JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXIX. Despatches of the Battle of Jutland including drafts, Jellicoe's corrections and correspondence concerning publication and Beatty's amendments; 1916

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JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXIX (ff. 173). Jutland despatches, etc.; 1916.

1. ff. 1-115. Jellicoe's public (ff. 1-23) and secret despatches on the battle; 18 June 1916. Typewritten drafts.

2. ff. 116-166. Correspondence concerning publication, partly relating to Beatty's despatch to Jellicoe, 19 June, a corrected copy of which is included at ff. 126-136; 18-30 June 1916. Mostly copies.

3. ff. 167-173. Third Supplement to the London Gazette, 6 July 1916. Printed. Comprises Jellicoe's public despatch, redated 24 June, together with Beatty's despatch as an appendix.

Jutland, Denmark: Correspondence and papers rel. to Battle of Jutland: 1916-1929.

Admiral of the Fleet John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe: Correspondence and papers: 1893-1935.

Navy; England: Papers of Lord Jellicoe: 1893-1935.

includes:

ff. 126-136 Admiral of the Fleet David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty: Correspondence, etc., with Lord Jellicoe: 1914-1918: Partly typewritten.
f. 143 Rear-Admiral Sir Hamnet Holditch Share, KBE: Letter to: 1916.
f. 143 Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas Egremont Robert Brownrigg, 4th Baronet: Letter to Sir H. H. Share: 1916.
ff. 150, 151, 158 Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas Egremont Robert Brownrigg, 4th Baronet: Notes by: 1916: Signed.
f. 165 Sir William Graham Greene, Admiralty secretary: Correspondence with Lord Jellicoe: 1914-1917.

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Beatty, David, Unspecified, 1st Earl Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet

Brownrigg, Sir, Douglas Egremont Robert, Unspecified, 4th Baronet, Rear-Admiral

Greene, Sir, William Graham, Unspecified, Admiralty secretary

Jellicoe, John Rushworth, 1859-1935, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Admiral of the Fleet

Share, Sir, Hamnet Holditch, Unspecified, Rear-Admiral KBE

Archive Record|Table of contents

The Jellicoe PapersAdd MS 48989-49057*

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. I. Report of the Committee on Designs, recommending ships such as H.M.S. 'Dreadnought'; 1905Add MS 48989

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. II-IV. Correspondence and papers of Jellicoe as a Lord of the Admiralty, and correpondence with the Admiralty as Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Fleet 1914-1916; 1908-1916.Add MS 48990-48992

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. V. Papers relating to the use of oil fuel in the Navy; 1907-1912Add MS 48993

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. VI. Sir C. Oman, The Outbreak of the War of 1914-18; 1919.Add MS 48994

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. VII-XIV. 'Grand Fleet - Narrative of Events'; 1914-1916. Typewritten, with MS. alterations and notes. Jellicoe's copy of the official daily record. Eight volumes.Add MS 48995-49002

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XV. Germany. War Vessels, 1914. Naval Intelligence Division Report.Add MS 49003

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XVI. Manoeuvring Instructions for the [ German ] Fleet; 1914.Add MS 49004

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XVII. German Navy Tactical Orders; 1920.Add MS 49005

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. XVIII, XIX. Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher with Jellicoe; 1909-1917Add MS 49006-49007

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XX. Correspondence of Vice-Adm. David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty with Jellicoe; 1914-1918.Add MS 49008

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXI. Letters to Jellicoe from: Adm. Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, 1915-1916; Adm. Sir Charles Edward Madden, 1916-1923; Adm. Sir Lewis Bayly, 1914-1918.Add MS 49009

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXII. Correspondence of Jellicoe with Rear-Adm. Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon, K.C.B.; 1916-1917.Add MS 49010

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXIII. Jellicoe's own set of Grand Fleet Battle Orders used by him at the Battle of Jutland; 1915, 1916.Add MS 49011

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXIV. War orders and Dispositions 1912, and papers and correspondence relating to strategy, tactics, torpedo attack and defence 1914-1916.Add MS 49012

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXV. Coloured sketches and plans showing damage sustained by H.M.S. 'Lion' at the Battle of the Dogger Bank, 1915.Add MS 49013

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXVI. Papers relating to the Battle of Jutland; 1915-1936.Add MS 49014

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. XXVII and XXVIII. The Battle of Jutland (The German Official Account); 1926. Printed English translation by Lt.-Com. W. T. Bagot of part of Capt. O. Groos, Der Krieg in der Nordsee, v, 1918 (I. Der Krieg zur See).Add MS 49015-49016

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXIX. Despatches of the Battle of Jutland including drafts, Jellicoe's corrections and correspondence concerning publication and Beatty's amendments; 1916Add MS 49017

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXX. Battle of Jutland, 30th May to 1st June, 1916; Official Despatches, with Appendices; 1920.Add MS 49018

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. XXXI, XXXII (ff. i+111, 183). 'Official Record of the Battle of Jutland, 30th May to 1st June 1916, with Appendices and Plans', by Capt. John Ernest Troyte Harper.Add MS 49019-49020

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXXIII. Battle of Jutland. Record of Messages bearing on the Operation; 1919Add MS 49021

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXXIV. Reproduction of the Record of the Battle of Jutland prepared by Captain J. E. T. Harper, M.V.O., R.N., and other officers by direction of the Admiralty in 1919-1920; 1927.Add MS 49022

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. XXXV and XXXVI. Two sets of diagrams on various scales, lettered A-CCC and A-Z respectively, prepared under the direction of Capt. Harper to illustrate 'Official Record of the Battle of Jutland, 30th May to 1st June 1916, with Appendices and Plans', by Capt. John Ernest Troyte Harper and showing the movements of British and German ships; circa 1920.Add MS 49023-49024

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXXVII. Draft of 'Narrative of the Battle of Jutland'; 1922.Add MS 49025

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXXVIII. Proofs of diagrams for 'Narrative of the Battle of Jutland'; circa 1923-1924.Add MS 49026

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XXXIX. Papers concerning amendments made by Jellicoe to the 'Narrative of the Battle of Jutland' before publication; 1923.Add MS 49027

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XL. Correspondence of Jellicoe, principally with the Admiralty, relating to the publication of the 'Official Record of the Battle of Jutland' and the 'Narrative of the Battle of Jutland' and to other controversies over the battle; 1920-1927.Add MS 49028

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XLI. Gunnery records and logs kept on board British and German ships during the Battle of Jutland; 1916.Add MS 49029

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XLII. Five lectures on the Battle of Jutland given at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, by Adm. Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, 14-21 June 1929.Add MS 49030

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XLIII. Correspondence and associated documents of Jellicoe and others relating to the death of Lord Kitchener and the sinking of H.M.S. 'Hampshire' on 5 June 1916; 1916-1926.Add MS 49031

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. XLIV and XLV. Telegrams, naval signals and an overtrace chart relating to the Grand Fleet's reaction to a sortie by the German High Seas Fleet; 18-25 Aug. 1916.Add MS 49032-49033

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. XLVI. Papers relating to the strength of naval fleets, losses of naval and merchant ships and naval strategy, with original cover; 1914-1919.Add MS 49034

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. XLVII-XLIX. Official and private correspondence of Jellicoe, with a few letters addressed to his wife, Florence Gwendoline; 1900-1936.Add MS 49035-49037

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. L. Autobiography of Jellicoe up to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.Add MS 49038

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. LI. Correspondence and papers relating to Jellicoe’s dismissal from the post of First Sea Lord and his earlier career; 1893, 1910, 1917.Add MS 49039

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. LII. Multiple drafts by Jellicoe of three chapters of an appendix on the Battle of Jutland for a proposed second edition of The Grand Fleet 1914-1916, including hand-drawn diagrams;1919; 1922.Add MS 49040

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. LIII. Replies by Jellicoe to criticisms made by Churchill and others of Jellicoe’s actions, including during Battle of Jutland, and accounts of and papers relating to Jellicoe’s work for, and departure from, the Admiralty; 1923-1927.Add MS 49041

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. LIV. Naval Staff Appreciation of Jutland. (With Appendices and Diagrams.); 1922.Add MS 49042

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. LV. Papers mostly by Jellicoe relating to accounts of Naval operations during the First World War and the Geneva Conference on Naval Disarmament; 1922-1929.Add MS 49043

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. LVI. Correspondence of Jellicoe and others with Adm. Bacon, relating to Bacon's biography of Jellicoe, with related material; 1935-1936, n.d.Add MS 49044

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. LVII. Correspondence and papers of Jellicoe relating to his Empire Naval Mission, with associated Admiralty memoranda; 1918-1920.Add MS 49045

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vols. LVIII-LXIX. Four Reports by Jellicoe on his Empire Naval Mission to India, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, including maps and charts, 1919. Printed. Twelve volumes.Add MS 49046-49057

JELLICOE PAPERS. Vol. LXX. Cabinet papers and memoranda relating to Jellicoe's attendance at a meeting of the War Committee on 17 Feb. 1916 to discuss shortages of ships; Feb.-Mar. 1916.Add MS 49057*