Focus on
Smuggling gangs and coastal policing in 19th-century England
Following the Napoleonic Wars, smuggling became a major concern for the British government.
Series
Admiralty: Survey Returns of Officers' Services
Catalogue reference: ADM 9
What's it about?
ADM 9
This series contains returns made to three surveys of officers' services conducted in 1817, 1828 and 1846, by sending circular letters to officers requiring them to furnish summary details of their services. Many officers never received or...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 9
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty: Survey Returns of Officers' Services
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1817-1848
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains returns made to three surveys of officers' services conducted in 1817, 1828 and 1846, by sending circular letters to officers requiring them to furnish summary details of their services. Many officers never received or neglected to return their forms, and not all those which were returned have survived, but those which have survived are bound up in the volumes of this series.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Other returns to the surveys are in: ADM 6/66 ADM 11/35 ADM 11/36 ADM 11/37
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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)
- 61 volume(s)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1718/
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Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
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Admiralty: Survey Returns of Officers' Services
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