Catalogue description Admiralty: Naval Staff, Operations Division: Lists showing stations and movements of Allied and Royal Naval Ships (Pink Lists)

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Reference: ADM 187
Title: Admiralty: Naval Staff, Operations Division: Lists showing stations and movements of Allied and Royal Naval Ships (Pink Lists)
Description:

The pink lists were printed at regular intervals, usually 3 or 4 days, showing the locations and movements of Royal Navy ships of all types, including those of the Reserve Fleet, Fleet Air Arm units and ships of Allied countries. They include lists of Accounting Bases at Naval stations and, in some cases, information on local command organisation.

Date: 1939-1976
Arrangement:

Chronological.

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

Board of Admiralty, Naval Staff, Operations Division, 1912-1946

Physical description: 188 volume(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 1971 Ministry of Defence

Selection and destruction information: Pink lists for the period 1946-1949 have not survived.
Accruals: No further accruals expected.

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