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Extracted Ships' Logs: Ship's name Indian Official Number 113436 Date of Voyage 15...
Catalogue reference: BT 165/292
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This record is about the Extracted Ships' Logs: Ship's name Indian Official Number 113436 Date of Voyage 15... dating from 1907 in the series Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Ships' Official Logs. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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BT 165/292
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Date (When the record was created)
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1907
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Description (What the record is about)
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Extracted Ships' Logs:
Ship's name Indian Official Number 113436 Date of Voyage 15 March 1907- 25 May 1907.
Ship's name Montgomeryshire Official Number 113454 Date of Voyage 28 September 1906 - 12 March 1907.
Ship's name Suevic Official Number 113456 Date of Voyage 22 November 1906 - 17 March 1907.
Ship's name Zeeland Official Number 113460 Date of Voyage 16 February 1907 - 12 March 1907, 16 March 1907 - 11 December 1907 (7 separate logs).
Ship's name Kano Official Number 113462 Date of Voyage 10 February 1906 - 13 August 1907.
Ship's name Abeokuta Official Number 113464 Date of Voyage 20 November 1906 - 20 February 1907.
Ship's name Peleus Official Number 113467 Date of Voyage 4 May 1907 - 13 September 1907.
Ship's name Indralema Official Number 113469 Date of Voyage 18 May 1907 - 16 October 1907.
Ship's name Barbary Official Number 113472 Date of Voyage 11 December 1906 - 1 April 1907.
Ship's name Celtic Official Number 113476 Date of Voyage 2 January 1907 - 15 April 1907 and 5 September 1907 - 30 September 1907 (2 separate logs).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Navy
- Merchant seaman
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1732151/
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BT 165
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Ships' Official Logs
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Within the series: BT 165
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Ships' Official Logs
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Extracted Ships' Logs: Ship's name Indian Official Number 113436 Date of Voyage 15...
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