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Failure of No 3 dock caisson at Chatham: report of Board of Inquiry and related papers....

Catalogue reference: ADM 1/25305

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This record is about the Failure of No 3 dock caisson at Chatham: report of Board of Inquiry and related papers.... dating from 1954-1955 in the series Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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ADM 1/25305
Date
1954-1955
Description

Failure of No 3 dock caisson at Chatham: report of Board of Inquiry and related papers.

Includes 11 photographs depicting: Chatham Dockyard: failure of No 3 dock caisson taken from various angles, also HMS S/M Talent and RFA Swin beached on mud; pieces of plate and angle iron from damaged caisson of No 3 dock. Dated 1954.

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
ADMY/50/54
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C4846417/

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ADM 1

Admiralty, and Ministry of Defence, Navy Department: Correspondence and Papers

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