Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet Volume VI: Pack 005: Sections...

Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet

Volume VI: Pack 005: Sections H and I: Minesweeping

This volume includes: correspondence, memoranda, reports of equipment trials, operations, names of correspondents, names of ships, charts of minefields, equipment diagrams. (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 6th of the series.

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

Folios 4-7: Blank.

Folio 8: Contents page.

Section H

Folios 9-33: Need for minesweeping vessels in the Grand Fleet.

Folios 34-183: Allocation and organisation of minesweepers in Grand Fleet.

Folios 184-269: Minesweeping trawlers.

Folios 270-321: Orders for commissioning and paying off of minesweepers.

Folios 322-384: Seagoing and minesweeping qualities of Fleet sweepers.

Folios 385-432: Administration of 3rd Fleet sweeping Flotilla.

Section I

Folios 433-487: French system of minesweeping.

Folios 488-495: Russian system of minesweeping.

Folios 496-498: Method of clearing a minefield November 1914.

Folios 499-506: Method of locating unmoored mines December 1914.

Folios 507-508: Mr Parkes, gunner, invention of strain indicator.

Folios 509-554: Minesweeping with destroyers March 1915.

Folio 555: Nomenclature of minesweeping gear.

Folios 556-585: Use of tide and skeleton indicator nets January 1916.

Folios 586-587: Weights of minesweeping gear February 1916.

Folios 588-611: Vernon, experiments with minesweeping gear April 1916.

Folios 612-617: Detection of mines attached to sweep May 1916.

Folios 618-626: Engineering Lieutenant Betts-Brown, experiments May 1916.

Folios 627-641: Minesweeping with one ship and a floating otter January 1917.

Folios 642-645: Trials of tadpole kite in Hunt class.

Folios 646-649: Actaeon sweep.

Folios 650-654: Part chain sweeps.

Folios 655-750: Mine cutting devices.

Folios 751-754: Orpesa sweep.

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