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.

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.

Telegram from President Roosevelt to WSC marked "Personal and Secret" informing him of the suggested text for the October anti-U-boat statement. Copy.

Telegram from WSC to President Roosevelt marked "Personal and Top Secret" asking for a slight amendment to the October anti-U-boat statement.

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.

Letter from Colonel Hugh Higgon (Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire) (Cuffern, Roch, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire [Wales]) to WSC marked "confidential" requesting that Milford Haven be included in the itinerary of the captured U-Boat visiting the western ports because of its role during the war as a collecting base for convoys. He gives figures for the number of vessels and the tonnage sailed out of the port. Signed typescript.

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC comparing the risks of ships sailing in convoy and independently. [Copy; given running number 244].

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on a fall in the number of entrances of British ships with cargo. [annotated copy; given running number 241].

Aide-memoire [by F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] for WSC on importing capacity, requirements of materials and food, and future outlook. [Copy; given running number 240].

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the levels of sinking of ships in convoys and those sailing independently. [Copy; given running number 238].

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the rate of salvage of ships in relation to repair facilities, attaching a draft minute to the Import Executive [see CHAR 20/258A/55]. [Copy; given running number 236].

Draft minute [prepared by F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to the Import Executive on the salvage organisation and shipping capacity. [Copy].

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on providing [Harry] Hopkins [Special Advisor and Assistant to the President of the United States] with shipping figures. [Copy; given running number 232].

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the low level of the "entrance of ships with cargo". [Copy; given running number 226].

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on the low level of the "entrance of ships with cargo". [Copy; given running number 226].

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on U-boat sinkings in September. [Copy; given running number 213].

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on British and United States ship-building capacity, referring to "W.P.(G) (41) 5". [Copy; given running number 205].

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC on increasing recruitment for forge work and increased [shipping] orders from the United States, attaching a possible reply to the Minister [of Supply, Sir Andrew Duncan, see CHAR 20/258A/105]. [Copy; given running number 204].

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].

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].

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].

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].

Minute from [1st Lord] Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann, Paymaster-General] to WSC arguing for a "genuine guarantee" from the Services that an expansion of Britain's commitment in the Far East will not inflate further their manpower demands and slow down demobilisation, commenting on exports and imports, and the food situation in Britain and liberated Europe. [signed; flagged "B"].

Bar chart showing British, Allied and neutral merchant tonnage "lost by enemy action" between September 1939 and May 1945.

Bar charts showing British, Allied, and neutral merchant tonnage lost by aircraft, surface craft, mines, and U-boats between September 1939 and May 1945.