Naval Staff Monographs

The cover of the first "Fleet Issue" volume of Naval Staff Monographs.

The Naval Staff Monographs (Historical) were produced by the Historical Section of the Royal Navy's Training and Staff Duties Division and published from 1919 to 1939.

An introduction to the first monograph in the first volume, issued in July, 1919, reads:

These monographs have been compiled by the Historical Section of the Training and Staff Duties Division of the Naval Staff from Admiralty Records and original papers in the temporary custody of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence. They are intended to give an account of the actual course of events and their causal connection so far as can be ascertained from official documents and records. They are not intended to be critical and the tables and constant references to positions preclude any attempt to be literary. Numbers 1, 2, and 3 deal with much the same subject, but were originally compiled separately for the use of the Staff College.

The Royal Australian Navy's Sea Power Centre has generously made available, in PDF format, all the Naval Staff Monographs (Fleet Issue) relating to the First World War, with the exception of A History of the White Sea Station, 1914–1919, a copy of which is apparently in the possession of the British Naval Historical Branch.

The following table lists the monographs as published in volumes for "Fleet Issue", with the exception of No. 13.

The website Naval-History.net claims that the 1940 volume Review of German Cruiser Warfare 1914-1918 was a part of this series, but provides no evidence to support the claim. The booklet itself doesn't support this.

Monograph No.	Title	Date	Volume (Fleet Issue)
1	Operations Leading Up to the Battle of Coronel	July, 1919	I
2	The German Cruiser Squadron in the Pacific, 1914	July, 1919
3	Operations Leading Up to the Battle of the Falkland Islands	July, 1919
4	Operations Against the "Goeben" and "Breslau," August 1914	September, 1919
5	Naval Operations in the Cameroons, 1914		II
6	The Passage of the Expeditionary Force, August, 1914		III
7	The Patrol Flotillas at the Commencement of the War
8	Naval Operations Connected with the Raid on the North-East Coast, December 16th, 1914
9	A History of the White Sea Station, 1914–1919		—
10	Naval Operations on the East Coast of Africa; August 1914–July, 1915		II
11	The Battle of Heligoland Bight, 28th August 1914		III
12	The Action of Dogger Bank–24th January 1915
13	Summary of the Operations of the Grand Fleet. August 1914 to November 1916.	February, 1921	—
14	The First Australasian Convoy, 1914		V
15	Naval Operations in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf	July, 1921	IV
16	The China Squadron, 1914, Including the "Emden" Hunt		V
17	The East Indies Squadron, 1914
18	The Dover Command. Vol. I	March, 1922	VI
19	The Tenth Cruiser Squadron During the Command of Admiral de Chair. 1914–1916		VII
20	The Cape of Good Hope Squadron, 1914		V
21	The Mediterranean, 1914-15		VIII
22	The Atlantic Ocean, 1914		IX
23	Home Waters, Part I		X
24	Home Waters, Part II		XI
25	The Baltic, 1914		VII
26	The Atlantic Ocean from the Battle of the Falklands to May 1915		IX
27	Battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands
28	Home Waters, Part III. November 1914 to the end of January 1915	May, 1925	XII
29	Home Waters, Part IV. The First Phase of the Submarine Attack on Shipping in Home Waters, February to July 1915	October, 1925	XIII
30	Home Waters, Part V. July to October 1915	April, 1926	XIV
31	Home Waters, Part VI. October 1915 to May 1916	September, 1926	XV
32	Lowestoft Raid, 24th–25 April, 1916	March, 1927	XVI
33	Home Waters, Part VII. From June 1916 to November 1916	October, 1927	XVII
34	Home Waters, Part VIII. December 1916 to April 1917	May, 1933	XVIII
35	Home Waters, Part IX. May, 1917—July, 1917	August, 1939	XIX

Bibliography

• Naval Staff, Training and Staff Duties Division (1920). Naval Staff Monographs. (Fleet Issue.): Volume I. Monograph 1.—Coronel. Monograph 2.—German Cruiser Squadron in the Pacific. Monograph 3.—Falklands. Monograph 4.—"Goeben" and "Breslau." O.U. 5413 (late C.B. 917.). Copy No. 292 at The National Archives. ADM 186/589.

External Links

• "Review of German Cruiser Warfare, 1914-1918". Internet Archive.
• "British Naval Staff Monographs, 1914-c1917." Naval-History.net.
• "World War I Naval Staff Monographs." The Sea Power Centre.