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Major accessions to repositories in 2023 relating to Maritime |
Local
- Aberdeen Steam Fishing Vessels' Owners' Association Ltd: records incl memorandum and articles of association, minutes, resolutions, registers of members and directors, financial records and lists of the Aberdeen fishing fleet, with records rel to the Scottish Trawlers’ Federation 1902-1990 (DD3295)
- Treasurer of HM Navy: quietus accounts 1693-1717 (D/EZ217acc11064)
- Port of Bristol Authority: maritime and river surveys incl for Avonmouth, Royal Edward Dock, Royal Portbury Dock, and Denny Shoal; plans of river and port authority land, Cumberland Basin to Bristol Channel, and Cumberland Basin to Hanham Lock; maps and plans rel to wrecks and obstructions; and plans rel to signal stations; plans rel to bridges c1820-1990 (46912)
- Underfall Yard, Bristol Floating Harbour: records incl harbour level records; reports; ledgers; information leaflets for boat owners; notes regarding buildings; general maritime booklets 1894-2013 (46874)
- H.M. Coastguard Devon: CG-19 incident records [operations log books] for the following coastguard stations: Beer, 1975-2015, station record book, 1960 (4 boxes, & part of 2 boxes); Berry Head, 1984-2013 (1 box, & part of 2 boxes); Bigbury, 1988-2004 (2 boxes); Brixham, 1981, 1984-1985 (part of 2 boxes); Dartmouth, 1977-2012, mail register 1980-1981 (4 boxes); Exmouth, 1978-2011 (4 boxes); Hope Cove, 1971-2016, including Gara Point, 1984-1989, station record books, 1895-1988, (9 boxes); Prawle Point, 1982-2013, including Yealm Mobile, 1984-1990 (4 boxes); Paignton, 1976-1981 (1 box); Torbay, 1983-2010 (2 boxes); Yealm, 1983-2014 (2 boxes) 1895-2016 (CGD)
- UK Hydrographic Office: Admiralty Survey chart no 1613. Prawle Point to Straight Point 1955 (ZBJJ)
- Lewis Parkyn collection, records rel to Brownsea Island where Lewis Parkyn was a Voluntary Warden: minutes, annual and conservation reports; photographs, maps, sales particulars, corresp, theatre programmes and audio-visual material 1963-2022 (D-3351)
- Chummy Northover Seine Fishing: records rel to the Seine Fishery on Chesil Beach at Chickerell incl correp, informal accounts, purchase and sale receipts, photographs and other records c1900-2000 (D-3333)
- Log books of the fishing boats 'Sparkling Foam' and 'Kathleen' 1955-1984 (A15982)
- Peter Dielhenn, (1931-2023), of Ilford and Felsted: papers and photographs relating to his service as youngest crew member on HMT Empire Windrush; and photograph albums of local buildings works, including completed interior for Fox and Hounds Hotel, Walden Road, Thaxted 1947-1990 (A16178)
- Sharpness Coastguard: log books and incident books 1985-2007 (16446)
- Ringrose and Sons, shipping: bills of lading regarding goods shipped from Rotterdam to Hull, mostly rel to vessels of Ringrose and Sons 1886-1889 (C DIHB)
- HM Coastguard: station and operations logs 1950-2019 (B1498)
- Maritime and Coastguard Agency: Somerset Coastguard Rescue Teams' station logbooks for Burnham, Clevedon, Minehead, Portishead, Porlock, Watchet and Weston c1960-2016 (A/FCO)
- Middle Docks and Engineering Co Ltd, South Shields: apprentices book and yard manager's diaries 1920s-1980s (6060)
- John Readhead & Sons Ltd, shipbuilders, South Shields: data book of ship numbers 1865-1971 (6054)
- William Denny & Brothers Ltd, shipbuilders and marine engineers: technical drawings and operating manuals for M.V. Koolama/Grain Trader c1958-1979 (ACCN2023/4)
- Cammell Laird, shipbuilders: ledgers and albums of newspaper cuttings 1902-1980 (2539)
- Cammell Laird, shipbuilders: salary ledgers 1896-1972 (2537)
National
- Photographs of the foundation of Scotstoun Shipbuilding Yard, Glasgow c1904 (2023/99)
- Papers relating to a maritime commission, sale of a vessel and privateer accounts 1806-1836 (2023-005)
- Archibald Duff (1773-1858), Vice Admiral: naval log books (3) and one letter copy book for ships under the command of Vice Admiral Duff 1807-1814 (Acc.14510)
- Henry Dundas (1742-1811), 1st Viscount Melville, statesman: Admiralty ledger, preserved by Henry Dundas 1802 (Acc.14578)
- Nina Baker (b1954), Merchant Navy's first female navigating cadet: collection of personal papers rel to Baker joining the Merchant Navy, incl letters of rejection and acceptance, uniform list, study workbooks; material rel to her membership of the Sea Rangers as a girl and her participation in a school cruise which helped to form her interest in the sea c1970 (REG20/000057 (Uncatalogued))
- Riddle family of Northumberland: papers of the family, mostly rel to Edward Riddle (1788-1854), mathematician and astronomer, his son John Riddle (1816-1862), headmaster of Greenwich Hospital schools, and Edward Riddle (1845-1907), engineer, incl letters (140) from Edward Riddle (1845-1907) to his wife, Charlotte Jane (Charley) Lucas, sent during numerous cable laying expeditions for which he was often the engineer in charge, 1870-1891, which provide details of life on board ship and ashore in foreign places, and rare first-hand accounts of cable laying operations, in locations incl Singapore, Shanghai, Lisbon, Venice, Suez, Manila and Malta 1831-1891 (REG23/000002 (Uncatalogued))
- Judith A. Herbert (fl1977-1978), represented the UK in the second Whitbread Round the World Race: private diary, hand-written in four parts, kept while on board the racing yacht TRAITé DE ROME during the race, between August 1977 and April 1978; also incl a printed version of the diary, self-published, 2017 1977-2017 (REG21/000228 (Uncatalogued))
- Nina Baker (b1954), Merchant Navy's first female navigating cadet: personal papers incl British Seaman’s Card, Certificate of Radiotelephony, Seaman’s Discharge Book, record book, and Certificate of Discharge c1970 (REG20/000106 (Uncatalogued))
- Boxed ephemera relating to the Priddy's Hard Place of Deposit collection 1700-1990 (POD 1)
- Joseph Gartside, (fl1853-1870), businessman and passenger: voyage journal of a trip to Pennsylvania, USA. Passenger on vessels City of Glasgow and City of Manchester 1853-1870 (DX/2697)
- Newstead(?) Garnett, (fl1855), passenger on vessel Tamaulipas: mss book of a voyage on board Tamaulipas, Captain Horsfall, voyage from Liverpool to Gibraltar, Malta and Alexandra 1855 (DX/2712)
- Robert Lancelot Buchanan, (fl1922-1923), passenger: voyage diary on board Ortega, PSNC, Liverpool - South America - Liverpool 1922-1923 (DX/2702)
- Letters from M I (Marc Isambard?) Brunel, Thomas Telford and William Jessop, engineers to John Foster, Dock Architect, Liverpool 1800-1823 (DX/2703)
University
- John Henry Godfrey (1888-1971), Admiral: family and other correspondence, photographs 20th cent (GDFY, acc 2295)
- Ellerman's Wilson Line (EWL): wages account book for "Gay Corsair" and file for "Fort St. James" c1940-1949 (U DX417)
- Sir Edward Francis Benedict Charlton (1865-1937), Knight, Admiral: photographs and copy letters home rel to his service in the Royal Navy, incl the bombing of Alexandria, Egypt, 1882, and travels to countries incl South Africa, Angola, Sierra Leone, Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea 1881-1918 (Acc 4047)
- Lt Richard Roberts (1803-41), RN: naval account book, for the HMS Eden, which was operating against slaving ships off the coast of Africa 1830-1837 (IE TCD MS 11686)
- Log book of the brig Wanderer of Whitehaven, Cumberland 1848-52 (IE TCD MS 11687)
- Archive of The Heathens (Cunard): RMS Mauretania 'secret society' papers 20th cent (2023.051)
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