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115.

TNA: PRO: ADM 53/26500; and ADM 53/18654B 10th November 1908. Also ADM 186/604 p.4

116.

TNA: PRO: ADM 189/33 pp.72-74

117.

TNA: PRO: ADM 53/19112 - ADM 53/19117; and ADM 53/23545 - ADM 53/23547

118.

TNA: PRO: ADM 53/25776 - ADM 53/25779; and ADM 53/31405 - ADM 53/31408

119.

TNA: PRO: ADM 189/33 p.77

120.

TNA: PRO: ADM 1/8042 X1549 Sturdee’s report 24th March 1910

121.

Ibid. Greatorex’s report 23rd March 1910

122.

TNA: PRO: ADM 189/31 p.77

123.

Ibid.

124.

TNA: PRO: ADM 53/22213 2nd June 1911

125.

TNA: PRO: ADM 53/24312 13th June 1912

126.

TNA: PRO: ADM 1/8209 A1654/1911 file 10th May 1911

127.

TNA: PRO: ADM 1/8065 G18631/1909

128.

TNA: PRO: ADM 1/8209 A1654/1911 file 25th April 1912

129.

PRO: ADM 186/604 p.5

130.

Example TNA: PRO: ADM 1/7995 minority report by de Brock 20th November 1908

131.

TNA: PRO: ADM 1/7995 Appendix II

132.

TNA: PRO: ADM 1/8042 minuted comments Controller 30th November & First Sea Lord 1st December 1909

133.

Ibid. memo 9th June 1910

134.

Ibid. minuted comments “Mining Exercises” 18th November 1910

135.

Ibid. Letter Greatorex to FO 3rd & 4th Divisions HF 18th January 1910

136.

Examples TNA: PRO: ADM 189/33 p.75 & pp.80-84; and ADM 189/31 p.73

137.

Examples TNA: PRO: ADM 189/30 pp.128-130; and ADM 189/25 p.49

138.

TNA: PRO: ADM 189/30 p.126

139.

Jon Tetsuro Sumida: In Defence of Naval Supremacy: finance, technology and British naval policy 1889-1914 (London: Routledge, 1993) Table 16

140.

TNA: PRO: ADM 1/7981 D306 correspondence

141.

TNA: PRO: CAB 16/3A pp.69-70, pp.72-73, p.81 & pp.86-87

142.

Ibid. pp.172-173

143.

Ibid. pp.231-233

144.

In this case I use the term ‘torpedo’ to encompass mines as well as locomotive and other types of torpedoes

145.

Ruddock F. Mackay: Fisher of Kilverstone (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973) pp.376-378

146.

TNA: PRO: ADM 116/158 pp.10-11

147.

Mackay: Fisher p.49, p.60, pp.115-116, p.118 & p.130

148.

Ibid. p118

149.

TNA: PRO: ADM 1/7725. Also, Mackay: Fisher pp.297-300

150.

TNA: PRO: ADM 1/8042 Wilson minute 9th June 1910 and file “Moray Firth Exercises” 13th July 1910

151.

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

152.

TNA: PRO: ADM 116/866B

153.

Sumida: Naval Supremacy Table 16

154.

TNA: PRO: ADM 189/33 p.75

155.

TNA: PRO: ADM 186/604 p.6

 

 

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