Bibliography

 

Published:-

 

Admiral Sir Reginald Bacon: The Dover Patrol volume I (Hutchinson London undated)

Geoffrey Bennett: CHARLIE B: A Biography of ADMIRAL LORD BERESFORD OF METEMMEH AND CURRAGHMORE G.C.B., G.C.V.O., LL.D., D.C.L. (London: Peter Dawnay, 1968)

Lord Charles Beresford: The Memoirs of Admiral Lord Charles Beresford vol II (London: Methuen, 1914)

Frank C. Bowen: History of the Royal Naval Reserve (London: The Corporation of London, 1926)

Admiral Sir Edward E Bradford: Life of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, Bart, V.C., G.C.B., O.M., G.C.V.O. (London: John Murray, 1923)

E. Keble Chatterton: The Auxiliary Patrol (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1923)

Sir Julian S Corbett: History of the Great War: Naval Operations volume I (London: Longmans Green, 1920)

F.J. Dittmar & J.J. Colledge: British Warships 1914-1919 (London: Ian Allan, 1972)

Captain J.S. Cowie C.B.E. R.N.: Mines, Minelayers & Minelaying (Oxford: OUP, 1949)

Norman Dixon: On the Psychology of Military Incompetence (London: Pimlico, 1994)

Otto Groos: Der Krieg zur See 1914-1918: Der Krieg in der Nordsee (Berlin: Ernst Siegfried Mittler und Sohn, 1920) volume I

Paul G. Halpern: A Naval History of World War I (London: UCL, 1994)

Holger H. Herwig: The “Luxury” Fleet: The Imperial German Navy 1888-1918 (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1980)

Archibald Hurd: The Merchant Navy volume I (London: John Murray, 1921)

Samuel Hynes: The Edwardian Turn of Mind (London: Princeton University Press, 1968)

Paul M. Kennedy (Ed): The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914 (London: Allen & Unwin, 1979)

J. Lennox Kerr & Wilfred Granville: The R.N.V.R:- A Record of Achievement (London: George Harrap, 1957)

Ruddock F. Mackay: Fisher of Kilverstone (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973)

Arthur J. Marder: From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The Road to War 1909-1914 volume I (Oxford: OUP, 1961)

Arthur J. Marder: From the Dreadnought to Scapa Flow: The War Years to the Eve of Jutland 1914-1916 volume II (Oxford: OUP, 1965)

Brigadier-General F.J. Moberly: The Official History of the War: Military Operations: Togoland and the Cameroons (London: HMSO, 1931)

Donald M. Schurman: The Education of a Navy: The development of British Naval Strategic Thought, 1867-1914 (London: Cassel, 1965)

Donald M. Schurman: Julian S Corbett, 1854-1922: Historian of British Maritime Policy from Drake to Jellicoe (London: Royal Historical Society, 1981)

Cdr. Murray F. Sueter: The Evolution of the Submarine, Boat, Mine and Torpedo from the 16th Century to the Present Time (Portsmouth: Griffin, 1907)

Jon Tetsuro Sumida: In Defence of Naval Supremacy: Finance, Technology, and British Naval Policy 1889-1914 (Cambridge: University Press, 1993)

Captain Taprell-Dorling: Swept Channels: Being an Account of the Work of the Minesweepers in the Great War (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935)

E.L. Woodward: Great Britain and the German Navy (London: Frank Cass, 1964)

 

Unpublished:-

 

In order to simplify the footnotes, most naval monographs were given PRO (now TNA) references. Copies of most of these, however, can also be found at the National Maritime Museum, Admiralty Library and Naval Historical Branch. Others, are only held by one source, or alternatively, different versions are held elsewhere.

 

Training & Naval Staff Duties: Naval Staff Monographs: Home Waters from the Outbreak of War to 27th August 1914 volume X (1924) - ADM 186/619

Training & Naval Staff Duties: Naval Staff Monographs: Home Waters September - October 1914 volume XI (1924) - ADM 186/620

Training & Naval Staff Duties: Naval Staff Monographs: Home Waters November 1914 - January 1915 volume XII (1925) - ADM 186/621

Naval Staff: Naval Operations in the Cameroons 1914 (1919) - ADM 186/592 (N.B. This is also to be found within NSM volume II as monograph V)

Training & Naval Staff Duties: History of British Minesweeping in the War (1920) - ADM 186/604

Captain Lockhart Leith C.M.G., D.S.O., R.N.: History of British Minefields 1914-1918 (undated naval staff monograph) - National Maritime Museum, Greenwich

Naval Intelligence Department: The Russo-Japanese War - Reports from Naval Attaches &c. (1907) - Within ADM 231/50 (N.B. The full version of four volumes plus two technical volumes can be found at the Admiralty Library)

Naval Expedition to the Cameroons 1914-1915 (unpublished and undated) - Imperial War Museum: K78/796

  

 

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