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Admiralty: Naval Staff, Operations Division: Lists showing stations and movements...
Catalogue reference: ADM 187
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ADM 187
The pink lists were printed at regular intervals, usually 3 or 4 days, showing the locations and movements of Royal Navy ships of all types, including those of the Reserve Fleet, Fleet Air Arm units and ships of Allied countries. They include...
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 187
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty: Naval Staff, Operations Division: Lists showing stations and movements of Allied and Royal Naval Ships (Pink Lists)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1976
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Description (What the record is about)
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The pink lists were printed at regular intervals, usually 3 or 4 days, showing the locations and movements of Royal Navy ships of all types, including those of the Reserve Fleet, Fleet Air Arm units and ships of Allied countries. They include lists of Accounting Bases at Naval stations and, in some cases, information on local command organisation.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological.
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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, Naval Staff, Operations Division, 1912-1946
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 188 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 1971 Ministry of Defence
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Pink lists for the period 1946-1949 have not survived.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1896/
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Admiralty: Naval Staff, Operations Division: Lists showing stations and movements of Allied and Royal Naval Ships (Pink Lists)
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