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Series
Admiralty: Portsmouth Station: Correspondence
Catalogue reference: ADM 179
What's it about?
ADM 179
Correspondence on routine naval and dockyard matters, HMS Victory, ceremonials and reviews, boom defences, accidents to vessels at sea, etc. The majority of records in this series cover the Second World War period and deal with exercises and...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 179
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty: Portsmouth Station: Correspondence
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1880-1948
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Description (What the record is about)
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Correspondence on routine naval and dockyard matters, HMS Victory, ceremonials and reviews, boom defences, accidents to vessels at sea, etc. The majority of records in this series cover the Second World War period and deal with exercises and operations carried out under the auspices of the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. Many of the files deal with the invasion of Normandy, 1944 (Operations Overlord and Neptune).
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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)
- Board of Admiralty, Portsmouth Station, 1815-1948
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 539 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1888/
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Admiralty: Portsmouth Station: Correspondence
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