SHIPPING

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 O/456
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full 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 & 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.

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

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

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:
July to October 2009