Listing continued from ADM 137/21/1. Folios 66-68: Table of ships captured and sunk...

Listing continued from ADM 137/21/1.

Folios 66-68: Table of ships captured and sunk by Emden and their owners’ name and address with dates of sailing and sinking.

Folio 69: Trade Division Record Sheet dated 18 September 1914 referring to captures. Only Diplomat had a valuable cargo. Pontoporus’ coal is inferior quality and would affect Emden’s speed and increase chance of detection.

Folios 70-78: Documents relating to the value of ships sunk by Emden and their cargo and insurance. Letter dated 16 September 1914 by the North of England Protecting and Indemnity Assocaition relating to the Lovat and Killin.

Folios 79-80: Text of message, dated 17 September 1914, intercepted by W.O Censor to the Morning Post in London from Pilcher, Calcutta reporting an interview with someone who had been on board Diplomat. Description, capture, condition of Emden, sinking and release of Kabinga.

Folio 81: Message dated 21 September 1914 by Richard Webb, D.T.D., instructing that the India Office be requested to ascertain through the Director of the Indian Marine the circumstances of the captures of the vessels Indus, Lovat, Killin, Diplomat, Trabbock, Kabinga and Clan Matheson in the Bay of Bengal.

Folios 82-85: Copy of message intercepted by Cable Censors received by Chief Censor R.T. Admiralty from Chief Censor W.O. Telegram, 21 Oct 1914 relating to captures of Troilus, Benmohr, Exford, Chilkana, Buresk, Clan Grant, St.Egbert and dredger Ponrabbel. St.Egbert set free with crews.

Folio 87: Report, 29 October 1914 by D.I.D. that British vessels King Lud, Ribera and Foyle were sunk off Minikoi Island, 27 September 1914 and Admiralty collier Buresk captured, 27 September 1914. Crews transferred to the Gryfedale which arrived Colombo, 29 September 1914.

Folios 88-104: Further documents and telegrams concerning these captures and sinkings. Telegram, 21 October 1914 by the Commander-in-Chief China, Singapore to Naval Attaché, Tokyo asking if Japanese would send some cruisers to Singapore, (folio 100).

Folio 105: Copy of message intercepted by Cable Censors received by Chief Censor R.T. Admiralty from Chief Censor W.O. Telegram dated 27 October 1914. that a German cruiser sunk a steamer this morning in Penang harbour.

Folio 106-109: A brief history of the raid by the Emden in the Bay of Bengal. A hand written document by Duncan Frederick Vines, Deputy Director, Royal Indian Marine, Calcutta, dated 6 October 1914, to the Secretary to the Governmant of India, Marine Department.

Folios 110-116: Report dated 21 October 1914 regarding Emden by Duncan Frederick Vines, Commander, Royal Indian Marine, Port Officer of Calcutta. Folios 117-118: Letter dated 24 October 1914 from Norman Hill, Secretary of The Liverpool Steam Ship Owners Association to The Admiralty, that the Admiralty issued a press statement that vessels captured disregarded Admiralty instructions whereas all their Captains had been impressed on the absolute necessity for carrying out such instructions. Folios 119-120 Cover pages.

Folio 121: Letter dated 23 October 1914 by Thomas Barry from Cayzer, Irvine [owner] on the position of capture of their Clan Matheson.

Folio 122: Letter dated 23 October 1914 from Thomas and James Harrison [owner] on the capture of their ship Diplomat. Folio 123: Telegram dated 16 September 1914 from the Viceroy on report from Italian ship on the capture of Diplomat.

Folios 124-125: Telegrams dated 21-22 October 1914 from the Viceroy that the St.Egbert arrived in Madras with crews and passengers from six ships.

Folio 126: Newspaper cutting from The Times, 15 December 1914 “The Last Fight of the Emden”. Article consisting of a letter from an officer on board HMAS Sydney.

Folio 127: Newspaper cutting showing respective positions of HMAS Sydney and Emden from the initial sighting off Direction Island until Emden was destroyed aground on North Keeling Island.

Folio 128: “End of the Emden: The Last Phase of the German’s Most Famous Destroyer of British Commerce”. Newspaper photographs, 21 December 1914: Emden destroyed and aground; Boat-load of Emden prisoners; HMAS Sydney after she had sunK Emden; Emden wounded taken aboard Sydney.

Folios 129-143: “The Cruise of the SMS Emden”. The translation of a diary, covering the dates 28 July-8 November 1914 and information from a prisoner of war, Petty Officer Plotz who served on Emden, who is now on board H.M.A.T Orvieto.

Folio 144: “Diagram of the Penang Raid” showing position of sinking the steamer Glenturret, the Russian cruiser Zhemchug and the French destroyer Mosquet.

Folio 145: Newspaper cutting from The Times dated 1 January 1915, “The Emden’s Fate”. Dispatch from Captain John Collings-Taswell Glossop of HMAS Sydney on the action.

Folio 146: Further points of note from the diary at folios 129-143.

Folio 147-164: “Movements of the Emden” N.I.D. 3116 comprising the following - Folio 147: Enclosure 1: Hand written notes from letter, 4 December 1914 by Intelligence Office, Colombo, based upon track chart found in Markomannia [auxiliary]; Folio 148: Enclosure 2: Brief statements from the Masters of captured ships; Folio 149: Enclosure 3: Emden’s Sources of Information. Little ground for supposing Emden had any source of information; Folios 149-150: Enclosure 4: Report on Emden’s movements etc. obtained from Master of Buresk; Folios 151-162: Enclosure 5: Report on Experience Gained in Connection with the Trade Routes during Emden’s Raids; Folio 163: Chart of seas around Ceylon showing Trade Routes.

Folios 165-206: “Report of Preliminary Court of Enquiry into capture of British Merchant vessels by the Emden” N.L.15922. Annotated “the report of the enquiry is of small value”. Summary of enquiry dated, 26 January 1915 by Commander Henry Theodore Augustus Bosanquet regarding inaccuracies of positions of ships captured and the responsibilities of the Masters, (folio 166-167. Folios 166-206: (paper number M 0309) Report by Vice-Admiral Thomas Henry Martyn Jerram, C-in-C China Station. Note dated 18 January 1915 regarding statement by Captain Henry William Grant of HMS Hampshire on the use of wireless telegraphy, (folio 169). Letter number 615, dated 10 December 1914 by Vice-Admiral Thomas Henry Martyn Jerram, C-in-C China Station, dealing with the movements of Emden, (folios 170-176). Chart number 2483 showing the track of Emden and the track of HMS Hampshire, (folio 177). (Paper number M 0955), Report number 631 dated 30 December 1915 Vice-Admiral Thomas Henry Martyn Jerram, C-in-C China Station. with further information on the coaling of Emden, (folio 178). Chart of the track of Emden with coaling locations, (folio 179).

Listing continued in ADM 137/21/3.