Catalogue description Admiralty: Craft Experimental Establishment and HMS Hornet, Sea Trials and Development Section: Reports and Papers

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Reference: ADM 250
Title: Admiralty: Craft Experimental Establishment and HMS Hornet, Sea Trials and Development Section: Reports and Papers
Description:

Records of the Admiralty Craft Experimental Establishment and HMS Hornet, Sea Trials and Development Section concerning sea trials and development of equipment.

Date: 1941-1958
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Admiralty Craft Experimental Establishment, 1945-1950

HMS Hornet, Sea Trials and Development Section, 1950-1958

Physical description: 87 files and volumes
Administrative / biographical background:

The Admiralty Craft Experimental Establishment emerged at the end of the Second World War as part of the Directorate of Craft and Amphibious Material. It was based on Haslar near Gosport, and was used mainly by the Directorate of Naval Equipment to undertake sea trials of patrol boats and development of coastal attack craft and equipment for them. In 1950 it was absorbed into HMS Hornet, the coastal forces base at Haslar, as its sea trials and development section.

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