Letter from J [John] Joly, Somerset House, Temple Road, Dublin, to [Joseph] Larmor He sends to Larmor the substance of his note to the Admiralty. In less pressing times the idea of an anti-submarine training vessel would be desirable, on a system immune from submarine attacks. He describes a semi-submerged or submerged ship with electric propulsion, towed and provided with current from a surface ship. Joly thinks that Admiralty committees are intent on dampening the ardour of inventors, relating his own experience of them. One sub-committee could only get the suggestion for oil tankers to be towed across the Atlantic. 16 December 1916