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Series
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists, Series III
Catalogue reference: BT 100
What's it about?
BT 100
This series comprises agreements and crew lists (with log books where they survive), for certain celebrated ships, kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. Contains some records accessioned into this series in error and otherwise in...
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 100
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists, Series III
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1835-1999
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises agreements and crew lists (with log books where they survive), for certain celebrated ships, kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. Contains some records accessioned into this series in error and otherwise in BT 381.
With the exception of the Caronia (1948-1964), records for the period 1939-1950 have been temporarily retained by the Registry of Shipping and Seamen. For each of these ships most of the surviving documents have been preserved in this series. Where there are gaps please consult our research guide on 'Merchant Navy ships’ records: crew lists, musters and log books' for advice.
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Note (Additional information about the record)
- Researchers of celebrated ships should preferably search online, using the ship's official number and constraining the search to department BT
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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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- General Register and Record Office of Seamen, 1835-1872
- Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, 1872-1992
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1584 boxes and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1971 Department of Trade and Industry
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- It is recommended that readers check BT 99 for agreements and crew lists of certain celebrated ships.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- Documents relating to merchant ships identified from time to time as 'celebrated' by the Registry.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3141/
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