Keyes Papers. Vol. cxxxviii. Mediterranean Fleet: organisation and exercises; 9 June 1925– 5 May 1928
Contents:
1. Organisation; 9 June 1925– 24 April 1928. Partly printed. Contains seniority lists and a paper on the duties of staff officers. Also contains ‘Fortress Orders’ issued by the Governor of Malta, Gen. Congreve, announcing Keyes’s arrival as C-in-C and Keyes’s report to the Admiralty of his visit to French and Italian naval officials en route to Malta and copies of correspondence between the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, and the 1st Lord of the Admiralty, W. C. Bridgeman, concerning the naval estimates.
2. Exercises, training, and tactics; 12 Aug. 1925 – 5 May 1928. Partly printed. Contains papers relating to ‘Exercise MU’, Aug. 1925; papers on firing and gunnery practice; a summary of fleet training progress; the text of a lecture given by Rear-Adm. W. H. D. Boyle entitled ‘The Tactical Functions of the Cruiser’; papers on summer cruises; and a memorandum on the revision of battle instructions and manoeuvring orders.