First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, September 1939.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: various naval directors; the Sea Lords, particularly 1st [Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound] and [3rd Sea Lord and] Controller [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser]; [Permanent] Secretary [Sir Archibald Carter]; Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [Rear-Admiral Tom Phillips]; Prime Minister [Neville Chamberlain]; other senior officers and civil servants.Subjects covered by the minutes include: safeguarding merchant shipping and the convoy system; Irish [Eire] neutrality; dummy ships; anti-U-boat action; naval construction; the safety of the Fleet in harbours such as Scapa Flow [Orkney Islands, Scotland]; cruiser policy; oil tank installations and underground oil storage; Germany obtaining iron-ore from Scandinavia; public relations for the Fleet; relations with Japan and Spain; Royal messages to servicemen killed on duty; leakage of information from Portland [Dorset]; Admiralty statistics.