[NOTE: ADM 137/1906, 1906A-1906E are produced as a single document: order as ADM...

ADM 137/1906D

1914-1918

[NOTE: ADM 137/1906, 1906A-1906E are produced as a single document: order as ADM 137/1906].

Listing continued from ADM 137/1906C.

Folios 310-341: Covering letter NID 9752, 14 July 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets enclosing a complete translation of a lengthy description of the battle of 31 May-1 June 1916 [Battle of Jutland] published in the German press (Frankfurter Zeitung 30 June, 1 July, 3 and 4 July 1916, (Compiled from official sources?) including some sketches of the battle. Extensive side notes appended to the documents [by Admiral JR Jellicoe (?)].

Folios 342-348: Covering letter NID 9795, 20 July 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets enclosing translation of article in the Danziger Neueste Nachrichten of 6 June 1916 titled ?The Battle of the Skagerrak. Report of an eye witness.?

Folio 349: Letter NID 10049, 2 August 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets. Information on intercepted postcard from Leading Seaman Matzen, SMS Graudenz to a prisoner of war at Knockaloe. Contains signature of ?W Peters SMS Emden, on leave?. DID added note states this appears that the new light cruiser Emden is now in commission.

Folios 350-352: Translation of the official German criticism of Admiral Jellicoe?s despatch, titled ?The Battle of the Skagerrak. A German rectification of Jellicoe?s despatch. Berlin, 19 July [1916]. Wolff?s Bureau. Official.?

Folios 353-359: Covering letter NID 20082, 9 August 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with extracts of letters from Naval Officers, prisoners of war in Germany who took part in the Battle of Jutland. Taken from reports from a Major Sturgis [pencil note queries whether or not he is American Naval Attaché, Berlin. Extracts from letters of: Surgeon A Joe, late HMS Nestor; Lieutenant Commander Paul Whitfield RN (Marine Lazarett) late Nomad to ?D? (Captain Fairie), 13th Flotilla, HMS Champion.

Folios 360-364: Covering letter NID 1179, 10 August 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with reports concerning the German auxiliary which captured the British SS Eskimo off the Norwegian coast. Report by Richard Stevenson, fireman on SS Eskimo. Report by H Lavington Walton, Marine Superintendent at Thos Wilson & Sons, Hull after an interview with Mrs Vickerman a passenger on the SS Eskimo.

Folio 365: Letter NID 9992, 12 August 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with information on SMS München.

Folios 366-367: Letter NID 10356, 20 August 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with extract from intercepted letter from Frau Marie Stüben, Stade to Bootsmann (Boatswain) J Stüben, prisoner of war, Stobs. ??only one seaman was saved from Wiesbaden.?

Folio 368: Letter NID 3066, 21 August 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets. Report from Naval Attaché, The Hague. Aide-de-Camp to The Queen received a letter from Hamburg which stated that the SMS Derfflinger was so badly damaged that it will take nine months to repair.

Folios 369-370: Letter NID 10354, 21 August 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with extract from a letter from Heinrich Meiners, Bahnhofsallee 15, Geestemunde, to Rudolf Kohnert, Prisoner of War, Stobs which may refer to the light cruiser Nymphe (see also Folios 370-371).

Folios 371-372: Letter NID 20210, 6 September 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets. Translation of intercepted letter from Ernst Küster, Atens, Nordenham to Captain W Lucht, Prisoner of War, Alexandra Palace. It appears from this letter that the Nymphe is a trawler and not the light cruiser (see folios 369-370).

Folios 373-375: Letter NID 10434, 24 August 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with information on light cruiser Konigsberg. From a letter addressed to prisoner of war at Knockaloe from Torpedo Matrose (Torpedo seaman) Ernst Wobbeking, SMS Königsberg Stamm (nucleus crew.)

Folios 376-381: Letter M 14173/16, 30 August 1916, from W Graham Greene, Admiralty to C-in-C Home Fleets concerning the proposed voyage of the Netherlands submarine K1 to the East Indies under the command of Lieutenant Commander Jonkhoer GL Schorer and towed by the tug Witte-Zee.

Folios 381-391: Letter NID 10759, 14 September 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with translations of a German questionnaire relating to British war vessels and aircraft. Undated and with no context of origin or who it was addressed to. Wide range of subjects covered by questions.

Folios 392-393: Letter NID 20298, 19 September 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with translation of an extract of a letter dated 27 June 1916 from Auguste Buzkys, Ronnebeck near Bremen to Friedrich Buzkys, Boston, USA concerning SMS München lying in Bremen harbour and now repaired.

Folios 394-395: Letter NID 20311, 22 September 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with translation of a letter from Matrose (Able Seaman) Hermann Bruns, 81 Poststrasse Lehe, Germany to George Bruns, 29 South Street, New York, dated 31 July 1916. Appears at the end of July the SMS Hindenberg was not yet in commission but was to be so soon and crewed mainly with survivors from SMS Lützow (see also Folios 439-440.)

Folios 396-399: Letters NID 10151, 7 and 16 August 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with sketch (not on file) and approximate details of the new battleship SMS Bayern and that she has joined the High Seas Fleet. Folio 400: Letter NID 11006, 3 October 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets. Information from a Dutch source that Germans are fitting high-powered skimming aeroplanes with Whitehead type torpedoes. Report not confirmed.

Folios 401-437: Covering letter NID 11259, 11 October 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with translation of official log and a war diary recovered from German Naval Airship L32 destroyed on 24 September 1916 at Billericay.

Folio 438: Map of North Sea showing approximate positions of Zeppelins on 19 August 1916 by directional. Signed by Vice Admiral Henry Francis Oliver, 1 September 1916.

Folios 439-440: Letter NID 20524, 21 October 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets. It appears that survivors of Lützow have been drafted to new battleship Baden (see also Folios 394-395). With translation of extract of letter from Obermachinistmatt (Engine room Petty Officer) 1st Class Wilhelm Kind, SMS Lützow, Stamm (former crew SMS Lützow) to K kind, prisoner of war, Knockalee.

Folios 441-445: Letters No 639 and 704/71, 23 October and 13 November 1916 from Vice Admiral R Tupper to C-in-C Grand Fleet enclosing letters from Commander H Watts Jones, HMS Columbella 16 October 1916 concerning German submarine nets in the Baltic Sea.

Folios 446-451: Letter from Lieutenant Commander Douglas Faviell, 19 November 1916 to C-in-C Home Fleets enclosing extract from Scientific American with photographs of U53 at Newport harbour on Saturday 7 October 1916.

Listing continued in ADM 137/1906E.

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