Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven] and 2nd Sea Lord [Vice-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe] and the Secretary of the Admiralty [Sir (William) Graham Greene] on the success of the Grand Manoeuvres in the North Sea in 1912 and 1913. WSC states that he did not think it necessary to supplement the ordinary tactical exercises of 1914-15 by Grand Manoeuvres, with a saving of nearly 200,000 pounds in coal and oil consumption; he proposes a trial mobilisation of the Third fleet and the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. [Typescript copy].