Records of the Navy Board and the Board of Admiralty concerning the central organisation and operations of the Royal Navy and associated naval forces.
Records of the Navy Board are mainly in ADM 106. Navy Board: unbound out-letters are in ADM 359. Patents of appointment of the principal officers are in ADM 5. Passing certificates of lieutenants issued by the board are in ADM 107
The general correspondence of the Admiralty and, after about 1868, of its several departments, is in ADM 1, ADM 2, ADM 116, ADM 137, ADM 178 and ADM 199. The means of reference are the digests and indexes in ADM 12; certain branch registers are preserved in ADM 13 and ADM 900. Precedent and procedure books are in ADM 198. Navy estimates are in ADM 181. Office and Secret Office memoranda and acquaints, 1940 to 1945, are in ADM 211. Minesweeping reports are in ADM 232.
Patents of appointment of lord high admirals and lords commissioners of the Admiralty are in ADM 4. Minutes and memoranda are in ADM 3 and ADM 167. Admiralty Fleet Orders are in ADM 182. Correspondence and papers of the first sea lord are in ADM 205. For distribution of Admiralty business among members of the board, 1885 to 1923, see ADM 116/3392. Seniority lists are in ADM 266.
Publications issued for official use are in ADM 186, ADM 234, ADM 239 and WO 252. Publications relating to naval aircraft and installations, issued by the Admiralty although part of the Air Ministry's series of publications (see AIR 10), are in ADM 264. Material used for the official history of the Royal Naval Medical Service is in ADM 261, and for that of the 'cod war' in ADM 306. Other miscellaneous records are in ADM 6, ADM 7 and ADM 13.
Directorate of Merchant Shipbuilding and Ministry of Transport: Statistics Division: Shipbuilding Returns are in ADM 343.