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Series
Admiralty and Board of Trade Harbour Departments Out-letters
Catalogue reference: MT 2
What's it about?
MT 2
This series contains entry books and bound copies of out-letters of the Admiralty Harbour Department, 1848 to 1862, and the Board of Trade Harbour Department, 1864 to 1919.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 2
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty and Board of Trade Harbour Departments Out-letters
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1848-1919
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains entry books and bound copies of out-letters of the Admiralty Harbour Department, 1848 to 1862, and the Board of Trade Harbour Department, 1864 to 1919.
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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)
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- Board of Admiralty, Harbour and Railway Department, 1848-1854
- Board of Admiralty, Harbour Department, 1854-1856
- Board of Admiralty, Hydrographic and Harbour Department, 1856-1862
- Board of Trade, Fisheries and Harbour Department, 1898-1904
- Board of Trade, Harbour Department, 1867-1898
- Board of Trade, Harbour Department, 1904-1918
- Board of Trade, Marine Department, Harbour Department, 1864-1867
- Board of Trade, Public Utilities and Harbour Department, 1918-1919
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 458 volume(s)
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 1967 Ministry of Transport
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11052/
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