Admiralty

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The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Date:	1598-2000
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (central) > Admiralty
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C65366 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O48319 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	c1598-1790: various papers	Cumbria Archive Centre, Carlisle	D LONS/L	NRA 17777 Lowther
2	1811-1821: three volumes of intelligence summaries by John Wilson Croker, Secretary of the Admiralty	Library of Congress, Manuscript Division		See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
3	1729: Memorial and petition of the Lords of the Admiralty concerning the granting of passes to ships	Massachusetts Historical Society		See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
4	1701, 1711-23: Instructions for victualling his Majesty's army	Folger Shakespeare Library		See R Morriss, Guide to British Naval Papers in North America (1994)
5	1675-1702: volume of papers relating to Newfoundland, in perticular, the attempt by the French to take St Johns in 1697	Library of Congress, Manuscript Division
6	17th cent-19th cent: papers	National Maritime Museum: The Caird Library and Archive	MS 91/018	NRA 5472 Montagu
7	1635, 1700: on the office of Admiral and the jurisdiction of the Admiralty entitled 'Mare Clausam', [1700], and an abridgement in English of fifteen chapters of Mare Clausam (1635) by John Selden, 1635	London University: Senate House Library	MS 64
8	c1665-89: precedent books	The London Archives: City of London	CLC/489	NRA 31290
9	1694: accounts	Harvard University: Houghton Library	MS Eng 902	NRA 20129 Harvard Univ MSS
10	c1661-93: list of ships and misc papers	Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for	DG7	NRA 9845 Finch
11	1661-1809: account book (1661-1692), logbook (1721-1725) and other papers and corresp	Rice University: Woodson Research Center		See NUC 93-1085
12	1761-1762: minutes of business transacted by R S Heaton, a clerk in Mr Secretary Pitt's Office	North East Wales Archives (NEWA), Ruthin (formerly Denbighshire Archives)	DD/PH	NRA 19730
13	1780-1843: misc records	Glamorgan Archives	DN	NRA 9673
14	1806: applications from warrant oficers for preferment	Durham University Library and Collections	Grey of Howick collection/B3D	NRA 6228 Grey
15	1806-07: papers of Thomas Grenville as 1st Lord of the Admiralty	Huntington Library	HU	NRA 10029 Hastings
16	1939-1945: movement books	Admiralty Library	NOC 17905 17920-1 17955 18041 18902-4 18914-32 18950	See Guide to the MS Collections of the Royal Naval Museum (1997)
17	1673-1689: Secretary of the Admiralty's corresp (14 vols)	Cambridge University: Magdalene College, Pepys Library	Pepys MSS 2849-2862	See Location Register of English Literary MSS 18-19th cent 1995
18	1679-1683: Board of Admiralty minutes	Canterbury Cathedral Archives and Library	U85	NRA 36316
19	1795-2000: survey data, charts, atlases, coastal views, reports, corresp etc	United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) Archive		See Foster & Sheppard, British Archives (4th edition, 2002)