30.

PRO: ADM 116/900B and ADM 1/8325 S328

31.

PRO: CAB 2/1 Minutes 58^th to 100^th meetings. Also CAB 3/1, CAB 3/2, CAB 16/3A & CAB 6/9A

32.

PRO: ADM 116/1043B p.47

33.

Ibid. pp.709-711 & p.720

34.

PRO: CAB 16/3A, pp.69-73, p.81, pp.86-87, pp.172-173 & pp.231-233

35.

PRO: ADM 116/1043B until 1911; and ADM 1/8275 for 1912

36.

PRO: ADM 116/3412; and ADM 137/3898

37.

NMM: Capt. Lockhart Leith: History of British Minefields 1914-18 (Naval Staff Monograph, undated) pp.9-12

38.

PRO: ADM 1/7995 pp.2-3

39.

PRO: ADM 12/1516 Digest entries referring to documents (in ADM 1) which apparently survive

40.

PRO: ADM 186/604 p.6

41.

PRO: ADM 186/619 pp.6-8 & pp.12-15

42.

PRO: ADM 1/8372/77 Precis ‘Coastal Reserves &c.’