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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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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 |
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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 |
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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. | |
- 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.