Correspondence between WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] and Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] on Imperial naval defence, proposing the formation of an Imperial Squadron of five ships: three Canadian ships with the capital ships New Zealand and Malaya [later part of Malaysia]. [Printed for circulation to the Cabinet].

Memorandum from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Cabinet, on the Canadian gift of three ships for the Royal Navy. Includes appendix on British naval requirements for 1915. [Printed].

Admiralty memorandum on the financial effect of the adoption of oil fuel for all new vessels, or alternatively for light cruisers and destroyers only up to the year 1920. [Printed, annotated by WSC "not circulated"].

Memorandum from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Cabinet, on the Navy Estimates, 1914-15.

Memorandum by Vice-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, 2nd Sea Lord, on the manning requirements of the fleet, 1914-15; includes covering note by WSC. [Printed and circulated to the Cabinet].

Memorandum by Charles Walker [Principal Clerk, Admiralty] on the Executive Lists of the Royal Navy.

Memorandum by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the problem of attack from overseas by Germany. [Printed].

Memoranda by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the possibilities of attack from overseas by Germany; includes printed marginal notes by the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven]. Also includes Admiralty papers "The Timetable of a Nightmare", giving a scenario of a successful German invasion, and an alternative scenario for a German attack in "A Bolt From the Grey". [Printed].

Memorandum by the Admiralty War Staff on the fifty per cent superiority of "Dreadnought" ships in Home Waters, noting the margins of safety maintained against France, 1900-1905, and against Germany, 1911-1912, and 1915; also includes a note on the comparative strength of the British and French fleets during the Napoleonic Wars. [Printed].

First Lord of the Admiralty's Minutes: Third Series, December 1913 to June 1914. [Printed, with hand-written annotations by WSC, with some entries cut out; pages 45-54 at end of sequence. See CHAR 13/25/2 for complete set].

First Lord of the Admiralty's Minutes: Third Series, December 1913 to June 1914. [Printed, complete set].

First Lord of the Admiralty's Minutes: Third Series, December 1913 to June 1914. [Printed, with some pages cut out].

First Lord of the Admiralty's Minutes on the Formation and Development of the Royal Naval Division (August and September 1914). [Printed].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on the Naval Estimates. [Draft hand-written copy, signed by WSC].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to David Lloyd George [Chancellor of the Exchequer] on the Naval Estimates, stating that while he would do his best to work to the figures mentioned in his letter, he could not be bound to them "in any extraordinary or improper sense". WSC adds that while he recognised Lloyd George's friendship, he would ask no favours, and would enter into no "irregular obligations". [Hand-written draft, signed by WSC].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George] on the Naval Estimates. [Hand-written draft by Edward Marsh, Private Secretary to WSC].

Letter from Sir John Bradbury [Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the Naval Estimates Crisis.

Notes by Lieutenant-General Sir Douglas Haig on the report of the committee on the organisation and training of the Royal Naval War College. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/26/11-12 for covering letter].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on the Naval Estimates Crisis. [Hand-written copy, initialled by WSC].

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].

Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Prince Louis of Battenberg [1st Sea Lord, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] on the Naval Estimates Crisis. [Typescript copy].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [1st Sea Lord] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on his meeting with an Italian officer, recently in Berlin [Germany], who reported that the Germans were planning a series of raids on the coast, similar to the raid on Scarborough [Yorkshire]. Fisher also comments on the escape of the German cruiser Dresden following the Battle of the Falkland Islands. [Hand-written, with typescript copy].