Military equipment
Found in 236 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 04 Sep 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fired battleships. [See CHAR 13/16/93-94 for typescript copy].
(Untitled), 05 Sep 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fired ships. [See CHAR 13/16/95-96 for typescript copy].
(Untitled), 11 Sep 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the work of the Commission, particularly the possibility of distilling oil from coal. Encloses a cutting on a 15,000 ton oil-fired vessel being built in Germany. [See CHAR 13/16/97-98 for typescript copy].
(Untitled), 13 Sep 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel], (Kilverstone Hall, Thetford, Norfolk) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the proposed oil-fired battleship "The Incomparable", which would be able to go around the earth without refuelling. [See CHAR 13/16/99 for typescript copy].
(Untitled), [Jan] [1912]
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] criticising the Admiralty's shipbuilding programme for failing to match Germany, advocating 15-inch gun, lightly armoured battle cruisers and submarines. Fisher also mentions the harm done by Admiral Lord Charles Beresford and his "scare revelations" in Germany and the Navy's oil supply. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/14/1-6 for original].
(Untitled), 10 Jan 1912
(Untitled), 14 Jan 1912
(Untitled), 16 Jan 1912
(Untitled), [Jan] [1912]
Notes and aphorisms by Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher on subjects including ship design, the Marconi wireless system, ship armour and gun size, the "Super-Swift" and "Super-Active" classes, and submarines. [Typescript copies; see CHAR 13/14/25-43 for originals].
(Untitled), 01 Feb 1912
(Untitled), 19 Jan 1912 - 13 Feb 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] with congratulations on his speech [to the Clyde Navigation Trustees, 9 February] on the Navy in Glasgow [Scotland]; Fisher comments on warship design and construction, advising strongly against announcing building programmes two years ahead, and building ships known to be obsolete; includes report of a press cutting from the Times on ship design. [Typescript copy; originals at CHAR 13/14/53-58].
(Untitled), 25 Feb 1912
(Untitled), 02 Mar 1912 - 05 Mar 1912
(Untitled), 22 Apr 1912
(Untitled), 24 Aug 1912 - 26 Aug 1912
Letter from Engineer Lieutenant Charles Hawkes, Joint Secretary, Royal Commission on Fuel and Engines, to Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher, enclosing a report on a meeting with William Reavell, on the manufacture of internal combustion engines in Europe. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/14/155-159 for original].
(Untitled), 04 Sep 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fired battleships. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/49-51 for original].
(Untitled), 05 Sep 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on oil fired ships. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/52-55 for original].
(Untitled), 11 Sep 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the work of the Commission, particularly the possibility of distilling oil from coal. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/56-57 for original].
(Untitled), 13 Sep 1912
Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher [Chairman, Royal Commission on Oil Fuel], (Kilverstone Hall, Thetford, Norfolk) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the proposed oil-fired battleship "The Incomparable", which would be able to go around the earth without refuelling. [Typescript copy; see CHAR 13/15/58 for original].
(Untitled), 28 Jun 1912
Minute by Rear-Admiral Ernest Troubridge, Chief of War Staff, Admiralty, on conditional requirements for naval superiority over Austria and Italy in the Mediterranean, 1913-15.
(Untitled), 11 Jul 1912
Memorandum from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George] on the naval estimates. [Printed, annotated "Not circulated"].
(Untitled), Aug 1912
Memorandum by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the naval estimates, 1912-13 and the sketch navy estimates for 1913-18. [Printed].
(Untitled), 05 Jan 1913
Letter from Admiral Sir Percy Scott (Murren [Switzerland]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on naval gunnery and the credit due to WSC for improving targeting.
(Untitled), 24 Feb 1913
(Untitled), 12 Dec 1913
Letter from John Seely [Secretary of State for War, later 1st Lord Mottistone] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on criticism of the Navy Estimates by Sir John Simon [Attorney-General].