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Contraband Control, etc: Blockade running in the Bay of Biscay: Spain and Portugal...
Catalogue reference: FO 837/760
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This record is about the Contraband Control, etc: Blockade running in the Bay of Biscay: Spain and Portugal... dating from 1942 Feb - 1944 June in the series Ministry of Economic Warfare and successors: Records. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- FO 837/760
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1942 Feb - 1944 June
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Description (What the record is about)
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Contraband Control, etc: Blockade running in the Bay of Biscay: Spain and Portugal trade policy
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- This piece forms part of the Looted Art Collection and selected material has been created and described at item level; records selection and descriptions reproduced by the kind permission of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe. (Please be aware that the last digit of the item reference does not refer to any reference on the original document; it has been generated for system reasons).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- Z 602/0
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- Public Record(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C256959/
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FO 837
Ministry of Economic Warfare and successors: Records
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