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Series
Transport Board and successors: Records
Catalogue reference: ADM 108
What's it about?
ADM 108
This series consists for the most part of documents accumulated by the Transport Board, and thereafter of the transport organisations conducted by the Navy Board and Board of Admiralty. The documents comprise: In-Letters, 1773 to 1829; letters...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 108
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Title (The name of the record)
- Transport Board and successors: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1773-1868
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists for the most part of documents accumulated by the Transport Board, and thereafter of the transport organisations conducted by the Navy Board and Board of Admiralty. The documents comprise: In-Letters, 1773 to 1829; letters from the Admiralty, Treasury etc. Out-Letters, 1795 to 1817. Minutes, 1794 to 1829. These are generally in the nature of registers of the In-Letters and Out-Letters; Miscellaneous, 1793 to 1837. Ships and freight ledgers, papers, entry books and ledgers relating to the hire of ships at Hamburg and charter parties of the ships, 1795 to 1797; pay books of persons employed, printed rules, a claim Branch precedent book, and letter books of the Transport Office at Deal, 1796 to 1816.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Later records of the Transport Board's successors up to 1917 are in: MT 23 MT 31
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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)
- 192 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1817/
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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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Transport Board and successors: Records
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