Catalogue description Ordnance Office and successors: Upnor Armaments Supply Depot: Correspondence, Accounts and Returns

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Reference: ADM 160
Title: Ordnance Office and successors: Upnor Armaments Supply Depot: Correspondence, Accounts and Returns
Description:

This series consists of entry books of correspondence, accounts, store returns, returns of ships' armaments and ordnance stores, etc., of Upnor Armaments Supply Depot.

Date: 1736-1909
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For records of the Royal Ordnance Factories, see:

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

Upnor Armaments Supply Depot, 1695-1909

Physical description: 159 volume(s)
Administrative / biographical background:

The Upnor Armaments Supply Depot was taken over by the Naval Ordnance Department of the Admiralty from the War Office in 1891. It was situated in Upnor Castle, Kent, which had been used as a depot for magazine stores since at least 1695 by the Ordnance Office and, after 1855, by the War Office. Records of the Depot are in ADM 160

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