Catalogue description Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen (Beaumaris, Anglesey) Records

This record is held by Archifau Ynys Mon / Anglesey Archives

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Title: Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen (Beaumaris, Anglesey) Records
Description:

Records of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen for the port of Beaumaris, Anglesey, 1863-1913, comprising mainly crew lists and log books.
Date: 1863-1913
Arrangement:

Arranged alphabetically by name of ship
Held by: Archifau Ynys Mon / Anglesey Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, Port of Beaumaris
Physical description: 0.901 cubic metres
Restrictions on use:

Usual copyright regulations apply
Access conditions:

No restrictions
Immediate source of acquisition:

Transferred from the Public Record Office per Keeper of the Public Records.
Custodial history:

The Public Record Office retained a 10% sample for each year. Records for the year 1865 and all other years ending in the digit 5 were transferred to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London.
Selection and destruction information:

All records transferred to the Archifdy Ynys Mon/Anglesey County Record Office have been retained
Accruals:

Accruals are not expected
Subjects:
  • Anglesey, Wales
  • Merchant seamen
  • Merchant shipping
Unpublished finding aids:

Hard copies of the catalogue are available at Archifdy Ynys Môn/Anglesey County Record Office. Copies held in the National Library of Wales and the National Register of Archives. It is the policy of Gwasanaeth Archifdy Ynys Môn/Anglesey County Archives Service to catalogue in the language of the document.
Administrative / biographical background:

On Anglesey, the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen recorded merchant ships registered at the port of Beaumaris. Crew lists note the tonnage, owner and master of each ship, destination of voyages, occasional details of cargoes and the names, age, place of birth and wages of each crew member. The Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen was established by the Merchant Shipping Act 1872, when the Registrar General of Seamen took over responsibility for returns relating to the registration of ships from the Board of Customs' Chief Registrar of Shipping. Beaumaris was the principal port of North Wales until the Port of Caernarfon was established and in the second half of the 19th century was home to around 250 vessels. Many of these were involved in the transport of goods, importing coal and timber and exporting copper and other ores, slate and marble.
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