| Code | CX5870 |
| Dates | c1708-1964 |
| Person Name | Admiralty; c1708-1964 |
| Activity | In the middle ages the Navy was managed by the King in Council, sometimes, after 1360, through an official known variously as the Lord Admiral, High Admiral, Admiral of England or, from the early seventeenth century, Lord High Admiral, while day-to-day administration was by subordinate keepers or clerks of the king's ships.
The Lord High Admiral generally commanded the Navy in person or by deputy and was responsible for policy, strategy, and fighting personnel. He also had legal functions as president of the High Court of Admiralty, from the sixteenth century usually exercised by deputy, such deputies becoming in 1628 independent judges of Admiralty.
In 1546 the Navy Board was established and was made responsible, under the Lord High Admiral and subsequently under the Board of Admiralty, for materials, non-combatant personnel, warrant officers and ratings and the civil administration of the Navy.
In the seventeenth century the office of Lord High Admiral was on occasions not filled, the post being put into commission and its duties carried out by a Board of Admiralty, an arrangement which from 1708, apart from one brief period, became permanent.
In 1832 the Navy Board was abolished and the civil administration passed under the direct control of the Board of Admiralty. On 1 April 1964 the Admiralty was absorbed in the unified Ministry of Defence, where it became the Navy Department (Source: National Archives) |
| Corporate Name | Admiralty |
| RefNo | Title |
| DF/ZOO/200/127/8 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS Dampier (V) |
| DF/ZOO/200/134/5 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS Cook |
| DF/ZOO/200/153/1 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting |
| DF/ZOO/200/134/4 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting (general file) |
| DF/ZOO/200/118/8 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting |
| DF/ZOO/200/118/9 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS Vidal |
| DF/ZOO/200/134/6 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS Dalrymple |
| DF/ZOO/200/127/7 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS Dalrymple (IV) |
| DF/ZOO/200/141/1 | Admiralty Collecting |
| DF/ZOO/200/27/336 | Reid, C W |
| DF/ZOO/200/118/10 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS Owen |
| DF/ZOO/200/44/2 | Awdury, R W |
| DF/ZOO/200/30/457 | Yorke, H R |
| DF/ZOO/200/23/118 | Evans, Frederick John |
| DF/ZOO/200/30/5 | Admiralty |
| DF/ADM/1004/12 | Admiralty: dredging for specimens |
| DF/ZOO/200/127/4 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting (General) (I) |
| DF/MIN/1/36/5 | Admiralty, The |
| DF/ENT/305/4 | Collecting from Admiralty ships |
| DF/ZOO/200/152/1 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS Vidal |
| DF/MIN/1/53/3 | Admiralty |
| DF/ZOO/200/42/429-432 | Wharton, [William James Lloyd] |
| DF/ZOO/200/134/7 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS Dampier |
| DF/BOT/400/12/1 | Admiralty (London) |
| DF/ZOO/202/13 | Challenger Expedition collections: lists of specimens presented by the Admiralty; lists of duplicates distributed to museums and universities |
| DF/ZOO/200/127/9 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS Scott (VI) |
| DF/ZOO/200/118/7 | Admiralty: miscellaneous correspondence |
| DF/ZOO/200/46/302-303 | Macgregor, see Admiralty |
| DF/ZOO/200/1/6 | Blakeney, William |
| DF/ZOO/200/134/8 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS Owen |
| DF/ZOO/200/141/2 | Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment |
| DF/ZOO/200/127/10 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS Vidal (VII) |
| DF/TRI/3000/7/6 | Officer in Charge - J.R. Norman (died 26 May), then J.E. Dandy. Superintendent - C.L. Rance (from July) |
| DF/MIN/1/53 | Aa-Al |
| DF/ZOO/232/5/17/7/7 | Gosling, C.P. |
| WP/7/52 | Ms and TS on the subject of gunpowder storage |
| DF/PAL/100/76/17 | Admiralty (London) |
| DF/PAL/100/17/178 | Evans, Frederick [John] |
| DF/ZOO/200/6/110-111 | Pennell, [Henry] Cholmondeley |
| DF/ZOO/200/19/79 | Evans, Frederick John |
| DF/ZOO/200/39/13 | Admiralty, Secretary |
| DF/ZOO/200/30/96-102 | Greet, John [F] |
| DF/ZOO/200/42/20-21 | Smith, Percy William Bassett |
| DF/ZOO/200/46/1-2 | Admiralty |
| DF/ZOO/200/45/3 | Admiralty |
| DF/ZOO/230/120/1 | The Admiralty |
| DF/ENT/305/32 | Collecting from Admiralty ships, including the log of Stwd Richards on HMS Owen |
| DF/ZOO/253/2/1 | Totton, Arthur Knyvett: Correspondence, Admiralty |
| DF/ADM/1004/11 | Admiralty: general |
| DF/ZOO/200/73/12 | Correspondence A (personal): File 9 |
| DF/ZOO/200/73/9 | Correspondence A (personal): File 6 |
| DF/ZOO/200/73/1 | Correspondence A (general): File 1 |
| DF/ZOO/200/73/3 | Correspondence A (general): File 3 |
| DF/ZOO/200/73/7 | Correspondence A (personal): File 4 |
| DF/ZOO/200/73/2 | Correspondence A (general): File 2 |
| DF/ZOO/200/127/5 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS Owen (II) |
| WP/16/1/1 | Letter to William Greenell Wallace from the Admiralty, London, signed Ernest E Benham |
| DF/ZOO/200/134/9 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS Vidal |
| DF/ZOO/200/44/1 | Macgregor, [Evan] |
| DF/ZOO/200/9/173 | Evans, Frederick John |
| WP/1/1/89 | Letter from Alfred Russel Wallace to his son William Wallace, from Broadstone, Dorset |
| DF/ZOO/200/4/210-220 | Kölliker, [Rudolph] Albert [von] |
| DF/ZOO/200/40/453-458 | Wharton, [William James Lloyd] |
| DF/ZOO/200/41/459-461 | Wharton, [William James Lloyd] |
| DF/ZOO/200/73/8 | Correspondence A (personal): File 5 |
| DF/ZOO/232/6/7/6/4 | Kemp, S |
| WP/16/1 | W G and V I Wallace: correspondence with publishers and others |
| DF/ZOO/200/118/11 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS St Austell Bay |
| DF/ZOO/200/127/6 | Admiralty, HM Ships Collecting: HMS Cook (III) |
| DF/ZOO/200/25/95 | Evans, Frederick John |
| DF/ZOO/202/1 | 'Miscellaneous documents': letters, lists, memoranda and reports relating to the work of the department, gathered by Dr A Günther |
| DF/ADM/1009/87 | Staff on loan during wartime |