ONRL (United States. Office of Naval Records and Library) Search this
Record type:
Organization name
From:
1915
To:
1949
Description:
The ONRL was established in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy by an omnibus appropriation act (38 Stat. 1025), March 4, 1915. It was abolished by merger with the Office of Naval History, March 10, 1949, pursuant to instructions from the Chief of Naval Operations. Among other documents, different types of Navy logs and logbooks are available for research in the records of the Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library (RG 45): some were extracted in 1969 by Paul Woodward, of the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program, for research purposes (Cf. SIA Acc. 83-126).
Source:
National Archives (2017). Military Records. Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library (RG 45). Retrieved July 14, 1017 from https://www.archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/rg45.html
