To celebrate the re-opening of the National Archives, Kew, after lockdown due to COVID-19, I thought I would post a finding aid and directory to the ADM 12 digests. These large, heavy ledgers are stored at Kew and list the letters received by the Admiralty divided by different categories. These categories were assigned numbers that allow the digests to be searched and the numbers were also written on the letters themselves.
1. Using this Key as a Finding Aid for the ADM 12 Digests
2. ADM 12 Digests as Primary Sources
3. Notes on the Relevancy of this Key and its Transcription
4. What You’ll Find in ADM 1
There are different ledgers in the file name ADM 12 and this guide is specifically for the Digests. The other large database within the same archival collection is called the Index and it is organized alphabetically by the indexed person’s surname, title, or ship name. It has no numerical key.
The National Archives has a dedicated page about using both the indexes and the digests. The site is very helpful in many respects and includes an instructional video that shows how to use these documents step-by-step and also reveals the large size of these ledgers. The NA has not made this key available online as far as I am aware, however. This is unfortunate because it is useful to understand the key when preparing to see the ADM 12 digests in person and essential for requesting paid copies of them. Early and remote preparation to visit archives is now more important than ever as researchers contend with reduced domestic and international travel and limited institutional or personal funds for research.
1. Using this Key as a Finding Aid for the ADM 12 Digests
I have used this key in several ways. I primarily used the ADM 12 digests as a search tool to locate letters of a particular subject in the ADM 1 Admiralty in-letters at Kew and at the Caird Library, Greenwich. The key helped me form a better understanding of where certain letters might be filed. For example, perusing the tabs and section titles within the actual digests will not reveal that letters about uniforms can be found in 71-gen, but the key shows that this was where they were filed. This will also help when requesting to see the ADM 12s, as TNA Discovery lists how each ledger was divided by tab number—each year usually had about two ledgers and some particularly active war years could have up to four. Another use is that letters themselves were marked with these numbers, often more than one. I used these notations to learn at a glance what a letter might be about. At the Caird, I used the digest numbers to go through the ADM/BP Admiralty in-letters received from the Navy Board. This collection was drastically reduced, probably sometime between 1830 when the Navy Board was disbanded and in the early 20th century when the Public Records Office received the papers. By looking for a handful of digest numbers, I was able to quickly thumb through years of these records in a few visits, while also keeping an eye out for anything else interesting in these reduced boxes.
2. ADM 12 Digests as Primary Sources
It should also be stressed that due to the loss of letters, as mentioned above, the ADM 12 digests are records in their own right. First, they reveal as fully as possible the actual numbers of letters originally filed by the Admiralty clerks after being presented to the board. This does not, however, account for the letters that the First Secretary decided not to present, or any letters that were lost or mislaid before they were digested—a process that seems to have occurred later, as the number of ledgers fluctuates in busy years. Second, and significantly, the process of digesting the letters included writing a brief summary of their contents, which could include details like the sender’s name, the ship or location from which it was sent, brief details about the attachments to the letter, and a copy of the Board of Admiralty’s decision on the letter’s contents. This means that even if the actual letters are missing, researchers can still access information about their content and number.
3. Notes on the Relevancy of this Key and its Transcription
This copy of the numerical category system was taken from a key pasted into one of the digests. The National Archives cautions that this key was revised several times in 1800, 1843, 1909, 1935 and 1963. I found that between 1790 and 1830 they changed very little—or at least not enough to make the key useless pre-1800. Piecemeal changes were also made as needed. For example, the category “smuggling” had to be expanded to account for the explosion of Royal Navy ships stopping slave vessels after 1815. When this key was made, sometime in the 1820s, it shows that letters discussing the slave trade were marked 95 General but that no distinct new section or subsection was added. I do not know how drastically the key changed post-1840, however.
The following is a typed out facsimile of the original key. I’ve tried to format it to appear as it was printed by the Admiralty clerks showing all the original hierarchies, but I’ve added some links to make the key a bit easier to use and added modern spellings and place names to assist Ctrl+F searches (Hayti to Haiti, for example). The key is in alphabetical order; it seems the clerks attempted to attach numbers to this alphabetized list for convenience, but this did not always work. Items like Slave Trade, Uniforms and Apprentices that are preceded by no number follow this alphabetized order but indicate that this information can be found in a different category or subcategory, such as Smuggling, General (95-gen), Officers (71-gen), or Dockyards and Naval Establishments (41-16). Obviously, however, this gets a little tricky towards the end, where you can see after no. 100 that the order start to get jumbled. Presumably, this only worsened over time. This key, for example, includes a small section for steamships with single subcategories for subjects that would become larger concerns, like coal supply and the engineering department. I’ve only changed one notation, 97a, for clarity.
Images of the Original Key
The papers these notations correspond to are the ADM 1 Board of Admiralty in-letters, meaning correspondence received externally by the First Secretary of the Admiralty, who curated what letters would be presented to the board. This means these records can be very useful but are also limiting. The letters show what concerns were problem enough to reach the board and also presents their reaction to the letters in the form of Admiralty minutes. These were usually short notes made on a folded corner of a letter recording the immediate response of the sitting board and could be anything from a terse “read” to long instructions about the problems outlined therein. But these letters represent a very top-down, bureaucratic view of the Royal Navy and its interactions within the service and with people outside it. A majority of the letters were from Commanders-in-Chief, with captains comprising a second major chunk of this correspondence. Letters written closer to England appear to be more likely to be presented to the board and from their reaction to certain letters it is clear that the Admiralty expected officers to be self-reliant and attempt to solve their problems locally through the proper authorities. Very few letters from sailors or marines reached the Admiralty, though they do appear, usually as attachments forwarded by officers. Civilians, however, did address the Admiralty directly on a wide range of issues, sometimes anonymously, and these petitions and suggestions are often fascinating.
The notations within the digests use the original archival system devised by the Admiralty clerks to organize this correspondence. This remains the current organizational system of the ADM 1 letters at Kew, though the call numbers have been changed to conform to the archival system instituted by the Public Records Office. This is all to say that once you have ADM 12 notations in hand, you’ll need a second key to find the ADM 1 letters, helpfully provided by TNA.
I hope this helps people with making research decisions before travelling to the National Archives, which is so difficult these days. People interested in following a few tabs over many years, for example, can be well served by ordering these ledgers in bulk (though I would inquire if bulk orders are currently allowed) and quickly photographing the notations. Then the entries can be transcribed and a plan for requesting ADM 1 boxes devised at leisure before returning to the archives.
Good luck! May your letters always be extant and the clerk’s penmanship consistent.
TABLE of HEADS and SECTIONS under which CORRESPONDENCE of the ADMIRALTY BOARD is DIGESTED
A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z
5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100
A – 1
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1 ACADEMY — Royal Navy, at Portsmouth
1a ARCHITECTURE — School of Naval
2 ACCIDENTS — Persons killed or wounded by
2a ACCOUNTS and BILLS
3 ACTIONS with the Enemy
3 General Information
1 By Squadron
2 By Single Ships
3 By Privateers
4 By Merchant VesselsAPPRENTICES (of every kind), 41-16.4 ADMIRALTY COURTS
1 General Information
Prize Questions
2 Declaration of War against Foreign Powers
3 Exemptions from Capture and Condemnation
4 Establishment of Prize Courts on Foreign Stations
5 ADMIRALTY OFFICE
1 Internal Economy of the OfficeGeneral Information
Official Forms, Regulations, Correspondence, &c
Appointment, Removal, &c, of Clerks, and others2 Jurisdiction over the Coast
3 Issues of Admiralty Statutes — other Books and Papers
4 AdvertisementsALLOTMENTS, 103-3.6 ALTERATIONS in Ships’ Establishments of Stores — Ballast, &c
7 ALTERATIONS in Ships’ Complements
ANCHORS, 59-5.8 ALTERATIONS in the Fitting of Ships
ARMAMENT, 59-4a.9 ARTILLERY MEN — Detachments serving at Sea
A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z
5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100
B – 10
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BALLAST, 6.
BAROMETERS, 57a.
BATTA, 81.10 BLOCKADE of the Enemy’s Ports
11 BLOCK SHIPS for the Defence of the Harbours and Rivers
BLOCKS, 59-6.11a BOATS and OARS
12 BOUNTY to SEAMEN
12 General Information
1 Allowed
2 RefusedBREAKWATERS, 24.13 BOYS serving in the Fleet
BRITISH MUSEUM, 90a.14 BRITISH SUBJECTS subsisted in Foreign, and Consul’s Accounts, Protection of British Subjects, &c.
14a BUILDINGS not connected with Dock-Yards — Erection and Repair of, &c.
BUOYS, 66.
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A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z
5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100
C – 15
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CABINS, 71 Gen.15 CAPTURES of SHIPS of WAR from the Enemy
15 General Information
1 By Squadron
2 By Single Ship
3 By Privateers, &c.16 CAPTURES of MERCHANT SHIPPING from the Enemy
16 General Information
1 By Squadron
2 By Single Ship
3 By Privateers, &c.17 CAULKING — Repairs and extra Services by Ships’ Companies
18 CHEST at GREENWICH
CHARITIES: Grants to Institutions, 18.
CHARTS and CHRONOMETERS, 57a.
CHURCHES, 71-22.19 CIVIL POWER: Trials, Prosecutions, &c. carried on or defended by, the Admiralty.
19 General Informations, Leases, &c.
1 Offenders delivered over from the Navy
Prosecutions, &c.
1a Officers and Men arrested on board their Ships
2 Magistrates refusing to act
3 Fictitious Arrests
4 Fraudulently obtaining Bounty
Riots, Assaults, &c. on the Impress Service
5 Prosecutions carried on by the Admiralty
6 Ditto defended by ditto
6a Ditto ditto, by Captains ditto
7 Assaults
8 Dueling
9 Libels
9a Gambling
10 Theft and Embezzlement of Public Stores
10a Murder
11 Defrauding the Government by False Vouchers
12 Parting Convoy
13 Encouraging Desertion
14 Fictitious Indentures and Certificates, with Swindling, Forgery, &c.
15 Applications for Witnesses, and Documents to be produced in Courts of Law
CLAIMS on other DEPARTMENTS, 69-1.
COAST GUARD, 85. — Officers and Men, 1; Vessels, 2.
CORONERS’ INQUESTS, 19 Gen.20 COLOURS
COLLISIONS at Sea, 31-4.
21 Gen COLONIES, SETTLEMENTS, and POSSESSIONS Abroad
Heligoland, Guernsey, Jersey, Ascension, St. Helena, Cape of Good Hope, Africa, Fernando Po [Bioko], East Indies, Mauritius, Faulkland [Falkland] Islands, New Holland [Australia], Pacific Islands, New Zealand, Madagascar, New Guinea, West Indies, Bahamas, Honduras, Bermudas, North America, Newfoundland, Gibraltar, Malta, Ionian Islands, Hong Kong, Borneo, Ceylon [Sri Lanka].21a CANADA and NORTH AMERICAN PROVINCES
Military Service
1 General Arrangements on the Lakes of Canada
2 Miscellaneous Information
3 Defence and other Operations of War
4 Officers
5 Men
Civil Establishments
6 General Information
7 Formation of Establishments and Erection
8 Building and Equipment of Ships
9 Civil Officers
10 Artificers and LabourersCAPSTANS, 59-6.
COALS, 97a-2.22 COMMERCIAL ARRANGEMENTS and REGULATIONS, FISHERIES, &c.
COMPASSES, 57a.23 COMPLAINTS
1 On Officers of the Navy (A B C)
2 On Persons in Civil SituationsCOMPENSATION for Losses by Shipwreck, &c. 94-424 CONSTRUCTION of a BREAKWATER in Plymouth Sound, and other Naval Works
COMPLEMENTS of SHIPS, 7.25 CONQUESTS of ENEMY’S TERRITORY
25a CONTRACTS
26 CONVICTS1 General Information — Convict Ships
2 Measures for Transportation
3 Employment in the Dock-Yards and on Ships
Offers of serving in the Navy
4 Refused
5 Accepted
CONSULS, 14.
COPPER and COPPERING SHIPS, &c., 59-9.
27 CONVOYS
27 General Information
Destination to and from
1a Baltic
1b Mediterranean
1c North America
1d West Indies
1e East Indies
Protection at Sea
2 Captains neglecting Convoys
3 Ships willfully parting or detaining Convoys
4 Signals
5 Licenses to sail without Convoy
28 COURTS-MARTIAL
1 Cases where a Trail has been refused, or, being granted, the Charges have been afterwards withdrawn
2 Judge, Advocate, Pay Duties, &c.
3 Trials held (A B C)
4 Revision of Sentences
5 Precedents and Formalities at
6 Witnesses at29 CURRENCY — Foreign Exchanges on Bills, &c.
A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z
5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100
D – 30
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30 DAMAGE and LOSS produced by the Enemy
1 King’s Ships
2 Merchant Shipping
31 DAMAGE and LOSS sustained at Sea
31 General Information
1 Ships totally lost
2 Ships partially injured
3 Loss of Shipping in the Public Service, not belonging to the Navy
4 Damages from Collisions at Sea
5 Measures for rendering Assistance to Ships in Distress, and for preserving the Lives of Shipwrecked Mariners
32 DEFENCE of the COAST against Invasion: Defence of particular Districts and Ports, arranged in Geographical Order.
General Defence of the Country
1 Disposition of the Naval Force for external Protection
2 Means of internal Precaution
Patriotic Officers of Shipping and Service
3 From Individuals
4 From East India Company
5 By Flotillas of Small Craft, &c. for the Coast of Suffolk, Essex, Kent, and Sussex … } Fitting and Arming
6 Shetland
7 Cromarty
8 Montrose
9 Firth of Forth
10 Haddington
11 Northumberland
12 Durham
13 Yorkshire
14 Lincolnshire
15 Norfolk
16 Suffolk
17 Essex
River Thames
18 External Protection
Internal and voluntary Protections
19 By the Flotilla
20 By the Frigates rigged and manned by the Trinity House
21 Consolidation of the internal Naval force
22 River Medway
23 Kent
24 Sussex
25 Hampshire
26 Dorsetshire
27 Devonshire
28 Cornwall
29 Gloucestershire
30 Glamorganshire
31 Cardiganshire
32 Anglesea [Anglesey]
33 Merioneth and Denbigh
34 Lancashire
35 Cumberland
36 Firth of Clyde
37 Bute
38 Argyleshire [Argyllshire]
39 Inverness (West Coast)
33 DEFENCE of IRELAND
Measures of external Protection
1 Intimation of the Enemy’s Designs
2 Disposition of the Naval Forces
Measures of internal Protection
3 General Information
4 Establishment of Signal Posts
5 Equipment of Gun Boats
6 Establishment of Sea Fencibles
34 DEFENCE of BRITISH COLONIES and POSSESSIONS Abroad
35 DEFECTS of SHIPS, and Sale or Disposal of them thereby
1 General Information
2 Particular Ships
36 DESERTERS
From the Navy and Marines
1 Escaping from Ships, and Means for the Prevention thereof
2 Reclaimed and returned to their Ships
3 Deserters exempted from Courts-Martial
4 From the Army, Militia, or East India Company, restored
5 Foreign Deserters from the Enemy
ENCOURAGING DESERTERS, 3-13.
DISCIPLINE of the FLEET, 34.
37 DISEASE in the FLEET — Measures in the Prevention thereof
1 General Regulations, &c.
2 Disease in particular Ships
DIRECTOR of ENGINEERING and ARCHITECTURAL WORKS, 60.
38 DISPATCHES on the PUPLIC SERVICE
1 Public Dispatches and Correspondence
2 Travelling Expenses allowed to Officers for the Conveyance of Dispatches, &c. Ordinary Travelling Expenses and Passages in Merchant Ships
39 DISPATCHES intercepted from the Enemy
40 DISPENSING ORDERS for PASSING ACCOUNTS, &c.
DIVERS, 31-5.
41 DOCK-YARDS and NAVAL ESTABLISHMENTS
ABROAD—
Internal Economy
41 General Regulations
1 Care of the Yard and Stores
2 Erection and Repairs of Buildings
3 Artificers — Entry and Discharge, Pay and Allowance
Apprentices and Schools, 41-16.
Officers
4 Appointment, Salaries, and Allowances
5 Duties
6 Accounts
7 Alleged Misconduct
AT HOME—
Internal Economy
8 General Regulation
9 Care of the Yard and Stores
10 Erection or Repairs of Buildings, Docks, Purchase of Land, &c.
11 Expediting the Building and Repair of Ships
Artificers & Workmen
12 Entry and Increase of the Establishment
13 Employment and Attendance
14 Pay and Allowance
15 Discharge
16 Apprentices and Schools
17 Ordinary
Officers
18 Appointments, Salaries, and Allowances
19 Duties
20 Alleged Misconduct
Dock-Yard Craft, 100-1.
Ditto Teams, 41-8.
42 DROITS of ADMIRALTY
A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z
5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100
E – 42a
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42a ELECTIONS
43 EMBARGO
1 On Foreign Shipping
2 On British Shipping
EMIGRATION, 26.
ESTIMATES, 69-1.
EXTRA SERVICES in SHIPS — Payments for, 17.
EXPERIMENTAL VESSELS, 59-1. (Squadrons, &c.)
44 ENEMY’S PREPARATIONS in PORT
1 General throughout the Country
Particular Ports
2 Baltic
3 Texel
4 Rotterdam, Helvoet [Hellevoet], and Goree [Goeree]
5 Antwerp and Flushing
6 Ostend
7 Dunkirk
8 St. Omer
9 Calais
10 Boulogne
11 Dieppe
12 St. Vallery en Caux
13 Fechamp
14 Havre
15 Seine
16 Rouen
17 Cherbourgh [Cherbourg]
18 Granville
19 St. Malo
20 Morlaix
21 Isle de Bas
22 Brest
23 L’Orient
24 Nantz and the Loire
25 Isle d’Aix and Basque Roads
26 Rochfort [Rochefort] and Rochelle
27 Port Louis
28 Bordeaux and Gironde
29 Bayonne and Passage
30 Marseilles
31 Toulon
32 Genoa and Leghorn [Livorno]
33 Naples, Corfu, &c.
34 East Indies
35 Means for obtaining secret Intelligence
45 ENEMY’S MOVEMENTS at SEA: General Information
1 North Sea
2 Channel and Western Coast
3 Bay of Biscay and Coast of Portugal
4 Mediterranean and Adriatic
5 West Indies
5a North America
5b South America
6 Cape of Good Hope and East Indies
46 ENEMY — Preparations, Expeditions, &c. for attacking him
47 ENEMY — Intercourse and Negotiation with
48 ENEMY — Treasonable Communication with
A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z
5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100
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49 FEES of OFFICE
FISHERIES, 22.
50 FOREIGN STATION: Station and Condition of the Squadrons at: General
1 Baltic
2 North Sea, including Heligoland
2a Channel and Cork
3 Portugal
4 Mediterranean
5 Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena
6 East Indies
7 Brazils
8 Jamaica
9 Leeward Island
10 North Island
11 Newfoundland
12 Africa
7a Pacific
FORMS — General Regulations, Printed Circulars, &c., 54.
51 FOREIGN and NEUTRAL SHIPS: General Information
Detained
1 Suspected having Contraband of War
2 As Enemy’s Property
3 Conduct of the Enemy’s Property
52 FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Intelligence, Political, Naval, and Military, from
1 Russia
1a Sweden and Norway
2 Denmark
3 Hans Town
4 Holland
France
5 At Home
6 Colonies
7 Portugal
8 Spain
9 Italy, Sardinia, and Tuscany
10 Sicily and Naples
11 Egypt
Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco
12 Algiers
13 America
Transactions and Relations with
14 Russia
15 Sweden and Norway
16 Denmark
17 Prussia
18 Embden, vide Hans Towns
19 Hans Towns [Hansa Towns, Hanseatic City]
20 France
21 Spain
21a Spanish Colonies and South America
22 Portugal
22a Portuguese Colonies
23 Naples and Sicily
23a Austria and North of Germany
23b Hanover
24 Turkey and Greece
24a Persia
25 America
South America, 21d.
26 China
27 Hayti [Haiti]
28 Madagascar
FREIGHT and FREIGHTAGE of TREASURE, 72-6.
FUEL, 97 a-2.
FUNERALS: Burial of Seamen, &c., 56-12.
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A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z
5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100
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GENERAL REGULATIONS — Printed Circulars, Forms, &c., 54.
53 GREENWICH HOSPITAL: General information
Pensioners
1 Entry, Discharge, Rating &c. on Ships’ Books
2 Clothing
3 Employment
GREENWICH SCHOOLS, 53a.
54 GUARD SHIPS, GUN BOATS, and FLOTILLAS
GUNPOWDER, 98-21.
GUNNERY, 59-4a. Gunnery Officers, 59-4b.
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H – 55
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HALF PAY, 71-27a.
55 HIRED ARMED SHIPS, CUTTERS, and VESSELS.
1 Tendering, Surveying, and Hiring
2 Equipment, Manning, and Discipline
3 Employment
4 Pay and Discharge
56 HOSPITALS and SICK QUARTERS: General
Hospitals at HOME
Internal Economy
1 Formations and breaking up and Establishments
2 Erection and Repair of Buildings
3 Security and Care of Hospitals
Officers
4 Appointment, Salary, and Allowances
5 Duties
6 Accounts of Stores and Cash
7 Alleged Misconduct
8 Servants
Patients
9 Admission
10 Treatment
11 Discharge
12 Internment of Seamen
Hospital Ships at HOME
Internal Economy
13 Formation and breaking up of Establishments
14 Fitting, Alterations, &c.
15 Officers
16 Patients
Sick Quarters at HOME
17 Internal Economy
18 Officers
19 Patients
20 Prison Hospitals at HOME and ABROAD
21 Prison Hospital Ships at HOME and ABROAD
Naval Hospitals ABROAD
22 Internal Economy
23 Officers
24 Patients
25 Army Hospitals Abroad
57 HYDROGRAPHICAL OFFICE — Charts, Chronometers, Barometers, &c.
OFFICERS SURVEYING
1 Pay, &c.
2 Duty and Proceedings
57a BOARD of LONGITUDE
A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z
5 / 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50 / 55 / 60 / 65 / 70 / 75 / 80 / 85 / 90 / 95 / 100
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58 IMPRESTS—Removal of
59 INVENTIONS, EXPERIMENTS, and PROJECTS: General
1 Building and Construction of Ships and Vessels
2 Equipment and internal Economy of Ships, Pumps, &c.
3 Navigation
4a Gunnery, Ordnance Stores, and Arming Ships
4b Officers, Seamen, Gunners
5 Cables, Cordage, Anchors, and Capstans
6 Rigging, Sails, Canvas, Blocks
7 Improvements in the internal Economy of the Dock-Yards and Naval Establishments
8 Projects for Annoying the Enemy
9 Projects in Chemistry, Mechanics, Natural Philosophy—Copper, &c.
10 Political Economy
11 Improvements in Signals and Telegraphic Communications
12 Improvements in Official Cheques and Arrangements
60 DIRECTOR of ENGINEERING and ARCHITECTURAL WORKS
61 INVALIDS
IRELAND, 33.
62 LEAVING STATIONS without ORDERS
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LEASES, 19 General.
LIBRARIES, 103-4.
LIGHT-HOUSES, 68 (according to Station).
LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS, 59-9.
LIFE BOATS, 31-5.
LODGING MONEY, 38-2.
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M – 63
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63 MARINES: General
Embarked or under Orders for Sea Duty
Officers
1 Pay and Allowance
1a Duties, &c.
Men
2 Pay and Allowance
2a Duties, &c.
At Head Quarters
Internal Economy in the Barracks
3 General Regulations
4 Erection and Repairs of Buildings
5 Security of Barracks and Stores
6 Discipline, Arras, Ammunition, &c.—Practice Batteries
OFFICERS
7 Appointments, Pay, and Allowance, &c.
8 Promotion
9 Accounts
10 Alleged Misconduct
MEN
11 Service in the Dock-Yards, or other Shore Duty
12 Clothing and Necessaries
13 Treatment of the Sick
Recruiting Service
14 Measures for increasing the Corps and procuring Men
15 Conduct of the Parties on this Duty
OFFICERS
16 Appointment, Allowances, &c.
17 Accounts
18 Furlough and Leave
19 Marine Artillery
20 Paymaster’s Department (Royal Marine Office)
MARINE OFFICE, 63-20.
MAGAZINES, 59-2.
MASTS and YARDS, 59-6.
64 MEDITERRANEAN PASSES
64a MERCHANT VESSELS and SEAMEN (Registry Office)
65 MILITIA
1 General Information
2 Volunteers for the Navy
66 MOORINGS
67 MUTINY
1 In Particular Ships
2 New-raised Men attempting to escape
3 Merchant Vessels
A / B / C / D / E / F / G / H / I / J / K / L / M / N / O / P / Q / R / S / T / U / V / W / X / Y / Z
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N – 68
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68 NAUTICAL and MILITARY OBSERVATIONS: General
1 Acts of Parliament for improving of Navigation of Rivers and Railways
1a Coast of Britain, Channel Islands, and Ireland
2 North Sea, including the Coasts of Holland and Flanders
3 Channel, including the French Coast
3a Coasts of Portugal and Spain
4 Mediterranean
5 Newfoundland and North America
5a Polar Expedition
6 Gulph [Gulf] of Mexico
7 West India Islands
8 Coast of South America
9 Pacific Ocean
10 Coast of Africa and Canary Islands
11 Eastern Ocean
12 Atlantic Ocean
69 NAVY OFFICE (Departments at Somerset House)
Internal Economy
1 General Regulations, Official Forms, and Estimates
1a Appointment of Clerks, Salaries, &c.
2 Navy Pay Office (Paymaster General)
CLAIMS on PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS, ESTIMATES, RETURNS, &c., 69-1.
70 NECESSARY MONEY, NECESSARIES, &c.
1 Allowance for Nominal Complements, and also for Supernumeraries
2 Allowance for Small Vessels
3 Extra Allowances
4 Advance of Necessary Money
5 Claims for Disbursements by Persons not having Pursers’ Warrants
6 Necessaries supplied Ships at Sea
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Other Observatories, 68, (according to station).71 OFFICERS: General Informations—Officers’ Cabins, &c.
Flag Officers
Port Admirals
1 Appointment and Removal
2 Personal Allowances
3 Contingencies, Stationery, Postage, &c.
4 Allowances and Accommodations for for carrying on the Service
5 Retinue
6 Duties
Commanding Squadrons at Sea
7 Appointment and Removal
8 Personal Allowances
9 Contingencies, Stationery, Postage, &c.
10 Allowances and Accommodations for for carrying on the Service
11 Retinue
12 Patronage
Commissioned Officers
13 General Regulations
14 Captains
15 Lieutenants
Warrant Officers
16 General Regulations
17 Masters
18 Gunners
19 Boatswains
20 Carpenters
21 Pursers
21a Accounts
22 Captains—Churches
22a Naval Instructors and Seamen’s Schoolmasters
Medical Officers
23 Physicians
24 Surgeons and Mates
24a Cooks
Petty Officers
25 Quarter Deck, including Mates, Midshipmen, and Cadets
26 Forecastle
27 Acting Officers
Officers on Half Pay
27a General Information
28 Re-employment
29 Accepting other Employments
30 Officers retiring on Full Pay
31 Officers retiring from the Service
32 Officers applying to enter into the Service of Foreign Powers
33 Foreign Officers in the British Service
34 Officers surveyed
Absence of Officers from their Duty
35 Applications for Leave from active Service
36 Officers absenting themselves from Duty
37 Officers left on Shore by their Ships
38 Officers refusing to join
39 Pursers of Ships in Ordinary
40 Officers degraded, dismissed, or otherwise punished without Trial by Court Martial
41 General Promotion, and Special
ORDINARY, 41-17.
ORDNANCE TRANSPORTS, 100-3.
ORDNANCE STORES, see 98.
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT, 98-21.
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PARLIAMENTARY RETURNS, 59-1.
72 PASSENGERS and FREIGHTAGE of TREASURE, conveyed by Her Majesty’s Ships, and Allowances for: General Regulations
1 Foreign Ministers and other Passengers of Distinction
2 Passages to Military Officers not Commanding in Chief
3 Passages to Officers in the Naval Service
4 Passages to Prisoners of Distinction
5 Passages to Messengers on the Public Service
5a Miscellaneous Passengers (and by Railways)
6 Freightage of Treasure
PAYMASTER GENERAL, 69-2.
73 PENSIONS: General
1 To Officers
2 To the Widows and Parents of Officers and Men, Sisters, &c.
3 To the Children of Officers
74 PILOTS
1 Not being in Service at Sea
2 Aversion of Refusal to embark
In Actual Service at Sea
3 General Information
4 Pay Allowances, Pensions, &c.
5 Pilotage to Officers of Ships and Vessels
75a POPULATION
75 PIRATES
76 POST-OFFICE PACKETS: General Information
1 Equipment and Disposition
2 Officers and Men serving in it
3 Home Packets (according to Station)
4 Buildings
5 Accounts
77 POSTAGE—General Post Office, &c.
78 PRISONERS for OFFENCES at SEA
1 General Information
2 Punishment and Discipline at Sea
PRESENTS, 85a.
PUMPS, 59-2.
79 PRISONERS of WAR: General Information
Foreign Prisoners of War Abroad
Care of Custody
1 Reception of Prisoners from Ships or otherwise
2 Appointments of Officers, their Duties, Accounts, &c.
3 Security and Subsistence of the Prisoners
3a Formation of breaking up of Establishments
Conveyance Home
4 Prisoners sent to the native Countries
5 Prisoners sent to England
6 Measures for their Exchange or Release in the Country
Reception and Custody of the Prisoners previous to their ultimate Disposal
Foreign Prisoners of War at Home
7 Conduct observed at the Commencement of the War
8 Temporary Accommodation
Prisoners on Parole
9 Admission to Parole
10 Residences allowed the Prisoners, and Conduct, &c. prescribed
10a Prisoners attempting to escape, and measures for prevention thereof
Prisoners in Confinement in Health
11 Establishments of Depôts and Prison Ships
12 Officers for the Care and Custody of Prisoners
13 Measures for securing the Prisoners
14 Subsistence and other Allowances to Prisoners
15 Sick Prisoners in Confinement
Entry of Prisoners into Her Majesty’s Service
16 By Voluntary Enlistment
17 By Compulsion
Release and Exchange of Prisoners
18 Prisoners and others unconditionally released
19 Exchange of Prisoners, or Release on Parole
20 Foreign Agents for Prisoners
British Prisoners of War in Foreign Countries
21 Information of their Detention and Treatment, and Relief granted them
22 Measures for effecting their Exchange
23 British Agents in Enemies’ Countries
24 Cartels
PUNISHMENTS, 78-2.
80 PRIVATEERS and LETTERS of MARQUE: General Information
1 Equipment
Misconduct
2 Plundering Neutrals
3 Violations of Neutral Territory
4 Outrages, Resistance, and various other Offences
PROMOTIONS, 71-41.
81 PRIZE MONEY—Distribution of (Batta)
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82 QUARANTINE
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83 RAISING SEAMEN: General Suggestion for obtaining Men
Means for procuring Seamen
Voluntary Entry
1 Bounty
2 Persuading Men already in the service to enter
3 Men allowed to enter for particular Ship
4 Patriotic Offers of additional Bounties by Corporations, Counties, &c.
5 Measures for obtaining Seamen serving in the Land Forces
6 Entry of Prisoners of War
7 Admission of Convicts, Delinquents, &c.
Impressing
8 General Impressing, and Results
9 Means of securing the Seamen of Convoys, Transports, &c.
Means for detecting concealed Seamen
10 Employment of Tenders and other cruizing [cruising] Vessels along the Coast
11 Assistance derived from the Civil Power, and otherwise, in securing Seamen throughout the Country
12 Quotas of Men exacted from Seafaring Bodies, in lieu of Impressing
Ships manned by the Exertions of their Captains
13 By raising Men on Shore
14 By intercepting Men at Sea
15 Means for obtaining Seamen in Foreign Parts
New Raised Men
16 Inspection, Surveys, and Disposal of Invalids
17 Ratings
18 Prevention of Escape and Desertion
19 Measures for their Care, Comfort, and proper Treatment
20 Means for obtaining their Wages and Property in the Hands of their former Employers
21 Disposal for the Fleet
22 Tenders on the Impress
23 Officers and Men on the Service—Duties, Allowances, &c.
Protections and Exemptions from the Impress
24 Privilege claimed by particular Places
25 Indulgence in favour of Fisheries
26 Other Exemptions
Discharge of impressed Men from the Service
British Seamen
27 Refused
28 Granted
Foreign Seamen
29 Refused
30 Granted
RAILWAYS, 68-1.
RAILWAY CONVEYANCE, 72-5a.
84 RESCUING SEAMEN, and RIOTS, on the Impress Service
1 Resistance to the Impress Service
2 Fictitious Arrests
3 Fabricated Indentures and Protections
4 Encouraging Desertion
RETURNS of all kinds, 69-1.
85 REVENUE CRUIZERS: Wine, &c. allowed to Officers, duty free
1 Officers and Men of Coast Guard
2 Revenue Vessels
85a REWARDS, GRATUITIES, and HONOURS conferred—PRAISE of Officers, &c.
RIGGING: Sails, &c., 59-6.
86 ROYAL FAMILY—Respect and Honours paid to them
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87 SALVAGE
88 SALUTES
89 SALARIES—Taxation of
90 SEA FENCIBLES
1 Enrolment
2 Training and Arming
3 Allowances
4 Exemptions from Impress and other Service
5 Arrangements for calling them out on actual Service
6 Corps disbanded
SEAMEN—103.
SCIENTIFIC SUBJECTS, 90a.
SCHOOLS—DOCK-YARD, 41-16.
SCOTLAND, 22.
91 SHIPS and VESSELS of every Description, added to the Navy
1 Building in the King’s Yards (General Information as to Ships)
2 Formations and Progress of Contracts for Building
3 Ships launched, and Vessels brought forward for Service
Purchase of Ships into the Service
4 Prize Ships tendered at Home
5 Prize Ships purchased and Commissioned Abroad
6 Mercantile Shipping tendered for Sale
7 Ships purchased from Foreign Powers
SHIPS
Sold, broken up, or otherwise disposed of, 35-1.
Alterations in Stores, &c., 6.
Alterations in Complements, 7.92 SIGNALS
1 Formation of Codes, and Means for ensuring Secrecy
2 Making and repeating Signals
93 SIGNAL POSTS
1 Erection of Signal Posts and Buildings
2 General Information
SLAVE TRADE, 95, General.
94 SLOPS, BEDDING, and CLOTHING
Means for obtaining Supplies
1 Contracts, &c. formed by the Navy Board
2 Purchase made by Captains
3 Proportions issued
4 Accounts and Charges against the Men—Loss of Clothing
95 SMUGGLING
1 Arrangements for prevention of Smuggling
2 Intelligence of Smuggling
3 Smuggling Vessels; Goods—Capture or Detention of
4 Smugglers—Disposal of
96 SPIES and ALIENS
97 STATIONERY WARES
STEAM MACHINERY, Projects in—Engines on Shore, 97a, General.
97a STEAM VESSELS
General Information
1 Steam Vessels, and Steam Guard Ships
2 Engineers’ Stores—Fuel
3 Officers, Engineers, and Stokers
98 STORES: NAVAL STORES
Means of Supply
1 Political Discussions—General
2 Agency in Foreign Parts
3 Formation of Contracts
4 Purchase by private Bargains
5 Pre-emption from Neutrals
6 Purchase by Commanders of Ships and Squadrons
7 Receipt and Examination of Stores
8 Distribution to the respective Yards
Conversion
9 In the Yards
10 By Contract
Issue and Expenditure
11 Sale of Old Stores
12 Expenditure in the Yards
13 Issues to other Departments of the Service
Issues to the Fleet, and subsequent Disposal
14 Demands and Proportions issued
15 Expenditure at Sea
16 Lent or spared to other Ships
17 Returns into Store
18 Accounting for Stores—Charge of Stores
Embezzlement and Theft
19 In the Yards
20 In Ships
STORES: ORDNANCE STORES
21 Means of Supplies—General
22 Experiments and Trials of Stores
Issues
To the Fleet
23 Demands and Proportions issued
24 Security and Preservation at Sea
25 To Sea Fencibles, Gun Boats, &c.
STORES: VICTUALLING STORES
25a General Information
Means of Supply
26 Formation of Contracts
27 Purchases made by Commanders of Ships and Squadrons
28 Receipt and Examination
Issue and Expenditure
29 Lent or spared
Issues to the Fleet, and subsequent Disposal
30 Demands and Proportions issued
Extra Issues
31 To Supernumeraries, &c.
32 Indulgences—Tobacco
33 Supplies to the Sick
34 Returned or condemned
35 Accounting for Provisions
36 Subsistence of Men not actually on board their Ships
37 Savings of Provisions
38 Watering the Fleet
39 STORES: MEDICAL STORES, Surgeons’ Necessaries
40 Medical Instruments
SURVEYS of HARBOURS, &c. 68, according to Station.
SURVEYING SERVICE, 57—Pay, 57-1—Duties, 57-2.
99 SUPERANNUATION
1 Warrant Officers
2 Artificers and Labourers
3 Officers and Clerks of Naval Establishments
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TANKS, 98-38.
TELEGRAPHS, 93.
TRAVELLING EXPENSES, 38-2.
100 TRANSPORTS: Transport Office: Internal Economy—General/Officers Employed
1 Store Ships and Dock-Yard Craft
2 Regular Transports
3 Ordnance Transports and Vessels
4 Victualling Transports and Craft
100a TRANSPORT OFFICERS
99a TOWAGE
TOBACCO, 98-32.
TIMBER, 98-1.
101 TROOPS EMBARKED
1 Arrangements
2 Troop Ships
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UNIFORM, 71, General.
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VENTILATION, 37-1
102 VICTUALLING ESTABLISHMENTS, At Home and Abroad
1 Internal Economy—Buildings, &c.
2 Officers: Salaries and Allowances—Appointments, &c.
3 Artificers and Workmen
5 Internal Economy of the Officer in Town
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WATER, 98-38.
103 WAGES to SEAMEN: General Information
1 Advance of Wages to Ships’ Companies
2 Paying Ships off
3 Allotments
4 Seamen’s Libraries
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104 YACHTS and YACHTSMEN
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