Collection MISC16 - BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE ANTARCTIC, 1953: letter re cryptography

Key Information

Reference code

MISC16

Title

BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE ANTARCTIC, 1953: letter re cryptography

Date(s)

  • 1953 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent

1 item

Scope and content

Copy of typescript letter sent by Sir John Gerald Lang, Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty, to V Adm Sir William Gerrard Andrewes, Commander in Chief, America and West Indies Station, regarding the efficiency of the cryptographic staffs of HMS SUPERB and HMS SNIPE during naval operations in the Antarctic, 13 Apr 1953

General Information

Custodial history

Acquired by the Centre in 1981

Conditions governing access

Open, subject to signature of Reader's undertaking form, and appropriate provision of two forms of identification, to include one photographic ID.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied from open material for research purposes only.

Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, via the Archives.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Finding aids

This collection level description.

Related descriptions

Note

Compiled Oct 1999

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Genre access points

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000.

Script(s)

Accession area