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

ADM 137/1915B

1915-1917

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

Listing continued from ADM137/1915A.

Folios 168-169: Exchange of letters between the Admiralty and Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe concerning copies of analysis of Blockade (paper M 0692/1917).

Folios 170-176: Admiralty issue note, 4 April 1917 (paper NL1/03851) with memorandum respecting Northern Blockade for period 1 July to 31 December 1916.

Folios 177-178: Correspondence between Commander-in-Chief and Admiralty respecting the sinking of neutral vessels by German submarines. Letter No 2134/HF0020, 16 September 1916 and letter No 913, 28 September 1916 (paper M 08301/1916).

Folios 179-188: Note from Admiral Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair to Admiral Charles Edward Madden 13 November 1916 with publication of War Trade Statistical Department: Statistics of Imports into Scandinavia and Holland during the period July to September 1916. Also publication, Statistics of Import into Scandinavia and Holland during the periods January to March 1917 and the year 1916 and Statistics of Import into Scandinavia and Holland during the periods 1 July to 30 September 1917 and the nine months ending 30 September 1917.

Folios 189-205: Correspondence relating to which neutral vessels stopped by German submarines but allowed to continue and why as follows:- Letter No 2741/HF0020, 18 November 1916. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe to Admiralty with list of vessels stopped Admiralty letter No 1133, 5 December 1916 (paper NL1/57428). Covering letter No 2952/HF0020, 11 December 1916. Admiral David Beatty to Admiralty with telegram enclosures. Admiralty letter No 33, 15 January 1917 (paper NL1/58600/16) with list of vessels bound for British ports including their cargoes. Letter No 233/HF0020, 30 January 1917. Admiral David Beatty to Admiralty. Admiralty letter No 113, 24 February 1917 (paper NL1/31285/17). Admiralty letter No 642, 12 March 1917 (paper NL1/32467/17) with further list of vessels bound for British ports including their cargoes.

Folios 206-210: Admiralty issue note 21 December 1916 (paper NL1/58491) and Report by the Committee appointed to enquire whether any avoidable delay is caused by the methods hitherto adopted for dealing with ships and cargoes brought into British ports under the Order in Council of the 11th March 1915.

Folios 211-216: Correspondence relating to voyage of the Danish sailing vessel Valkyrien from Buenos Ayres to Denmark:- Admiralty letter No 138, 5 March 1917 {paper NL1/32160) Telegram No 891(R), 20 February 1917, Sir R Paget, Copenhagen. Schedule with return of vessels intercepted on Eastern Patrol by HMS Nonpareil 13 February 1917. Letter No 554/HF0020, 11 March 1917. Admiral David Beatty to Admiralty. Telegrams 9 March 1917. Letter No 189/3, 8 March 1917, Vice Admiral Reginald Godfrey Otway Tupper.

Folios 217-219: Correspondence relating to interception of SV Pehr Ughland. Admiralty letter 7 March 1917 (paper NL1/32056); Admiral David Beatty letter No 547/HF0020, 11 March 1917; Letters No 41/3 and 190/3, 8 March 1917 by Vice Admiral Reginald Godfrey Otway Tupper.

Folios 220-226: Correspondence between C-in-C Home fleets and Officer Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron concerning statements showing number of neutral vessels intercepted on a weekly basis. No HF0020/639 and 649, 7 March and 7 April 1917; No 42/3, 11 March and No 48/3, 24 March 1917.

Folios 227-230: Correspondence relating to numbers of Danish vessels leaving Denmark for Britain under ballast. Letter HF0020/660, 23 May 1917; No 836/030.G, 7 June 1917; No 836/030.G, 7 June 1917; copies of telegrams May/June 1917.

Folios 231-237: Admiralty covering letter 3 July 1917 (paper NL1/36997) with tables showing amounts of various imports into Scandinavian countries and Holland for the first five months of 1915, 1916 and 1917 as compared with average imports less all exports for three years preceding the war.

Folios 237-240: Correspondence relating to conversation between British Minister at Christiana and the manager of Norwegian American Line. Admiralty letter 25 October 917 (paper L.54275) and copies of Foreign Office minute No 2484 to A J Balfour 19 September 1917.

Folios 241-256: Precis of agreements between Holland and Switzerland relative to contraband and other prohibited exports; Precis of agreements with Sweden-Holland-Denmark relative to contraband and prohibited exports 14 September 1917.

Folios 257-261: Paper concerning consequences of threat of Germany to sink all shipping whether Allied or neutral [handwritten note at top of first page states not to be treated as official]. Covering Admiralty note. 25 August 1918.

Folios 262-264: Correspondence related to post-Armistice. Admiralty letter 4 December 1918 (paper M 025671). Letter No 432/12, 5 December 1918, C-in-C Coast of Scotland. Letter HF0020/726, 12 December 1918, Admiral David Beatty. Letters 41563/18, 18 November 1918 concerning the Caledonian and Crinan canals.

Folios 265-330: Blockade. Arrangements for the maintenance.

Folio 265: Sub-title page.

Folios 266-270: Correspondence relating to policy and procedures for searching neutral vessels. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe letter No 200/HF0020, 2 October 1914. Copy of telegram 2 October 1914 from C-in-C home Fleets to Admiralty. Letter No 023/B, 1 October 1914 by Vice-Admiral David Beatty.

Folios 271-275: Correspondence between Commodore William Edmund Goodenough, 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe and Admiralty concerning merchant vessels encountered and proposals for searching these:- Goodenough Letter No 0039, 11 October 1914. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe letter No 251/HF0020, 14 October 1914. Goodenough letter No 0039, 20 October 1914. Admiral JR Jellicoe letter HF0020, 24 October 1914.

Folios 276-278: Letter No 295/HF0020, 22 October 1914. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe to Admiralty setting out arrangements in place for stopping German trade via the North Sea and contraband trade in neutral ports.

Folio 279: Copies of telegrams relating to stopping of merchant vessels 13/14 November 1914.

Folios 280-285: Admiralty covering letter No 487, 14 August 1914 (paper NL30708), to C-in-C Home Fleets with copy of letter from Foreign Office to Board of Trade with copy of report of conference between Allies on restriction of enemy supplies. Letter HF1801/HF0020, 27 August 1914 from Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe to Admiralty.

Folios 286-291: Letter No 2596/HF0020/2, 16 November 1914. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe to Admiralty. Abstracts of vessels arrived in Kirkwall and Lerwick for examination from 1 January to 30 September 1915.

Folios 292-298: Letter HF0020/225, 3 January 1916. Admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe to Rear-Admiral Commanding 10th Cruiser Squadron. List of East-Bound vessels between 21 April and 5 December 1915 and have not been intercepted by British ships.

Folios 299-304: Letter No 12/3, 19 January 1916. Rear Admiral Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair to C-in-C Home Fleets commenting on List of East-Bound vessels between 21 April and 5 December 1915 and have not been intercepted by British ships.

Listing continued in ADM137/1915C.

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