Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet Volume VII: Pack 005: Section...

Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet

Volume VII: Pack 005: Section J: Minesweeping

Note. 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 relvant 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 7th of the series.

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

Folios 4-7: Blank.

Folio 8: Contents page.

Section J1

Folio 9: Swept channels:-

Folios 10-16: Secret chart “X-3”. Routes followed by merchant vessels in North Sea.

Folios 17-43: “L” and “M” channels Folios 44-45: “N” and “O” channels.

Folios 46-69: Tyne swept channels.

Folios 70-85: Scapa swept channels.

Folios 86-89: “A”, “B” and “G” channels,

Folios 90-91: “R” channel.

Folios 92-93: Clyde swept channels.

Folios 94-112: Swept channels in Orkneys and Shetlands other than Scapa.

Folio 113: North entrance to Sound of Mull and Firth of Lorn.

Folio 114: Mined area and swept channels in North Sea November 1917.

Folios 115-117: Peterhead swept channel.

Folios 118-127: Scapa – new channels in view of deep mines off East of Orkneys.

Section J2

Folios 128-280: Minesweeping operations in the Moray Firth.

Section J3.

Folio 281: Minesweeping operations:-

Folios 282-301: Defining of mine area 1.

Folios 302-335: Whiten Bank minefield.

Folio 336: Tory Island minefield and Stanton Banks.

Folios 337-341: Minefield off Brough of Birsay.

Folios 342-352: Kirkwall swept channel.

Folios 353-365: West coast of Scotland.

Folios 366-405: Deep minefield off East of Orkneys.

Folio 406: Operation “NS”.

Folios 407-437: Operation “XA” Terschelling minefield.

Section J4

Folios 438-538: Minesweeping off East coast of Scotland and in approaches to Firth of Forth. Counteracting of enemy mining activity in these areas.

Section J5

Folios 539-583: Minesweeping in the event of a Fleet action

Section J6

Folios 584-623: Miscellaneous minesweeping papers

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