Series
Admiralty: Mine Design Department and Mining Establishment: Reports and Papers
Catalogue reference: ADM 253
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ADM 253
Progress and other reports and technical notes of the Admiralty Mining Department, then Establishment, and their successor the Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment. They include reports of trials at HMS Vernon. They deal with such...
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- ADM 253
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty: Mine Design Department and Mining Establishment: Reports and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1922-1958
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Description (What the record is about)
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Progress and other reports and technical notes of the Admiralty Mining Department, then Establishment, and their successor the Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment. They include reports of trials at HMS Vernon. They deal with such subjects as mines, torpedoes, acoustics, and degaussing.
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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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- Admiralty Mine Design Department, 1919-1946
- Admiralty Mining Establishment, 1946-1951
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 878 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1986 Admiralty
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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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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A mining department was formed at the Admiralty in 1915, later becoming in 1919 the Mine Design Department (MDD), housed at HMS Vernon in Portsmouth. In 1946, after being dispersed to various places during the war, it was reconstituted at Leigh Park, Havant as the Admiralty Mining Establishment (AME). In 1951, its functions had been enlarged sufficiently to justify a change of title to the Underwater Counter measures and Weapon Establishment (UCWE). Mine sweeping and degaussing were amongst its interest, and a trials station was retained at Port Edgar on the Firth of Forth. With the concentration of almost all underwater research and development work at Portland, the Establishment closed in 1959.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1961/
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Admiralty: Mine Design Department and Mining Establishment: Reports and Papers