Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], Rear-Admiral Henry Campbell [Rear-Admiral Home Fleets at the Nore], the Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene], and the Additional Civil Lord of the Admiralty [Sir Francis Hopwood, later 1st Lord Southborough], on a visit from Howard Houlder of the Houlder Line Company, who had decided to lay down four 19 knot ships for transport of meat along the Argentine trade route, asking if the vessels should be armed further than normal merchantmen, and made more like auxiliary cruisers. [Carbon].