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Series
Board of Trade: Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and predecessor: Registers...
Catalogue reference: BT 128
What's it about?
BT 128
Registers of Certificates of Competency of masters and mates after examinations in colonial ports kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and its predecessor.These certificates were separately registered as there was a delay 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 128
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and predecessor: Registers of Certificates of Competency, Masters and Mates, Colonial
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1833-1934
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registers of Certificates of Competency of masters and mates after examinations in colonial ports kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and its predecessor.
These certificates were separately registered as there was a delay in reporting them to London.
There are no details of service.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The certificates are entered under the colony and port of certification, and numerically thereafter.
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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)
- 21 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Available in microform only
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2001 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
- Trade and commerce
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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)
- There are references to these series in the indexes in BT 127 and BT 141, which usually give the certificate number a prefix, such as 'C' for Canada or 'NSW' for New South Wales, from which the entry can be identified.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3166/
Catalogue hierarchy
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Within the department: BT
Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies
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Board of Trade: Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and predecessor: Registers of Certificates of Competency, Masters and Mates, Colonial
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