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Admiralty: Service Records, Registers, Returns and Certificates
Catalogue reference: ADM 6
What's it about?
ADM 6
The majority of this series consists of service records of sea, marine and naval officers. It includes commission and warrant books, succession books, and registers of shore appointments, as well as some service registers. There are collections...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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ADM 6
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty: Service Records, Registers, Returns and Certificates
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Date (When the record was created)
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1673-1960
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Description (What the record is about)
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The majority of this series consists of service records of sea, marine and naval officers.
It includes commission and warrant books, succession books, and registers of shore appointments, as well as some service registers. There are collections of passing certificates for lieutenants and warrant officers, returns to the 1822 survey of officers' ages, and leave books.
A large collection of volumes concerns applicants for admission to Greenwich Hospital. Another consists of the records of the Charity for the Relief of Sea Officers' Widows. Among the remaining records are nominations for naval cadetships and the parochial registers of some dockyard and barrack churches.
PLEASE NOTE: Electronic images of selected pieces of these records can be searched online through our partner website. Pieces 418 and 420-422 only have been digitised at this time (February 2013); further releases to follow.
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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477 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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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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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- Name indexes to ADM 6/3-18 (Commission and Warrant Books) , 61-72 and 182 are available in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For a name index to ADM 6/86-118, see B Pappalardo, 'Royal Navy Lieutenants' passing certificates, 1691-1902' (List and Index Society, volumes 289-290, 2001), which is available in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1715/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
2,470,001 records
Within the department: ADM
Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
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Admiralty: Service Records, Registers, Returns and Certificates
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