Secret packs of the Commander in Chief, Volume II, Pack 005 (section A). Volume II....

Secret packs of the Commander in Chief, Volume II, Pack 005 (section A).

Volume II. Pack 005: Mines

This volume contains correspondence, reports, minutes, drawings, blue prints, sketches, diagrams, test and trial results for different types of mines

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 GF 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 2nd of the series

Folio 3: Index of contents. Trade – The Blockade.

Folios 4-7: Blank.

Folio 8: Contents page.

Folios 9-108: Connected mines.

Folios 109-239: Oscillating or Leon mines.

Folios 240-263: Destructor mines.

Folios 264-332: Automatic mines.

Folios 333-372: Observation mines.

Folios 373-383: “H” mines and sinkers.

Folios 384-446: Question of efficiency of British mines.

Folios 447-468: American mines.

Folios 469-505: German mines.

Folios 506-524: Russian mines.

Folio 525: Miscellaneous mines:-

Folios 526-528: Mines in the North Sea.

Folios 529-532: Minelaying with double moorings.

Folios 533-540: Observation of mines below the surface.

Folios 541-547: Instructions for the care and maintenance of laying certain mines.

Folios 548-552: Plummet release gear for BE sinkers.

Folios 553-554: Dip of service mines.

Folios 555-561: Proposed torpedo mines.

Folios 562-568: Endurance trials of mooring rope for mines.

Folios 569-571: Supply of mining store at Grangemouth.

Folio 572: Mines – nomenclature.

Folios 573-579: Trials of “M” sinkers at Scapa.