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Admiralty fonds
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- textual record
- microform
- cartographic material
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- Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the fonds.
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1788-1955 (Creation)
- Creator
- Great Britain. Admiralty
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51 cm of textual records, 22 microfilm reels, [ca. 635 charts]
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The Board of Admiralty was responsible for the civil administration of the Royal Navy. In 1964, a unified Ministry of Defence replaced the Board of Admiralty.
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Fonds consists of records of the Admiralty in carrying out its activities. Records relate to the area of the West Coast of Canada and include reports and dispatches from the Pacific Station at Esquimalt, microfilm copies of correspondence and reports of the Pacific Station, logs of ships that explored the Pacific Northwest between 1788 and 1795, and admiralty charts.
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Archives code(s): GR-0284, GR-1309, GR-1505, GR-1998, GR-2125, GR-3256, GR-3257, GR-4216, MS-2017, CM/ES1
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Accession number(s): GR-1998; GR-3257, G87-061, 74A-342
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Archives code(s): previously known as AAAA1335
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- Great Britain. Admiralty (Subject)