Catalogue description Navy Board: Royal Navy Passing Certificates, Examination Results, and Certificates of Service

These records consist chiefly of formal certificates, either originals or copies, recording the fact of candidates for Lieutenant's commissions having passed the necessary professional examination at the Navy Board. Certificates of those passing overseas are not included. The certificates give a summary of each candidate's services to date, and the originals are sometimes accompanied by baptismal certificates.

For a name index to ADM 107/1-63, see B Pappalardo, "Royal Navy Lieutenants' passing certificates, 1691-1902" (List and Index Society, volumes 289-290, 2001), which is available in the reading rooms at The National Archives, Kew.