ADM 1. Admiralty & Secretariat: Papers [textual record (chiefly microform), cartographic material]

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ADM 1. Admiralty & Secretariat: Papers [textual record (chiefly microform), cartographic material]

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Date:

1693-1913.

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MG12-ADM1

Type of material:

Textual material

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Item ID number:

105048

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ADM 1. Admiralty & Secretariat: Papers
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Series includes:

9 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1693-1913.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

285 microfilm reels : negative and positive.
25.105 m of textual records : transcripts.

Language of material:

English

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The Admiralty Board directed the routine business of the Royal Navy and this class of records, ADM 1, reflect this activity. The Board through its secretary, corresponded with officers of squadrons on and off service as well as with other government departments and branches of naval administration. It also communicated with colonial governors on matters affecting the Royal Navy's role in Imperial affairs. After the elimination of the Navy Board (see MG 12 ADM 106) and the centralization of naval affairs under the Board of Admiralty in 1832, one or more members of the Board were involved in every matter requiring a policy decision. This resulted in the creation of many of the papers in the Secretary's Department. In addition, the Admiralty Record Office, part of the Secretary's Department, was used after the middle of the 19th century as the repository for other Admiralty departments.

Admiralty 1 is the major series of "in-letters" received, (and later subject files created) by the Secretary's department of the Board of Admiralty, 1660-1969. ADM 1 is arranged in over 50 series, including Admirals' Despatches, Captains' Letters, Letters from Lieutenants, Letters from Officers at Dockyards, Letters relating to the Colonies, Governors of Plantations, Secret Letters, Orders-in-Council, Reports of Courts Martial, and the New General Series. Each of these series has been included in the copying programme of the National Archives of Canada. Microfilm reel numbers for this material are located in either Finding Aid No. 90 or Finding Aid No. 2001, Microfilm Shelf Lists.

There is an oversized document: map of the land reserved by the Crown in New Brunswick, n.d., photostat. (Volume 5692, parts 1,2,3 and 4.)

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Textual records (Electronic) Finding Aid No. 661 includes a list of items selected for copying from vols. 283-304, (also available on microfilm reel B-3395), vols. 480-517, and vols. 3441-3457. Part one of the finding aid is somewhat difficult to read in the electronic format. MSS0661 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001114.pdf

Textual records (Electronic) Part two of the finding aid describes volumes 480 to 488 of ADM 1. MSS0661 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001115.pdf

Textual records (Electronic) Part three of the finding aid starts with volume 4891. MSS0661 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001116.pdf

Textual records (Electronic) Part four of the finding aid starts with volume 501. MSS0661 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001117.pdf

Textual records (Electronic) Part five of the finding aid starts with vol. 509. MSS0661 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001118.pdf

Textual records (Electronic) Part six of the finding aid covers volumes 3441 to 3457 of ADM 1. MSS0661 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001119.pdf

Textual records (Electronic) The List of Admiralty Records identifies each volume of ADM 1 and is located on microfilm reel B-1465. Reels B-2986 to B-2990 contain a list of volumes of Captains' letters (ADM 1, vols. 1435-2738) selected for copying and a nominal index to Captains' letters copied. (90: Open)

Textual records (Electronic) Finding Aid No. 90, British Records on Microfilm, is a microfilm list which provides microfilm reel numbers, volume numbers and outside dates for ADM 1. MSS0090 (90: Open)

(Electronic) All or some of the documents described have been digitized and are available at the following address: (90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105048?usrlang=en

(Electronic) Les documents décrits ont été complètement ou en partie numérisés et sont disponibles à l'adresse suivante : (90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105048?usrlang=fr

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Availability of other formats note:

Transcripts are available on reels C-10863-C-10864, and C-12851-C-12856.

Related material:

Researchers are cautioned that some records which one would expect to find in this class are occasionally located elsewhere. Sometimes groups of papers were made up into "Cases"; these will be found in MG 12 Adm 7 Miscellanea, and MG 12 Adm 116 Cases. Similarly, papers used by the Official Historians of the First World War are in Adm 127 1914-1918 War Histories. The National Archives of Canada has not copied from Adm 127.
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Erie, Lake, Battle of, 1813

Great Britain. Navy - History, 1698-1913 Henry W. Bayfield, [1809-1838]

Great Britain - Armed Forces - Officers, [1698-1913] John Barrow, 1825

Great Britain. Royal Navy - Officers, [1698-1913] London (England), 1825

Navies - Great Britain, 1698-1913 Lake Superior, 1825

Naval officers - Great Britain, [1698-1913] Lake Huron, 1825

Navy-yards and naval stations, British, [1698-1913] Lake Erie, 1813, 1825

Navy-yards and naval stations, British - North America, [1698-1913] Commodore Robert Barrie, [1809-1838]

Great Britain. Navy - Sea life, 1698-1839 Kingston (Ont.), [1809-1839]

Admirals - Great Britain, 1713-1839 Great Lakes, [1809-1838]

Great Britain. Royal Navy - Desertion, [1698-1839] Annapolis Royal (N.S.), [1744-1835]

Desertion, Military - Great Britain, [1698-1839] Louisbourg (N.S.), [1744-1835]

Great Britain. Royal Navy - Surveys, 1809-1838 West Indies, [1744-1835]

Navy-yards and naval stations - Canada, [1809-1838] Acadia, [1744-1835]

Navy-yards and naval stations - Bermuda, [1809-1838] Oswego (N.Y.), [1744-1835]

Dockyards - Canada, [1809-1838] Newfoundland, [1744-1835]

Dockyards - Bermuda, [1809-1838] Virginia, [1744-1835]

Hydrographic surveying, [1809-1838] Massachusetts, [1744-1835]

Great Britain. Royal Navy - Appointments and retirements, [1698-1913] Nova Scotia. Vice-Admiralty Court, [1744-1835]

Governors - Great Britain, 1744-1835 Newfoundland. Vice-Admiralty Court, [1744-1835]

Colonial administrators - Great Britain, [1744-1835] Quebec. Vice-Admiralty Court, [1744-1835]

Colonial defence, [1698-1913] Admiral John Warren, 1776

Plantations, [1698-1913] Lake Champlain, 1776, 1814

Naval battles - Great Lakes, [1809-1838] Earl Howe, 1778

Naval battles - North America, 1698-1839 Mary Fletcher, 1697

Naval battles - Great Britain, 1698-1839 Hays River, 1697

Sea control, [1698-1913] Captain J. Soanes, [1711-1712]

Naval establishments - United States, 1812 Thomas Butler, [1711-1712]

Great Britain - Armed Forces - History, 1698-1913 James Dore, [1711-1712]

Great Britain - Armed Forces - Officers, [1698-1913] Sidney Cole, [1711-1712]

Great Britain - Foreign relations - United States, 1812-1813 Captain Robert Paston, [1711-1712]

Pensions, Military - Great Britain, 1697 Feversham (Ship), 1711

Military maneuvers - North America, [1698-1913] Cape Breton (N.S.), 1711

Great Britain - Military policy, [1698-1913] Captain F. Hickey, 1813

Naval operations - North America, 1698-1913 Atalante (Ship), 1813

Ports of entry - North America, 1713-1839 Captain Robert Heriot Barclay, 1813

Great Britain - History, Naval, 1698-1913 Captain Daniel Pring, 1814

Naval operations - United States, 1812-1813

Courts-martial and courts of inquiry - Great Britain, 1711-1712, 1813-1815, [1840-1913]

Champlain, Lake, Battle of, 1814

Executive orders - Great Britain, 1697, [1840-1913]

United States - History - War of 1812 - Naval operations, 1812-1813

Courts - Great Britain, 1711-1712, 1813-1815, [1840-1913]

Quebec Expedition, 1711

Capture at sea, 1711-1712, 1813-1815

Naval battle groups - Great Britain, [1698-1913]

Ship captains - Great Britain, 1698-1839, [1840-1913]

Ship's crews - Great Britain, [1698-1913]

Canada - History - War of 1812 - Naval operations

Great Britain. Royal Navy - North America

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Great Britain

Grande-Bretagne
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Finding aid box [FA 90] 13--14

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Finding aid box [FA 661] 69

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ADM 1. Admiralty & Secretariat: Papers [textual record (chiefly microform), cartographic material]

ADM 1. Admiralty & Secretariat: Papers [textual record (chiefly microform), cartographic material]