Maritime transport
Found in 380 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 06 Jan 1941
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on anti-submarine measures, speculating on the systems used by enemy submarines to detect convoys. [Copy; given running number 200].
(Untitled), 06 Jan 1941
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the importance of salvage organisation comparing tonnage saved and built. [Copy; given running number 199].
(Untitled), 01 Jan 1941
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] (Great George Street [London]) to WSC on oil imports at ports on the South, East, and West Coasts. [Copy; given running number 196a].
(Untitled), [01] [Apr] [1941]
Table indicating the time of the "turn round" of tankers, comparing October-November 1940 with January-March 1941. [Copy; sent with CHAR 20/258B/143].
(Untitled), 01 Apr 1941
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the reasons for an acceleration in the time of the "turn round" of tankers. [annotated copy; given running number 266A].
(Untitled), 03 Apr 1941
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on German and Italian shipping losses. [Copy; given running number 268].
(Untitled), 08 Apr 1941
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on imports in ships in convoy in the six weeks to 29 March. [Copy; given running number 271A].
(Untitled), 22 Apr 1941
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC attaching a precis of a note given by Sir Walter Layton [Chairman of Executive Committee, Ministry of Supply] to Averell Harriman [United States Special Representative in Great Britain] on British food and other import needs. [Copy; given running number 285A].
(Untitled), 22 Apr 1941
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on transferring tankers to the Atlantic route and building up import stocks. [annotated copy; given running number 286].
(Untitled), 08 May 1941
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on revising the figures of ships and cargoes lost on route from United States ports. [Copy; given running number 294].
(Untitled), 13 May 1941 - 15 May 1941
(Untitled), May 1941
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on a discrepancy over the contents of the ship, the Tai Shan, arriving from North America. [Copy].
(Untitled), 04 Jun 1941 - 07 Jun 1941
Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on sinkings by U-boats near Dakar [Senegal]. [given running number 314] Minute from WSC to Lindemann marked "Secret" and "Action this day" asking for up to date information on German and British air strengths. [Both minutes on single page].
(Untitled), [Jun] [1941]
Charts showing losses at sea of goods from the United States for January to March, broken down into aircraft and equipment, munitions, raw materials, and food and feeds. [Copies].
(Untitled), 11 Jun 1941 - 12 Jun 1941
Minutes [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on forecast food imports, referring to "W.P.(R) (41) 39", and a chart showing sinkings [see ?CHAR 20/258B/217-218]. [Copies; given running numbers 315 and 316].
(Untitled), 15 Aug 1941 - 20 Aug 1941
(Untitled), 04 Sep 1941 - 10 Sep 1941
(Untitled), 10 Sep 1941 - 26 Sep 1941
(Untitled), 07 Nov 1944
Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Secret" informing him of the suggested text for the October anti-U-boat statement. Copy.
(Untitled), 08 Nov 1944
Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" asking for a slight amendment to the October anti-U-boat statement.
(Untitled), 18 Nov 1944
Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Secret" stating that publication of shipping losses will not include those lost since 1 January 1944.
(Untitled), 25 Oct 1944
Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" requesting assent for publication of British, Allied and neutral merchant shipping losses since the outbreak of war.
(Untitled), 27 Oct 1944
Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" stating that he has no objection to the publication of shipping losses up to and including December 1943, but does not want losses after that date published.
(Untitled), 06 Dec 1944
Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" informing him of the suggested text for the November U-boat report.
(Untitled), 06 Dec 1944
Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Top Secret" agreeing with the suggested text for the November U-boat report.