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Folio 1: blank. Folio 2: Title cover. Folio 3: List of docketed papers. Folio 4:...

Catalogue reference: ADM 137/368/1

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Reference
ADM 137/368/1
Date
1916-1917
Description

Folio 1: blank.

Folio 2: Title cover.

Folio 3: List of docketed papers.

Folio 4: Schedule of reports of proceedings.

Folios 6-8: blank.

Folios 9-98: 31 December 1916 to 6 January 1917 (paper M 01407/17).

Folios 10-20: Covering letter and report of operations paper No 83/120.E, dated 19 January 1917 by Vice Admiral Cecil Fiennes Thursby on HMS Triad comprising: disposition of Battleships and attached cruisers – 6 January 1917, 1st Detached Squadron (Crete and Anatolian Coast between Fourni Islands and Rhodes), 2nd Detached Squadron (Dardanelles area), 3rd Detached Squadron (Salonika area), 4th Detached Squadron (Smyrna, Khios and Samos area), 5th Detached Squadron (Doro-Salonika transport route and East coast of Greece), 6th Detached Squadron (Bulgarian coast), submarines and mines, movements of HM Ships, general remarks. Mention of good work by Commander Leveson Granville Byron Alexander Campbell, Lieutenant Valentine Alexander Raleigh, Engine Room Artificer William Holmes. For attack on Kuleli Burgas Bridge Flight Sub-Lieutenants M Heriot, Devlin and W Williams and Sub-Lieutenant RF Bentley, Midshipman ER Snow and Air Mechanic WT Hollidge, folios 12-13.

Folios 21-27: Enclosure No 1. Reports of proceedings dated 8 January 1917 by Captain Arthur Kenneth Macrorie HMS Theseus and Senior Officer 1st Detached Squadron. Names officers for work done following the torpedoing of SS Ivernia and SS Huntsend drawing attention to Acting Paymaster Alexander Arthur Des Voeux Ewing, Assistant Paymaster A Rogerson, RNR, (folio 25), Lieutenant Commander Saunders, Lieutenant Valentine Alexander Raleigh and Engine Room Artificer William Holmes, (folio 27).

Folios 28-31: Enclosure No 2. HMS Renard report of proceedings dated 5 January 1917 by Commander Leveson Granville Byron Alexander Campbell. Includes list of crew sent to man HMS Huntsend, (folio 31).

Folios 32-33: Enclosure No 3. HMS Grafton report of proceedings, dated 7 January 1917, by Captain Henry Edgar Grace, Senior Officer 2nd Detached Squadron.

Folios 34-37: Enclosure No 4. HMS Endymion report of proceedings dated 7 January 1917 by Captain Cecil Minet Staveley Senior Officer, Salonika includes a letter by William G. Fitzgerald dated 6 January 1917 regarding SS Norseman and the arrival of the Langton tug boat and Lieutenant F P Barlow, RNR, (folio 37).

Folios 38-43: Enclosure No 5. HMS Lowestoft report of proceedings dated 7 January 1917 by Captain Theobald Walter Butler Kennedy, Senior Officer 4th Detached Squadron. Folios 44-46: Enclosure No 6. Report of proceedings of the 5th Detached Squadron dated 10 January 1917 by Archibald Cochrane, Senior Officer 5TH Detached Squadron, HMS Skirmisher.

Folios 47-58: Enclosure No 7. Report of proceedings of the 6th Detached Squadron dated 7 January 1917 by Captain Francis Clifton Brown, Senior Officer 6th Detached Squadron, HMS Edgar. Includes reports of proceedings for HMS M28 dated 6 January 1917 by Lieutenant Donald Priaulx MacGregor, (folio 51); HMS M32 dated 7 January 1917 by Lieutenant Commander Robert Gregory Maze Durrant Hunt, (folio 52); HMS M18 dated 7 January 1917 by Lieutenant Commander Reginald Guy Stone, (folio 53); HMS Raglan dated 5 January 1917 by Commander in Command Broome, (folios 54-55); HMS M28 dated 29 December 1916 by Lieutenant Donald Priaulx MacGregor, (folio 56); HMS M18 dated 31 December 1916 by Lieutenant Commander Reginald Guy Stone, (folio 57); HMS M32 dated 31 December 1916 by Lieutenant Commander Robert Gregory Maze Durrant Hunt, (folio 58).

Folio 59: Enclosure No 8. HMS Exmouth report of proceedings dated 11 January 1917 by Rear Admiral Arthur Hayes-Sadler.

Folios 60-61: Enclosure No 9. Fifth Destroyer Flotilla report of proceedings dated 10 January 1917 by Captain (D) Charles Penrose Rushton Coode, HMS Blenheim.

Folio 62: Enclosure 10. Report of proceedings of the Special Netting Flotilla dated 15 January 1917 by Captain (K) Stephenson, HMS Hussar.

Folios 63-80: Enclosure No 11. Air Operations weekly report and weekly intelligence reports. Includes report on operations in Southern Bulgaria and on the Struma front and report on operations in Turkey. Includes details of disposition and state of aircraft, intelligences summaries on Dardanelles (sketch of Galata aerodrome, (folio 73), and Bulgaria and Greece and Smyrna area.

Folios 81-90: Enclosure 12. Enlarged aerial photographs ”C” Squadron of: Railway station Uzan Keupri, (folio 82); Causeway connecting Uzan Keupri with Yalat; Railway Bridge Kuleli Burgas, (folios 84-85), all taken 13 December 1916. Galata Aerodome photograph taken 10 December 1916, (folio 88); Kuleli Burgas Bridges taken 13 December 1916, (folio 90).

Folios 91-98: Admiralty notes and extracts on foregoing report and enclosures including (paper N 1857/1917)general remarks about mines in Euboea, Carigo Island and disturbances on the Island of Naxos dated 19 January 1917 by Vice Admiral Cecil Fiennes Thursby, (folios 95-96); report of proceedings of the 5th Detached Squadron dated 10 January 1917 by Archibald Cochrane, Senior Officer, HMS Skirmisher, (folio 97); report of proceedings dated 11 January 1917 by Rear Admiral Arthur Hayes-Sadler, (folio 98).

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