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Mainly comprising correspondence with Stephen Roskill about relations between Somerville and Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in the Eastern Fleet.

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Comprising drafts and published versions, with related correspondence.
See also ROCO 2B/2.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Naval correspondence, reports and photograph albums relating to the naval career of Villiers and his father, Rear Admiral Edward Cecil Villiers. (Edward Cecil Villiers, 1866-1939, served in Naval Intelligence Depart 1903-1905; he was Captain of the RN College, Greenwich, 1906-1908; of Actæon Torpedo School Ship, 1912; Rear-Admiral retired, 1917; after retirement continued to serve as Rear-Admiral in HMS Actæon until end of the war; commanded the flotillas defending the estuary of the Thames...

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Vice-Admiral Sir Kaye Edden was Somerville's staff officer, 1942-4.
Mainly concerning the Eastern Fleet and Somerville's relationship with Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, in particular the book by Arthur Marder and John Horsfield, "Old Friends New Enemies".

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Naval correspondence, reports and photograph albums relating to the naval career of Villiers and his father, Rear Admiral Edward Cecil Villiers. (Edward Cecil Villiers, 1866-1939, served in Naval Intelligence Depart 1903-1905; he was Captain of the RN College, Greenwich, 1906-1908; of Actæon Torpedo School Ship, 1912; Rear-Admiral retired, 1917; after retirement continued to serve as Rear-Admiral in HMS Actæon until end of the war; commanded the flotillas defending the estuary of the Thames...

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Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91

Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91

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Papers comprising diaries, correspondence, official papers, lectures, articles, broadcasts and photographs
Also including papers of Commander John Somerville about his father, 1950-91

Scope and Contents Subjects include: Admiral Sir Charles Lambe; Davis's view of Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Mountbatten of Burma, including an extract from Davis's 1974 diary about him; opinions of Sir Winston Churchill, Field Marsha 1st Lord Slim and Field Marshal 1st Lord Montgomery of Alamein; the loss of HMSS Prince of Wales and Repulse, 1941; Roskill's dispute with his fellow-historian Arthur Marder; views of the wartime admirals, particularly Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Cunningham; the results of the...

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Also includes: booklets and a speech by Davis on Mountbatten's retirement as President of the King George's Fund for Sailors; the order of service and ceremonial for the funeral; order of service for the dedication of Mountbatten’s memorial.

Scope and Contents Autobiographical account by George Allen written for his family covering his life and naval career, highlighting key events and turning points and analysing his response to them. Also includes details of people, colleagues and family members. Subjects, issues and people covered include: childhood and education; his mother, Beatrice Allen (née Wilkinson, known as Betty) and her circumstances and career; joining the Royal Navy aged 12, naval traditions, reforms to the navy by [Sir...

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The Searle papers comprise the reminiscences of Admiral Searle of his service as a gunnery expert before and during the Second World War.

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Correspondence with Admiral Sir Charles Lambe and previously, Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Mountbatten, on subjects including: the need for more ships; progress towards an integrated NATO Navy; the BBC comedy on the Navy, "The Sky Larks"; Davis's proposed nationalisation of the Home Fleet command at Northwood [Middlesex]; the Clyde naval base; including the Royal Yacht Britannia in the spring cruise exercises, 1958.

Scope and Contents Titled "Hovercraft". Including photographs of the SR N1, 1958 (1); the SR N2, 1960 (3); Richard Stanton-Jones with Jawaharlal Nehru and the Earl and Countess Mountbatten, 1962 (2); a press cutting about the SR N3, 1963 (1); Richard Stanton-Jones with Queen Elizabeth II, 1965 (4); press cuttings about the SR N4 cross-Channel service between Ramsgate and Calais, 1965 (4); the SR N6, 1965 (1); a press cutting about the hovercraft service in Oakland and San Francisco, California,...

Scope and Contents Titled "Hovercraft - Vol. II". Including photographs of a 200 Squadron SR N6 Mk 5 vehicle carrying hovercraft, 1972 (1); a passenger ticket from the hovercraft service between Ryde and Portsmouth operated by Hovertravel, undated (1); a 200 Squadron SR N6 Mk 2, 1972 (1); the British Hovercraft Corporation factory containing a SR N4 being widened and an Iranian Imperial Navy BH 7 MK 4, 1972 (1); a CC 7 in the Congo used for intercepting diamond smugglers, 1972 (1); SR N4s on the...

Scope and Contents Including photographs of Richard Stanton-Jones, undated (2); Richard Stanton-Jones and Earl Mountbatten at sea trials of the SR N4 Mk 3 (Super 4), 1978 (2); Richard Stanton-Jones with the Duke of Kent and a delegation from Saudi Arabia, 1981 (3); Richard Stanton-Jones with a delegation from Nigeria, undated [1970s] or [1980s] (1); Richard Stanton-Jones with a delegation from China, 1979 (1); Richard Stanton-Jones with a delegation from Italy, 1981 (1); Richard Stanton-Jones with a delegation...

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Titled "A Personal View of Amphibious Warfare".
Including correspondence with Lord Mountbatten and a copy of an article by Godfrey French, 1978.

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Correspondence with Philip Ziegler on his biography of Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Mountbatten of Burma, particularly on the death of the diver [Lionel] 'Buster' Crabb.