Ships Cover for the Monmouth class first class armoured cruisers HMS Bedford (1901), HMS Berwick (1902), HMS Cornwall (1902), HMS Cumberland (1902), HMS Donegal (1902), HMS Essex (1901), HMS Kent (1901), HMS Lancaster (1902), HMS Monmouth (1901) and HMS Suffolk (1903). There are only a handful of papers in this small cover relating to crew complement returns between December 1913 and April 1915. See also Ships Covers 173 and 173A.