User:Simon Harley
From The Dreadnought Project
Simon Harley is a twenty-five year old law student, and researcher of the Royal Navy in the Dreadnought Era.
He currently lives on the North West coast of England. His first article, on Balfour at the Admiralty, is in preparation for publication. A biography of Lord Jellicoe is also in the works. His chief interest is the Flag List of the Royal Navy, and his contributions to this website in large part reflect that interest.
Currently reading:—
- Grimes, Shawn T. War Planning and Strategic Development in the Royal Navy, 1887-1918. Doctoral thesis. King's College, London.
- Parkinson, Roger A. H. The Origins of the Naval Defence Act of 1889 and the New Navalism of the 1890s. Doctoral thesis. University of Exeter.
A list of books in my possession, periodically updated, on Wikipedia:—
Things to look at:—
The National 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.
| Reference | Title | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADM 1/7377 | Admiralty. | Tactics of New Armoured Cruisers as Affecting their Design. | 1898 |
| ADM 1/7461B | Study of Naval Tactics. | 1900 | |
| 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 1/8268 | Combined Cruise of Second Division Home Fleet and Atlantic Fleet, January 1912. | ||
| ADM 1/8328 | Gunnery in the Royal Navy: Conference at the Admiralty. | 1911-1912 | |
| ADM 1/8346 | Firings to be Carried Out at "Empress of India". | 1913 | |
| ADM 1/8383/179 | Battle and Cruiser Squadrons - Programme. | 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 1/8478/3 | 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 1/9209 | Battle Cruisers: Design. | 1916 | |
| ADM 1/9210 | "Hood" Class: Armour and Deck protection. | 1917 | |
| ADM 6/461 | Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918, and Which Have Now Ceased to Exist. | ||
| ADM 116/900B | War Orders, 1899-1907. | ||
| ADM 116/1464 | Defensively Armed Merchant Ships | Related to cordite handling at Jutland. | |
| ADM 116/1538 | H.M.S. Natal - loss by internal explosion. | ||
| ADM 116/1803 | Re-organisation of Naval Staff Divisions. | D.N.O., D.N.A. & T. | 1917-1921 |
| 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 137/260 | 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 137/818 | 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 144/17 | 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 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 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 186/626 | 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 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 234/434 | The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. | Staff History of the Staff. | 1929 |
| 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. | |
| 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 |
Items to check: Death dates of Rowland Nugent, George Walter Smith, Edward Herbert Moubray and Archibald Peile Stoddart.
National Maritime Museum
| Reference | Title | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| DFF/15 | Duff Diary | Diary of Rear-Admiral Alexander L. Duff, Rear-Admiral in the Fourth Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet. | 1914-1916 |
| HTN/106 | Hamilton Diary | Diary of Admiral Sir Frederick T. Hamilton, Second Sea Lord. | 1915-1916 |
| OLV/12 | "Recollections." | Typescript memoirs in two volumes of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry F. Oliver. | 1946 |
| 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.. | |
| GEE/13 | Notes on personalities at the Admiralty. | Written by Sir William Graham Greene. | |
- Wanted
- MSS 255/4. A series of 107 letters received by Admiral Sir Henry Jackson as First Sea Lord from Admiral Sir John Jellicoe as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet, June 1915 - November 1916.
Command Papers
- Report of the Committee Appointed by the Admiralty to Inquire into the System of Training Naval Cadets on Board H.M.S. Britannia, Together with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix, and a Summary of the Evidence. C. 1154 (1875).
- Regulations Respecting Naval Cadets. C. 2780 (1881).
- Memorandum Dealing with the Entry, Training, and Employment of Officers and Men of the Royal Navy and of the Royal Marines. Cd. 1385 (1902).
- Selection of Candidates for Nomination as Naval Cadets. Reports of Members of the Interview Committees. Cd. 1962 (1904).
- Results of Prize Firing in H.M. Fleet, 1903. Cd. 1995.
- Result of Gunlayers' Competition in His Majesty's Fleet, 1904. Cd. 2511.
- Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1905. Cd. 2703.
- Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1905. Cd. 2704.
- A Statement of Admiralty Policy. Cd. 2791 (1906).
- Reports of Departmental Committees Appointed to Consider Certain Questions Concerning the Extension of the New Scheme of Training for Officers of the Navy, &c.. Cd. 2841 (1906).
- Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1906. Cd. 3276.
- Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1906. Cd. 3321.
- Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1907. Cd. 3900.
- Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1907. Cd. 3943.
- Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1908. Cd. 4480.
- Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1908. Cd. 4514.
- Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1909. Cd. 5042.
- Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1909. Cd. 5089.
- Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1910. Cd. 5445.
- Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1910. Cd. 5592.
- Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1911. Cd. 5957.
- Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1911. Cd. 5958.
- Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1902. Cd. 6758.
- Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1912. Cd. 6765.
- Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1913. Cd. 7366.
- Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns and Light Q.F. Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1913. Cd. 7387.
- Correspondence Regarding the Naval and Military Assistance Afforded to His Majesty's Government by His Majesty's Oversea Dominions. Cd. 7607 (1914).
- Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns and Light Q.F. Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1914. Cd. 7919.
