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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1115 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), Aug 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/27A/20
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Admiralty note on German Submarine Organisation. [Typescript].

Dates: Aug 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/23/5
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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].

Dates: [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Jun 1913 - 14 Jul 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/23/32
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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].

Dates: 12 Jun 1913 - 14 Jul 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Apr 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/24/2
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Memorandum by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the problem of attack from overseas by Germany. [Printed].

Dates: 18 Apr 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Apr 1913 - 26 Apr 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/24/3
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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].

Dates: 24 Apr 1913 - 26 Apr 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 11 Dec 1913 - 13 Dec 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/24/4
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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].

Dates: 11 Dec 1913 - 13 Dec 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Aug 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/29/102-106
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Note of conversation between WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, and Captain Wilfred Henderson [former Naval Attache to Berlin] on anti-British feeling in Germany, the treatment of British nationals in Germany, and the departure of the British Embassy. [Carbon].

Dates: 08 Aug 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 07 Mar 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/2
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Despatch from the British Ambassador to Germany, reporting proceedings in the Reichstag with regard to the acceleration of the German Navy Bill Programme. [Typescript].

Dates: 07 Mar 1898
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Oct 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/3-5
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Speech of the German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, at the launch of a battleship [unnamed], asking the German people to support the strengthening of the fleet. [Typescript].

Dates: 18 Oct 1899
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), Dec 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/6-7
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Report on a speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] in a Reichstag debate on the German Naval Estimates. [Typescript copy].

Dates: Dec 1899
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), Jan 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/8-9
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Text of Major-General Keim's address to the German Navy League, "Our Fleet and Its Future", with text of supporting telegram from the Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II. [Typed copy].

Dates: Jan 1905
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Nov 1905

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/10-11
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Text of Kaiser Wilhelm II's speech at the opening of the Reichstag, on the German Navy Law. [Typescript].

Dates: 28 Nov 1905
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), Feb 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/12-13
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Reported text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] at the sitting of the Budget Commission on the alteration of the German Navy Law and increased votes on naval expenditure. [Typescript].

Dates: Feb 1906
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Nov 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/14-15
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Reported text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] in the Reichstag on the new German Fleet Bill. [Typescript].

Dates: 28 Nov 1907
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 13 Apr 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/16-17
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Report by [Captain Herbert Heath], the British Naval Attache (Berlin [Germany]) on remarks made to him by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] on the German Navy. [Typescript].

Dates: 13 Apr 1909
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Oct 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/18-21
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Report by Captain Herbert Heath, British Naval Attache (Berlin [Germany]) on his conversations with the Adjutant to Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] on the German battleships of the 1909 programme. Includes copy of a letter from the Adjutant to Heath. [Typescript].

Dates: 29 Oct 1909
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Jul 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/23
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Report of the British Ambassador to Germany [Sir William Goschen], on a speech by Admiral von Keoster defending the German Navy League's demands for more large cruisers in the light of the despatch of a ship to Agadir [Morocco]. [Typescript].

Dates: 12 Jul 1911
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Feb 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/25-26
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Text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] to the Budget Committee of the Reichstag on German naval construction and Germany's attitude to the British Navy. [Typescript].

Dates: 06 Feb 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Apr 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/27
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Extract from a letter from [? Captain Hugh Watson], British Naval Attache [Berlin, Germany] reporting that a German naval writer who had described WSC's speech of 18 Mar 1912 [on Naval Estimates] as a fair one, had been ordered by the Reichs-Marine-Amt to take the line that the speech was an outrage to Germany. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 9/42 for WSC's speech].

Dates: 29 Apr 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 10 Feb 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/28-30
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Text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] before the Budget Committee of the Reichstag on German warship construction as compared to the British construction programme. [Typescript].

Dates: 10 Feb 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Feb 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/31-32
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Text of speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] during a debate in the Reichstag on German Naval Estimates, on the need for increasing the number of ships for overseas service. [Typescript].

Dates: 20 Feb 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Feb 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/33
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Reported text of a speech by Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] during a debate in the Reichstag on German Naval Estimates, on the need for more ships in foreign waters. [Typescript].

Dates: 19 Feb 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Feb 1912 - 12 Feb 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/34-52
Scope and Contents Diary of a visit by 1st Lord Haldane [Secretary of State for War] to Berlin [Germany], 8-9 Feb 1912. Includes accounts of Haldane's conversations with: the Chancellor of Germany [Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg], on the balance of power in Europe, the increase in the British and German fleets and territorial questions in Africa; the Emperor [Kaiser Wilhelm II] and Grand-Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz [Head of the German Admiralty] on German naval increases; and with J Cambon [? French Ambassador...
Dates: 08 Feb 1912 - 12 Feb 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), Jan 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/33/53
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Report by the Admiralty Intelligence Department on the German Fleet Laws of 1898, 1900, 1906, and 1908. [Printed].

Dates: Jan 1911
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Nov 1939

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 19/2A/67-68
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Letter from WSC to Lord Halifax [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin, Foreign Secretary] on the wording of proposed peace conditions with Germany. [carbon].

Dates: 01 Nov 1939
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.