Series
Privy Council: Registers (Papers and Digital Files)
Catalogue reference: PC 2
Date: 1540-2022
This series contains the register of the Privy Council, comprising the minutes of its proceedings, its orders, certain proclamations and the...
Series
Admiralty and Ministry of Defence: Mediterranean Station: Correspondence and Papers
Catalogue reference: ADM 121
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ADM 121
Correspondence and papers relating to naval bases and fleet activities in the Mediterranean; there is also a volume of correspondence relating to the American Civil War.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 121
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty and Ministry of Defence: Mediterranean Station: Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1843-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence and papers relating to naval bases and fleet activities in the Mediterranean; there is also a volume of correspondence relating to the American Civil War.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The first 87 pieces in this series are part of a series of volumes numbered 1-101. However, in the absence of any indexes, these have been re-arranged under the subject groupings of general series, Bases and Ports and miscellaneous.
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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, Mediterranean Station, 1800-1964
- Ministry of Defence, Navy Department, Mediterranean Station, 1964-1967
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 106 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Mediterranean station was a major theatre of operations in Napoleonic times and World War II, but it gradually decreased in importance as the world entered the nuclear era, former British territories such as Malta (the traditional Headquarters of the Mediterranean Fleet) received their independence and the Royal Navy began to withdraw to Home Waters. The Flag of the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean was hauled down for the last time on June 5 1967, something the Dutch, French, Spaniards, Austrians, Germans and Italians had failed to do in a long history of conflict dating back over 300 years.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1830/
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