IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0074 O/456
Held at: London Metropolitan Archives
Title: SHIPPING
Date(s): 1879-1889
Level of description: Collection
Extent: 0.01 linear metres
Name of creator(s): Various
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The ships represented in this collection are the:
* 'Latona' No. 55362, registered 1874, 270 tons net, owner, J. Dickie, Glasgow; master, E.H. Tidmarsh, Liverpool; voyages, Liverpool to Chittagong, etc
* 'Indus', No. 13884, registered 1863, 1319 tons net, owner, John Taylor, London; master, E.J. Hunt; voyages to Australia with emigrants
* 'Buston Vale', No. 47765, 411 tons net; owner, F.G. Fry and Co., Liverpool; master G.H. Galloway.
* 'Welsh Girl', No. 44939, registered 1866, 137 tons; owner, Stephen Morse, Watchet, Somerset; master, Alfred Nicholas, Watchet; coasting and to Antwerp.
* 'Alfred and Mary', No. 10723, 45 tons; owner, Fleming Hewett, Gorleston, Suffolk Master, William Kittle, Gorleston; trawling in N.Sea, and later Master James Green, Gorleston.
* 'Princess Royal', No. 17033, 42 tons; owner, John Parsons, Harwich; voyages, master, William Mixter, Harwich; voyages, Harwich-Rochester, London, Colchester Maldon, Ipswich.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Papers relating to shipping, 1879-1889, comprising agreements and accounts of crew for home trading and foreign-going ships. Information provided includes the nature and place of voyages, provisions, special conditions for crew, certificates by consuls, with standard regulations and instructions for ships registered at London.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
1-3: Foreign trading ships; 4-7: home trading ships.
Conditions governing access:
Available for general access.
Conditions governing reproduction:
Copyright rests with the depositor.
Physical characteristics:
Fit
Finding aids:
Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Deposited in 1976
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
For similar shipping records see ACC/1556 and O/498
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Date(s) of descriptions: July to October 2009