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Where Reference Title Description Date Pct. Who
TNA ADM 1/7377 Admiralty. Tactics of New Armoured Cruisers as Affecting their Design. 1898 50 SH
TNA ADM 1/7461B Study of Naval Tactics. 1900 100 SH
TNA ADM 1/8047 "Proposals by Director of Naval Intelligence for carrying out the duties of a General Staff and Re-organisation of the Naval Intelligence Department." 15 May, 1909 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8268 Combined Cruise of Second Division Home Fleet and Atlantic Fleet, January 1912. 50 SH
TNA ADM 1/8328 Gunnery in the Royal Navy: Conference at the Admiralty. 1911-1912 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8346 Firings to be Carried Out at "Empress of India". 1913 50 SH
TNA ADM 1/8383/179 Battle and Cruiser Squadrons - Programme. 1914 100 SH
TNA ADM 1/8396/356 Court of Enquiry on Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue. 1914 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8463/176 Cause of Explosion in British Warships, When Hit by Enemy Shell. 1916 100 SH
TNA ADM 1/8478/3 Institution of Director of Torpedoes and Mining. 1917 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8479/22 Papers relating to punishments during war-time. Flogging!! 1917 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8484/61 Controllers Department. Provisional Reorganisation 1917. 1917 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8487/94 Torpedo and Mining Service Organisation. 1917 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8488/103 Appointment of Escort Flag Officers. Provision of Escort ships and Breech loading guns for special Merchant vessels. 1917 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8488/104 Shipbuilding for the Admiralty and War Office. Organisation of Controllers Department. 1917 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8489/118 Planning Section of Naval Staff. Proposals by First Lord and First Sea Lord June 1917. 1917 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8501/232 Admiralty Orders. Order-in-Council of 23 October, 1917. 1917 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8512/29 Collision of HM Subs. K1 and K4. Court of Enquiry and Court Martial on survivors of K1 and officers and men of K4. 1918 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8517/69 Admiralty. Table of Distribution of Business. March 1918. 1918 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8520/101 Minesweeping Division Organisation. Duties of staff. 1918 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8547/340 Warship construction during 1914-1918 war. Records compiled by DNC Dept. 1918 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8554/84 Admiralty Controller. Scope and General Authority. 1918 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/8559/150 Third Sea Lord and Controller duties. Instructions for Departments under Controller's Superintendence 1919. 1918 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/9209 Battle Cruisers: Design. 1916 0 SH
TNA ADM 1/9210 "Hood" Class: Armour and Deck protection. 1917 100 SH
TNA ADM 6/461 Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918, and Which Have Now Ceased to Exist. 100 SH
TNA ADM 116/900B War Orders, 1899-1907. 0 SH
TNA ADM 116/1464 Defensively Armed Merchant Ships Related to cordite handling at Jutland. 0 SH
TNA ADM 116/1538 H.M.S. Natal - loss by internal explosion. 0 SH
TNA ADM 116/1803 Re-organisation of Naval Staff Divisions. D.N.O., D.N.A. & T. 1917-1921 100 SH
TNA ADM 116/3454 Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher. 1914-1917 0 SH
TNA ADM 116/3381 First Lord of the Admiralty. Papers relating to 1913 Naval Manœuvres. 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/260 Home Fleets General Orders, July 1914. 1914 50 SH
TNA ADM 137/266 Grand Fleet Signal Orders. 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/293 Grand Fleet Gunnery and Torpedo Orders. 1915-1918 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/304 Falklands. Who knows? 50 SH
TNA ADM 137/818 War Plans and War Orders, Home Fleets and Detached Squadrons. 1913-1914 100 SH
TNA ADM 137/1062 Southwest Approaches. Related to the Lusitania sinking. 1915 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/1165 Grand Fleet. Jan.-June, 1916. Much of interest according to Black. 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/1322 Convoy. 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/1645 Conferences concerning Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet 1916 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/1939 Paper No. H.S.A. 141 Conferences between the Commander-in-Chief and members of the Admiralty Staff; Invasion Conference. 1914-1919 50 SH
TNA ADM 137/1946 Need ff. 128-552. 50 SH
TNA ADM 137/2018 Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda 1914 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/2019 Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda Jan-Jun, 1915 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/2020 Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda I have f. 1, ff. 48-69, ff. 87-90, ff. 120-126, ff. 203-204, ff. 208-210, ff. 218-224, f. 233 (illegible), ff. 279-282, ff. 302-309, f. 316, f. 327, f. 329-330, ff. 337-338, ff. 366-371, ff. 375-377, ff., 384-385, ff. 400-407, f. 421, ff. 431-434, ff. 442-444, ff. 467-469, f. 477, ff. 486-487, ff. 489-497, ff. 499-500, f. 502, ff. 505-506, ff. 556-562, ff. 574-579. Jul-Dec, 1915 50 SH
TNA ADM 137/2021 Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda Jan.-June, 1916 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/2027 Committees Formed to Consider Experience at Jutland. Part I. Copied up to f. 285. 50 SH
TNA ADM 137/2134 Committee on Construction of Battle Cruisers. Related to cordite handling. 50 SH
TNA ADM 137/2771. Convoy. 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/3680 Loss of H.M.S. Vanguard. 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/3681 Loss of H.M.S. Vanguard. 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/4052 Grand Fleet Orders. Copied to p. 236. 50 SH
TNA ADM 137/4067 Actions and Operations. Intercepted German signals during the war. 100 SH
TNA ADM 137/4156 Signalbuch der Kaiserlichen Marine. 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/4374 Verkehrsbuch. 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/4375 Verkehrsbuch. 0 SH
TNA ADM 137/4822 Extract of Gunnery Practices in Grand Fleet, 1914—1918. 0 SH
TNA ADM 144/17 Home and Channel Fleets. 50 SH
TNA ADM 156/71 Insubordination in Atlantic Fleet at Invergordon. Reports on various officers. 0 SH
TNA ADM 156/86 Collisions involving HM Ships INFLEXIBLE and FEARLESS, HM Submarines K14, K22, K17, K4 and K6. Cdr. E W Leir D.S.O., R.N. HMS ITHURIEL commanding 13th submarine Flotilla: loss of HM Submarine K17. Battle of May Island. 1918 0 SH
TNA ADM 156/162 Loss of H.M.S. Natal - Proceedings of Court Martial. 0 SH
TNA ADM 167/51 Minutes of the Board of Admiralty. January - June, 1917 100 SH
TNA ADM 178/33 Request by Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly for Court Martial. 1915 0 SH
TNA ADM 178/45 Retired RADM Murray F. Sueter: History of Naval Career and Grievances. 0 SH
TNA ADM 178/123 Loss of H.M.S. Natal - Court Martial 0 SH
TNA ADM 178/129 Invergordon Reports. The stitching up of Admiral Dreyer. 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/164 List of H.M. Ships Showing their Armament, April, 1915. 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/166 Projectile Committee: Final Report of the President. 1917 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/167 Shell Committee: Interim Report. 1917 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/168 Shell Committee: Second Interim Report. 1918 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/169 Shell Committee: Reports, 1917 and 1918. 1918 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/171 Manual of Gunnery for H.M. Fleet. C.B. 1619. 1922 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/190 Hydraulic Manual. 13.5-inch B.L. Mountings Mark II. 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/192 Addenda to the Hydraulic Manual. 13.5-inch B.L. Mountings Mark II** 1914 100 SH
TNA ADM 186/227 The Director Firing Handbook. C.B. 1259. 1917 100 SH
TNA ADM 186/229 Vengeance Flash Trials, 1917 and 1918. C.B. 1451. 1918 100 SH
TNA ADM 186/234 Director Firing Handbook, Director Firing for Flotilla Leaders and Destroyers. 1917 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/241 Reports of the Grand Fleet Dreyer Table Committee, 1918-1919 C.B. 1533. 1919 100 SH
TNA ADM 186/244 Progress in Gunnery Material 1920 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/257 Progress in Naval Gunnery Copied pp. 126-140 relating to Baden tests. 1921 50 SH
TNA ADM 186/589 The German Cruiser Squadron in the Pacific, 1914. 1919 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/590 Operations leading up to the Battle of Coronel, Nov 1914. 1919 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/591 Operation leading up to the Battle of the Falkland Islands Nov 1914. 1919 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/592 Naval operations in The Cameroons 1914. 1919 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/593 Operations in the Mediterranean 4 - 10 Aug 1914. 1919 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/594 The conquest of the Baltic Islands: Translation of Vice-Admiral Schmidt's despatch. 1919 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/603 The Economic Blockade 1914-1919. 1920 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/604 History of British minesweeping in the war. 1920 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/605 Naval Staff Monographs: CORONEL, German cruiser squadron in the Pacific, Falklands and GOEBEN and BRESLAU. 1920 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/606 Organisation of the Archangel River Flotilla 1919. 1920 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/607 Naval Staff Monographs: East Africa to July 1915 and Cameroons 1914. 1921 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/609 The Tenth Cruiser Squadron during the command of Admiral de Chair, 1914-1916 1921 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/610 Naval Staff Monographs: the action of Dogger Bank, 24 Jan 1915. 1921 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/611 History of the White Sea Station 1914-1919. 1921 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/626 Battle of Jutland: Official German Account. Hopefully the translation of Der Krieg zur See by Bagot. 1926 100 SH
TNA ADM 186/631 Remarks on Handling Ships and Fleet Navigational Subjects. 0 SH
TNA ADM 186/659 Flotilla Signal Book. 1908 0 SH
TNA ADM 203/8 In-Letters, Royal Naval College Copied Letter N-13629, relating to Full Pay for Commanders and Captain studying. 1900 50 SH
TNA ADM 203/64 History of the War College. 100 SH
TNA ADM 203/69 Royal Naval War College. 100 SH
TNA ADM 203/99 War College Roster. 100 SH
TNA ADM 203/100 Royal Naval War College and Naval Staff College, Greenwich. 100 SH
TNA ADM 231/11 N.I.D. Report No. 137. Naval Manœuvres of 1887. 1887 0 SH
TNA ADM 231/14 N.I.D. Report No. 179. Naval Manœuvres of 1888. 1888 0 SH
TNA ADM 231/16 N.I.D. Report No. 215. Naval Manœuvres of 1889. 1889 0 SH
TNA ADM 231/18 N.I.D. Report No. 252. Naval Manœuvres of 1890. 1890 0 SH
TNA ADM 231/17 N.I.D. Report No. 228. Naval Manœuvres of 1891. 1891 0 SH
TNA ADM 231/22 N.I.D. Report No. 231. Naval Manœuvres of 1892. 1892 0 SH
TNA ADM 231/23 N.I.D. Report No. 372. Naval Manœuvres of 1893. 1893 0 SH
TNA ADM 231/27 N.I.D. Report No. 474. Naval Manœuvres of 1896. 1896 0 SH
TNA ADM 231/32 N.I.D. Report No. 596. Naval Manœuvres of 1900. 1900 0 SH
TNA ADM 231/35 N.I.D. Report No. 641. Naval Manœuvres of 1901. 1901 0 SH
TNA ADM 231/37 N.I.D. Report No. 690. Naval Manœuvres of 1902. 1902 0 SH
TNA ADM 231/47 N.I.D. Report No. 817. Naval Manœuvres of 1906. 1906 0 SH
TNA ADM 234/434 The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. Staff History of the Staff. 1929 100 SH
TNA ADM 275/19 Technical History and Index: serial history of technical problems dealt with by Admiralty departments. 0 SH
TNA AIR 1/279/15/226/127 Air Services - organisation and duties of the Admiralty, Jun 1917 - Feb, 1918. 0 SH
TNA CAB 38/19/49 Minutes of the 114th Meeting of the C.I.D. The fall of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur K. Wilson. 100 SH
TNA SUPP 6/175 Minutes of the Ordnance Board. Jellicoe request on shell, either dated 28 Oct., 1910, or Minute No. 3284. Jan-Jun, 1910 0 SH
TNA SUPP 6/176 Minutes of the Ordnance Board. Ditto. July-Dec, 1910 0 SH
NMM DFF/15 Duff Diary Diary of Rear-Admiral Alexander L. Duff, Rear-Admiral in the Fourth Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet. 1914-1916 100 SH
NMM HTN/106 Hamilton Diary Diary of Admiral Sir Frederick T. Hamilton, Second Sea Lord. 1915-1916 100 SH
NMM OLV/12 "Recollections." Typescript memoirs in two volumes of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry F. Oliver. 1946 100 SH
NMM BTY/6/14/1 "Reminiscences of "Q" Turret by Private H. Willows, R.M.L.I." Lion at Jutland. 100 SH
NMM COW/17/4 The Wheel of Fortune. Memoirs of Admiral Sir Walter H. Cowan, Bart.. 50 SH
NMM GEE/13 Notes on personalities at the Admiralty. Written by Sir William Graham Greene. 100 SH
RNM MSS 255/4 ADM Jackson Letters A series of 107 letters received by Admiral Sir Henry Jackson as First Sea Lord from Admiral Jellicoe as CiC of the Grand Fleet Jun 1915 - Nov 1916 0 SH