Printed note by WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty, for the War Cabinet entitled "Comparison of British and Japanese Fleets"; discusses capacity of British Fleet which can be spared for the Far East, assuming the French Fleet will command Home Waters, with tables showing projected Capital Ship strengths in 1942, with dates of completion of ships.

Letter from King George VI (Windsor Castle [Berkshire]) to WSC on the loss of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales, and the news about the American battleships. [signed manuscript].

Admiralty minute on the need to change the policy of destroyer building, particularly increasing torpedo armament, and the size and speed of German ships relative to British destroyers.

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher (Grand Hotel National, Lucerne [Switzerland]), to WSC, on naval gunnery and warship design, advocating "size and subdivision" against the "torpedo bogey". [Typescript copy of CHAR 13/2/33-35].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC, on Naval representation on the Committee of Imperial Defence, senior Naval appointments and warship design. [Typescript copy of CHAR 13/2/51-52].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher to WSC, advocating the need for speed in warships, suggesting that he order a 30 knot battleship with eight 13.5 inch guns for 1.995 million pounds, to be delivered in two years ready for fighting [typescript copy of CHAR 13/2/61-66].

Letter from Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher (Grand Hotel National, Lucerne, [Switzerland]) to WSC with thanks for seeing Sir Marcus Samuel [later 1st Lord Bearsted], the founder of the Shell Oil Company, to discuss the question of oil fired ships, listing the advantages of oil over coal, but stating that he would have problems getting the "old women" of the Admiralty to accept the argument. [Typescript copy of CHAR 13/2/54-56].

Letter from Admiral Sir John Fisher, Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth (Admiralty House, Portsmouth [Hampshire]), to Rear-Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg [Director of Naval Intelligence, later 1st Lord Milford Haven], on submarine warfare, stating that the submarine would displace the gun and revolutionise naval tactics, and suggesting that the output of submarines should be doubled at any cost. [Typescript copy of CHAR 13/2/67-69, with annotations by Fisher, written in 1911].

Letter from Admiral Sir John Fisher [Commander-in- Chief, Portsmouth] (Admiralty House, Portsmouth [Hampshire]) to Arthur Balfour [Prime Minister] on submarine warfare, stating that the submarine would displace the gun and revolutionise naval tactics, suggesting that the output of submarines should be doubled at any cost. [Typescript copy of CHAR 13/2/70-75, with annotations by Fisher, written in 1911].

Admiralty memorandum on cruisers and scouts for the main battle fleet, particularly the "Super Swift" and "Super Active" classes. [Manuscript].

Letter from WSC, to Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher, on cruiser design. [Manuscript copy in letter book].

Letter from WSC to [Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Bridgeman], 1st Sea Lord, on the gunnery question. [Manuscript copy in letter book].

Letter from WSC to the Prime Minister [Herbert Asquith, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] on the naval building programme, expressing his loyalty to Asquith, and his "conviction of your superior judgement and superior record on naval matters", and stating that he would go to all possible lengths to prevent disagreement in the Cabinet, but that "no reduction or postponement beyond the year of the four ships is possible to me". [Manuscript copy in letter book].

Letter from WSC to Sir Edward Grey [Foreign Secretary], urging him to support the naval building programme. [Manuscript copy in letter book].

Letter from WSC to Prince Louis of Battenberg [later 1st Lord Milford Haven], 1st Sea Lord, on paper by the Chancellor of the Exchequer [David Lloyd George] proposing a reduction in the naval building programme, stating that he could not remain responsible if the declared programme of four ships were cut down. [Manuscript copy in letter book].

Memorandum by Vice-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe [? 2nd Sea Lord], on his reasons for preferring seven, or if possible, eight "Super Active" cruisers, with extensive annotations by Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Fisher, criticising the "Super Active" design: "What on earth is the use of a vessel that can neither fight nor run away, nor able to reconnoitre nor able to accompany submarines".

Prints and technical drawings of proposed 25-knot battleships with internal combustion engines, and of 29,000 and 27,500 tons displacement.

Statement by WSC on the Naval Estimates for 1914-15. [Carbon copy].

Statement by WSC on the Naval Estimates for 1913-14. [Carbon].

Minute by WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on the "remarkable" extent to which Admiralty finance was governed by earlier decisions, citing decisions by WSC's predecessor [Reginald McKenna] to build 16 super-Dreadnoughts, strengthen battleship armament and construct 4 new flotillas. [Carbon].