Navy Board: Antigua Dockyard: Letter Books

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Reference code(s): ADM 241

Title: Navy Board: Antigua Dockyard: Letter Books

Date(s): 1779 - 1825

Level of description: Series

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 4 volume(s)

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Administrative/Biographical history: The first naval establishment at English Harbour, Antigua developed in the 1720's at the initiative of the Antigua Assembly, anxious to provide local facilities for the cruisers which protected their trade. In the 1740's and again in the 1770's the yard was expanded and consolidated, and became the principal British naval base of the Leeward Islands, which it remained throughout the sailing era.

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Scope and content: The records consist of early books of orders and warrants from the Senior Officer or the Commissioner in the Leeward Islands to the respective officers of the yard, and of letters and reports from the yard officers to the Navy Board and others.

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

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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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Maritime transport

Colonial countries

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Antigua