[Note: ADM 137/1907, 1907A-1907E are produced as a single document: order as ADM...

[Note: ADM 137/1907, 1907A-1907E are produced as a single document: order as ADM 137/1907].

Miscellaneous intelligence 1917.

Folio 1: Title page.

Folio 2: Explanatory note. During the period of the War, papers of a confidential nature in the office of the C-in-C Home Fleet were filed in Packs (numbered separately from the non-confidential records) in a Series 001 to 0042 inclusive. Copies of relevant telegrams were filed in these packs, but a complete set of all telegrams was also maintained. The secret packs were re-arranged by the Grand fleet secretarial staff in February 1919, when papers considered unimportant were removed and destroyed, and the remainder re-indexed. They were received in this form by the Historical Section in April 1920, and bound as received, in a series of Volumes. The 1919 index will be found in the first volume (see ADM 137/1881) and extracts from these have been inserted in each succeeding volume. This volume is the 27th of the series.

Folio 3: Index of contents.

Folios 4-7: Blank.

Folio 8: Contents page:- Section 4. Miscellaneous intelligence 1917. Section 5. Miscellaneous intelligence 1918.

Folio 9: Title page: Miscellaneous Intelligence 1917.

Folios 10-41: Letter NID 10000, 1 January 1917 from Director of the Intelligence Division to C-in-C Home Fleets. Advanced copy of report on examination of Louis Jütte, Ordinary Seaman, deserter from German Navy. Report contents:- 1. General. 2. Operations and movements of 3rd Battle Squadron. 3. Jutland action:- (1) Damage to König. (2) Details of the action. (3) Casualties. (4) Fires during action. (5) Gas fumes. (6) Torpedoes. (7) Fuel. (8) Dress worn. (9) Officers stations. (10) Blind shells. (11) Damage to other ships. 4. General details of König:- (1) Ammunition hoists of 30.5cm (12in) turret. (2) Magazines and shell rooms. (3) Flooding arrangements. (4) Magazine cooling arrangements. (5) Turrets. (6) Control arrangements. (7) Air blast. (8) Turret sights. (9) Gyro firing gear. (10) Ammunition. (11) Rate of fire. (12) Rangefinders. (13) Armament. (14) Loading competitions. (15) Decks. (16) Dynamos. (17) Complement. (18) Anchors. (19) Boats. (20) Searchlights. (21) Accommodation. (22) Coaling. (23) Heating. (24) Wireless telegraphy. (25) Main control position and conning tower. (26) Mines. (27) Torpedoes. (28) Smoke screen. (29) Firing practices. 5. Painting of funnels. 6. Torpedo nets. 7. Tripod masts. 8. König Albert. 9. Bayern. 10. Hindenburg. 11. Seydlitz. 12. New construction. 13. Morale and conditions in the German Navy. 14. Fleet formations and tactics. 15. Squadron commanders. Folio 12 has a scaled drawing of the König showing damage in action on 31 May – 1 June 1916.

Folios 42-54: Letter from Director of the Intelligence Division to C-in-C Grand Fleet, 17 January 1917. NID 10263/17. Translation of an article from the Kreuz Zeitung 22 December 1916 titled “The German Navy League and the Objects of the War.”

Folios 55-61: Letter from Director of the Intelligence Division to C-in-C Grand Fleet, 20 January 1917. NID 6061/17. Copy of an intercepted letter from a Frau Adelung, Glücksburg near Flensburg, Germany to Frau Kapitӓn zur See Saxer, 164 Bubbling Well Road Shanghai.

Folios 62-63: Naval extracts from General Intelligence Report No 165 30 January to 1 February 1917. Issued for information by Admiral David Beatty, 11 February 1917. HF 0022/553.

Folios 64-74: Naval correspondence HF0017/45 and 46, 14 February 1917 and NID/OL1230, 18 April 1917 regarding previous document “AX” and issue of an “OXO” book – Notes on Organisation and Matériel of German Fleet. HF0017/52, NID 5264 and HF0017/54 August–September 1917 on same subject.

Folios 75-119: Letter from Director of the Intelligence Division to C-in-C Grand Fleet, 25 February 1917. NID/OL696. Information obtained from the German prize crew captured from the Italian SS Famiglia captured by HMS Moldavia on 9 February 1917 comprising:- 1. List of prisoners (German prize crew). 2. General narrative. 3. U43 and U66. 4. 2nd Battle Squadron. 5. SMS Hessen. 6. SMS Moltke. 7. Action of 24 January 1915. 8. Jutland action. 9. New construction. 10. Raiders. 11. SMS Bayern. 12. General conditions. Appendix. 1. Extracts from note book belonging to Steuermann (Navigating warrant officer) Albert Grönsky. 2. Translation of pages from a German diary found on board SS Famiglia. 3. Report written by Engineer officer of SS Famiglia from notes taken on board. 4. Translation of certificate given to the master of the SS Donstad. Other documents:- Information from sundry documents found on prize crew. Typed drafts of reports contained above some in German and Italian. Paper No 113/018, 12 February 1917 by Vice Admiral R Tupper to Admiralty with HMS Moldavia’s letter 10 February 1917.

Folios 120-128: Letter from Director of the Intelligence Division to C-in-C Grand Fleet, 10 April 1917, NID 11859 with copy of preliminary report of examination of Karl Trommer, Able Seaman, deserter from German Navy (born in Reichenau, Saxony on 8 March 1897) comprising:- 1. General. 2. Squadron formations. 3. Light cruisers. 4. Battle of Jutland (during part of the action Trommer was on the wheel in the conning tower of the Friedrich der Grosse.) 5. Tripod masts and control positions. 6. Smoke screen (Nebelentwickler.) 7. Raiders.

[Listing continued in ADM 137/1907B].

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