Series
Admiralty: Royal Naval Officers Patrol Service (Trawler Skipper) cards
Catalogue reference: ADM 364
What's it about?
ADM 364
The records in this series are Royal Naval Continuous Record cards (two cards for each record) which act as a continuation of service of those servicemen maintained within ledgers up to 1929 and for those who enlisted prior to 1923. The records...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 364
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty: Royal Naval Officers Patrol Service (Trawler Skipper) cards
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1904-1970
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Description (What the record is about)
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The records in this series are Royal Naval Continuous Record cards (two cards for each record) which act as a continuation of service of those servicemen maintained within ledgers up to 1929 and for those who enlisted prior to 1923.
The records detail:
- Forename;
- Surname;
- Place of birth;
- Occupation;
- Service number;
- Date and Period of Engagements;
- Physical Attributes (eg. age, height, chest measurement, hair and eye colour, wounds or marks);
- Details of Ships Served In;
- Ratings;
- Periods of Service;
- Character and Ability;
- Details of Badges;
- Classes for Conduct.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The cards as maintained by the Royal Navy were arranged by function (e.g. engineer, stoker, etc.) rather than date, and then by service number order. Each function is identified by a prefix identifier:
- F - Fleet Air Arm.
- J - Seaman and Communications Branch.
- K - Stokers.
- L - Officers' Cooks and Stewards.
- M - Miscellaneous.
- SS - Short Service, Seamen and Stokers.
- SSX - Short Service Seamen.
- Pensioners - no prefix.
These cards superseded the ledgers used from 1925 to 1929, which are contained within ADM 362.
The records were originally held in 512 volumes.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Admiralty, 1832-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 2910 card(s)
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Dimensions (The size of the record)
- 40cm x 30cm
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2018 Ministry of Defence
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are anticipated.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16610719/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: ADM
Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
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Admiralty: Royal Naval Officers Patrol Service (Trawler Skipper) cards