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Records of the Director of Minesweeping. Pack number C152: Experiments in sweeps...

Catalogue reference: ADM 137/3055

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This record is about the Records of the Director of Minesweeping. Pack number C152: Experiments in sweeps... dating from 1917-1920 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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Reference
ADM 137/3055
Date
1917-1920
Description

Records of the Director of Minesweeping.

Pack number C152: Experiments in sweeps - Garden Roller, etc, July 1917 to January 1919.

Pack number C153: Senior Naval Officer, Swansea, proposed minesweeping operations, December 1917-May 1918.

Pack number C172: classification of minesweeping trawlers, August 1918.

Pack number C176: statistics, August 1917 to March 1919.

Pack number C215: scheme for sweeping Great Belt, October 1917.

Pack number C233: scheme for control of coastal traffic, December 1917 to April 1918.

Pack number C249: Belgian Coast Ports. Minesweeping arrangements, December 1917 to September 1919.

Pack number C271: Mine barrgaes - probable enemy action against, April 1918.

Pack number C272: Navigation in Home Waters. Coordination of information, April 1918 to March 1919.

Pack number C281: Orkneys and Shetlands, May to September 1918.

Pack number C286: Probable new type of German submarine and mine, June 1918.

Pack number C289: promulgation of U.N. messages, June to August 1918.

Pack number C293: Instructions for Tactical and Strategical Exercises.

Pack number C294: special methods of mining, August 1918.

Pack number C310: minesweeping personnel, January 1919.

Pack number C331: Q and R messages, post war procedure.

Patrol, Minesweeping Training, and Fishery Protection Squadrons, December 1919 to February 1920.

Miscellaneous, March to May 1917.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
HSB 536
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4114723/

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ADM 137

Admiralty: Historical Section: Records used for Official History, First World War

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