[Note: ADM 137/1915A-1915C are produced as a single document: order as ADM 137/1915...

ADM 137/1915A

1915-1917

[Note: ADM 137/1915A-1915C are produced as a single document: order as ADM 137/1915].

Folio 1: Title page.

Folio 2: Explanatory note. During the period of the War, papers of a confidential nature in the office of the C-in-C Home Fleet were filed in Packs (numbered separately from the non-confidential records) in a Series 001 to 0042 inclusive. Copies of relevant telegrams were filed in these packs, but a complete set of all telegrams was also maintained. The secret packs were re-arranged by the Grand Fleet secretarial staff in February 1919, when papers considered unimportant were removed and destroyed, and the remainder re-indexed. They were received in this form by the Historical Section in April 1920, and bound as received, in a series of Volumes. The 1919 index will be found in the first volume (see ADM 137/1881) and extracts from this have been inserted in each succeeding volume. This volume is the 35th of the series.

Folio 3: Index of contents.

Folios 4-8: Blank.

Folios 9-264: Blockade. Questions in connection with, including the 'American Note' (Refers to Diplomatic Note dated 5 November 1915 sent by Walter Hines Page to Sir Edward Grey ''relating to restrictions on American commerce by certain measures adopted by His Britannic Majesty's Government during the present war''. The note is included in this volume at folios 47-56 as Foreign Office Contraband confidential paper 165341, Number 1, dated 6 November 1915).

Folios 10-12: Letter No 1224/HF0020, 19 June 1915. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty. Comments on action taken following the Order in Council of 11 March 1915 concerning the Blockade of Germany.

Folios 13-17: Letter No 1583/HF0020, 3 August 1915. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty concerning cotton trade. Includes abstracts of vessels sent in to Kirkwall and Lerwick between 30 May and 10 July 1915.

Folios 18-30: Letter No 1851/HF0020, 1 September 1915. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty enclosing paper titled 'Operations of the Tenth Cruiser Squadron and the policy of Normal Allowance' prepared by Lieutenant E Hilton Young MP, RNVR, HMS Iron Duke. Report includes schedule titled 'Vessels which have arrived for examination at Kirkwall, Lerwick or Stornoway having been intercepted by vessels of the Tenth Cruiser Squadron, armed boarding steamers or other ships, 11 March to 30 June 1915'.

Folio 31: Admiralty note by O Murray, 3 October 1915 reference paper by Lieutenant E Hilton Young.

Folios 33-39: Minute by Chairman of Contraband Committee (undated, no author stated). Includes figures concerning the export of cotton waste and raw cotton.

Folios 41-44: Covering letter 16 September 1915 with letter No 1957/HF0020, 14 September 1915. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty. Comments on Minute by Chairman of the Contraband Committee.

Folios 45-46: Admiralty correspondence concerning Minute of Chairman of Contraband Committee.

Folios 47-56: Foreign Office paper 165341, No 1, 6 November 1915. Contraband. Includes an incomplete list of American cargoes to Scandinavian ports diverted by the British authorities to the port of Kirkwall.

Folios 57-72: Letter No 2747/HF0020, 6 December 1915. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty. Remarks on Admiralty telegram No 694, 28 November 1915 relative to The American Note (see also folios 73-76).

Folios 73-76: Letter No 27/HF0020, 4 January 1916. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty enclosing amended pages to his letter No 2747/HF0020, 6 December 1915.

Folios 77-80: Letter 12 December 1915 from C R Brigstocke to Admiral Madden commenting on part of The American Note. [Brigstoke identified by a pencil comment on file as being an Assistant Principal Clerk in the Accountant General's Office.

Folios 81-85: Notes from 'HMS Iron Duke' titled 'Points concerned with American Note' and 'Blockade', 17 December 1916.

Folios 86-89: Schedules giving information on vessels and imports to Denmark, Sweden, Holland and Norway for period 1 April to 30 September 1915.

Folios 90-93: Letter No 287/HF0020, 6 February 1916. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty. Conclusions reached after examination of the Rationing Agreement recently made with the Netherlands Overseas Trust. Also includes information on imports of fruit and iron ore into Holland and from there into Germany.

Folio 94: Admiralty letter No 228, 14 March 1916 (paper NL1/26534).

Folios 95-103: Letter No 332/HF0020, 10 February 1916. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty with enclosures. Returns showing numbers of vessels intercepted by the 10th Cruiser Squadron and those examined at Kirkwall or Lerwick during 1915. Also contains information on effects of the blockade and increase in imports to Demark and estimates of onward exports to Germany.

Folios 104 and 105: Letters No 415 and 461/HF0020, 24 and 28 February 1916. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty. Information on particular vessels concerning trade.

Folios 106-113: Letter No 577/HF0020, 9 March 1916. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty with enclosures. Remarks on War Trade Department statistics for January 1916.

Folios 114-118: Letter No 1084/HF0020, 11 May 1916. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty with enclosures. Return showing vessels arrived at Kirkwall, Lerwick and Stornoway during four weeks in April 1916 and their disposal.

Folios 119-122: Admiralty letter No 569, 18 June 1916 (paper NL1/29727) enclosing memorandum covering issues with regard to commodities imports to Scandinavia.

Folios 123-125: Letter No 1579/HF0020, 11 July 1916. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty. Comments on Admiralty letter No 569, 18 June 1916.

Folios 126-129: Letters No 1107 and 1565/HF0020, 13 May and 10 July 1916. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty with enclosure. Comparison between number of merchant vessels which arrived in Scandinavian countries and those dealt with by patrols. Also letter No HF0020/424, 13 May 1916 from Admiral CE Madden.

Folios 130-134: Letter No HF0020/442, 23 May 1916 from Admiral Charles Edward Madden to Admiralty with enclosures. Returns for ships bound for Scandinavia which arrived at Kirkwall and Lerwick during April 1916.

Folios 135-139: Correspondence relating to how prize court full or part cargoes are dealt with. Letters No 127/30, 27 May 1916 from Vice-Admiral Commanding Orkneys and Shetlands; Letter No 30, 2 June 1916 to Mr Weekes; Letter No 1280/HF0020, 7 June 1916, Admiral Charles Edward Madden to Admiralty; Admiralty letter No 604, 29 June 1916 (paper NL1/30583).

Folios 140-158: Correspondence relating to the restriction of the enemy's supplies. Letter No 1200, 1223 and 1343/HF0020, 26 and 29 May and 13 June 1916. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty with enclosures; Note by C-in-C 29 May 1916; Letter No 1563/HF0020, 10 July 1916. Admiral JR Jellicoe to Admiralty.

Folio 159: Letter No 1689/HF0020, 26 July 1916. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe, HMS Iron Duke, to Admiralty. Comments on analysis of imports of certain commodities into Scandinavia.

Folios 160-167: Admiralty covering letter No 826, 30 August 1916 (paper M 07408/1916) with Analysis of Blockade. Includes lists of vessels not intercepted.

Listing continued in ADM 137/1915B.

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