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Where[1] | Reference | Title | Description | Date | Pct.[2] | Who[3] | # pp. |
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TNA | ADM 1/7377 | Tactics of New Armoured Cruisers as Affecting their Design. | Docket | 1898 | 100 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 1/7461B | Study of Naval Tactics. | Courtesy of Stephen McLaughlin. | 1900 | 100 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 1/8047 | "Proposals by Director of Naval Intelligence for carrying out the duties of a General Staff and Re-organisation of the Naval Intelligence Department." | Docket. | 15 May, 1909 | 100 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 1/8051 | Fleet Tactics, Invention of 15' Foot Range Finder. | Various Dockets. | 1909 | 50 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 1/8268 | Combined Cruise of Second Division Home Fleet and Atlantic Fleet, January 1912. | Courtesy of Stephen McLaughlin. | 1912 | 50 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 1/8271 | Destroyer Flotillas. | Docket. | 1912 | 100 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 1/8272 | Naval War Staff | Dockets. | 1911-1918 | 100 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 1/8328 | Gunnery in the Royal Navy: Conference at the Admiralty. | 1911-1912 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8346 | Firings to be Carried Out at "Empress of India". | 1913 | 50 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8383/179 | Battle and Cruiser Squadrons - Programme. | 1914 | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8396/356 | Court of Enquiry on Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue. | 1914 | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8463/176 | Cause of Explosion in British Warships, When Hit by Enemy Shell. | 1916 | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8478/3 | Institution of Director of Torpedoes and Mining. | 1917 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8479/22 | Papers relating to punishments during war-time. | Flogging!! | 1917 | 100 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 1/8484/61 | Controllers Department. Provisional Reorganisation 1917. | 1917 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8487/94 | Torpedo and Mining Service Organisation. | 1917 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8488/103 | Appointment of Escort Flag Officers. Provision of Escort ships and Breech loading guns for special Merchant vessels. | 1917 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8488/104 | Shipbuilding for the Admiralty and War Office. Organisation of Controllers Department. | 1917 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8489/118 | Planning Section of Naval Staff. Proposals by First Lord and First Sea Lord June 1917. | 1917 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8501/232 | Admiralty Orders. | Order-in-Council of 23 October, 1917. | 1917 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 1/8512/29 | Collision of H.M. Subs. K1 and K4. Court of Enquiry and Court Martial on survivors of K1 and officers and men of K4. | 1918 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8517/69 | Admiralty. Table of Distribution of Business. March 1918. | 1918 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8520/101 | Minesweeping Division Organisation. Duties of staff. | 1918 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8547/340 | Warship construction during 1914-1918 war. Records compiled by DNC Dept. | 1918 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8554/84 | Admiralty Controller. Scope and General Authority. | 1918 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/8559/150 | Third Sea Lord and Controller duties. Instructions for Departments under Controller's Superintendence 1919. | 1918 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/9209 | Battle Cruisers: Design. | 1916 | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 1/9210 | "Hood" Class: Armour and Deck protection. | 1917 | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 6/461 | Squadrons and Senior Naval Officers in Existence on 11th November, 1918, and Which Have Now Ceased to Exist. | 100 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 7/936 | Director of Naval Education: annual reports | 1904-1913 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 7/941 | New training scheme for officers and men | 1902-1903 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 7/943 | Naval Anti-Aircraft Gunnery Committee: minutes of proceedings (Nos 1-336) | 1919-1921 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 7/949 | Organisation and Development | 1864-1890 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 116/900B | War Orders, 1899-1907. | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 116/1484 | Defensively Armed Merchant Ships | Related to cordite handling at Jutland. | 10 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 116/1487 | Jutland Gunnery Records? | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 116/1538 | H.M.S. Natal - loss by internal explosion. | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 116/1803 | Re-organisation of Naval Staff Divisions. | D.N.O., D.N.A. & T. | 1917-1921 | 100 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 116/3454 | Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher. | 1914-1917 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 116/3381 | First Lord of the Admiralty. | Papers relating to 1913 Naval Manœuvres. | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/47 | Loss of Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue. | 1914 | 50 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/141 | Lake Tanganikya | Mimi and Toutou. | 1915 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 137/142 | Loss of Formidable | 1915 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/260 | Home Fleets General Orders, July 1914. | 1914 | 50 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/266 | Grand Fleet Signal Orders. | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 137/268 | Lake Tanganyika, including photos. | 1916 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/269 | Ditto | 1916 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/270 | Ditto | 1917 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/293 | Grand Fleet Gunnery and Torpedo Orders. | 1915-1918 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/304 | Falklands. | Who knows? | 50 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/385 | Baralong | 1916 | 80 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/818 | War Plans and War Orders, Home Fleets and Detached Squadrons. | 1913-1914 | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/1062 | Southwest Approaches. | Related to the Lusitania sinking. | 1915 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 137/1165 | Grand Fleet. | Jan.-June, 1916. Much of interest according to Black. | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/1322 | Convoy. | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 137/1645 | Conferences concerning Commander-in-Chief, Grand Fleet | 1916 | 50 | SH | ||
TNA | 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 | 50 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 137/1946 | Need ff. 128-552. | 50 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 137/2018 | Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda | 1914 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/2019 | Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda | Jan-Jun, 1915 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/2020 | Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda | I have ff. 1, 48-69, 87-90, 120-126, 203-204, 208-210, 218-224, 233 (illegible), 279-282, 302-309, 316, 327, 329-330, 337-338, 366-371, 375-377, 384-385, 400-407, 421, 431-434, 442-444, 467-469, 477, 486-487, 489-497, 499-500, 502, 505-506, 556-562, 574-579. | Jul-Dec, 1915 | 50 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 137/2021 | Grand Fleet Orders and Memoranda | Jan.-June, 1916 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/2027 | Committees Formed to Consider Experience at Jutland. | Part I. Copied up to f. 285. | 50 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/2134 | Committee on Construction of Battle Cruisers. | Related to cordite handling. | 50 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/2771. | Convoy. | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 137/3680 | Loss of H.M.S. Vanguard. | 100 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 137/3681 | Loss of H.M.S. Vanguard. | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 137/4052 | Grand Fleet Orders. | Copied to p. 236. | 50 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/4067 | Actions and Operations. | Intercepted German signals during the war. | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/4156 | Signalbuch der Kaiserlichen Marine. | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 137/4374 | Verkehrsbuch | code book? | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/4375 | Verkehrsbuch | code book? | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 137/4822 | Extract of Gunnery Practices in Grand Fleet, 1914—1918. | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 144/17 | Home and Channel Fleets. | 50 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 156/71 | Insubordination in Atlantic Fleet at Invergordon. Reports on various officers. | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | 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 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 156/162 | Loss of H.M.S. Natal - Proceedings of Court Martial. | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 167/51 | Minutes of the Board of Admiralty. | Jan - Jun, 1917 | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 178/33 | Request by Vice-Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly for Court Martial. | 1915 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 178/45 | Retired RADM Murray F. Sueter: History of Naval Career and Grievances. | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 178/123 | Loss of H.M.S. Natal - Court Martial | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 178/129 | Invergordon Reports. | The stitching up of Admiral Dreyer. | 20 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/164 | List of H.M. Ships Showing their Armament, April, 1915. | 100 | TL | |||
TNA | ADM 186/166 | Projectile Committee: Final Report of the President. | 1917 | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/167 | Shell Committee: Interim Report. | 1917 | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/168 | Shell Committee: Second Interim Report. | 1918 | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/169 | Shell Committee: Reports, 1917 and 1918. | 1918 | 50 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/171 | Manual of Gunnery for H.M. Fleet. | C.B. 1619. | 1922 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 186/190 | Hydraulic Manual. 13.5-inch B.L. Mountings Mark II. | 100 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 186/192 | Addenda to the Hydraulic Manual. 13.5-inch B.L. Mountings Mark II** | 1914 | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/227 | The Director Firing Handbook. | C.B. 1259. | 1917 | 100 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 186/229 | Vengeance Flash Trials, 1917 and 1918. | C.B. 1451. | 1918 | 100 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 186/234 | Director Firing Handbook, Director Firing for Flotilla Leaders and Destroyers. | 1917 | 100 | TL | 119 | |
TNA | ADM 186/241 | Reports of the Grand Fleet Dreyer Table Committee, 1918-1919 | C.B. 1533. | 1919 | 100 | SH+TL | 19 |
TNA | ADM 186/257 | Progress in Naval Gunnery | Copied pp. 126-140 relating to Baden tests. | 1921 | 50 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 186/589 | The German Cruiser Squadron in the Pacific, 1914. | 1919 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/590 | Operations leading up to the Battle of Coronel, Nov 1914. | 1919 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/591 | Operation leading up to the Battle of the Falkland Islands Nov 1914. | 1919 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/592 | Naval operations in The Cameroons 1914. | 1919 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/593 | Operations in the Mediterranean 4 - 10 Aug 1914. | 1919 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/594 | The conquest of the Baltic Islands: Translation of Vice-Admiral Schmidt's despatch. | 1919 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/603 | The Economic Blockade 1914-1919. | 1920 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/604 | History of British minesweeping in the war. | 1920 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/605 | Naval Staff Monographs: CORONEL, German cruiser squadron in the Pacific, Falklands and GOEBEN and BRESLAU. | 1920 | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/606 | Organisation of the Archangel River Flotilla 1919. | 1920 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/607 | Naval Staff Monographs: East Africa to July 1915 and Cameroons 1914. | 1921 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/609 | The Tenth Cruiser Squadron during the command of Admiral de Chair, 1914-1916 | 1921 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/610 | Naval Staff Monographs: the action of Dogger Bank, 24 Jan 1915. | 1921 | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/611 | History of the White Sea Station 1914-1919. | 1921 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 186/626 | Battle of Jutland: Official German Account. | Hopefully the translation of Der Krieg zur See by Bagot. | 1926 | 100 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 186/631 | Remarks on Handling Ships and Fleet Navigational Subjects. | 100 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 186/659 | Flotilla Signal Book. | 1908 | 0 | SH | ||
TNA | ADM 203/8 | In-Letters, Royal Naval College | Copied Letter N-13629, relating to Full Pay for Commanders and Captain studying. | 1900 | 50 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 203/64 | History of the War College. | 100 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 203/69 | Royal Naval War College. | 100 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 203/99 | War College Roster. | 100 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 203/100 | Royal Naval War College and Naval Staff College, Greenwich. | 100 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 212/48 | Hopefully the Fort Cumberland RF trials reports | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | ADM 231/11 | N.I.D. Report No. 137. | Naval Manœuvres of 1887. | 1887 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 231/14 | N.I.D. Report No. 179. | Naval Manœuvres of 1888. | 1888 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 231/16 | N.I.D. Report No. 215. | Naval Manœuvres of 1889. | 1889 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 231/18 | N.I.D. Report No. 252. | Naval Manœuvres of 1890. | 1890 | 50 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 231/17 | N.I.D. Report No. 228. | Naval Manœuvres of 1891. | 1891 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 231/22 | N.I.D. Report No. 231. | Naval Manœuvres of 1892. | 1892 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 231/23 | N.I.D. Report No. 372. | Naval Manœuvres of 1893. | 1893 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 231/27 | N.I.D. Report No. 474. | Naval Manœuvres of 1896. | 1896 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 231/32 | N.I.D. Report No. 596. | Naval Manœuvres of 1900. | 1900 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 231/35 | N.I.D. Report No. 641. | Naval Manœuvres of 1901. | 1901 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 231/37 | N.I.D. Report No. 690. | Naval Manœuvres of 1902. | 1902 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 231/47 | N.I.D. Report No. 817. | Naval Manœuvres of 1906. | 1906 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 234/434 | The Naval Staff of the Admiralty. | Staff History of the Staff. | 1929 | 100 | SH | |
TNA | ADM 275/19 | Technical History and Index: serial history of technical problems dealt with by Admiralty departments. | 90 | SH | |||
TNA | AIR 1/279/15/226/127 | Air Services - organisation and duties of the Admiralty, Jun 1917 - Feb, 1918. | 0 | SH | |||
TNA | 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. | 100 | SH | ||
TNA | SUPP 6/175 | Minutes of the Ordnance Board. | Jellicoe request on shell, either dated 28 Oct., 1910, or Minute No. 3284. | Jan-Jun, 1910 | 0 | SH | |
TNA | SUPP 6/176 | Minutes of the Ordnance Board. | Ditto. | July-Dec, 1910 | 0 | SH | |
NMM | DFF/15 | Duff Diary | Diary of Rear-Admiral Alexander L. Duff, Rear-Admiral in the Fourth Battle Squadron, Grand Fleet. | 1914-1916 | 100 | SH | |
NMM | HTN/106 | Hamilton Diary | Diary of Admiral Sir Frederick T. Hamilton, Second Sea Lord. | 1915-1916 | 100 | SH | |
NMM | OLV/12 | "Recollections." | Typescript memoirs in two volumes of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry F. Oliver. | 1946 | 100 | SH | |
NMM | BTY/6/14/1 | "Reminiscences of "Q" Turret by Private H. Willows, R.M.L.I." | Lion at Jutland. | 100 | SH | ||
NMM | COW/17/4 | The Wheel of Fortune. | Memoirs of Admiral Sir Walter H. Cowan, Bart.. | 50 | SH | ||
NMM | GEE/13 | Notes on personalities at the Admiralty. | Written by Sir William Graham Greene. | 100 | SH | ||
RNM | MSS 255/4 | ADM Jackson Letters | A series of 107 letters received by Admiral Sir Henry Jackson as First Sea Lord from Admiral Jellicoe as CiC of the Grand Fleet | Jun 1915 - Nov 1916 | 0 | SH | |
Torpedo Drill Book, 1905 | the original book | 1905 | 101 | TL | |||
Torpedo Drill Book, 1908 | the original book | 1908 | 101 | TL | |||
Torpedo Drill Book, 1912 | the original book | 1912 | 101 | TL | |||
Torpedo Drill Book, 1914 | the original book | 1914 | 101 | TL | |||
Addenda to Torpedo Manual, Volume III | the original book | 1909 | 101 | TL | |||
Addenda to Torpedo Manual, Volume I, 1901 | the original book | 1903 | 101 | TL | |||
TNA | ADM 186/365 | Torpedo Manual for HM Fleet 1909, Volume III | 1909 | 100 | TL | ||
Torpedo Manual for HM Fleet 1907, Volume I | an original copy | 1907 | 101 | TL | |||
TNA | ADM 186/366 | Addenda (1911) to Torpedo Manual 1909, Volume III | 1911 | 100 | TL | ||
Torpedo Manual for HM Fleet 1911, Volume I | 1911 | 100 | TL | ||||
Handbook of Torpedo Control, 1915 | Unsure if a copy exists. Want! | 1915 | 0 | TL | |||
TNA | ADM 186/381 | Handbook of Torpedo Control, 1916 | 1916 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/137 | Torpedo Training Manual | 1920 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/369 | Handbook for RNTF Torpedoes 18-in Marks VIII and VIII* | 1915 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/403 | Handbook for RNTF Torpedoes 18-in Marks VII-VII***** and 21-in Marks II-IV* | 1918 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/423 | Handbook for Fiume and Weymouth Torpedoes | 1918 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/1 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1881 | 1881 | 0 | |||
TNA | ADM 189/2 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1882 | 1882 | 0 | |||
TNA | ADM 189/3 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1883 | 1883 | 0 | |||
TNA | ADM 189/4 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1884 | 1884 | 0 | |||
TNA | ADM 189/5 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1885 | 1885 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/6 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1886 | 1886 | 0 | |||
TNA | ADM 189/7 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1887 | 1887 | 0 | |||
TNA | ADM 189/8 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1888 | 1888 | 0 | |||
TNA | ADM 189/9 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1889 | 1889 | 0 | |||
TNA | ADM 189/10 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1890 | 1890 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/11 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1891 | 1891 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/12 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1892 | 1892 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/13 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1893 | 1893 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/14 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1894 | 1894 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/15 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1895 | 1895 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/16 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1896 | 1896 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/17 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1897 | 1897 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/18 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1898 | 1898 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/19 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1899 | 1899 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/20 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1900 | 1900 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/21 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1901 | 1901 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/22 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1902 | 1902 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/23 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1903 | 1903 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/24 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1904 | 1904 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/25 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1905 | 1905 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/26 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1906 | 1906 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/27 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1907 | 1907 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/28 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1908 | 1908 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/29 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1909 | 1909 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/30 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1910 | 1910 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/31 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1911 | 1911 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/32 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1912 | 1912 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/33 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1913 | 1913 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/34 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1914 | needs better photos | 1914 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 189/35 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1915 | needs better photos | 1915 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 189/36 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1916 | photos by Simon | 1916 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 189/37 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1917 | photos by Simon | 1917 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 189/38 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1918 | 1918 | 55 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 189/39 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1919 | needs better photos | 1919 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 189/40 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1920 | needs better photos | 1920 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 189/41 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1921 | 1921 | 0 | |||
TNA | ADM 189/42 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1922 | 1922 | 0 | |||
TNA | ADM 189/43 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1923 | 1923 | 0 | |||
TNA | ADM 189/44 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1924 | 1924 | 0 | |||
TNA | ADM 189/45 | Annual Report of the Torpedo School 1925 | 1925 | 0 | |||
B.R. 45 | Admiralty Navigation Manual, Volume I, 1938 | the original book | 1938 | 101 | TL | ||
Naval Air Service Training Manual, 1915 | the original book | 1915 | 101 | TL | |||
TNA | ADM 186/181 | http://dreadnoughtproject.org/docs/notes/Range_Tables_for_HM_Fleet_1910.php Range Tables for HM Fleet, 1910] | Hand-worked guns only | 1911 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 137/4356 | Firing tables for 8.8cm guns captured from U-boat 40 | low interest | 1910?! | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 137/4356 | Range Tables for HM Fleet: 9.2-in and above, 1918 | low interest | 1918 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/189 | Handbook for 12-pdr Quick-Firing Guns | 1913 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/239 | Handbook for 12-pdr 12 cwt Gun on high angle mounting (Mark VIII) | low interest | 1919 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/265 | Handbook for quick-firing 12 cwt Gun on PI* Mounting | low interest | 1925 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/206 | Handbook for 4-in QF Guns Marks IV and V on P Mark IX and X Mountings | moderate interest | 1916 | 0 | TL | |
B.R. 202/1934 | Drill for 6-in BL and 5.5-in BL Guns on Transferable Mountings | the original pamphlet | 1934 | 101 | TL | ||
B.R. 203 | Drill for 4.7-in BL and 4-in BL Guns | the original pamphlet | 1928 | 101 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/214 | Handbook for 4-in BL Guns Marks IX and IX* on Triple Mounting Mark I | low interest | 1916 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/215 | Handbook for 4-in BL Guns Marks IX and IX* on P XII Mountings | moderate interest | 1916 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/219 | Handbook for 4-in BL Guns Marks IX and IV* on CP I Mountings | moderate interest | 1917 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/232 | Handbook for 4-in QF Guns Marks IV and V on CP II and CP IIIc Mountings | low interest | 1918 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 275/2 | Handbook for 4-in BL Guns Marks IX and IX* on P XV Mounting | low interest | 1918 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/208 | Handbook for 5.5-in BL Mark I Gun on P I Mounting | Reshoot: too many blurry photos | 1916 | 60 | TL | 48 |
TNA | ADM 186/217 | Handbook for 5.5-in BL Mark I Gun on PI* and PI** Mountings | low interest | 1917 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/180 | Handbook for 6-in BL Mark VII and Mark VIII Guns | low interest, given 186/210 | 1904 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/210 | Handbook for 6-in BL Mark VII and Mark VIII Guns | Reshoot: too many blurry photos | 1916 | 60 | TL | 65 |
TNA | ADM 186/207 | Handbook for 4-in Marks VII and VIII BL Guns | b/w copy from TNA | 1916 | 99 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/246 | Turret Gun Drill: 13.5-in Mark V. Marks II, II* and II** Mounting | 1920 | 100 | TL | ||
AL | AL Ja010 | Miscellaneous Gunnery Experiments, 1901-1913 | moderate interest | 1901-1913 | 0 | TL | |
Elementary Naval Ordnance and Gunnery | By Lt. H. C. Ramsay (USN), have the original book | 1918 | 101 | TL | |||
Gunnery Instructions, U. S. Navy, 1913 | Have b/w photocopy from ??? | 1913 | 100 | TL | |||
TNA | ADM 186/216 | The Sight Manual, 1916 | b/w copy, details on gun sights | 1916 | 100 | TL | |
AL | AL Ja254 | Manual of Gunnery (Volume I part 1) for HM Fleet, 1907 | 35 of 74 plates are bound separately, Have only pp 1-47, 70-77 | 1907 | 15 | TL | 290 + 74 |
AL | AL Ja254 | Manual of Gunnery (Volume I) for HM Fleet, 1915 | Volume I of MoG is not very interesting, IIRC | 1915 | 0 | TL | |
AL | AL Ja254 | Manual of Gunnery (Volume III) for HM Fleet, 1915 | Volume III is the best of MoGs | 1915 | 100 | TL | |
AL | AL Ja254 | Manual of Gunnery (Volume III) for HM Fleet, 1920 | do I need this? | 1920 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/171 | Manual of Gunnery (Volume I) for HM Fleet, 1922 | low interest | 1922 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/220 | Manual of Gunnery (Volume II) for HM Fleet, 1917 | b/w copy, terribly uninteresting | 1917 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/235 | Pamphlet on the Effects of Wind in Gunnery | b/w copy, pertains only to high angle fire | 1918 | 100 | TL | |
Gunnery Drill Book for HM Fleet (Book I), 1913 | the original book, power-worked mountings | 1913 | 101 | TL | |||
Gunnery Drill Book for HM Fleet (Book II), 1918 | the original book, hand-worked mountings | 1918 | 101 | TL | |||
AL | AL Ja345a | Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1909 | skipped following Plates I felt would be the same from 1914 edition: (1-28, 35-38, 45, 48-51) | 1909 | 85 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/191 | Handbook for Fire Control Instruments, 1914 | b/w scans courtesy John Roberts | 1914 | 100 | TL | |
AL | AL P.1024 | Fire Control: A Summary of the Present Position of the Subject | 1904 | 100 | TL | ||
AL | AL OU 6171/14 | The Technical History and Index: Fire Control in HM Ships Vol 3. Part 23 | 1919 | 100 | TL | 45 | |
AL | AL P.1024 | Captain F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control System for Local Control | iffy: Fig 6. possibly the only copy ever made? | 1913 | 99 | TL | 20 |
AL | AL P.1024 | Pollen Aim Correction System. Part I. Technical History and Technical Comparison with Commander F.C. Dreyer's Fire Control System | 1913 | 100 | TL | 80 | |
TNA | ADM 186/201 | Sights and system of control for anti-aircraft guns | blurry: p. 10,12 Plate 6 | 1916 | 95 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/237 | Handbook for Stereoscopic Range finders | low interest | 1919 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/248 | Handbook for use at Fire Control Drills | moderate interest | 1920 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 116/2068 | Fire Control Requirements Committee | moderate interest | 1919-1921 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/260 | Fire Control Pocket Book, 1920 | moderate interest | 1923 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 1/8655/13 | Details of fire control instruments for Japan | low interest | 1924 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 1/8654/12 | Sea trials of new fire control system for primary armament | moderate interest | 1924 | 0 | TL | |
AL | AL C.B. 1126 | Fire Control, 1908 | difficult to follow, somehow | 1908 | 100 | TL | 11 |
AL | AL C.B. 1127 | Fire Control, Rangefinding and Plotting | 1909 | 100 | TL | ||
AL | AL O.U. 6196(A) | Pamphlet on the Turret Dreyer Table | 1930 | 100 | TL | ||
AL | AL O.U. 6196(B) | Pamphlet on the Mark III* Dreyer Table | 1930 | 100 | TL | ||
AL | AL O.U. 6196(C) | Pamphlet on the Mark IV* Dreyer Table | 1930 | 100 | TL | ||
AL | AL O.U. 6196(D) | Pamphlet on the Mark V Dreyer Table | 1930 | 100 | TL | ||
AL | AL C.B. 1456 | Handbook for Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Tables | 1918 | 100 | TL | ||
EXC | EXC | Captain F. C. Dreyer's Fire Control Apparatus Mark IV* as Fitted in HMS Royal Oak | photos courtesy Rob Brassington | 1916 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/205 | Handbook for Barr and Stroud Naval Range-Finders and Mountings | b/w copy | 1916 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/227 | Director Firing Handbook 1917 | color copy | 1917 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/228 | German Navy: Naval Gun Mountings, Sights and Table of Ordnance | iffy: sec1 pp. 9, 16 sec3 3, 8 plates 11, 24 blurry: sec1 22 sec3 12 sec3 11 sec4 3 (initial), 29 |
1918 | 100 | TL | 159 |
TNA | ADM 186/234 | Director Firing Handbook 1917, Director Firing for Flotilla Leaders and Destroyers | 1918 | 100 | TL | ||
Progress in Naval Gunnery, 1910 | low interest | 1910? | 0 | TL | |||
C.B. 1035 | Progress in Naval Gunnery, 1911-1912 | low interest | 1913? | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/238 | Progress in Naval Gunnery, 1914-1918 | b/w copy | 1919 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/244 | Progress in Gunnery Material | 1920 | 100 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/251 | Progress in Gunnery Material | curious | 1921 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/243 | Reports on Interned German Vessels: Gunnery Materials | b/w copy | 1920 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 137/2028 | Spotting Rules, 1916 | b/w copy | 1916 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/383 | German Navy: War Vessels, Naval Ordnance, Torpedoes, Mines, etc | photos?, reprinted in modern age for public | 1917 | 50 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/878 | Handbook of fire control in torpedo boat destroyers of 'M' class and later, and flotilla leaders | short. largely drawn depictions of FC instruments | 1915 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 1/8464/181 | Various patents in connection with fire control apparatus, including Captain F C Dreyer's patent | low interest | 1916 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | T 1/11339 | Admiralty. Payment of reward to Capt. J.T. Dreyer, Royal Artillery, for an invention (improved sight for naval guns). | moderate interest | 1911 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | T 1/11576 | Admiralty. Purchase of a gun control patent from Messrs. Evershed and Vignolles, Ltd. | low interest | 1913 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | T 161/36 | INVENTIONS. General: Inventions of Admiral Phipps Hornby and Mr. Kilroy communicated to United States Government by Messrs. Evershed and Vignoles | low interest | 1920 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 137/4052 | Grand Fleet orders and gunnery and torpedo orders | b/w copy | 1915-1918 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | DSIR 23/1191 | Fire control ranging and spotting by aircraft in naval actions | low interest | 1918 | 0 | TL | |
Fire Control Notes | American US Naval Reserve | 1940 | 100 | TL | |||
TNA | ADM 186/727 | Handbook for W/T receiving sets models C, CA, KC, KE and L | 1917 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/810 | Wireless telegraphy handbook for type 10 (Submarine) sets | 1915 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/811 | Handbook for Type 12 W/T sets | 1917 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/812 | Handbook for Type 12 W/T sets | 1918 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/813 | Handbook for Marconi ½ Kw. W/T set fitted in small fleet auxiliaries | 1920 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/655 | Vocabulary Signals | todo: check for blurry pages | 1908 | 100 | TL | 365 |
TNA | ADM 186/657 | Fleet Signal Book | I think this is the one used in WW1 | 1906 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/659 | Flotilla Signal Book | 1908 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/667 | Handbook of Signalling 1913 | 1913 | 101 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/615 | Grand Fleet Gunnery and Torpedo Memoranda on Naval actions 1914-1918 | b/w copy courtesy Byron Angel | 1922 | 100 | TL | |
Handbook of Signalling 1918 | the original book | 1918 | 101 | TL | |||
TNA | ADM 186/668 | Flotilla Signal Book, Vol. I. | b/w, apparently never adopted | 1913 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/669 | Fleet Signal Book: proof copy | photos, apparently never adopted | 1913 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/670 | Signal Manual: final proof | photos, apparently never adopted | 1913 | 100 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/671 | Vocabulary Signal Book | low interest, may never have been adopted | 1913 | 0 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 186/673 | Signal letters of ships of all countries | 1914 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/675 | Vocabulary Signal Book | 1914 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/681 | Vocabulary Signal Book 1913 and local geographical table for Australia and New Zealand, 1915 | 1915 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/688 | Auxiliary Vessels Signal Book | 1915 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/690 | Vocabulary Signal Book No. 1 | 1915 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/691 | Vocabulary Signal Book No. 2 | 1915 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/692 | Vocabulary Signal Book | 1915 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/699 | General signal book, including Grand Fleet cruising dispositions, organisations and instructions for manoeuvring by W/T | 19X15 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/706 | Aircraft Signal Book | blurry: 8-9, 16-17, 26-27, 32-39 | 1916 | 75 | TL | 60 |
TNA | ADM 186/708 | Supplementary Signal Book | 1916 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 137/4323 | Translations of handbooks on W/T regulations, navy signal book, scouting signal code and personnel of German Navy | 1913-1918 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/4438 | Austrian Imperial Navy: handbook on handling and maintenance of ships armaments | 1900 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/4439 | Austrian Imperial Navy: signal and manoeuvring handbook part 1 | 1908 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/729 | General Signal Book | 1917 | 0 | TL | ||
TNA | ADM 186/744 | Allied Signal Manual 1918 | for convoy communications, the original book | 1918 | 101 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 131/80 | HM Destroyers: commissioning; storing; organisation of flotillas; memoranda and orders; patrols; refits and docking | largely comprised of illegible handwritten telegrams, collected like lawnclippings | 1914-1919 | 20 | TL | |
TNA | ADM 131/81 | HM Destroyers: escort arrangements; secret key positions; work performed and work and progress of Grand Fleet flotillas | largely comprised of illegible handwritten telegrams, collected like lawnclippings | 1915-1918 | 20 | TL |
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