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Records of Dockyards
Catalogue reference: Division within ADM
What's it about?
Division within ADM
Records of the Plymouth Yard are in ADM 174, and of the Antigua Yard in ADM 241. Registered files of the Chatham, Malta and Singapore yards are in ADM 269 - ADM 271 respectively. Reports and files of the Department of the Director of Dockyards...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- Division within ADM
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Title (The name of the record)
- Records of Dockyards
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1690-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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Records of the Plymouth Yard are in ADM 174, and of the Antigua Yard in ADM 241. Registered files of the Chatham, Malta and Singapore yards are in ADM 269 - ADM 271 respectively.
Reports and files of the Department of the Director of Dockyards are in ADM 312.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some other dockyard records are held by the National Maritime Museum under Section 4(1) of the Public Records Act 1958.
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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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- Board of Admiralty, Controller of the Navy, 1860-1912
- Board of Admiralty, Controller of the Navy, Department of the Director of Dockyards, 1885-1912
- Board of Admiralty, Controller of the Navy, Department of the Surveyor of Dockyards, 1872-1885
- Board of Admiralty, Department of the Director of Dockyards, 1916-1958
- Board of Admiralty, Director of Naval Equipment, Department of the Director of Dockyards, 1912-1916
- Board of Admiralty, Dockyards and Maintenance Department, 1958-1964
- Board of Admiralty, Surveyor of the Navy, 1832-1860
- Ministry of Defence, Department of the Chief of Naval Supplies and Transport, Department of Dockyards and Maintenance, 1964-1968
- Navy Board, 1546-1832
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 6 series
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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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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Responsibility for naval dockyards rested with the Navy Board until 1832, local superintendence being exercised by civilian resident commissioners. On the abolition of the Navy Board, responsibility passed to the Board of Admiralty. At the Admiralty, dockyards were under the control of the surveyor (later controller of the Navy); at the dockyards, naval superintendents replaced the civilian commissioners. A surveyor (from 1885 director) of dockyards with his own department was appointed in 1872; he was under the superintendence of the controller of the Navy.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- See also PRO Records Information Leaflet No. 15, Dockyard Employees: Documents in the Public Record Office
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C721/
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