Catalogue description Listing continued from ADM 137/369/3. Folios 277-279: Enclosure No 1. Report of...

Listing continued from ADM 137/369/3.

Folios 277-279: Enclosure No 1. Report of proceedings dated 3 April 1917 by Captain Arthur Kenneth Macrorie, Senior Officer 1st Detached Squadron, HMS Theseus.

Folios 280-282: Report of proceedings of HM Submarine E25 for 20-24 March 1917 with track chart (on linen) by Lieutenant Edward Lewes.

Folios 283-286: Enclosure No 2. Letter of proceedings dated 1 April 1917 by Captain Edgar Grace, Senior Officer 2nd Detached Squadron, HMS Grafton.

Folios 287-289: Enclosure No 3. Report of proceedings dated 3 April 1917 by Captain Sidney Richard Olivier, Senior Naval Officer, Salonika, HMS St George.

Folios 290-293: Enclosure No 4. Report of proceedings dated 1 April 1917 by Captain Francis William Kennedy, Senior Naval Officer, 4th Detached Squadron, HMS Lowestoft.

Folios 294-296: Enclosure No 5. Report of proceedings dated 6 April 1917 including intelligence notes by Captain Archibald Cochrane, Senior Naval Officer, 5th Detached Squadron, HMS Skirmisher.

Folios 297-298: Enclosure No 6. Report of proceedings of the 6th Detached Squadron dated 1 April 1917 by Captain Francis Clifton Brown, Senior Officer, 6th Detached Squadron, HMS Edgar.

Folio 299: Report of proceedings for H M Monitor 18 dated 31 March 1917 by Lieutenant Commander Reginald Guy Stone.

Folios 300-301: Report of operations for HM Monitor 20 dated 31 March 1917 by Lieutenant Commander James William Fairlough.

Folio 302: Weekly report of firing operation by HMS M29 dated 1 April 1917 by Lieutenant Commander Cyril Callaghan.

Folio 303: Weekly return of gunnery drills for HMS Raglan dated 30 March 1917.

Folios 304-305: Enclosure No 7. Letter of proceedings dated 5 April 1917 by by Rear Admiral Arthur Hayes-Sadler, HMS Implacable.

Folios 306-307: Enclosure No 8. Report of proceedings of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla dated 4 April 1917 by Captain (D) Charles Penrose Rushton Coode, HMS Blenheim.

Folio 308: Enclosure 9. Report of proceedings of HM Submarines dated 17 March 1917 by Charles Gordon Brodie.

Folios 309-316: Enclosure No 10. Weekly operation report number 53. Operations in Southern Bulgaria, on the Struma Front and Turkey dated 30 March 1917 by Wing Captain, Francis Rowland Scarlett, Naval Air Service Headquarters, Mudros. Includes weekly state of aircraft of the RNAS in the Eastern Mediterranean giving geographical position, readiness for service beyond repair, under repair not erected and being erected. Mention of attack on train and railway lines by Flight Sub-Lieutenant James Douglas Haig and Sub-lieutenant Norman Henry Starbuck and by Flight Sub-Lieutenant Charles Gilmour and Herbert Maurice Green, (folio 310); attack on Pravi by Flight Sub-Lieutenant James Douglas Haig and Lieutenant John Earle Maxwell RNVR and Flight Sub-Lieutenant Chalres Gilmour and Herbert Maurice Green, (folio 311); loss of Flight Sub-Lieutenant Sidney George Beare and Second Lieutenant EP Hyde statement made in the Constantinople Wireless Press (OSM) 23 March 1917 “...German Lieutenant von Eschwege shot down his sixth enemy aeroplane. The pilot and observer both Lieutenants were wounded and taken prisoners”, (folio 312); Squadron Commander Joseph Ruscombe Wadham Smyth-Pigott DSO, Flight Lieutenant Eric Thompson Bradley and Flight Sub-Lieutenant Eric Perrin Hicks.

Folio 317: Enclosure No 11. List of HM Ships of Eastern Mediterranean Squadron in hand for docking or refit on 31 March 1917.

Folios 318-321: Admiralty notes and extracts of foregoing report and enclosures.

Folios 322-390: 1-7 April 1917 (paper M 05568/17, N 1605/16).

Folios 323-331: Covering letter and report of operations (paper No 646/120.E) dated 25 April 1917 by Vice Admiral Cecil Fiennes Thursby on HMS Triad comprising: disposition of Battleships and attached cruisers – 7 April 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 and the Cyclades), 6th Detached Squadron (Bulgarian coast), movements of HM Ships, submarines, mines and general remarks. Mention of good services Staff Surgeon Ernest Davis Rutherford MB and of Ships Steward Assistant John Walter Bradshaw and Second Sick Berth Steward Charles Parr Hart whilst attending wounded, (folio 327).

Folios 332-337: Enclosure No 1. Reports of proceedings dated 10 March 1917 by Captain Arthur Kenneth Macrorie, HMS Theseus, and Senior Officer 1st Detached Squadron. Mention of deaths of Percy Richling Stoker 1st Class ON P/306006 and Harry William Gaywood Stoker 2nd Class ON Ch/K35207 both buried at Suda Cemetery, (folio 334).

Folios 338-339: report of proceedings of HM Submarine E25 for 5-8 April 1917 by Lieutenant Edward Lewes.

Folios 340-345: Enclosure No 2. Letter of proceedings dated 8 April 1917 by Captain Edgar Grace, Senior Officer 2nd Detached Squadron, HMS Grafton. Includes report by aeroplane spotting and report on shelling of Tenedos.

Folios 346-348: Enclosure No 3. Letter of proceedings dated 9 April 1917 including military intelligence by Captain Sidney Richard Olivier, Senior Officer, Salonika, HMS St George.

Folio 349: Enclosure No 4. Report of proceedings dated 3 April 1917 by Captain Francis William Kennedy, Senior Naval Officer, 4th Detached Squadron, HMS Lowestoft. Also mentions his transfer of senior officer duties to Commander Cecil Vivian Usborne, HMS Latona.

Folios 350-354: Enclosure No 5. Weekly report of proceedings dated 8 April 1917 by Commander Cecil Vivian Usborne, Senior Officer, Fourth Detached Squadron.

Folios 355-356: Weekly proceedings of PL 224 dated 4 April 1917 by Lieutenant Walter Murray Blair, RNVR.

Folios 357-359: Intelligence report dated 4 April 1917 by Lieutenant Percival Charnaud, RNVR.

Folios 360-362: Intelligence report dated 5 April 1917 by Lieutenant Archibald Charnaud, RNVR.

Folios 363-365: Enclosure No 6. Report of proceedings dated 11 April 1917 by Captain Archibald Cochrane, Senior Naval Officer, 5th Detached Squadron, HMS Skirmisher.

Folios 366-367: Enclosure No 7. Report of proceedings dated 9 April 1917 by Captain Francis Clifton Brown, Senior Officer, 6th Detached Squadron, HMS Edgar.

Folios 368-369: Report of operations for HM Monitor 20 dated 8 April 1917 by Lieutenant Commander James William Fairlough. Folio 370: Report of operation for HMS Monitor 28 dated 7 May 1917 by Lieutenant Donald Priaulx MacGregor.

Folio 371: Report of proceedings for HMS Monitor 18 dated 7 April 1917 by Lieutenant Commander Reginald Guy Stone.

Listing continued in ADM 137/369/6.