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He currently lives on the North West coast of England, and is studying for a law degree.  His first article, on [[Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour|Balfour]] at the [[Admiralty]], is in preparation for publication.  A biography of Lord Jellicoe is also in the works.
 
He currently lives on the North West coast of England, and is studying for a law degree.  His first article, on [[Arthur James Balfour, First Earl of Balfour|Balfour]] at the [[Admiralty]], is in preparation for publication.  A biography of Lord Jellicoe is also in the works.
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I try to keep a list of books in my possession updated on Wikipedia:
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Simon_Harley/Library Library.]
  
 
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Revision as of 16:15, 3 April 2011

Simon Harley is a 25 year old law student and researcher of the Royal Navy during the Dreadnought Era.

He currently lives on the North West coast of England, and is studying for a law degree. His first article, on Balfour at the Admiralty, is in preparation for publication. A biography of Lord Jellicoe is also in the works.

I try to keep a list of books in my possession updated on Wikipedia:

Things to look at


The National Archives

Items which I have in full are shaded green; items which I have part of are in yellow; material which I want and intend to get is in pink. This list is very incomplete in all regards. — SIMON HARLEY, Co-editor.

Reference Title Description Date
ADM 1/7377 Admiralty. Tactics of New Armoured Cruisers as Affecting their Design. 1898
ADM 1/7461B Study of Naval Tactics. 1900
ADM 1/8268 Combined Cruise of Second Division Home Fleet and Atlantic Fleet, January 1912.
ADM 1/8328 Gunnery in the Royal Navy: Conference at the Admiralty. 1911-1912
ADM 1/8346 Firings to be Carried Out at "Empress of India". 1913
ADM 1/8383/179 Battle and Cruiser Squadrons - Programme. 1914
ADM 1/8396/356 Court of Enquiry on Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue. 1914
ADM 1/8463/176 Cause of Explosion in British Warships, When Hit by Enemy Shell. 1916
ADM 1/8501/232 Admiralty Orders. Order-in-Council of 23 October, 1917. 1917
ADM 1/9209 Battle Cruisers: Design. 1916
ADM 1/9210 "Hood" Class: Armour and Deck protection. 1917
ADM 6/461 Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918, and Which Have Now Ceased to Exist.
ADM 116/900B War Orders, 1899-1907.
ADM 116/1464 Defensively Armed Merchant Ships Related to cordite handling at Jutland.
ADM 116/1538 H.M.S. Natal - loss by internal explosion.
ADM 116/1803 Re-organisation of Naval Staff Divisions. D.N.O., D.N.A. & T. 1917-1921
ADM 116/3454 Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher. 1914-1917
ADM 116/3381 First Lord of the Admiralty. Papers relating to 1913 Naval Manœuvres.
ADM 137/260 Home Fleets General Orders, July 1914. 1914
ADM 137/266 Grand Fleet Signal Orders.
ADM 137/293 Grand Fleet Gunnery and Torpedo Orders. 1915-1918
ADM 137/304 Falklands. Who knows?
ADM 137/818 War Plans and War Orders, Home Fleets and Detached Squadrons. 1913-1914
ADM 137/1062 Southwest Approaches. Related to the Lusitania sinking. 1915
ADM 137/1165 Grand Fleet. Jan.-June, 1916. Much of interest according to Black.
ADM 137/1322 Convoy.
ADM 137/1645 Conferences concerning Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet 1916
ADM 137/1939 Paper No. H.S.A. 141 Conferences between the Commander-in-Chief and members of the Admiralty Staff; Invasion Conference. 1914-1919
ADM 137/1946 Need ff. 128-552.
ADM 137/2018 Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda 1914
ADM 137/2019 Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda Jan.-June, 1915
ADM 137/2020 Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda I have f. 1, ff. 48-69, ff. 87-90, ff. 120-126, ff. 203-204, ff. 208-210, ff. 218-224, f. 233 (illegible), ff. 279-282, ff. 302-309, f. 316, f. 327, f. 329-330, ff. 337-338, ff. 366-371, ff. 375-377, ff., 384-385, ff. 400-407, f. 421, ff. 431-434, ff. 442-444, ff. 467-469, f. 477, ff. 486-487, ff. 489-497, ff. 499-500, f. 502, ff. 505-506, ff. 556-562, ff. 574-579. July-Dec., 1915
ADM 137/2021 Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda Jan.-June, 1916
ADM 137/2027 Committees Formed to Consider Experience at Jutland. Part I. Copied up to f. 285.
ADM 137/2134 Committee on Construction of Battle Cruisers. Related to cordite handling.
ADM 137/2771. Convoy.
ADM 137/3680 Loss of H.M.S. Vanguard.
ADM 137/3681 Loss of H.M.S. Vanguard.
ADM 137/4052 Grand Fleet Orders. Copied to p. 236.
ADM 137/4067 Actions and Operations. Intercepted German signals during the war.
ADM 137/4156 Signalbuch der Kaiserlichen Marine.
ADM 137/4374 Verkehrsbuch.
ADM 137/4375 Verkehrsbuch.
ADM 137/4822 Extract of Gunnery Practices in Grand Fleet, 1914—1918.
ADM 144/17 Home and Channel Fleets.
ADM 156/71 Insubordination in Atlantic Fleet at Invergordon. Reports on various officers.
ADM 156/86 Collisions involving HM Ships INFLEXIBLE and FEARLESS, HM Submarines K14, K22, K17, K4 and K6. Cdr. E W Leir D.S.O., R.N. HMS ITHURIEL commanding 13th submarine Flotilla: loss of HM Submarine K17. Battle of May Island. 1918
ADM 156/162 Loss of H.M.S. Natal - Proceedings of Court Martial.
ADM 167/51 Minutes of the Board of Admiralty. January - June, 1917
ADM 178/33 Request by Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly for Court Martial. 1915
ADM 178/45 Retired Rear-Admiral Murray F. Sueter: History of Naval Career and Grievances.
ADM 178/123 Loss of H.M.S. Natal - Court Martial
ADM 186/164 List of H.M. Ships Showing their Armament, April, 1915.
ADM 186/166 Projectile Committee: Final Report of the President. 1917
ADM 186/167 Shell Committee: Interim Report. 1917
ADM 186/168 Shell Committee: Second Interim Report. 1918
ADM 186/169 Shell Committee: Reports, 1917 and 1918. 1918
ADM 186/171 Manual of Gunnery for H.M. Fleet. C.B. 1619. 1922
ADM 186/190 Hydraulic Manual. 13.5-inch B.L. Mountings Mark II.
ADM 186/192 Addenda to the Hydraulic Manual. 13.5-inch B.L. Mountings Mark II,** 1914
ADM 186/227 The Director Firing Handbook. C.B. 1259. 1917
ADM 186/229 Vengeance Flash Trials, 1917 and 1918. C.B. 1451. 1918
ADM 186/234 Director Firing Handbook, Director Firing for Flotilla Leaders and Destroyers. 1917
ADM 186/241 Reports of the Grand Fleet Dreyer Table Committee, 1918-1919 C.B. 1533. 1919
ADM 186/244 Progress in Gunnery Material 1920
ADM 186/257 Progress in Naval Gunnery Copied pp. 126-140 relating to Baden tests. 1921
ADM 186/589 The German Cruiser Squadron in the Pacific, 1914. 1919
ADM 186/590 Operations leading up to the Battle of Coronel, Nov 1914. 1919
ADM 186/591 Operation leading up to the Battle of the Falkland Islands Nov 1914. 1919
ADM 186/592 Naval operations in The Cameroons 1914. 1919
ADM 186/593 Operations in the Mediterranean 4 - 10 Aug 1914. 1919
ADM 186/594 The conquest of the Baltic Islands: Translation of Vice-Admiral Schmidt's despatch. 1919
ADM 186/603 The Economic Blockade 1914-1919. 1920
ADM 186/604 History of British minesweeping in the war. 1920
ADM 186/605 Naval Staff Monographs: CORONEL, German cruiser squadron in the Pacific, Falklands and GOEBEN and BRESLAU. 1920
ADM 186/606 Organisation of the Archangel River Flotilla 1919. 1920
ADM 186/607 Naval Staff Monographs: East Africa to July 1915 and Cameroons 1914. 1921
ADM 186/609 The Tenth Cruiser Squadron during the command of Admiral de Chair, 1914-1916 1921
ADM 186/610 Naval Staff Monographs: the action of Dogger Bank, 24 Jan 1915. 1921
ADM 186/611 History of the White Sea Station 1914-1919. 1921
ADM 186/626 Battle of Jutland: Official German Account. Hopefully the translation of Der Krieg zur See by Bagot. 1926
ADM 186/631 Remarks on Handling Ships and Fleet Navigational Subjects.
ADM 186/659 Flotilla Signal Book. 1908
ADM 203/8 In-Letters, Royal Naval College Copied Letter N-13629, relating to Full Pay for Commanders and Captain studying. 1900
ADM 203/64 History of the War College.
ADM 203/69 Royal Naval War College.
ADM 203/99 War College Roster.
ADM 203/100 Royal Naval War College and Naval Staff College, Greenwich.
ADM 234/434 The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. Staff History of the Staff. 1929
ADM 275/19 Technical History and Index: serial history of technical problems dealt with by Admiralty departments.
AIR 1/279/15/226/127 Air Services - organisation and duties of the Admiralty, June 1917 - February, 1918.
CAB 38/19/49 Minutes of the 114th Meeting of the C.I.D. The fall of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur K. Wilson.
SUPP 6/175 Minutes of the Ordnance Board. Jellicoe request on shell, either dated 28 Oct., 1910, or Minute No. 3284. Jan.-June, 1910
SUPP 6/176 Minutes of the Ordnance Board. Ditto. July-Dec., 1910

Items to check: Death dates of Rowland Nugent, George Walter Smith, Edward Herbert Moubray and Archibald Peile Stoddart.

National Maritime Museum

Reference Title Description Date
DFF/15 Duff Diary Diary of Rear-Admiral Alexander L. Duff, Rear-Admiral in the Fourth Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet. 1914-1916
HTN/106 Hamilton Diary Diary of Admiral Sir Frederick T. Hamilton, Second Sea Lord. 1915-1916
OLV/12 "Recollections." Typescript memoirs in two volumes of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry F. Oliver. 1946
BTY/6/14/1 "Reminiscences of "Q" Turret by Private H. Willows, R.M.L.I." Lion at Jutland.
COW/17/4 The Wheel of Fortune. Memoirs of Admiral Sir Walter H. Cowan, Bart..
GEE/13 Notes on personalities at the Admiralty. Written by Sir William Graham Greene.

Royal Naval Museum

Wanted
  • MSS 255/4. A series of 107 letters received by Admiral Sir Henry Jackson as First Sea Lord from Admiral Sir John Jellicoe as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet, June 1915 - November 1916.

Command Papers

  • Report of the Committee Appointed by the Admiralty to Inquire into the System of Training Naval Cadets on Board H.M.S. Britannia, Together with the Minutes of Evidence and Appendix, and a Summary of the Evidence. C. 1154 (1875).
  • Regulations Respecting Naval Cadets. C. 2780 (1881).
  • Memorandum Dealing with the Entry, Training, and Employment of Officers and Men of the Royal Navy and of the Royal Marines. Cd. 1385 (1902).
  • Selection of Candidates for Nomination as Naval Cadets. Reports of Members of the Interview Committees. Cd. 1962 (1904).
  • Results of Prize Firing in H.M. Fleet, 1903. Cd. 1995.
  • Result of Gunlayers' Competition in His Majesty's Fleet, 1904. Cd. 2511.
  • Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1905. Cd. 2703.
  • Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1905. Cd. 2704.
  • A Statement of Admiralty Policy. Cd. 2791 (1906).
  • Reports of Departmental Committees Appointed to Consider Certain Questions Concerning the Extension of the New Scheme of Training for Officers of the Navy, &c.. Cd. 2841 (1906).
  • Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1906. Cd. 3276.
  • Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1906. Cd. 3321.
  • Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1907. Cd. 3900.
  • Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1907. Cd. 3943.
  • Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1908. Cd. 4480.
  • Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1908. Cd. 4514.
  • Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1909. Cd. 5042.
  • Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1909. Cd. 5089.
  • Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1910. Cd. 5445.
  • Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1910. Cd. 5592.
  • Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1911. Cd. 5957.
  • Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1911. Cd. 5958.
  • Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1902. Cd. 6758.
  • Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1912. Cd. 6765.
  • Result of Battle Practice in His Majesty's Fleet, 1913. Cd. 7366.
  • Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns and Light Q.F. Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1913. Cd. 7387.
  • Correspondence Regarding the Naval and Military Assistance Afforded to His Majesty's Government by His Majesty's Oversea Dominions. Cd. 7607 (1914).
  • Result of Test of Gunlayers with Heavy Guns and Light Q.F. Guns in His Majesty's Fleet, 1914. Cd. 7919.

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