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National Maritime Museum

Royal Navy Administration


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 ADL

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Royal Navy Administration

Date(s): [1648-1903]

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 217 items

Name of creator(s): Royal Navy

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

See sub-fonds level descriptions for individual scope and contents.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Sep 2011.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Naval prizes | War seizures | War (concept) | International conflicts
Sailors | Naval personnel | Armed forces | State security
Scurvy | Nutritional diseases | Diseases | Pathology
Ships | Vehicles | Transport
Uniforms | Clothing | Textiles
Military organizations

Personal names
Bedford | Sir | Frederick George Denham | 1838-1913 | Knight | Admiral
Byron | John | 1723-1786 | Vice Admiral
Calder | Sir | Robert | 1745-1818 | Knight | Admiral
Drake | Sir | Francis | 1540-1596 | Knight | pirate, sea captain and explorer
Duckworth | Sir | John Thomas | 1748-1817 | Knight | Admiral
Hawke | Edward | 1705-1781 | 1st Baron Hawke | Admiral of the Fleet
Nelson | Horatio | 1758-1805 | 1st Viscount Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe | Vice-Admiral
Penn | Sir | William | 1621-1670 | Knight | Admiral
Raleigh | Sir | Walter | ? 1554-1618 | Knight | adventurer and writer
Shovell | Sir | Clowdisley | 1650-1707 | Knight | Admiral of the Fleet

Corporate names
Admiralty
Greenwich Hospital
Royal Navy

Places
England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Ireland | Western Europe | Europe
Mediterranean Sea | Seas
Scotland | UK | Western Europe | Europe