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(Untitled), 20 Mar 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/203/36
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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.

Dates: 20 Mar 1933
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 17 Apr 1933

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/203/40-41
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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".

Dates: 17 Apr 1933
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 18 Jul 1934

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/206/31
Scope and Contents Letter from H Morison, PS to 1st Lord Rothermere to the PS to WSC, on article on Singapore sent to WSC by the former Kaiser Wilhelm II. Stating that the "Daily Mail" had always opposed a "Singapore adventure" and that under no circumstances would the e British people allow the Mediterranean fleet to go to Singapore. Commenting that only the presence of the entire British Fleet a Singapore would exert any real influence and that even then in Rothermere's opinion, that would not thwart or...
Dates: 18 Jul 1934
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 22 Apr 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/50-52
Scope and Contents Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher, (Hotel Excelsior, Naples [Italy]), to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] criticising him for appointments of Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux [earlier Hedworth Lambton], [as Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth], Admiral Sir Berkeley Milne [as Commander-in- Chief, Mediterranean], and Admiral Sir Reginald Custance. Fisher states that WSC had betrayed the Royal Navy with these three appointments, that Milne was unfitted to be Senior Admiral afloat, and...
Dates: 22 Apr 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 May 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/56
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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].

Dates: 17 May 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Jun 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/58-59
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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].

Dates: 03 Jun 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Jun 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/61-63
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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].

Dates: 17 Jun 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Jun 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/65-67
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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].

Dates: 24 Jun 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Aug 1912 - 26 Aug 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/79-83
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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].

Dates: 24 Aug 1912 - 26 Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Aug 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/85-86
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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].

Dates: 29 Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Aug 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/88-92
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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].

Dates: 31 Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 04 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/93-94
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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].

Dates: 04 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 05 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/95-96
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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].

Dates: 05 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/97-98
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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].

Dates: 11 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/99
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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].

Dates: 13 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/100
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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].

Dates: 16 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Oct 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/103
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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].

Dates: 10 Oct 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Nov 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/106
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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].

Dates: 08 Nov 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 27 Nov 1912 - 28 Nov 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/109-110
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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].

Dates: 27 Nov 1912 - 28 Nov 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Dec 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/16/111-112
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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].

Dates: 28 Dec 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Jan 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/1
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Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on Admiralty organisation, including the roles of the Sea Lords and Additional Civil Lord. [Printed; incomplete].

Dates: 31 Jan 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), Feb 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/2
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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].

Dates: Feb 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Feb 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/3-4
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Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Cabinet, enclosing a translation of the proposed new German Navy Law. [Printed].

Dates: 14 Feb 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Mar 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/6
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Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Cabinet, on the implications of the new German Naval Law. [Printed].

Dates: 09 Mar 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Apr 1912 - 19 Apr 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/17/7
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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].

Dates: 18 Apr 1912 - 19 Apr 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open