Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher (Grand Hotel National, Lucerne, [Switzerland]) to WSC, on the new Board of Admiralty; also on warship design, criticising the Controller of the Navy [Rear-Admiral Charles Briggs] and the Director of Naval Ordnance for wanting to perpetuate battleships of the "Tortoise" type: "all armour no speed, inadequate armament and d--d costly"; advocating building 30 knot oil fired battleships as the United States was planning to do. [Typescript copy at CHAR 13/2/122-123].