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National Maritime Museum

Marine Department, Wreck Registers


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 BOT

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Marine Department, Wreck Registers

Date(s): 1855-1898

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 5ft: 152cm

Name of creator(s): Marine Department | Board of Trade

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

By the Merchant Shipping Act of 1854, the responsibility for maintaining a systematic wreck register was taken over by the Marine Department of the Board of Trade; for a short period before this date it had been the responsibility of the Admiralty. Between 1864 and 1867 the Wreck Department was created to deal with wrecks, salvage and related matters.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Volumes of the wreck register, Marine Department of the Board of Trade, 1855 to 1898, giving the names and details of wrecks of British vessels reported to the Marine Department. The information includes the name of the vessel, its official number, port of registry, port number and year of registration, tonnage, name of managing owner, master, date and place of wreck, cause and the number of lives lost. Printed reports clipped from shipping newspapers, as well as manuscript reports from the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen are often included as well as references to Lloyd's List , Mitchell's Maritime Register and Board of Trade correspondence (see MT/9 at the Public Record Office).

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The reports are listed alphabetically from 1855 to 1859, 1863 to 1864 and 1873 to 1898 and chronologically from 1860 to 1862 and 1864 to 1873. Apart from part of 1863, each volume of the chronological lists has its own alphabetical index.

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Sep 2011.

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: 2010-08-26


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Shipwrecks | Seaborne disasters | Accidents | Disasters
Manmade disasters

Personal names

Corporate names

Places