First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, October 1939.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: various naval directors; Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [Rear-Admiral Tom Phillips]; 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]; other senior officers and civil servants.Subjects covered by the minutes include: publicising sea war successes; co-operation with Italy; new construction; setting up a statistical branch under [F A] Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell]; capturing Germans at sea; anti-U-boat action; Admiralty scientific research; requisitioning trawlers; German battleship activity, including the Scheer; safeguarding capital ships against air attack; Dominion enlistment; Finnish waters.