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Admiralty: Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment and predecessors:...
Catalogue reference: ADM 258
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ADM 258
Papers of the Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment, the successor of the Admiralty Mining Establishment, and like it concerned with mines, torpedoes and other underwater weapons.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- ADM 258
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Title (The name of the record)
- Admiralty: Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment and predecessors: Reports and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1920-1968
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Description (What the record is about)
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Papers of the Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment, the successor of the Admiralty Mining Establishment, and like it concerned with mines, torpedoes and other underwater weapons.
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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 Mining Establishment, 1946-1951
- Admiralty Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment, 1951-1959
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 345 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 Admiralty Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment originated in the Mining Department formed in the Admiralty in 1915. In 1919 it became the Mine Design Department at HMS Vernon, where it remained until 1939. The Department was dispersed during the Second World War, and reconstituted in 1946 as the Admiralty Mining Establishment at Leigh Park, Havant. In 1951 it became the Admiralty Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment. It closed in 1959 when underwater research was concentrated at Portland. It undertook research into the design, location and neutralisation of mines, and into torpedoes and other underwater weapons.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1966/
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Admiralty: Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment and predecessors: Reports and Papers