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Records of the Deputy Director Operation Division (Mining) [DDOD (M)]. Grand Fleet...
Catalogue reference: ADM 137/3043
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This record is about the Records of the Deputy Director Operation Division (Mining) [DDOD (M)]. Grand Fleet... dating from 1917-1919 in the series Admiralty: Historical Section: Records used for Official History, First World War. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- ADM 137/3043
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1917-1919
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Deputy Director Operation Division (Mining) [DDOD (M)].
Grand Fleet letters regarding the Mining School, May - June 1917.
Memorandum on the Dragging of Sinkers by D.T.M, dated 10 November 1917.
Blueprints of Dip Curves, January 1918.
Table showing the probability of Minefields, dated 20 June 1918.
Pack number 1: Conference with United States on Inverness and Invergordon Mine Bases, 3 January 1919.
Pack number 2: Mining information to accompany charts X126, X127, and X137, April 1919.
Pack number 3: The future of Dover, July 1919.
Pack number 4: Clearing the seas of mines after the War.
Pack number OM7: Grand Fleet Mine memoranda, August-September 1918.
Pack number OM8: Dover memoranda and Temporary Memoranda - information concerning mines and barrages, etc.
Pack number OM11: Indicator Nets, July-October 1918.
Pack number OM14: Arrangements for clearing the seas of mines, 1918-1919.
Pack number OM15: Traffic instructions, 1918-1919.
Pack number OM21: Escorts for oilers, numerical and alphabetical list of British and American Tankers, 12 April 1918.
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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)
- HSB 519
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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/C4114711/
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ADM 137
Admiralty: Historical Section: Records used for Official History, First World War
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