[Note: ADM 137/1910, 1910A-1910C are produced as a single document: order as ADM...

[Note: ADM 137/1910, 1910A-1910C are produced as a single document: order as ADM 137/1910].

Listing continued from ADM 137/1910B

Folios 209-233: 10. Desirability of TBD screens for 10 Cruiser Squadron near coaling stations due to losses from submarine attacks. July 1917. Comprising:-

Letter No 96/007, 24 July 1917 by Vice Admiral Sir RGO Tupper Schedule listing 10th Cruiser Squadron encounters with enemy submarines for period 1 May to 24 July 1917 giving date, time, ship, position and remarks. 10th Cruiser Squadron coaling list 25 July 1917. 10th Cruiser Squadron – approximate forecast of number of ships on patrol from 3-31 August 1917.

Letter No HF0020/73, 5 August 1917 by Admiral David Beatty.

Telegram No 321, 23 July 1917 from C-in-C Grand Fleet Report No 119/007, 1 September 1917 from Vice Admiral Sir RGO Tupper to C-in-C Grand Fleet with: enclosure No 1 - paper M.010353/17, 20 August 1917; enclosure No 2 – Table showing time lost by ships joining convoys; enclosure No 3 – approximate forecast of number of ships on patrol from 6-30 September 1917; enclosure No 4 – report by Captain Horace C Watson, HMS Hildebrand Letter No 12123/004, 20 September 1917 by Vice Admiral Sir RGO Tupper.

Letter HF0020/682, 14 September 1917 by Admiral Osmond De B Brock.

Covering Admiralty letter 21 September 1917 (paper M.011443) with letter of same date.

Folios 234-237: 11. Dummy W/T signals for use in 10th Cruiser Squadron. Comprising:_ Memorandum No 002/41, 15 December 1917 by Vice Admiral Sir RGO Tupper. Copies of signals from C-in-C Grand Fleet to Vice Admiral commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron 14 December 1917 Patrol order HF0020/702, 14 December 1917 from Admiral David Beatty. Copies of telegram HF0020/703 from C-in-C Grand Fleet to Vice Admiral 2ND Cruiser Squadron, 14 December 1917.

Folios 238-239: 12. Abolition of 10th Cruiser Squadron. December 1917. Copies of telegrams 22 December 1917 to 18 January 1918 including NR0504, HF179/286, HF0020/706, No 12/018, HF0020/707.

Folio 240: 13. HMS Alsatian. Striking Admiral’s flag. February 1918. Paper M.06147.

Folios 241-270: 14. Record of work of the 10th Cruiser Squadron and recommendations by Vice Admiral Sir Reginald GO Tupper. Memorandum No 42/0030, 2 May 1918 with enclosures of recommendations and related submission forms.

Folios 271-360: 15. Obsolete sets of 10th Cruiser Squadron general orders (Armed Merchant Cruisers and 10th Cruiser Squadron or 2nd Cruiser Squadron). Comprising:-

Armed Merchant Cruisers, 10th Cruiser Squadron or 2nd Cruiser Squadron General Orders.

Armed Merchant Cruisers W/T Orders.

Orders for trawlers attached to 10th Cruiser Squadron.

Folios 361-416: 16. Amalgamation of the 2nd and 10th Cruiser Squadrons. Comprising:-

Admiralty letter M.09347/17, 26 July 1917 with telegram 415, 30 July 1917.

Memorandum No 715/004, 14 August 1917 titled Composition of 10th Cruiser Squadron. Letter No 681/01, 7 August 1917 by Vice Admiral RGO Tupper.

Admiralty paper M.010056, 15 August 1917 and Letter No 118/004, 1 September 1917.

Letter No 134/004, 16 October 1917 by Vice Admiral RGO Tupper and letter No 2656/HF0020, 30 October 1917.

Paper M.014609, 6 November 1917.

Admiralty covering letter No 591, 6 November 1917, paper M.014609 to memorandum titled For Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet.

Admiralty memorandum NS Coal 9262/36246, 10 November 1917.

C-in-C Grand Fleet letter HF0020/694, 30 November 1917. C-in-C Grand Fleet letter 2831/HF0020, 15 November 1917.

C-in-C Grand Fleet letter 2831/HF0020, 15 November 1917 formerly AL M.014609, 6 November 1917.

Copies of telegrams 22 and 27 November 1917. Memorandum No 142/004, 25 November 1917 by Vice Admiral Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron with sketches of HMS Alsatian fitted as aeroplane carrier.

C-in-C Grand Fleet letter No 2943/HF0020, 28 November 1917 formerly letter 2831/HF0020, 15 November 1917 and AL M.014609, 6 November 1917.

Notes of meeting on HMS Alsatian 26 November 1917.

C-in-C Grand Fleet letter 2946/HF0020, 28 November 1917 titled 10th Cruiser Squadron ships – Fitting out as aircraft carriers enclosing report of Wing-Commander Clark-Hall and Mr Davies, Assistant constructor on C-in-C Staff. Admiralty letter M.014609, 29 November 1917.

Telegram 1 December 1917 Vice Admiral 10th Cruiser Squadron to C-in-C Grand Fleet.

Telegram 6 December 1917 C-in-C Grand Fleet to Vice Admiral 10th Cruiser Squadron.

Letter 143/004, 6 December 1917 Vice Admiral 10th Cruiser Squadron to C-in-C Grand Fleet.

Extract from Grand Fleet Orders 6 December 1917, No 350. Constitution of Second Cruiser Squadron.

Handwritten letter 6 December 1917 from AC Painter enclosing list titled Tenth Cruiser Squadron trawlers giving name of trawler, name of commanding officer and present position and approximate future movements.

Letter No 031/7, 24 December 1917, by Admiral Sir Charles Edward Madden.

Handwritten covering letter 7 December 1917 Vice Admiral 10th Cruiser Squadron to C-in-C Grand Fleet with Letter No 1001/004, 7 December 1917.

Telegrams 10 and 11 December 1917.

Admiralty memorandum M.016118, 12 December 1917.

Telegram 11 December 1917.

Telegram 21 December 1917.

Letter No 150/002, 23 December 1917 titled Employment of armed merchant cruisers, armed boarding steamers and trawlers attached to 2nd Cruiser Squadron.

C-in-C Grand Fleet letter No 3240/HF0020, 30 December 1917.

Enclosure No 1 to letter No 150/002, 23 December 1917. Extract from report of HMS Orieto to Vice Admiral Commanding 2nd Cruiser Squadron 21 December 1917. Difficulty with coaling.

Enclosure No 2 to letter No 150/002, 23 December 1917. Proposed programme of movements of armed merchant cruisers attached to the 2nd Cruiser Squadron between 22 December 1917 and 31 January 1918.

Telegram 19 December 1917.

Telegrams 21 December 1917.

Admiralty memorandum M.021/18, 8 January 1918.

Telegrams 17-20 December 1917.

Admiralty letter M.017285/17[sic], 15 February 1918.

Folios 417-420: Blank.

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