Subseries within ADM 11892-1947SERIES I: 1938-1945 (plus strays 1892-1937)
This subseries (known as 'Series I') like other parts of ADM 1 contains a wide range of documents sent to, or created by, different departments within the Admiralty.
Between 1969 and 1973 the pieces in this subseries were transferred from the Ministry of Defence to the Public Record Office in 14 tranches. Tranche 1 (ADM 1/9444-9749) largely covered papers registered in 1938, tranche 2 (ADM 1/9750-10235) 1939, tranche 3 (ADM 1/10236-10975) 1940, tranche 5 (ADM 1/10985-11669) 1941, tranche 6 (ADM 1/11670-12641) 1942, tranches 7-12 (ADM 1/12642-15624) 1943, tranche 13 (ADM 1/15625-17224) 1944 and tranche 14 (ADM 1/17225-19191) 1945. Tranche 4 (ADM 1/10976-10984) is an anomalous set of documents captured from the German Military Attaché to Washington in 1916.
In addition to papers registered between 1938 and 1945 each tranche included significant numbers of stray documents from outside this period. Likewise, stray documents dating from 1938-1945 are found elsewhere within ADM 1.