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Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet Volume V: Pack 005: Sections E,F...
Catalogue reference: ADM 137/1885
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- ADM 137/1885
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1914-1918
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Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet
Volume V: Pack 005: Sections E,F and G: Minefields
This volume includes: correspondence, operational orders, memoranda, reports of operations and proceedings, names of correspondents, names of ships, charts of minefields. (Some charts kept in separate Volumes).
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 5th of the series
Folio 3: Index of contents. Trade – The Blockade.
Folios 4-7: Blank.
Section E.
Folios 8-9: Deep and controlled minefields.
Folios 10-22: Mine explosions of Tod Head.
Folio 20: Minefields selected positions.
Folios 23-30: Submarines reported off Tarbet Ness July 1915.
Folios 31-55: Minefields. HMS Biarritz 23 May 1916. Moray Firth.
Folios 56-62: Minefields. HMS Biarritz 14 June 1916. Moray Firth.
Folios 63-66: Rosyth mine memo 1 September 1916.
Folios 67-78: Details of moorings of deep laid mines off Bass Rock.
Folios 79-84: Minefield. HMS Abdiel and HMS Blanche 2 and 3 June 1917. Bass Rock.
Folios 85-93: Minefield. HMS Abdiel and HMS Angora in Robin Hood Bay. September 1917.
Folios 94-100: Submarine minelaying. Commander-In-Chief December 1915.
Folios 101-116: Deep minefields in Firth of Forth December 1915.
Folios 117-124: Minefield off Flamborough Head. HMS Angora and HMS Wahine November 1917.
Folios 125-151: Minesweeping off Wick September and October 1917.
Folios 152-157: Proposal for minefield off Sule Skerry.
Folios 158-160: Clearance of certain minefields 1919 Section F1.
Folios 161-327: Miscellaneous reports of mines sighted Section F2.
Folios 328-521: Areas reported to have been mined Section F3.
Folios 522-561: Marking of minefields Section G.
Folios 562-723: Treatise on minelaying by L Clinton-Baker Rear Admiral (M) 30 January 1919. Places on record certain knowledge gained during the War 1914-1918. Issued in response to Admiralty letter 31 December 1918 (paper M 026348/18)requesting that a Mining Manual be prepared containing such technical and operational information of value as has been obtained by practical experience during the War 1914-1918. Includes input by: Captain SF Litchfield-Speer, Captain HH Smyth, Captain Lockhart Leith, Lieutenant NDB Taylor, Commander RHO Lane-Poole
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- HSA 87
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Admiralty: Historical Section: Records used for Official History, First World War
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