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

Catalogue reference: ADM 137/1906E

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Reference
ADM 137/1906E
Date
1914-1918
Description

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

Listing continued from ADM 137/1906D.

Folios 452-453: Letter NID 11961, 18 November 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with translation of extract of a letter from Ober Machinisten Maat (First Class Engine Room Petty Officer) Willy Albrecht SMS Karlsruhe to Otto Albrecht Prisoner of war at Knockaloe concerning SMS Karlsruhe.

Folios 454-463: Letter NID 12025, 6 November 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with translation of a German Naval questionnaire handed out to people on board ship and copies of reports found on a German agent named Wolfrath captured in Rotterdam. Folios 464-466: Naval communications concerning British Naval questionnaire, November/December 1916.

Folios 467-469: Letter NID 12211, 1 December 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with information obtained from a German prisoner-of-war concerning the gun armament of the latest German submarines.

Folios 470-471: Letter NID 20961, 28 December 1916 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with translated extract from an intercepted postcard in German from Maschinisten Maat(Engine Room Petty Officer 2nd Class) Arlt, SMS Berlin, Kiel addressed to Karl Arlt, SS Drachenfels, Hansa Line, Sabang, Dutch East Indies. Concerns paying off of SMS Berlin crew and transfer to new light cruiser Nurnberg.

Folios 472-523: Letters NID 12482/12483, 16 December 1916 and NID 12826, 7 January 1917 from Director of Intelligence Division (Admiralty) to C-in-C Home Fleets with reports embodying the principal results of the interrogation of the German prize crew from the Norwegian SS Older on 18 November 1916. German crew named as (at Folio 484):- From U49: Walter EA Burghagen – Sub-Lieutenant. Wilhelm Lohmann – Engine Room PO 2nd class. Arthur Fassian – Leading Seaman. Heinrich Bolln – Able Seaman. Aribert Konopacki – Stoker. Alphons Samitowsky – Telegraphist. From U50: Ernst Boldt – Navigating Warrant Officer. Christian Kruse – Engine Room PO 2nd Class. Adolf Bauer – Leading Seaman. Translations of diaries kept by Alphons Samitowsky and Leading Seaman Adolf Bauer included at Folios 515-522 Track chart of U49 and U50 included at Folio 523.

Folios 524-527: Blank.

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Internment
Asia
Conflict
Maps and plans
Weapons
Navy
Official publications
Diaries
Armed Forces (General Administration)
Operations, battles and campaigns
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