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Catalogue reference: ADM 137/1906B
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[NOTE: ADM 137/1906, 1906A-1906E are produced as a single document: order as ADM 137/1906].
Listing continued from ADM 137/1906A.
Folios 97-204: Section 2. Miscellaneous intelligence 1915.
Folio 97: Title. Folios 98-105: Covering letter G042/15/1101, 13 January 1915, W Graham Greene with telegrams, No 28, 20 December 1914; No 39, 2 January 1915. Enclosures: Comparison of narratives of action off the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914 contained in (1) HMS Invincible?s report and (2) note book found on Midshipman Freiherr Grote one of the survivor?s of SMS Gneisnau.
Folios 106-107: Enclosure No 1 to Submission No 219/HF0017, 31 January 1915. Copy of letter from an Edward Granville Eliot of 71 Portsmouth Road, Southampton, 27 January 1915 addressed to Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleets. Information on a project he has heard is being discussed in German Naval circles to make a large merchant vessel ?look British? and fill with cargo of explosive to detonate in a large British port.
Folio 108: Enclosure No 2 to Submission No 219/HF0017, 31 January 1915. Copy of Admiralty acknowledgement letter to Edward G Eliot 30 January 1915.
Folio 109: Submission 219/HF0017, 31 January 1915. Rumoured German project against British harbour signed by Commander-in-Chief Charles Edward Madden.
Folio 110: Submission No 0024, 31 January 1915 from Commodore William Edmund Goodenough, 1st Light Cruiser Squadron. German light cruiser dispositions.
Folio 111: Handwritten report GFO 1915, No 71A, 3 January 1915 by Commander Apsley DM Cherry, HMS Paragon. Distinguishing German from French aircraft from experiences off Belgian coast.
Folio 112: Covering letter 28 December 1914 enclosing letter from a Mrs Horniman [enclosure not on file].
Folios 113-114: Covering letter No 24, 13 March 1915 with report from Lieutenant (Interpreter) Henry Mowbray Howard RNVR of interview with German prisoner (from a submarine) on board HM Hospital ship Rewa.
Folios 115-122: Correspondence concerning use of searchlights:- Letter No 015/14, 26 February 1915 from Captain William GE Ruck-Keene HMS Cochrane with forwarding letter No 091 from Captain (D) 4th Destroyer Flotilla with comments; Handwritten letter 7 March 1915 from Lieutenant Commander John Ouchterlony Barron, HMS Acasta with comments; Handwritten comments 3 March 1915 from C-in-C Charles Edward Madden; Handwritten note 3 March 1915 [author not identifiable].
Folios 123-125: Boarding of American full-rigged ship on 24 February 1915 by HMS Royal Scot:- Covering note as enclosure to Submission No 566/HF0017, 26 September 1915 from C-in-C Home Fleets; Submission by Commanding officer, HMS Royal Scot 25 March 1915. Information on situation in Bremen; Submission 566/HF0017, 26 March 1915 by Admiral JR Jellicoe.
Folios 126-130: Reports on German torpedos recently picked up:- Admiralty letter G01189/15/9940, 15 April 1915; Admiralty letter G01189/15/10660, 23 April 1915; Submission No 776/HF0017, 28 April 1915; Handwritten notes [author not identifiable].
Folio 130: Memorandum 21 April 1915 from Director of Intelligence Division to C-in-C Home Fleet. Information received from HM Consul, Bergen. Enquiries made for 2000 tons of coal believed to be intended for a German cruiser possibly SMS Berlin.
Folios 131-132: Covering Admiralty letter M44021, 12 September 1915 with Foreign Office note concerning patrols by Danish torpedo boats in waters adjacent to the Skaw.
Folios 133-136: Covering Admiralty letter No 207/M-0258, 13 March 1914 and paper titled Foreign Naval notes dated 4 March 1914 with extract from a German book titled ?The German Fleet in decisive combat? together with remarks of the Naval Attaché in Berlin.
Folios 137-145: Submarine sound signalling:- Submission 20 April 1915, from Stanley PH Legh(?), Third Writer, HMS Iron Duke; Note 21 April 1915 commenting on transmission of signals by water wireless Remarks by Lieutenant Commander Mackichan (T), HMS Iron Duke; Comments by OEL (Commander N) 25 April 1915; Further handwritten comments [authors not identifiable].
Folio 146: Letter No 175/63.G, 18 June 1915. Vice Admiral George Warrender to C-in-C Home Fleets. Suggested further limitations on distribution of secret and confidential matter.
Folios 147-150: Letter NID 9458, 14 August 1915 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with attached statement of the activities of U39 from a Carl Frank List, resident of Portland Oregon who was a seaman captured and taken on-board the U39 on 29 June 1915 with others from the Cambuskenneth, a Norwegian full-rigged ship.
Folios 151-152: Letter NID 9736, 25 August 1915 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets. Information on change in German submarine policy from Premier Lieutenant With-Seidelin from talk with Oberleutenant Wichgraf.
Folios 153-170: Letter NID 10691/15, 6 October 1915 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with report by Signalman GH Millar RNVR relating to his recent imprisonment at Doberitz after capture near Moerbecke on 8 October 1914. He escaped from Doberitz on 3 September 1915 and landed at Newcastle on 23 September 1915. Sections of report are:- Treatment of prisoners etc: food, organisation, punishments, clothing, postal arrangements, health. Information regarding the German army: infantry, machine gun sections, flying, horses. Observations during escape. Map of Doberitz. Mention (page 2) of Lieutenant Commander Hanson being taken away and shot.
Folios 171-179: Admiralty correspondence in October 1915 related to a short vocabulary of words extracted from certain documents translated from German war and manoeuvre orders. Distributed by Lieutenant Commander TCC Bolster, HMS Blanche.
Folios 180-183: Admiralty correspondence November/December 1915 concerning suggested ?handy publications? for use on bridge of HM Ships for use on sighting of enemy vessels.
Folios 184-187: Admiralty correspondence February 1916 concerning sketches of silhouettes of enemy vessel for recognition purposes. Folios 188-189: Translation from Christiana newspaper Aftenposten, 16 November 1915, concerning reports of railway from Kolafjord on the Murman coast to Petrograd.
Folios 190-193: Letter M 48000, 17 November 1915 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleet and other correspondence concerning a private wireless telegraphy at Seyöisfjörour on the East coast of Iceland. Folio 194: Covering letter 23 November 1915 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleet. ?Photographs of boy ? Ed, in uniform, and von Papen, in mufti?? (photograph not on file.)
Folios 195-200: Letter 12366/15, 23 December 1915 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets enclosing translation of a notebook found on one of the survivors of SMS Gneisenau; F?hnrich Zur See Freiherr Grote during action off Falkland Islands 8 December 1914.
Folios 201-203: Covering letter No 61, 7 January 1916. Vice Admiral Sturdee to C-in-C Home Fleet. Information obtained from Max Kypke a German first class passenger removed from SS Bergensfjord from Bergen to New York on 24 December 1915. Folio 204. Admiralty covering letter. [No information contained].
Listing continued in ADM 137/1906C.
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