User:Simon Harley/Archives

Items which I have in full are shaded green; items which I have part of are in yellow; material which I want and intend to get is in pink. This list is very incomplete in all regards. — SIMON HARLEY, Co-editor.

The National Archives

Reference	Title	Description	Date
ADM 1/5543	Admiralty.	Docket: Precis of the Division & General Mode of Conducting the Business of the Admiralty at Whitehall.	1844
ADM 1/5686	Admiralty.	Docket: Illustrious. Regulations. Establishments.	1857
ADM 1/7600	Admiralty.	Dockets: Scott and Hughes-Onslow; Constitution of Home Fleet and Home Squadron.	1902
ADM 1/7606	Admiralty.	Docket: Coast Guard. Home Fleet, Constitution of.	1902.
ADM 1/7377	Admiralty.	Docket: Tactics of New Armoured Cruisers as Affecting their Design.	1898
ADM 1/7461B	Study of Naval Tactics.	Courtesy of Mr. Steve McLaughlin.	1900
ADM 1/7464C	Admiralty.	Docket: 1900. List of Committees Sitting Between 1st January & 31st December. Docket: Mediterranean Destroyer Proposals. Docket: Instructions for Mobilising for War. Docket: Royal Naval College Greenwich. Regulations, revised, reprinted & distributed.	1900
ADM 1/7465B	Admiralty.	Docket: Proposed Alteration of Drafting Committee. Docket: Committee of Defence. Composition, Responsibilities of Members, Procedure, &c. Ministerial Views. 1895. Memo. by First Lord. 1900. Docket: Revision of 'Instructions for Fleet Manœuvres' &c. &c. Docket: Naval Tactics. Views of H.I.M. the German Emperor. Docket: Montague Browning borne on books of President; while serving as Joint Secretary of Boiler Committee. Docket: Fighting Instructions in force between 1665 & 1816. Docket: Study of Naval Tactics. Supply of Captain King-Hall's Naval War Game to the Fleet. Docket: United States. Duties of Naval Strategic Board. Docket: Naval Tactics.	1900
ADM 1/7895	Admiralty.	Portsmouth Barracks Disturbances.	1906
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
ADM 1/8051	Admiralty.	Dockets: Fleet Tactics; Invention of 15' Foot Range Finder.	1909
ADM 1/8268	Combined Cruise of Second Division Home Fleet and Atlantic Fleet, January 1912.	Courtesy of Mr. Stephen McLaughlin.
ADM 1/8271			1912
ADM 1/8272			1912
ADM 1/8328	Gunnery in the Royal Navy: Conference at the Admiralty.	Courtesy of Mr. Stephen McLaughlin.	1911-1912
ADM 1/8346	Firings to be Carried Out at "Empress of India".		1913
ADM 1/8368/40	Australian Request for Services of a Rear-Admiral as 1st Naval Member of Navy Board		1914
ADM 1/8370/65	Retirement & Promotion of Officers on Lists of Flag Officers, Captains, & Commanders.		1914
ADM 1/8377/118	War Staff Training of Naval Officers.		1914
ADM 1/8377/120	The Naval War Staff.		1911-1914
ADM 1/8383/176	Retirement of Officers on Promotion to Flag Rank under Section III of the O. in C. dated 9th March, 1914.		1914-
ADM 1/8383/179	Battle and Cruiser Squadrons - Programme.	Courtesy of Mr. Stephen McLaughlin.	1914
ADM 1/8384/184	C-in-C Appointments.	Mediterranean and Nore	1914
ADM 1/8384/191	Proposed Qualifications for Promotion to Admiral of the Fleet		1914
ADM 1/8388/227	Report on the Principle Cruiser Work Carried Out by the Home Fleets During 1913		1913-1914
ADM 1/8396/356	Court of Enquiry on Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue.		1914
ADM 1/8463/176	Cause of Explosion in British Warships, When Hit by Enemy Shell.		1916
ADM 1/8477/308	Action of 31st May - 1 June, 1916, Reports from Flag and Commanding Officers who took part, Battle-cruisers, Cruisers, and Light Cruisers.	Cordite bitching.	1916
ADM 1/8478/3	Institution of Director of Torpedoes and Mining.		1917
ADM 1/8479/22	Papers relating to punishments during war-time.	Flogging!!	1917
ADM 1/8484/61	Controllers Department. Provisional Reorganisation 1917.		1917
ADM 1/8487/94	Torpedo and Mining Service Organisation.		1917
ADM 1/8488/103	Appointment of Escort Flag Officers. Provision of Escort ships and Breech loading guns for special Merchant vessels.		1917
ADM 1/8488/104	Shipbuilding for the Admiralty and War Office. Organisation of Controllers Department.		1917
ADM 1/8489/118	Planning Section of Naval Staff. Proposals by First Lord and First Sea Lord June 1917.		1917
ADM 1/8501/232	Admiralty Orders.	Order-in-Council of 23 October, 1917.	1917
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
ADM 1/8513/36	Acting Flag Rank.		1918
ADM 1/8517/69	Admiralty. Table of Distribution of Business. March 1918.		1918
ADM 1/8520/101	Minesweeping Division Organisation. Duties of staff.		1918
ADM 1/8536/235	Naval Staff Organisation		1918
ADM 1/8543/297	Non Military Branches Titles & Uniform.		1918
ADM 1/8547/340	Warship construction during 1914-1918 war. Records compiled by DNC Dept.	Part of Volume I.	1918
ADM 1/8554/84	Admiralty Controller. Scope and General Authority.		1918
ADM 1/8559/150	Third Sea Lord and Controller duties. Instructions for Departments under Controller's Superintendence 1919.		1918
ADM 1/8724/93	The Evolution of the Cruiser.	Monograph written by Commander King-Hall.	1928
ADM 1/9209	Battle Cruisers: Design.		1916
ADM 1/9210	"Hood" Class: Armour and Deck protection.		1917
ADM 1/13487	Naval Air Power: Present Position and Future Policy	Copied for someone who asked nicely!	1942
ADM 6/447	Private Office register of applicants for nominations as Naval Cadets.		1869 - 1871
ADM 6/461	Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918, and Which Have Now Ceased to Exist.
ADM 6/469	Cadets Passing Out of Britannia		1877-1883
ADM 7/936	Reports of Director of Naval Education
ADM 116/172	Outbreak of Scurvy in Arctic Expedition.		1877
ADM 116/446	Cressy Class.
ADM 116/862	Report of the Committee Appointed to Consider the Organisation and Training of the Royal Naval War College and its Relation to the Naval War Staff.
ADM 116/878	Construction of Warships, 1893 - 1899
ADM 116/881	Executive Lists	Various Committees
ADM 116/900B	War Orders, 1899-1907.
ADM 116/1464	Defensively Armed Merchant Ships.	NOT related to cordite handling at Jutland.
ADM 116/1484	Jutland Battle Volume 3 Reports from Battle Cruisers &c.	Copy of the lost docket on cordite handling.
ADM 116/1538	H.M.S. Natal - loss by internal explosion.
ADM 116/1585A	Naval War Staff		1917-1918
ADM 116/1803	Re-organisation of Naval Staff Divisions.	D.N.O., D.N.A. & T.	1917-1921
ADM 116/2348	Protection of Magazines, Venting		1916-1927
ADM 116/3090	Navy War Council Minutes
ADM 116/3092	Naval Necessities I.
ADM 116/3106	Beresford contretemps
ADM 116/3381	Manoeuvres for 1912 and 1913.
ADM 116/3392	Distribution of Admiralty Business Among Members of the Board and Secretaries.		1885-1923
ADM 116/3454	Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher.		1914-1917
ADM 116/3381	First Lord of the Admiralty.	Papers relating to 1913 Naval Manœuvres.
ADM 137/47	Loss of Aboukir, Cressy and Hogue, Court of Inquiry
ADM 137/260	Home Fleets General Orders, July 1914.		1914
ADM 137/266	Grand Fleet Signal Orders.
ADM 137/293	Grand Fleet Gunnery and Torpedo Orders.		1915-1918
ADM 137/304	Falklands.	Who knows?
ADM 137/385	Baralong Incident
ADM 137/818	War Plans and War Orders, Home Fleets and Detached Squadrons.		1913-1914
ADM 137/1062	Southwest Approaches.	Related to the Lusitania sinking.	1915
ADM 137/1165	Grand Fleet.	Jan.-June, 1916. Much of interest according to Black.
ADM 137/1322	Convoy.
ADM 137/1645		Conferences concerning Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet	1916
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
ADM 137/1946		Need ff. 128-552.
ADM 137/2018	Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda		1914
ADM 137/2019	Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda		Jan.-June, 1915
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.	July-Dec., 1915
ADM 137/2021	Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda		Jan.-June, 1916
ADM 137/2027	Committees Formed to Consider Experience at Jutland.	Part I. Copied up to f. 285.
ADM 137/2134	Committee on Construction of Battle Cruisers.	Related to cordite handling.
ADM 137/2771.	Convoy.
ADM 137/3680	Loss of H.M.S. Vanguard.
ADM 137/3681	Loss of H.M.S. Vanguard.
ADM 137/4052	Grand Fleet Orders.	Copied to p. 236.
ADM 137/4067	Actions and Operations.	Intercepted German signals during the war.
ADM 137/4156	Signalbuch der Kaiserlichen Marine.
ADM 137/4374	Verkehrsbuch.
ADM 137/4375	Verkehrsbuch.
ADM 137/4822	Extract of Gunnery Practices in Grand Fleet, 1914—1918.
ADM 144/16	Channel Fleet.
ADM 144/17	Home and Channel Fleets.
ADM 156/71	Insubordination in Atlantic Fleet at Invergordon. Reports on various officers.
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
ADM 156/162	Loss of H.M.S. Natal - Proceedings of Court Martial.
ADM 167/51	Minutes of the Board of Admiralty.		January - June, 1917
ADM 167/52	Memoranda for the Board of Admiralty.		January - June, 1917
ADM 167/54	Memoranda for the Board of Admiralty		1917 - 1918
ADM 178/13	Board Minutes on the Loss of HM ships ABOUKIR, CRESSY AND HOGUE.		1914
ADM 178/33	Request by Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly for Court Martial.		1915
ADM 178/45	Retired Rear-Admiral Murray F. Sueter: History of Naval Career and Grievances.
ADM 178/123	Loss of H.M.S. Natal - Court Martial
ADM 178/129	Invergordon Reports.	The stitching up of Admiral Dreyer.
ADM 182/2	Admiralty Weekly Orders	Battle Cruiser nomenclature.	1911
ADM 182/4	Admiralty Weekly Orders		1913
ADM 182/5	Admiralty Weekly Orders		1914
ADM 186/4	Cruiser Manual. Part I.		1911
ADM 186/5	Cruiser Manual. Part II.		1911
ADM 186/139	Remarks on Handling Ships &c.		1904
ADM 186/164	List of H.M. Ships Showing their Armament, April, 1915.
ADM 186/166	Projectile Committee: Final Report of the President.		1917
ADM 186/167	Shell Committee: Interim Report.		1917
ADM 186/168	Shell Committee: Second Interim Report.		1918
ADM 186/169	Shell Committee: Reports, 1917 and 1918.		1918
ADM 186/171	Manual of Gunnery for H.M. Fleet.	C.B. 1619.	1922
ADM 186/190	Hydraulic Manual. 13.5-inch B.L. Mountings Mark II.
ADM 186/192	Addenda to the Hydraulic Manual. 13.5-inch B.L. Mountings Mark II,**		1914
ADM 186/227	The Director Firing Handbook.	C.B. 1259.	1917
ADM 186/229	Vengeance Flash Trials, 1917 and 1918.	C.B. 1451.	1918
ADM 186/234	Director Firing Handbook, Director Firing for Flotilla Leaders and Destroyers.		1917
ADM 186/241	Reports of the Grand Fleet Dreyer Table Committee, 1918-1919	C.B. 1533.	1919
ADM 186/244	Progress in Gunnery Material		1920
ADM 186/257	Progress in Naval Gunnery	Copied pp. 126-140 relating to Baden tests.	1921
ADM 186/589	The German Cruiser Squadron in the Pacific, 1914.		1919
ADM 186/590	Operations leading up to the Battle of Coronel, Nov 1914.		1919
ADM 186/591	Operation leading up to the Battle of the Falkland Islands Nov 1914.		1919
ADM 186/592	Naval operations in The Cameroons 1914.		1919
ADM 186/593	Operations in the Mediterranean 4 - 10 Aug 1914.		1919
ADM 186/594	The conquest of the Baltic Islands: Translation of Vice-Admiral Schmidt's despatch.		1919
ADM 186/603	The Economic Blockade 1914-1919.		1920
ADM 186/604	History of British minesweeping in the war.		1920
ADM 186/605	Naval Staff Monographs: CORONEL, German cruiser squadron in the Pacific, Falklands and GOEBEN and BRESLAU.		1920
ADM 186/606	Organisation of the Archangel River Flotilla 1919.		1920
ADM 186/607	Naval Staff Monographs: East Africa to July 1915 and Cameroons 1914.		1921
ADM 186/609	The Tenth Cruiser Squadron during the command of Admiral de Chair, 1914-1916		1921
ADM 186/610	Naval Staff Monographs: the action of Dogger Bank, 24 Jan 1915.		1921
ADM 186/611	History of the White Sea Station 1914-1919.		1921
ADM 186/619	Home Waters from the Outbreak of War to 27 August, 1914.		1924
ADM 186/620	Home Waters, Sept. - Oct., 1914.		1924
ADM 186/621	Home Waters, Nov., 1914 - Jan., 1915.		1925
ADM 186/622	Home Waters, Feb. - July, 1915		1926
ADM 186/626	Battle of Jutland: Official German Account.	Hopefully the translation of Der Krieg zur See by Bagot.	1926
ADM 186/631	Remarks on Handling Ships and Fleet Navigational Subjects.
ADM 186/659	Flotilla Signal Book.		1908
ADM 189/36	Annual Report of the Torpedo School.		1916
ADM 189/37	Annual Report of the Torpedo School.		1917
ADM 203/8	In-Letters, Royal Naval College	Copied Letter N-13629, relating to Full Pay for Commanders and Captain studying.	1900
ADM 203/64	History of the War College.
ADM 203/69	Royal Naval War College.
ADM 203/99	War College Roster.
ADM 203/100	Royal Naval War College and Naval Staff College, Greenwich.
ADM 231/11	N.I.D. Report No. 137.	Naval Manœuvres of 1887.	1887
ADM 231/12	N.I.D. Report No. 155.	Instructions for D.N.I.	1888
ADM 231/14	N.I.D. Report No. 179.	Naval Manœuvres of 1888.	1888
ADM 231/16	N.I.D. Report No. 215.	Naval Manœuvres of 1889.	1889
ADM 231/18	N.I.D. Report No. 252.	Naval Manœuvres of 1890.	1890
ADM 231/17	N.I.D. Report No. 228.	Naval Manœuvres of 1891.	1891
ADM 231/22	N.I.D. Report No. 231.	Naval Manœuvres of 1892.	1892
ADM 231/23	N.I.D. Report No. 372.	Naval Manœuvres of 1893.	1893
ADM 231/27	N.I.D. Report No. 474.	Naval Manœuvres of 1896.	1896
ADM 231/32	N.I.D. Report No. 596.	Naval Manœuvres of 1900.	1900
ADM 231/35	N.I.D. Report No. 641.	Naval Manœuvres of 1901.	1901
ADM 231/37	N.I.D. Report No. 690.	Naval Manœuvres of 1902.	1902
ADM 231/45	Naval Intelligence Department. Distribution of Work.—March 1905. N.I.D. Report No. 789		1905
ADM 231/47	N.I.D. Report No. 817. Naval Intelligence Department. Distribution of Work.—February 1906.	Naval Manœuvres of 1906.	1906
ADM 231/50	Naval Intelligence Department. Distribution of Work.—April 1907.		1907
ADM 234/434	The Naval Staff of the Admiralty.	Staff History of the Staff.	1929
ADM 256/40	Principal Questions Dealt with by Director of Naval Ordnance.		1904
ADM 256/41	Principal Questions Dealt with by Director of Naval Ordnance.		1905
ADM 256/42	Principal Questions Dealt with by Director of Naval Ordnance.		1906
ADM 256/43	Principal Questions Dealt with by Director of Naval Ordnance.		1907
ADM 256/44	Principal Questions Dealt with by Director of Naval Ordnance.		1908-1911
ADM 268/12	Report of the Committee of the Organisation of the Department of the Controller of the Navy.		1912
ADM 275/19	Technical History and Index: serial history of technical problems dealt with by Admiralty departments.
AIR 1/279/15/226/127	Air Services - organisation and duties of the Admiralty, June 1917 - February, 1918.
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.
HD 3/133	British Policy in the Baltic in the Event of War with Germany.		1907
HW 3/3	Papers of William F. Clarke.	Room 40
SUPP 6/175	Minutes of the Ordnance Board.	Jellicoe request on shell, either dated 28 Oct., 1910, or Minute No. 3284.	Jan.-June, 1910
SUPP 6/176	Minutes of the Ordnance Board.	Ditto.	July-Dec., 1910
T 1/11192	Various Treasury Papers on Promotions.		1909
T 1/11670	Lieutenant-Commander, Flag Rank.		1913-1914

Admiralty Library, Portsmouth

Reference	Title	Description	Date
1987/130.	Tupper Papers	Large selection of Tupper correspondence.
1988.337/88	Naval Memories	By Admiral Sir Edward B. Kiddle.	Undated
2005.14/3	Hutchison Papers	Diary.	1904
MSS 114	Limpus Papers	Mediterranean Routines &c.	1898
MSS 254	Tweedmouth Papers	Large selection of letters.	1906 - 1908
MSS 255/4	Jackson Papers	Letters from Jellicoe to Jackson.	1915 - 1916
MSS 264	Baddeley Papers	Relating to D.N.B. lives of Colville, Milne and Madden.

National Maritime Museum

Reference	Title	Description	Date
B2521	The Technical History and Index. Part 24	Storage and Handling of Explosives in Warships.
BTY/6/14/1	"Reminiscences of "Q" Turret by Private H. Willows, R.M.L.I."	Lion at Jutland.
COW/17/4	The Wheel of Fortune.	Memoirs of Admiral Sir Walter H. Cowan, Bart..
DAN/220	Royal Naval College.	War Course.	1903.
DAN/226	Royal Naval War College.	Most material concerning Army Staff College not copied.	1913
DAN/475	Gunnery.
D0710	Committee on Designs	Lord Lee of Fareham's copy.	1905
DFF/3	Duff Correspondence with Bethell.	Copies.	1917-1919
DFF/15	Duff Diary	Diary of Rear-Admiral Alexander L. Duff, Rear-Admiral in the Fourth Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet.	1914-1916
GEE/2	Admiralty Administration.	Various papers.
GEE/13	Notes on personalities at the Admiralty.	Written by Sir William Graham Greene.
HTN/106	Hamilton Diary	Diary of Admiral Sir Frederick T. Hamilton, Second Sea Lord.	1915-1916
HTN/117/A	Hamilton Correspondence	A-D.	1914-1917
HTN/117/B	Hamilton Correspondence	E-L. E-F, J-L copied.	1914-1917
HTN/118/A	Hamilton Correspondence
JOH/24	Johnstone Papers.	Camperdown, T.A.
MER/39	Mercury Papers.	Tactics.
MER/43	Mercury Papers.	Tactics.
MER/95	Mercury Papers.	Tactics.
MID/6/10	Barham Papers.	Board business. Better copy needed.	1805.
MSS/073/095	Bradford Correspondence.
MSS/80/200	Ballard Papers.
MSS/83/052.1	Dreyer to Jellicoe.		1908
MSS/83/052.2	Jellicoe to Dreyer.		1908
OLV/8	Oliver Correspondence
OLV/12	"Recollections."	Typescript memoirs in two volumes of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry F. Oliver.	1946
PHI/206/A-B	Reports and Journals Concerning the North America Station.		1914-1915
THY/17	"Early Days of the War in the Channel Fleet and the Gallipoli Landings."	In pencil. Didn't photograph well.

Churchill Archives Centre

Reference	Title	Description	Date
BGGF 1/3	'Private' note book. Stubbington school.
BGGF 1/4	Diary.		1878
CHAR 13/1
CHAR 13/2
CHAR 13/3
CHAR 13/4
CHAR 13/5
CHAR 13/6A-B
CHAR 13/7
CHAR 13/8
CHAR 13/9
CHAR 13/10
CHAR 13/11
CHAR 13/12
CHAR 13/13
CHAR 13/14
CHAR 13/15
CHAR 13/16
CHAR 13/19
CHAR 13/20
CHAR 13/22 A-B
CHAR 13/25/2
CHAR 13/25/4
CHAR 13/26
CHAR 13/27 A-B
CHAR 13/43
CHAR 13/44
CHAR 13/45
CHAR 13/46
CHAR 13/47
CHAR 13/48
CHAR 13/49
CHAR 13/50
CHAR 13/51
CHAR 13/52
CHAR 13/53
CHAR 13/54
CHAR 13/55
CHAR 13/56	Fisher Correspondence.
CHAR 13/57	Fisher Correspondence.
CHAR 13/59
DRYR 3/1	Letters from Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe to Dreyer.
DRYR 4/1	Galley proof of draft, apparently written by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Jellicoe, of part of Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon's biography of Jellicoe.
DRYR 6/13	Dismissal of Jellicoe.
DUPO 1/1	Draft of book on Admiralty by Norman Macleod		1955-1957
HOOD 3/12	Appointment as Rear Admiral.		1913
HOOD 3/17	Order of the Bath and Statutes.		1911
SDEE 1/17	Draft essay. Titled "My Service Connections with Lord Fisher".
SDEE 1/18	Draft essay. Titled "Some Reminiscences of the War, 1914-18".
SDEE 3/2	1900-1910 etc.
SDEE 3/6	Correspondence with naval colleagues. With press cuttings and telegrams.		1915-1916
SDEE 4/2		Track chart of Falkland Islands action.
SDEE 4/3	Photographs. Comprising black-and-white prints. Including photographs of Admiral Sturdee, family and friends, family homes, holidays and travels, and some naval subjects. With a Christmas card.
WYMS 2/1	Letters.
WYMS 2/7	Letters.
WYMS 2/8	Letters.
WYMS 4/4
WYMS 11/1	Catalogue of papers on microfilm.

British Library

Reference	Title	Description	Date
Add. MSS. 49038	Jellicoe's draft memoirs.