Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet, Volume XXXVII, pack 0020, sections...

Secret packs of the Commander in Chief Grand Fleet, Volume XXXVII, pack 0020, sections X-XIV. Trade - The Blockade.

Folios 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 37th of the series.

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

Folios 4-7: Blank

Folios 8: Sub-title page. Section X - The establishment of additional ports for the examination of neutral vessels and papers relating to their operation (folios 9-139).

Folios 9-49: (a) Lerwick.

Folios 50-82: (b) Loch Ewe.

Folios 83-94: (c) Stornoway.

Folios 95-139: (d) Kirkwall

Folio 140 Sub-title page. Section XI - Protection of merchant shipping (folios 141-211A).

Folios 141-211: Protection of merchant shipping including their markings, colours, disguises, neutral flags. Report regarding the loss of allied and neutral shipping in tonnages during October – December 1916 (folios 178-183). Norwegian shipping agreement and its operation (folios 201-211A).

Folio 212: Sub-title page. Section XII - Armed Guards and reports of ships sent in for examination (folios 212-284).

Folios 213-284: Armed guards (procedures to be adopted) and reports of ships sent in for examination. Interception by German submarines of neutral ships with British armed guards on board (folios 249-284). Letter dated 20 August 1915 by Sub Lieutenant H. Harris, Royal Naval Reserve, prisoner of war at Paderborn concerning the capture of the American ship, Pass of Balmaha. (folios 254-255). Sinking of the Norwegian SS Stralsund (folios 264-269). Sinking of the Norwegian ship Fiorella (folios 270-273). Interception of the Norwegian SS Hiso (folios 274-277). Instructions for Armed Guards (folios 278-284).

Folio 285: Sub-title page. Section XIII - Trade Statistics (folios 286-384).

Folios 286-384: Trade statistics. Tonnage of British munitions shipped from United States of America to the United Kingdom, France (rails) and Salonika (railway material), folio 286). Summary of personnel, horses and mules, supplies and explosives, vehicles and ships, sick and wounded, nursing sisters and civilians, refugees and prisoners from 9 August 1914 to 2 October 1916 (folio 287). Imports from Sweden (folio 288). Statistical notes for Lord Robert Cecil's speech to the Imperial Conference concerning imports into Scandinavia and Holland, exports of oils and fats from Holland to Germany during 1915-1916, exports of certain articles from Holland to Germany in 1915-1916 and a note on the declaration of cotton as contraband (folios 290-298). War Trade Statistical Department - memorandum on exports from Germany to Denmark, 1917, (folios 299-303). Draft agreement with the Swedish government (folios 306-319). The peace settlement in Europe (folios 319-322). Statement with regard to the Bloackade, Imperial Conference 1917 (folios 322-339). Memorandum dated 1 January 1917 in regard to the present position of the blockade (folios 340-347). Statement of the measures adopted to intercept the sea bourne commerce of Germany, Parliamentary paper, January 1916 (folios 347-351). Memorandum on the economic situation in the enemy countries, Imperial Conference 1917 (folios 351-358). Letter dated 26 January 1917 by Robert Cecil to Sir David Beatty - stating that he is anxious to work in the closest touch with the naval authorities (folios 359-360). Ministry of Munitions estimates of iron etc to be obtained from Sweden in 1917 (folios 361-363). A report on the impact of the blockade on Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Holland (folios 364-380). Statistics of imports into Scandinavia and Holland January to September 1916 (folios 381-383).

Folio 385: Sub-title page. Section XIV. Enemy raiders (folios 386-587).

Track chart showing the operations of the Emden between 10 September and 1 October 1914 (folio 390). Decyphers of telegrams and intelligence relating to the Appam dated 3 and 6 February 1916, (folios 393-397). Reports on the activities in February 1916 of the Pungo later known as the German Auxiliary cruiser Mowe (folios 398-406). Photographs of the German Auxiliary cruiser Mowe (folios 403-404, 406). The proposed use of decoy ships (folios 409-413). Suggestion that Special Service Colliers be armed with torpedoes (March 1916), (folio 416). Ships being fitted for conversion specifically the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm and the Marie Horn (folios 417-418). Various proposals for the blockading of the North Sea (folios 421-438). Plans of suggested patrols to prevent enemy raiders breaking out of the North Sea (folios 449-450). Detailed appreciation report dated 30 October 1917 by the Plans Division of the situation as regards to German raiders (folios 492-506). Enemy raider Gamma (folios 507-578). Folios 513-554: missing. Capture of SS Yarrowdale including track chart (folios 555-557, 569-570, 573-576). Report of interview with American seamen C. D. Green and C. Quinn serving in the Yarrowdale (folios 558-568).

Folios 588-591: Blank.