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Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet, Volume XVIII, pack 0010, all...
Catalogue reference: ADM 137/1898
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This record is about the Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet, Volume XVIII, pack 0010, all... dating from 1914-1918 in the series Admiralty: Historical Section: Records used for Official History, First World War. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- ADM 137/1898
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1914-1918
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Description (What the record is about)
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Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet, Volume XVIII, pack 0010, all sections 1 to 8.
Organising of the Grand Fleet.
This Volume contains correspondence during 1914-1918 including on strategy and deployment, reports, lists of flotillas with ship names, details of armaments etc, details of captains and other officer appointments and transfers.
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 18th of the series.
Folio 3: Index of contents. Trade – The Blockade.
Folios 4-7: Blank.
Folio 8: Contents page.
Folios 9-71: Battleships and battle squadrons.
Folios 72-118: Battle cruisers and the battle cruiser fleet.
Folios 119-215: Cruisers and light cruisers.
Folios 216-236: Attached cruisers.
Folios 237-304: Armed boarding steamers and AMG’s.
Folios 305-389: Special service squadron.
Folios 390-743: Grand Fleet destroyer flotillas:-
(a) Grand Fleet destroyer flotillas
(b) Bi-monthly statements of Grand Fleet destroyers
(c) Local defence destroyers at Fleet bases
(d) Grand Fleet destroyers. Orders for commissioning.
Folios 744-762: Miscellaneous vessels attached to the Grand Fleet
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- HSA 100
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- Open Document, Open Description
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ADM 137
Admiralty: Historical Section: Records used for Official History, First World War
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