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The war at sea

By the time the Cabinet Office was created in December 1916, the great fleet battles at Dogger Bank and Jutland had passed. However, the government now had to cope with a new form of conflict - unrestricted submarine warfare.

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Cabinet Conclusion 8. Submarine losses and App 3, 20 December 1916 (PDF, 2.650MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 5. Submarines. 8 February 1917 (PDF, 2.044MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 7. Submarines. 9 February 1917 (PDF, 2.392MB)

Submarine menace

Cabinet Conclusion 2. Submarines. 22 February 1917 (PDF, 0.842MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 10. Decoy Vessels for Action against Enemy Submarines. 11 January 1917 (PDF, 1.921MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 7. Guns for Merchant Ships. 20 December 1916 (PDF, 2.650MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 9. Guns for Merchant Ships. 31 January 1917 (PDF, 2.970MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 10. Protection Against Mines. 26 January 1917 (PDF, 1.716MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 1. Submarines. 12 February 1917 (PDF, 2.095MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 1. Submarines. 13 February 1917 (PDF, 3.580MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 14. Mercantile Losses in February and March Compared. 15 March 1917 (PDF, 2.995MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 7. Mr Edison's Invention. 8 March 1917 (PDF, 0.701MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 5. Anti-Submarine Devices. 28 March 1917 (PDF, 1.556MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 6. Mr Edison's Invention. 28 March 1917 (PDF, 1.556MB)

Convoy controversy

Cabinet Conclusion 9. The United States of America: The Submarine Menace. 11 April 1917 (PDF, 1.177MB)

Cabinet Conclusions. The Convoying of Merchant Vessels. 23 April 1917 (PDF, 1.237MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 1. Submarine Menace and Food Supply. 23 April 1917 (PDF, 1.920MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 6. The Submarine Menace. 25 April 1917 (PDF, 1.248MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 10. Convoys. 2 May 1917 (PDF, 1.247MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 13. The Prime Minister's Visit to the Admiralty. 2 May 1917 (PDF, 1.247MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 1. Shipping Losses: Control of Merchant Shipping. 13 July 1917 (PDF, 1.207MB)

Cabinet Memorandum. Reply to Sir Norman Hill's Memorandum of June 21, 1917, about Submarine Loss (PDF, 0.948MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 1. Shipping Losses: Control of Merchant Shipping. 20 July 1917 (PDF, 1.321MB)

Convoy success

Cabinet Conclusion 7. Attack on Convoy by German Light Cruisers. 18 October 1917 (PDF, 1.504MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 13. Attack on Convoys by German Light Cruisers. 19 October 1917 (PDF, 1.678MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 23. Attack on a Convoy. 13 December 1917 (PDF, 2.471MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 15. Scandinavian Convoy. 14 December 1917 (PDF, 2.378MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 10. Scandinavian Convoy. 17 December 1917 (PDF, 1.413MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 2. Naval Raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend. 23 April 1918 (PDF, 2.218MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 7. Naval Raid on Zeebrugge and Ostend. 24 April 1918 (PDF, 1.820MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 11. The Naval Raid on Zeebrugge. 15 May 1918 (PDF, 2.074MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 6. Ostend. 18 October 1918 (PDF, 1.224MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 8. Submarines. 29 October 1918 (PDF, 1.377MB)

Cabinet Conclusion 8. Submarines. 4 November 1918 (PDF, 1.216MB)

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Further reading

Terraine, J., Business in Great Waters: The U-Boat Wars 1916-1945 (Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 1999)
Hough, R., The Great War at Sea 1914-1918 (Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd, 2000)
Newbolt, H., History of the Great War: Naval Operations, vols. IV & V (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1931)
Marder, A.J., From Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, vols. IV & V (London: OUP, 1961-1970)
Offer, A., The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989)

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