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[Note: ADM 137/1895, 1895A-1895B are produced as a single document: order as ADM...

Catalogue reference: ADM 137/1895B

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Reference
ADM 137/1895B
Date
1914-1918
Description

[Note: ADM 137/1895, 1895A-1895B are produced as a single document: order as ADM 137/1895].

[Listing continued from ADM 137/1895A].

Section III - Miscellaneous.

Folios 430-434: Remarks on director firing handbook, July 1917.

Folios 435-436: Revised instructions for vessels screening mercantile convoys, January 1918.

Folios 437-438: Experiences of German submarines. War against commerce, February 1918.

Folios 439-444: Addendum No 1 to CB 01430. Q and R patrols, May 1918.

Folio 445: Depth charges carried by vessels, June 1918.

Folios 446-447: Translation of Artillery aeroplane and artillery balloon. (Document not in file).

Folios 448-454: Monthly summary of war orders, August 1918.

Folios 455-457: Revision of articles of CB 511, September 1918.

Folios 458-465: Revision of CB 272 and 272a, spotting rules for heavy ships, 28 November 1918.

Section IV - Miscellaneous.

Folio 467: Secret supplement to Navy List, May 1915.

Folios 468-469: 1915 wireless instructions, July 1915.

Folios 470-475: GS Code in key memo. No 7 remarks to issue.

Folios 476-479: Modification of basis of division of ships for allocation of GS Code for auxiliary patrol, February 1916.

Folios 480-482: OXO charts. Unnecessary on board destroyers, April 1916.

Folios 483-484: Numbers and distribution of key memorandum, July 1916.

Folios 485-488: Submarine wireless code No 1 CB 170, 20 August 1918.

Folio 489: Distribution suggestions of the parvane handbook, August 1916.

Folios 490-495: Proposal for issue of Emergency and Battlefield Reporting tables to destroyers, September 1916.

Folios 496-498: War wireless tables No 10. Proposed issue to sloops and gunboats, November 1916.

Folios 499-520: Vocabulary signal book No 4 supplied to HMS Lion. No of copies insufficient, November 1916.

Folios 521-534: Advisability of issuing submarine wireless Code No 2,. October 1916.

Folios 535-536: Suggestions regarding the issue of signal and wireless codes to 'K' class of submarines, December 1916.

Folios 537-539: Distributing authorities for Lords Commissioners attached to battle squadrons of Grand Fleet, March 1917.

Folios 540-542: Copy of French instructions for merchant vessels code, March 1917.

Folios 543-548: Submarine wireless code No 1, Boarding steamers code No 3 and Grand Fleet addenda Nos 1 and 2 to submarine wireless code. Issue to submarines, April 1917.

Folio 549: War wireless tables No 13 and 14 for issue to submarines, July 1917.

Folios 550-554: Communication with Russian ships escorted by British, July 1917.

Folio 555: Cypher E. Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean, August 1917.

Folios 556-564: Vocabulary signal book No 10. Reduction in allowance, September 1917.

Folios 565-572: Distribution of code No 2 for reporting positions of hostile airships, August 1917.

Folios 573-574: Distribution of general cyphers, September 1917.

Folios 575-576: Return of confidential books, October 1917.

Folio 577: Document sent to Atlantic mercantile convoys, November 1917.

Folio 578: OXO charts on board HMS Woolwich, November 1917.

Folio 579-580: Supply to battle cruisers and light cruisers of war channel charts, December 1917.

Folios 581-584: Distribution of submarine cyphers, January 1918.

Folios 585-586: Request for cypher 'Z' from 4th light cruiser squadron, January 1918.

Folios 587-588: Issue of pages 1 and 2 of key memo No 3 B or C to submarines, February 1918.

Folio 589: Confidential books, February 1918.

Folios 590-592: Request from commanding officer HMS Oak for OXO pamphlets, February 1918.

Folios 593-644: Confidential books carried in ships. Possible reduction, February 1918.

Folio 645: Clerical work in connection with HMS Campania and HMS Canning, March 1918.

Folios 646-650: Proposals for reduction in number of confidential books, Commodore 'F', March 1918.

Folios 651-654: Confidential books. Captain D 14th flotilla, March 1918.

Folios 655-656: Allowance of general signal books to destroyers, April 1918.

Folios 657-659: Establishment of signal books. Codes and cyphers, June 1918.

Folios 660-663: Wireless instructions for ocean and destroyer escorts and Commodores of convoy. Secret positions for use by destroyer escorts, July 1918.

Folios 664-665: Secret package 'X' CB 0266, July 1918.

Folio 666: Supply of vocabulary signal books, July 1918.

Folio 667: Application for an additional signal manual and addendum, July 1918.

Folios 668-670: Supply of confidential books to North Sea fast sweeping flotilla, July 1918.

Folios 671-675: 1st minelaying squadron. Secret charts, August 1918.

Folio 676: Signal books for use in fleet flagship, September 1918.

Folio 677: Appointment of additional commander 'G' to staff C-in-C Grand Fleet, Supply of gunnery publications, October 1918.

Folio 678: Supply to HMS Queen Elizabeth of instructions for aircraft signalling, 1918 to February 1919.

Folios 679-680: Names of destroyers proceeding to Baltic and flag officers cypher. Request from HMS Phaeton, February 1919.

Folios 681-693: Confidential books. Supply of OXO, October 1918.

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