14 Feb 1912
Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Cabinet, enclosing a translation of the proposed new German Navy Law. [Printed].
(Untitled), 09 Mar 1912
Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Cabinet, on the implications of the new German Naval Law. [Printed].
(Untitled), 18 Apr 1912 - 19 Apr 1912
Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Cabinet, circulating a note by the Director of the Intelligence Division, Captain Thomas Jackson, on the final text of the new German Navy Law. [Printed].