First Lord of the Admiralty's printed minutes, February 1940.Includes texts of minutes from WSC (sometimes annotated with additional printed information) to: the Sea Lords, particularly 1st [Sea Lord, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound] and [3rd Sea Lord and] Controller [Rear-Admiral Bruce Fraser]; various naval directors; [Permanent] Secretary [Sir Archibald Carter]; Sir James Lithgow [Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding and Repairs]; Deputy Chief of Naval Staff [Rear-Admiral Tom Phillips]; Parliamentary Secretary [Geoffrey Shakespeare]; Naval Secretary [Rear-Admiral Neville Syfret]; Chancellor of the Exchequer [Sir John Simon]; other senior officers and civil servants.Subjects covered by the minutes include: information from [Sir] Robert Renwick on new French aircraft; the supply of steel for emergency shipbuilding; Portsmouth dockyard [Hampshire]; the naval programme for 1940-41; air attacks on East Coast shipping; Japanese strength; the use of magnets for detecting submarine wrecks; naming a ship after [1st Lord] Jellicoe; the Plans division; the Fleet Air Arm taking over squadrons from the RAF; the submarines Salmon and Ursula; the reclassification of smaller war vessels; defending the Fleet from aerial attack.