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(Untitled), 11 Nov 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/2/29-32

Scope and Contents

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher (Grand Hotel National, Lucerne [Switzerland]) to WSC, suggesting a meeting aboard HMS Enchantress [Admiralty Yacht] in December, combining it with visits to the Royal Naval College at Dartmouth and the Engineering School at Plymouth [Devon]; also on senior Naval appointments, advising WSC to get rid of Rear-Admiral Charles Briggs, 3rd Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy, describing him a "servile copyist"; stating that it was scandalous that the Royal Navy was behind the "whole world" in internal combustion propulsion, the first time in sea history that the Royal Navy had not led the way. [Typescript copy at CHAR 13/2/110-111].

Dates

  • Creation: 11 Nov 1911

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright: Lord Fisher

Extent

4 folio(s)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Bibliography

Published: Winston S Churchill : Companion Volume II, Part 2, pp.1330-32

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Repository Details

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