First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, December 1939.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: the Sea Lords, particularly [3rd Sea Lord and] Controller [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser], 1st Sea Lord [Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound], and 4th Sea Lord [and Chief of Supplies and Transport, Vice-Admiral Guy Royle]; Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [Rear-Admiral Tom Phillips]; Prime Minister [Neville Chamberlain]; [Permanent] Secretary [Sir Archibald Carter]; various naval directors; Professor [F A] Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell, WSC's Personal Assistant]; other senior officers and civil servants.Subjects covered by the minutes include: ground air defence of the Tyne; defending Fleet bases; U-boat losses; the murder of RAF officers in Aden [later Yemen]; naval strategy in the Baltic; vigilance over Christmas and New Year; the construction of King George V; the situation in the South Atlantic; plans to attack German ports; flak-ships; dropping time-fuse bombs in enemy waters; convoys; plans for the war in 1940.