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National Maritime Museum

Royal Navy: Order Books and Orders


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 OBK

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Royal Navy: Order Books and Orders

Date(s): [18th century-19th century]

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 7 vols

Name of creator(s): Royal Navy

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This class contains copy order books of orders received and issued. For order books relating to ship administration see entry no.134. The volumes date from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. They include orders issued by Captain (later Admiral Sir) John Sutton (1758-1825), senior officer in the TAGUS, 1797 to 1801, and memoranda and orders issued by the senior officer at Bermuda, 1808 to 1815.

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 affairs | Military affairs | Military science | Social sciences

Personal names
Sutton | Sir | John | 1758-1825 | Admiral

Corporate names
HMS Tagus
Royal Navy

Places
Bermuda | North America