Maritime transport
Found in 380 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 10 Aug 1942
Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to First Sea Lord [Admiral Dudley Pound] marked "most secret and personal" asking him for early information about "Pedestal" [Codename for major British convoy to Malta] if it can safely be sent to Moscow [Soviet Union], but requesting that it not be sent to Teheran [Iran].
(Untitled), 13 Aug 1942
Telegram from WSC [Moscow, Soviet Union] to Deputy Prime Minister [Clement Attlee] regarding his need to mention the PQ convoys to Northern Russia, and asking for reassurance about the ability to send at least sixty ships in Sep.
(Untitled), 14 Aug 1942
Telegram from WSC [Moscow, Soviet Union] to First Sea Lord [Admiral Dudley Pound] thanking him for his message regarding the convoy to Malta, and asking for a fuller account of the operation as soon as possible Annotated.
(Untitled), 15 Aug 1942
Telegram from WSC [Moscow, Soviet Union] to First Sea Lord [Admiral Dudley Pound] thanking him for his telegram [regarding the convoy to Malta] and stating that the "Prolongation of life of Malta was worth the heavy cost.".
(Untitled), 17 Aug 1942
(Untitled), 21 Aug 1942
Telegram from WSC [Cairo, Egypt] to First Sea Lord [Admiral Dudley Pound] marked "most secret and personal" asking him to cable the latest news of the progress of the ships carrying the Sherman tanks Annotated, probably during writing of WSC's "The Second World War" c1948-1954.
(Untitled), 9 Apr 1943
(Untitled), 10 Apr 1943
(Untitled), 11 Apr 1943
(Untitled), 01 Jul 1943 - 31 Jul 1943
(Untitled), 08 Oct 1941
Telegram from the President of the United States [Franklin Roosevelt] to WSC on threat to legislation posed by armed United States transports being used for British troop movement: suggests crew should be British, flying British flag.
(Untitled), 16 Oct 1914
Telegram from Admiralty to Various Intelligence Officers, reporting that experience of the first two months of war showed that no increase in loss of merchant shipping was incurred by keeping trade routes open, and stressing the importance of keeping trade going. Initialled by Edward Heaton-Ellis [Assistant Director of Intelligence Division], Richard Webb [Director of Trade Division] and Vice- Admiral Sir [Frederick] Doveton Sturdee [Chief of Staff]. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 12 Feb 1915
Letter from Andrew Bonar Law [Leader of the Conservative Party] (Pembroke Lodge, Edwardes Square, Kensington [London]) to WSC, [First Lord of the Admiralty], on a complaint that the Admiralty were making inefficient use of merchant ships commandeered for war services.
(Untitled), 26 Feb 1915
Admiralty minute asking the press not to publish the loss of British merchant shipping as a result of enemy activity, unless the losses had already been reported by the Admiralty.
(Untitled), 04 Feb 1915
Admiralty intercepted message, giving a German official communique declaring the waters around Great Britain and Ireland a war region, and warning that hostile merchant ships and possibly neutrals would be attacked.
(Untitled), 04 Feb 1915
Intercepted wireless message from the German Embassy, on reports in newspapers that British merchant ships were to use a neutral flag, stating that this was an admission that Britain was unable to protect its merchant fleet. [Duplicate typescript].
(Untitled), 31 Mar 1915 - 05 Apr 1915
(Untitled), 19 Sep 1933
Letter from Lord Lloyd [earlier Sir George Lloyd] (30 Portman Square, London) to WSC urging him to accept an invitation from the Navy League to speak at Gravesend [Kent] on the naval and shipping situation.
(Untitled), 01 Mar 1941 - 31 Mar 1941
(Untitled), 01 Apr 1941 - 30 Apr 1941
(Untitled), 01 Aug 1941 - 31 Aug 1941
(Untitled), 01 Apr 1941
Telegram from General [Sir Archibald] Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, to WSC advising that shipping at Massawa will be dropped now Asmara [Eritrea] has been surrendered and commenting on other aspects of the conflict in northern Africa.
(Untitled), 06 Apr 1941
Telegram from "Former Naval Person" [WSC] to President [Franklin] Roosevelt on the danger of [Admiral Jean] Darlan [Vice-Premier of Vichy France] transferring French ships from African ports to French ports in danger of German occupation, and on the escort of convoys.
(Untitled), 10 Apr 1941
Telegram from Government of Canada to Dominions Office sending on a message to WSC on Canadian anti-submarine protection of shipping which they claim has not been recognised by UK military advisers.
(Untitled), 11 Apr 1941
Telegram from President [Franklin Roosevelt] to the Former Naval Person [WSC] on the United States' change of policy in the Atlantic: to include the extension of the security zone to whole of North Atlantic west of longitude 25 degrees; informing the United Kingdom of the position of aggressor ships; escorting of British convoys. [see also CHAR 20/37/97].