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].

Admiralty memorandum on the total cost of warship building programmes for the six major European powers and amount voted for new construction. [Printed, annotated "not circulated"].

Report of the Finance Committee of the Admiralty on the Sketch Navy Estimates 1914-15, prepared in October-December 1913; also the First Annual Report of the Committee's Operations, October 1912 - October 1913, with a general comment on naval expenditure by the Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, Thomas Macnamara. [Printed].

Copy of a letter addressed by the First Lord of the Admiralty [WSC] to the Permanent Secretary of the Treasury, Sir Robert Chalmers, on the Naval Estimates. [Printed for circulation to the Cabinet, Jan 1914, annotated "only extract circulated"].

Extract from letter from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury [Sir Robert Chalmers], on naval expenditure. [Printed for circulation to the Cabinet, Jan 1914].

Admiralty statement on the cost of new programmes and expenditure on new construction (Votes 8 and 9) in the nine years of the Dreadnought era and of the Liberal Administration, 1905-14. [Printed for circulation to the Cabinet].

Copy of a letter from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George] on naval expenditure. [Printed for circulation to the Cabinet, Jan 1914].

Extract of a letter from WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, to the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury [Sir Robert Chalmers], on naval expenditure. [Printed for circulation to the Cabinet, Jan 1914; copy of CHAR 13/30/13].

Table by the Admiralty War Staff, showing the comparative cost, size and main features of the battleships and battle-cruisers (building and projected) of the naval powers. [Printed].

Admiralty paper on the movements at sea of the British and German Fleets, 1912-13. [Printed].

Report by Hugh Miller, paymaster of HMS Arethusa, on information obtained from a German officer on the action off Heligoland [Germany]: sent on by Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt. [Printed for circulation to the Cabinet, Dec 1914].

Documents on the Canadian contribution of three Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy, including extracts from speeches, letters and statements by WSC and Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada]. [Printed for circulation to the Cabinet, Jan 1914].