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Smuggling gangs and coastal policing in 19th-century England
Following the Napoleonic Wars, smuggling became a major concern for the British government.
Series
Navy Board: Records
Catalogue reference: ADM 106
What's it about?
ADM 106
Records of the Navy Board and its subordinate officers, comprising in-letters, indexes and digests, entry books of out-letters, registers and miscellanea, illustrating the work and business of the board.
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 106
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Title (The name of the record)
- Navy Board: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1650-1837
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Navy Board and its subordinate officers, comprising in-letters, indexes and digests, entry books of out-letters, registers and miscellanea, illustrating the work and business of the board.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- A joint volunteer project (Naval Dockyards Society, Friends of the National Archives and Friends of the National Maritime Museum) has catalogued the Inletters: Miscellaneous correspondence for 1673-1789. (ADM 106/281-1299). This was completed in September 2019. The miscellaneous correspondence tends to be from dockyard comissioners, officers and artificers; from contractors for the supply of stores, timber, slops and other materials; and from ships' captains, officers and crew.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also Navy Board: Out-letters in ADM 354
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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)
- Navy Board, 1546-1832
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 3636 volume(s)
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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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- Topics
- Navy
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1815/
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Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
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