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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists, Series II
Catalogue reference: BT 400
What’s it about?
This record is about the Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists, Series II dating from 1915.
Is it available online?
Maybe, but not on The National Archives website. This record is held at National Maritime Museum.
Can I see it in person?
Not at The National Archives, but you may be able to view it in person at National Maritime Museum.
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 400
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists, Series II
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1915
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of 87 per cent of the surviving Crew Lists and agreements with log-books where they survive for 1915.
The remaining Crew Lists for 1915 are at Kew in record series BT 99 and BT 100.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Records relating to vessels are mostly arranged chronologically and then by official ships number. Some records have been arranged chronologically and then alphabetically by ships name; these mostly relate to fishing boats and ships with provisional registration. The crew is then listed at item level.
The records for a voyage should be found under the year in which the ship returned to a UK port (for foreign trade vessels) or when the half-yearly return was filed (home trade and fishing vessels). When the voyage ends near the end of a year it would be prudent to search the boxes for the next year as well.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Records for the period 1939-1950 are housed at Kew and are mostly to be found in series: BT 380 BT 381
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- National Maritime Museum
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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)
- Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, 1872-1992
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 678 bundles and volumes
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Restrictions on use (Information on restrictions to the use or reproduction of the material)
- These records are held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, with the series reference RSS/CL/ and then the same piece number as in BT 400 (e.g. so BT 400/3356 will be RSS/CL/3356, and so on).
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- No records held at The National Archives for this series
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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
- Shipping
- Merchant seaman
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is not accruing.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- This series contains the Crew Lists and Agreements for 1915 that are held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. In 1970 when the original appraisal of these records took place the Museum agreed to take a percentage of the Crew Lists for 1861, 1862 and a selection for 1891-1913 as well as all the remaining Crew Lists where the year ends in 5 that were not housed at Kew, between 1865 and 1965 but all surviving records for 1945 are held at Kew. A Joint project between The National Archives and the National Maritime Museum to list 100% of the Crew Lists for 1915 led to the creation of the BT 400 series. Because only the Crew Lists for 1915 are listed in this series the first piece number is BT 400/3356 and the series runs to BT 400/4033.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The 1850 Act required all foreign and home trade crew agreements to be shown to the Collector or Comptroller of Customs before clearance outwards, and to be delivered to the Port Shipping Master or to Customs upon clearance inwards (section 50 of the Act). Home trade crew agreements were required to be delivered half-yearly.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C18769/
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists, Series II
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