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 coal transport and shortages referring to "W.P.(R) (41) 6". [Copy; given running number 223a].

Minute [from F A Lindemann, later 1st Lord Cherwell, Prime Minister's Personal Assistant] to WSC submitting a draft minute on impeding railway traffic, particularly coal, from Germany to Italy. [Copy; given running number 217].

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 coal supplies: to London and Southern England, transport, and potential shortages. [Copy; given running number 199a].

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].

Extract from War Cabinet minutes of discussions on the public warning system for attacks by flying bombs in relation to public transport, including contributions from the Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security [Herbert Morrison] and the Minister of War Transport [1st Lord Leathers].

Minute from "H M" [Herbert Morrison], Minister of Home Security, to WSC on revising a draft statement on the imminent danger warning [for flying bomb attacks] in relation to advice to the public and public transport. [initialled].

Minute from "H M" [Herbert Morrison], Minister of Home Security, to WSC on the imminent danger warning system [for flying bomb attacks] in relation to bus drivers and advice given to people receiving the warning indoors. [initialled; annotated by Leslie Rowan, Prime Minister's Private Secretary].

Minute from WSC to Home Secretary [and Minister of Home Security, Herbert Morrison], and for Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the War Cabinet] to see, on the need to clarify a paragraph concerning buses in [Morrison's] draft statement on the imminent danger warning [for flying bomb attacks]. [Carbon copy; annotated by WSC's Secretary Patrick Kinna].

Minute from WSC to Home Secretary [and Minister of Home Security, Herbert Morrison] giving views on a report [on a new warning system for flying bomb attacks] commenting on the universality of the system, instructions to bus drivers and the public, and the terms of the announcement. [Carbon copy].

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