Sealed orders

Sealed orders are orders given to the commanding officer of a ship or squadron that are sealed up, which he is not allowed to open until he has proceeded a certain length into the high seas; an arrangement in order to ensure secrecy in a time of war.

For other uses, see Sealed orders (disambiguation).
Australian troops embarking in Queensland in 1914. After assembling at Thursday Island and Port Moresby, their sealed orders directed them to capture German New Guinea.[1][2]

References
  1. Frederick Spencer Burnell (1915), How Australia Took German New Guinea, Angus & Robertson
  2. Anzac Memorial, Returned Soldiers Association, 1916, p. 92

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "Sealed Orders" . The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.

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