Admiralty: North America and West Indies Station: Correspondence, Reports and Memoranda

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): ADM 128

Title: Admiralty: North America and West Indies Station: Correspondence, Reports and Memoranda

Date(s): 1810 - 1913

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 153 files and volumes

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Name of creator(s): Board of Admiralty, North America and West Indies Station, c 1810-c 1913

Administrative/Biographical history: The Jamaica Division's sphere of operations included Haiti, San Domingo, Nicaragua, Mexico and Central America while the Bermuda-Halifax Division includes correspondence relating to the protection of the Canadian frontier against the Fenians.

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CONTENT AND STRUCTURE AREA

Scope and content: This series comprises of correspondence, reports and memoranda relating to the Western Atlantic seaboard, ranging from Labrador in the north to Central America in the south and embracing the West Indies, and including seven volumes of correspondence arising from the American Civil War. There is also an accumulation of correspondence, reports, conventions, regulations, etc., relating to the Newfoundland fisheries, 1871 to 1912.

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System of arrangement: The pre-1867 records are arranged in Divisions. From 1867 records of all Divisions are brought together in a 'New Series'.

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Conditions governing access: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

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DESCRIPTION CONTROL AREA

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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: December 2001

Interest: Caribbean

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Naval personnel

Defence

Colonization

Colonial countries

Armed forces

Personal/Corporate names

Board of Admiralty, c 1708-1964

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Caribbean