Admiralty memorandum on remarks by Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] on the German Navy Law and amendments to the British naval construction programme. [Typescript].

Letter from WSC to Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary], on the interchange of naval information with Germany, suggesting that the Government reply to the German proposal on interchange after the German elections. [Typescript copy].

Minute from Rear-Admiral Alexander Bethell, Director of Naval Intelligence, to WSC, on the naval construction programme, 1912-1919, necessary to maintain Britain's 60 per cent superiority over the German navy. [Carbon].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the work of the Commission, particularly the possibility of distilling oil from coal. Encloses a cutting on a 15,000 ton oil-fired vessel being built in Germany. [See CHAR 13/16/97-98 for typescript copy].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the work of the Commission, particularly the possibility of distilling oil from coal. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/56-57 for original].

Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Cabinet, enclosing a translation of the proposed new German Navy Law. [Printed].

Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Cabinet, on the implications of the new German Naval Law. [Printed].

Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to Cabinet, circulating a note by the Director of the Intelligence Division, Captain Thomas Jackson, on the final text of the new German Navy Law. [Printed].

Cabinet paper by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the naval situation in relation to maintaining superiority over Germany. [Printed].

Cabinet Paper by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the new German Navy Law. [Printed].

White Paper giving a translation of the German Naval Law Amendment Bill. [Published by HMSO, Cd.6117].

Secret memorandum on the general naval situation relating to Britain and Germany, prepared by the Admiralty for the information of Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada]. [White Paper, published August 1914].

Letter from Captain Hugh Watson [Naval Attache, Berlin, Germany] (British Embassy, Berlin) to Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC] on German naval policy and politics, particularly Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Navy], and the points which had "conspired to give him, and the large Naval Party power".

Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith], Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary] and the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George], on a report by the Naval Intelligence Division on relative German and British naval strength. [Carbon].

Forecast of the increased scale of the fleets maintained in commission compared to Germany, together with approximate annual cost of maintaining various ships in different conditions. [Printed].

Report by Lieutenant-Colonel Alick Russell, Military Attache at the British Embassy, Berlin [Germany] on the development of the German Airship Fleet; includes covering note by WSC. [Printed, and circulated to the Cabinet].

Memorandum by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the problem of attack from overseas by Germany. [Printed].

Memoranda by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the possibilities of attack from overseas by Germany; includes printed marginal notes by the 1st Sea Lord [Prince Louis of Battenberg, later 1st Lord Milford Haven]. Also includes Admiralty papers "The Timetable of a Nightmare", giving a scenario of a successful German invasion, and an alternative scenario for a German attack in "A Bolt From the Grey". [Printed].

Memorandum by the Admiralty War Staff on the fifty per cent superiority of "Dreadnought" ships in Home Waters, noting the margins of safety maintained against France, 1900-1905, and against Germany, 1911-1912, and 1915; also includes a note on the comparative strength of the British and French fleets during the Napoleonic Wars. [Printed].