Catalogue description COMMISSIONERS OF HOME YARDS

From 1809 the reports to the Admiralty of the Commissioners of the home dockyards are divided from those of the overseas yards. The correspondence for 1832-33 chiefly concerns the reorganisation of the yards consequent on the abolition of the Navy Board.

When using the ADM 12 indexes to search for papers in ADM 1, documents in this sub-sub-series have the following references: 'Commr.', 'D. Yd. Comm.', 'Cha. Commr.', 'Wool. Commr.', 'Ports. Commr.', 'Ply. Commr.', for letters from the commissioners. In addition, letters addressed from the yards had the following references and might also be found here: 'Devon. Yd.', 'Cha. Yd.', 'Dept. Yd.', 'Deal Yd.', 'Haul. Yd.', 'Wool. Yd.', 'Ports. Yd.', 'Ply. Yd.', 'Sheer. Yd.', 'Pem. Yd.'.