SS Parthia Surgeon's Memorandum Book

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/230
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: SS Parthia Surgeon's Memorandum Book
Date(s)	: 1945-1966
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 box
Name of creator(s)	: SS Parthia
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The PARTHIA was one of the first passenger ships entering service for Cunard from their pos-war building programme, launched on 25 Feb 1947 and making her maiden voyage, from Liverpool to New York, on 10 Apr 1948. In Jul 1961, following the decline of sea-travel to the USA, she was sold to the New Zealand Shipping Co, a P and O subsidiary, and renamed the REMURA, in 1965 sold on to the Eastern Australian Steamship Co and renamed the ARAMAC, and sold finally in 1969 when it to Kaohsiung for scrap.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

SS PARTHIA Surgeon's Memorandum Book, 1945-1966: memoranda relating to duties of ship's surgeons and other medical personnel on Cunard liner SS PARTHIA.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Single item

Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

The surgeon's memorandum book was apparently returned to Cunard at the time of the first sale, 1961, and the entry of relevant memoranda to surgeons and related staff kept up to date to 1966.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre in August 1997 by Captain R W Warwick, Marine Superintendant, Cunard Line Ltd.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Cunard Line archives including a complete set of all surgeon's memorandum books, are at the University of Liverpool Library.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

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:
Jun 2008