Subjects include: requirements for the Royal Fleet Auxiliaries, Olivia, Olaf and Olna; oil engines; the Dreadnought and the argument against small slow battleships; the battleship of the future; limitations of naval armaments and the size of battleships; Admiralty orders for fishing vessels; events leading up to the rupture of relations of Turkey; fast battlecruisers with 20 inch guns; the conduct of the war; Fisher's correspondence with Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister [later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on the war; the submarine; the Fleet's steady pressure policy; the possibility of using British command of the sea to influence the military situation on the Continent more drastically.