Ships Cover for minesweeping operations, with documentation and correspondence covering the period July 1910 to November 1916. The majority of the paperwork relates to gun trials of armed trawlers and yachts (primarily the former. Early minesweeping procedural papers cover experiments conducted to test the gear fitted to the old torpedo gunboat HMS Seagull (1889). The minesweeping vessels included in this cover are too numerous to name in their entirety, but notable examples include HMS Rose (1910) [minesweeping trawler], HMS Driver (1910) [minesweeping trawler], HMS Xylopia (1914) [trawler], HMS Merisia (1914) [trawler], HMS Braconlea [also Braconlynn?] (1914) [trawler], HMS Janus [ex-Kilda] (1914) [minesweeping trawler], HMS Zoraide (1914) [armed yacht], HMS Alsatian (1914) [armed trawler], HMS Angerton (1914), [armed trawler], HMS Hungarian (1914) [armed trawler], and HMS Fishtoft (1914) [armed trawler]. Only one document makes reference to coastguard cruisers, but this includes a report and comparative performance table for HMS Squirrel (1904), HMS Julia (1901), HMS Argus (1904), HMS Watchful (1911) and HMS Safeguard (1914).