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Admiralty: Office of the Controller of the Navy and successors: Ships' Books (Series...
Catalogue reference: ADM 136
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ADM 136
These volumes consist of reports and other papers giving the history of the maintenance of a ship (hull, machinery and armament) from construction to disposal; in some cases details of complements are also given. This series of ships' books took...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 136
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty: Office of the Controller of the Navy and successors: Ships' Books (Series II)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1854-1962
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Description (What the record is about)
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These volumes consist of reports and other papers giving the history of the maintenance of a ship (hull, machinery and armament) from construction to disposal; in some cases details of complements are also given. This series of ships' books took the form of a loose-leaf album, and contains a selection of ships, mainly those of particular historical fame or of naval significance.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The ships' books in this series are arranged, as far as possible, in chronological order of date of launching.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Many more books of this series have been deposited at the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, a partial list of which is held by the Navy Listing Section, CS(RM) 1, Ministry of Defence.
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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, Surveyor of the Navy, 1832-1860
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 50 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/C1845/
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Admiralty: Office of the Controller of the Navy and successors: Ships' Books (Series II)
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