Record revealed
A plea for protection from Captain Jones’s raid
This letter tells the story of a daring attack on a British town during the American Revolutionary War.
Series
Admiralty, Transport Department: Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: MT 23
What's it about?
MT 23
This series contains files (the majority dating from 1866) of the Transport Department of the Admiralty, dealing with the transport by sea of all military forces and their supplies, and the organization of the transport service. The series...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MT 23
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty, Transport Department: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1795-1917
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files (the majority dating from 1866) of the Transport Department of the Admiralty, dealing with the transport by sea of all military forces and their supplies, and the organization of the transport service. The series includes a few files of the Ministry of Shipping.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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The earlier records of the Admiralty, Transport Department, are in
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 820 box(es)
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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/C11073/
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