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Admiralty: Historical Section: Records used for Official History, First World War....

Catalogue reference: ADM 137/295/1

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ADM 137/295/1
Date
1914
Description

Admiralty: Historical Section: Records used for Official History, First World War. Scarborough Raid. 16th December 1914.

Folio 2: Title page.

Folios 3-5: Table of contents.

Folios 10-20: (paper M 04794/14) Admiral of Patrols, 19 December 1914.

Report of attack on vessels of the 9th Patrol Flotilla by a squadron of the enemy off Hartlepool, 16 December 1914, from Rear Admiral George Alexander Ballard, Admiral of Patrols, HMS St George to the Admiralty, 19 December 1914, (folios 11-15).

Notes on the enemy’s fire on vessels of the 9th Flotilla, 16 December 1914, (folios 16-17).

Folios 21-33: (paper M 04807/14) Commander in Chief Home Fleets 675/0022, 19 December 1914.

Report from Vice-Admiral Sir George John Scott Warrender, Commanding Second Battle Squadron, 18 December 1914, (folios 23-30).

Chart showing Admiralty reports of enemy battle cruisers and tracks of 2nd Battle Squadron, (folio 31).

Folios 34-50: (papers M 04830/14 and M 15043/15) Admiral of Patrols, 20 and 30 December 1914, titled X 3446/14.

Reports received and forwarded by George Alexander Ballard, Admiral of Patrols. Report by the skipper of the trawler Cassandra, (folios 37-38).

Report by the skipper of the trawler Zanina, (folio 39).

Intelligence reported by the steam trawler Octavia and the steam trawler Imperial Queen, (folio 40).

Sketch map to accompany report of steam trawler Cassandra, [signed R G Cross, Lieutenant, RNR], 16 December 1914, (folio 41).

Recommendation for grant of reward for information given by skipper of trawler Cassandra regarding naval action of 16 December 1914, (folios 42-50).

Folios 51-150: (paper M 04953/14) Commander in Chief Home Fleets 702/0022, 23 December 1914.

Report regarding operations in the North Sea, 23 December 1914, from Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Commander-in-Chief, Home Fleets, HMS Iron Duke to the Admiralty, (folios 52-61).

Reports regarding operations in the North Sea, 16 December 1914, from Vice Admiral Sir George Warrender, 2nd Battle Squadron, HMS King George V, to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Command of Home Fleets, dated 18 December 1914, (folios 64-71).

Chart showing track of 2nd Battle Squadron and enemy battle cruisers, 16 December 1914, (folio 72).

Copy of the Signal and Wireless Log of HMS King George V, 16 December 1914, (folios 73-77).

Report regarding operations in the North Sea, 16 December 1914 from Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty, HMS Lion to Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, Command of Home Fleets, 19 December 1914, (folios 78-85).

Report regarding operations in the North Sea, 16 December 1914, and extracts from Signal and Wireless Log from Commodore William Edmund Goodenough, HMS Southampton, 18 December 1914, (folios 86-94).

Report regarding operations in the North Sea, 16 December 1914, from Commodore William Edmund Goodenough, HMS Southampton, 20 December 1914, (folios 95-99).

Extract from Signal Log of HMS Southampton, 16 December 1914, (folios 100-107).

Extract from Wireless Log of HMS Southampton, 16 December 1914, (folios 108-111).

Copy of Intercepted Wireless Log, HMS Southampton, 16 December 1914, (folios 112-120).

Extracts from Cypher Log of HMS Southampton, 16 December 1914, (folios 121-124).

Report by Commodore William Edmund Goodenough, HMS Southampton, 20 December 1914 regarding operations in the North Sea, 16 December 1914 and giving his reasons for relinquishing the chase of the enemy, (folios 125-126).

Report regarding operations in the North Sea, 16 December 1914 and copies of signal and wireless logs from Commander Loftus Jones, HMS Shark, 19 December 1914, (folios 127-136).

Report regarding operations in the North Sea, 16 December 1914 from Commander Reginald St. Pierre Parry, HMS Lynx, 17 December 1914, (folios 137-141).

Report regarding operations in the North Sea from Commodore Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, HMS Arethusa, 20 December 1914, (folios 142-144).

Copy of telegram from Admiralty to Commodore (T) [Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt], 15 December 1914 warning of approach of German warships off East Coast, (folio 145).

Views of John Rushworth Jellicoe, Commander in Chief, Home Fleets, in regards to the reports and activities of ships of the Second Battle and Light Cruiser Squadrons involved in the action of 16 December 1914, (folios 146-150).

Folios 152-161: Draft minute from Sir William Graham Greene, Secretary to the Admiralty 6 January 1915 – his observations on the operations in the North Sea, 16 December 1914.

Folios 162-163: Covering sheets for paper M 04999/14 and the report regarding operations in the North Sea from Commodore Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, HMS Arethusa, 20 December 1914.

Folios 164-166: Duplicate report of folios 142-144.

Listing continues in ADM 137/295/2.

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The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HS 295
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17495895/

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Scarborough Raid. (Described at item level)

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