Catalogue description Board of Trade, Merchant Shipping Records

Accounts of voyages and crew agreements for ships registered at Boston and Gainsborough, 1861-1913, extracted from Board of Trade files at P.R.O., Hayes depository, and transferred to Lincoln, 28 July, 1971.

Gainsborough 1863-1881, 1 box

Boston 1863

1864

1866

1867

1868

1869

1870

1871

1872

1873

1874

1876

1877

1878

1879 sample

1880

1881 sample

1882 sample

1883 sample

1884

1886

1887

1888

1889

1890 small sample

1891 small sample

1892 small sample

1900

1901

1902

1903

1904

1906

1907

1908

1909

1910

1911

1912

1913 27 boxes.

Fishing vessel crew agreements 1886-1913. 14 boxes

The P.R.O. is preserving a ten per cent random sample, which includes a number of Boston ships, varying from year to year. The National Maritime Museum has received on deposit the remaining records for 1861, 1862, 1865, 1875, 1885, 1895, 1905, and records of unregistered ships for all years.

Records remaining after extraction of local records are to be preserved in Newfoundland. These will inevitably include a significant number of records for ships registered at Lincolnshire ports, for the lists of official numbers compiled from the Port Registers, were found by experience to be incomplete. The time available permitted only partial selection, and it was thought best to concentrate on obtaining good coverage for runs of years at the beginning and end of the period, and for a few years in the middle.

Records of Grimsby ships have been extracted for the same years as Boston, and these are to be deposited in Grimsby Borough Archives.

General Register and Record Office of Seamen, 1835-1872

Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, 1872-1992

• Boston, Lincolnshire
• Gainsborough, Lincolnshire
• Ships
• Merchant shipping

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