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Series
Navy Board and Admiralty: Office of the Comptroller of the Navy later Controller...
Catalogue reference: ADM 95
What's it about?
ADM 95
This series contains reports on the sailing qualities of ships; estimates and orders for shipbuilding and stores, etc; lists of ships built, repaired or building; and entries of warrants from the Navy Board, etc.
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 95
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Title (The name of the record)
- Navy Board and Admiralty: Office of the Comptroller of the Navy later Controller of the Navy: Reports, Estimates, Orders and other Papers Relating to Ship Building and Repairs
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1688-1959
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains reports on the sailing qualities of ships; estimates and orders for shipbuilding and stores, etc; lists of ships built, repaired or building; and entries of warrants from the Navy Board, etc.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Foreign ship names beginning with El, La, Le, San, Santa, St etc are listed under their prefix. eg El Corso appears under 'El' rather than 'Corso'.
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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, Controller of the Navy, 1860-1912
- Board of Admiralty, Directorate of Naval Construction, 1913-1958
- Board of Admiralty, Ship Department, Naval Construction Division, 1959-1964
- Board of Admiralty, Steam Department, 1850-1869
- Board of Admiralty, Surveyor of the Navy, 1832-1860
- Navy Board, Comptroller of the Navy, 1558-1832
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 108 files and volumes
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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)
- Four supplementary finding aids (1: an index to pieces 23 to 62; 2: a list of possible ships' name variants; 3: reports etc; 4: a list of miscellaneous items) are available. Please speak to staff at the enquiry desk for their precise location .
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- The source on which the standardisation of names is based is JJ Colledge, Ships of the Royal Navy: an historical index, volume 1 (David and Charles, 1969).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1804/
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Within the department: ADM
Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
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Navy Board and Admiralty: Office of the Comptroller of the Navy later Controller of the Navy: Reports, Estimates, Orders and other Papers Relating to Ship Building and Repairs
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