Catalogue description Admiralty: Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment and predecessors: Reports and Papers

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Reference: ADM 258
Title: Admiralty: Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment and predecessors: Reports and Papers
Description:

Papers of the Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment, the successor of the Admiralty Mining Establishment, and like it concerned with mines, torpedoes and other underwater weapons.

Date: 1920-1968
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Admiralty Mining Establishment, 1946-1951

Admiralty Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment, 1951-1959

Physical description: 345 files and volumes
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Administrative / biographical background:

The Admiralty Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment originated in the Mining Department formed in the Admiralty in 1915. In 1919 it became the Mine Design Department at HMS Vernon, where it remained until 1939. The Department was dispersed during the Second World War, and reconstituted in 1946 as the Admiralty Mining Establishment at Leigh Park, Havant. In 1951 it became the Admiralty Underwater Countermeasures and Weapons Establishment. It closed in 1959 when underwater research was concentrated at Portland. It undertook research into the design, location and neutralisation of mines, and into torpedoes and other underwater weapons.

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