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National Maritime Museum

Merchant Shipping: Historical Records


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 HSR/M-O

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Merchant Shipping: Historical Records

Date(s): [19th century-20th century]

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 6 items

Name of creator(s): Various

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

This category includes single documents concerned with particular events relating to merchant shipping. Among the six items are an account by a passenger of an eventful voyage in 1829 in the ISAAC HICKS from Liverpool to New York; and a small diary of a voyage in a deep-sea trawler, the BELGAUM of Grimsby, in 1964.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

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, Jul 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
Merchant shipping | Maritime transport | Transport
Ships | Vehicles | Transport
Shipping
Water transport

Personal names

Corporate names

Places
Liverpool | Lancashire | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
New York | USA | North America