Record revealed
Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
This affidavit is testament to the lengths enslaved African people went to in seeking their freedom.
Series
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Changes of Names of Ships
Catalogue reference: BT 374
What's it about?
BT 374
This series consists of registers recording changes of names of ships that are on the Register of Shipping maintained by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen (and from 1992, the Registry of Shipping and Seamen).Each entry gives the...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 374
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Changes of Names of Ships
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1959-1996
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of registers recording changes of names of ships that are on the Register of Shipping maintained by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen (and from 1992, the Registry of Shipping and Seamen).
Each entry gives the following information about the ship: present name; present port of registry and Official Number; proposed name and port of re-registry; date of admission to the new registry; and name and address of owners.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Chronological
Each volume has an alphabetical index of ships names at the front.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, 1872-1992
- Registry of Shipping and Seamen, 1992-1992
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 12 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Merchant seaman
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- All volumes selected for preservation
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15144/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
2,676,785 records
Within the department: BT
Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Changes of Names of Ships
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