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Catalogue reference: ADM 137/1905
This record is about the Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet, Volume XXV, pack 0015, sections:... 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 137/1905
1914-1918
Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet, Volume XXV, pack 0015, sections: Sections 5, 6, 9, 11, 12, 17 and 18
Wireless and intelligence.
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 these have been inserted in each succeeding volume. This volume is the 25th of the series.
Folio 3: Index of contents.
Folios 4-7: Blank.
Folio 8: Title and contents page.
Folios 9-54: Section 5 - Wireless communication with ships on passage to fleet bases.
Folios 55-139: Section 6 - Wireless communication with 2nd and 10th cruiser squadrons.
Folios 140-230: Section 9 - Wireless call signals.
Folios 231-266: Section 11 - Enemy submarine intelligence. Distribution of reports etc.
Folios 267-363: Section 12 - German or other suspicious or foreign wireless.
Folios 364-433: Section 17 - Reference positions.
Folio 434: Section 18 - Miscellaneous wireless and signal papers:-
Folios 435-443: (1) Flashing signal lamp by Sir W Crookes OM, FRS.
Folios 444-473: (2) Keeping of wireless and signal logs.
Folios 474-478: (3) Laying of Peterhead Alexandrovsk cable.
Folios 479-481: (4) Communication with Long Hope wireless station.
Folios 482-485: (5) Wireless experiences during Battle of Jutland.
Folios 486-487: (6) Intercepting of Grand Fleet wireless messages by Admiral Commanding Reserves.
Folios 488-506: (7) Employment of Q wave in Areas IV and V.
Folios 507-508: (8) Wireless guard for ships of 2nd in command 2nd Battle Fleet.
Folios 509-524: (9) Wireless experiences during exercise Y, 24 March 1917.
Folio 525: (11) Wireless communication with hospital ships.
Folios 526-558: (15) Allied wireless and signal conference.
Folios 559-560: (16) Pendants of airships.
Folios 561-565: (17) Messages intercepted concerning a suspicious vessel reported in North Sea, 7 July 1918.
Folios 566-568: (19) Wireless trials carried out by Portsmouth Signal School, 31 July 1918.
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