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Series
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Certificates of Service, Engineers,...
Catalogue reference: BT 140
What's it about?
BT 140
Registers of Certificates of Service of engineers examined in the colonies, 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....
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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BT 140
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Certificates of Service, Engineers, Colonial
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Date (When the record was created)
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1870-1921
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Description (What the record is about)
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Registers of Certificates of Service of engineers examined in the colonies, 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 in the registers.
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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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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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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)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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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)
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3 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open unless otherwise stated
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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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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/C3178/
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Certificates of Service, Engineers, Colonial
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