Catalogue description Folio 1: Blank. Folio 2: Title cover. Folio 3: List of docketed papers. Folio 4:...

Folio 1: Blank.

Folio 2: Title cover.

Folio 3: List of docketed papers.

Folio 4: Schedule of reports.

Folios 6-9: Blank.

Folios 10-94: 18 February to 3 March 1917 (paper M 04120/17 and N 1695/16).

Folios 10-21: Covering letter and report of operations (paper No 460/120.E) dated 21 March 1917 by Vice Admiral Cecil Fiennes Thursby on HMS Triad comprising: disposition of Battleships and attached cruisers – 3 March 1917, 1st Detached Squadron (Crete and escort duty in Zone VIII), 2nd Detached Squadron (Dardanelles area), 3rd Detached Squadron (Salonika area), 4th Detached Squadron (Smyrna and Anatolian Coast Southward to Cape Marmarice), 5th Detached Squadron (Doro-Salonika patrol and East coast of Greece), 6th Detached Squadron (Bulgarian coast), submarines, mines, movements of HM Ships and general remarks. Mention of death of observer Midshipman Edward Rupert Snow, RN, and bad injury to Flight Sub-Lieutenant AF Marlowe on reconnaissance duty in a Nieuport landing in the salt lake, Kephalo owing to engine failure, (folio 13).

Folios 22-24: Enclosure No 1. Reports of proceedings dated 27 February 1917 by Captain Arthur Kenneth Macrorie, HMS Theseus and Senior Officer 1st Detached Squadron.

Folios 25-27: Enclosure No 2. Reports of proceedings dated 6 March 1917 by Captain Arthur Kenneth Macrorie, HMS Theseus, and Senior Officer 1st Detached Squadron. Folio 28: Enclosure No 3. HMS Grafton report of proceedings, dated 25 February 1917, by Captain Henry Edgar Grace, Senior Officer 2nd Detached Squadron.

Folio 29: Report of gunnery drill week ending 24 February 1917 by Lieutenant Commander Arthur Swinfen Durance George, HMS Grafton.

Folio 30: Report of gunnery drill week ending 24 February 1917 by Captain Alldin Usborne Moore, HMS Abercrombie.

Folios 31-32: Enclosure No 4. HMS Grafton report of proceedings, dated 4 March 1917, by Captain Henry Edgar Grace, Senior Officer 2nd Detached Squadron.

Folio 33: Report of gunnery drill week ending 3 March 1917 by Lieutenant Commander Arthur Swinfen Durance George, HMS Grafton. Folio 34: Report of gunnery drill week ending 3 March 1917 by Captain Alldin Usborne Moore, HMS Abercrombie.

Folios 35-37: Enclosure No 5. HMS Doris report of proceedings dated 25 February 1917 by Captain Sidney Richard Olivier, Senior Officer, Salonika, including summary of military intelligence.

Folios 38-41: Enclosure No 6. HMS Doris report of proceedings dated 4 March 1917 by Captain Sidney Richard Olivier, Senior Officer, Salonika, including summary of military intelligence, and a report on the salvaging of SS Norsman dated 3 March 1917 by Alexander Cousins, Salvage Steamer Sorceress, Tuzla Point Salonika, (folio 41).

Folios 42-43: Enclosure No 7. HMS Lowestoft report of proceedings dated 25 February 1917 by Captain Francis William Kennedy, Senior Naval Officer, 4th Detached Squadron. Includes a plan of a proposed boat-slip position, (folio 44); a letter (in French) from L’Enseigne de Vaisseau Delignac, (folio 45); memorandum on the system of Greek caique patrols around the coast of Mitylene Island dated 23 February 1917 by Captain Francis William Kennedy, (folio 46); a report about the sailing caiques dated 15 February 1917 by Commander Basil Hamilton Piercy, HMS M22, (folio 47); disposition of ships of the Fourth Detached Squadron dated 24 February 1917, (folio 48); return of HMS M16 and M22 gunnery exercises for week ending 24 February 1917, (folio 49).

Folios 50-54: Enclosure No 8. HMS Lowestoft report of proceedings dated 4 March 1917 by Captain Francis William Kennedy, Senior Naval Officer, 4th Detached Squadron. Includes signals sent to submarine during 27 February to 4 March 1917, (folio 52); disposition of ships of the Fourth Detached Squadron dated 3 March 1917, (folio 53); return of HMS Whitby Abbey and HMS Newmarket gunnery exercises for week ending 3 March 1917, (folio 54).

Folios 55-56: Enclosure No 9. Report of proceedings of the 5th Detached Squadron dated 26 February 1917 by Cecil George Chichester, Senior Naval Officer, HMS Forward, with intelligence notes on Petali Gulf, Chalkis, Skiathos and Volo and a translation of a Greek paper edited at Volo “the blockade for starving the Greek Nation continues...”, (folio 57).

Folios 58-59: Enclosure 10. Report of proceedings of the 5th Detached Squadron dated 26 February 1917 by Cecil George Chichester, Senior Naval Officer, HMS Forward, including intelligence notes on Neutral Zone and Euboea.

Folios 60-62: Enclosure No 11. Report of proceedings of the 6th Detached Squadron dated 25 February 1917 by Captain Francis Clifton Brown, Senior Officer, 6th Detached Squadron, HMS Edgar.

Folios 63-64: Enclosure 12. Report of proceedings of the 6th Detached Squadron dated 4 March 1917 by Captain Francis Clifton Brown, Senior Officer, 6th Detached Squadron, HMS Edgar, with reports of proceedings for HMS Raglan dated 26 February and 3 March 1917 by Commander in Command Broome, (folios 65-66); HMS M20 dated 2 March 1917 by Lieutenant Commander James William Fairlough, (folio 67); HMS M28 dated 3 March 1917 by Lieutenant Donald Priaulx MacGregor, (folio 68); HMS M29 dated 5 March 1917 by Lieutenant Commander Cyril Callaghan, (folio 69).

Folios 70-71: Enclosure No 13. HMS Exmouth report of proceedings dated 8 March 1917 by Rear Admiral Arthur Hayes-Sadler.

Folios 72-73: Enclosure No 14. Report of proceedings of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla dated 28 February 1917 by Captain (D) Charles Penrose Rushton Coode, HMS Blenheim.

Folios 74-75: (folios missing from volume).

Folios 76-83: Enclosure No 16. Naval Air Service weekly operation report dated 23 February 1917 including operations in Southern Bulgaria and on the Struma Front, operations in Turkey and report on disposition and state of aircraft.

Folios 84-90: Enclosure No 17. Naval Air Service weekly operation report dated 2 March 1917 including operations in Southern Bulgaria and on the Stuma Front, operations in Turkey and report on disposition and state of aircraft. Folios 91-93: Admiralty notes and summary of foregoing report and enclosures.

Folios 94-201: 4-17 March 1917 (paper M 04366/17 and N 1696/16).

Folios 96-105: Covering letter and report of operations (paper No 534/120.E) dated 31 March 1917 by Vice Admiral Cecil Fiennes Thursby on HMS Triad comprising: disposition of Battleships and attached cruisers – 17 March 1917, 1st Detached Squadron (Crete and escort duty in Zone VIII), 2nd Detached Squadron (Dardanelles area), 3rd Detached Squadron (Salonika area), 4th Detached Squadron (Smyrna and Anatolian Coast Southward to Cape Marmarice), 5th Detached Squadron (Doro-Salonika patrol and East coast of Greece), 6th Detached Squadron (Bulgarian coast), submarines, mines, movements of HM Ships and general remarks.

Listing continues in ADM 137/369/2.