Catalogue description Admiralty: Portsmouth Station: Correspondence

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Reference: ADM 179
Title: Admiralty: Portsmouth Station: Correspondence
Description:

Correspondence on routine naval and dockyard matters, HMS Victory, ceremonials and reviews, boom defences, accidents to vessels at sea, etc. The majority of records in this series cover the Second World War period and deal with exercises and operations carried out under the auspices of the Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth. Many of the files deal with the invasion of Normandy, 1944 (Operations Overlord and Neptune).

Date: 1880-1948
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Board of Admiralty, Portsmouth Station, 1815-1948

Physical description: 539 files and volumes

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