Memorandum by Rear-Admiral David Beatty, Commander, 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron, reviewing the work of the squadron in 1913. [Duplicate typescript; see CHAR 13/26/76 for covering letter].

Letter from Rear-Admiral David Beatty [Commander, 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron] to WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, sent with his review of the work of the squadron for 1913 [see CHAR 13/26/65-72].

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].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Rear- Admiral David Beatty [Commander, 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron] with thanks for Beatty's report on the squadron. WSC states that he considers the Battle Cruiser's most "formidable and disconcerting" function was to rupture the enemy's cruiser line, and to attack his cruisers of all kinds wherever found. [Carbon].

Notes by WSC on the development of an Admiralty War Staff, including training and organisation. [Hand-written].

Letter from James Masterton Smith [Private Secretary to WSC] to Captain Sydney Hall, on Hall's proposal to produce a film of life in the Navy. Masterton Smith states that the Admiralty had decided to invite certain established motion picture firms to state the terms which they were prepared to offer for the privilege of making a film of life in the Navy; he regrets that Hall would not be able to tender for the film as he had no link with any film-producing firm. [Carbon copy].

Letter from Rear-Admiral David Beatty [Commander, 1st Battle Cruiser Squadron] (HMS Aboukir, North Sea War Station) to WSC, on the activities of the squadron.

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] on ship dispositions, also on the protection of magazines and oil tanks from "evilly disposed persons" and attacks by aircraft. [Typescript, initialled by WSC, and annotated by Battenberg].

Dardanelles Enquiry: Documents appended to WSC's Statement on the First Phase. [Printed].

Admiralty Table showing the British Fleet in Home Waters with certain ships from Foreign Stations.

Note by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] showing numbers of Dreadnoughts, Battle Cruisers, Pre- Dreadnoughts and Heavy Cruisers, and asking the Director of the Intelligence Division [Captain (William) Reginald Hall] to compare this with the German Navy. [Hand-written, initialled by WSC].

Admiralty memorandum [? by Edward Marsh, Private Secretary to WSC] on battle scenarios in the North Sea and Mediterranean. [Hand-written, 3 copies].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to General Sir Charles Douglas [Chief of the Imperial General Staff] on arrangements for the War Office and the Admiralty to work out a plan for the seizure of the Gallipoli Peninsula [Turkey] by a Greek Army, with a view to admitting a British Fleet to the Sea of Marmora. [Hand-written copy].

Admiralty memorandum on the strength of Turkish and German and British and Greek fleets in the Mediterranean, concluding that the Anglo-Greek squadron was sufficiently strong to establish a blockade of the exit of the Dardanelles, and to cover a landing by Greek troops. [Typescript].

Memorandum by Major-General Charles Callwell [Director of Military Operations, War Office] on the difficulties of an attack on the Gallipoli Peninsula [Turkey].

Memorandum by Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Wilson, on the use of mines for destroying submarines. [Carbon copy].

Note by Commodore Roger Keyes [Captain and Commodore in charge of the Submarine Service] on dates of commissioning of [British] submarines, subsequent to November 1910.

Memorandum by Commodore Roger Keyes [Captain and Commodore in charge of the Submarine Service] on the development of British submarines. [Printed].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 3rd Sea Lord [Rear-Admiral Archibald Moore] asking him to check figures on the German cruiser building programme, compared to the British cruiser programme. [Carbon copy].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 3rd Sea Lord [Rear-Admiral Archibald Moore], asking for the reasons for the 1.2 million pound programme of submarines. [Carbon copy].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], on the High Level Bridge Conference to discuss division of responsibility for East Coast defence between the Admiralty and the War Office. [Carbon copy].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], 2nd Sea Lord [Vice-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe] and 3rd Sea Lord [Rear-Admiral Archibald Moore] on a paper by Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher on submarines. [Carbon copy].

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to James Masterton Smith [Private Secretary to WSC] on statements about Dreadnought numbers, including complaints from New Zealand Ministers that HMS New Zealand was included in the 60 per cent standard [of British superiority over Germany in Dreadnoughts] and also the addition of Canadian ships to the total. [Carbon copy].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [? the South African Government] on the naval defence of South Africa. [Carbon copy].