Record revealed
Affidavit describing the uprising of enslaved people onboard the Bedford
This affidavit is testament to the lengths enslaved African people went to in seeking their freedom.
Series
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists, Series IV, Fishing Agreements
Catalogue reference: BT 144
What's it about?
BT 144
This series contains a ten per cent sample of the agreements for fishing vessels under eighty tons kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- BT 144
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists, Series IV, Fishing Agreements
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1884-1929
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series contains a ten per cent sample of the agreements for fishing vessels under eighty tons kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen.
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
- English
-
Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, 1872-1992
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 280 box(es)
-
Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
-
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))
-
- Topics
- Shipping
- Fishing
- Merchant seaman
-
Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
-
Under the Merchant Shipping (Fishing Boats) Act 1883, special arrangements were introduced for fishing vessels under eighty tons, and the agreements, etc, were filed separately.
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3182/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
2,676,785 records
Within the department: BT
Records of the Board of Trade and of successor and related bodies
You are currently looking at the series: BT 144
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists, Series IV, Fishing Agreements
You may be interested in
-
-
Focus on
Blood in the Wear: The Sunderland Sailors' Strike and the North Sands Massacre of August 1825
Records of a coroner’s inquest on the body of the sailor Thomas Aird reveal details of a little-known seamen’s strike that was brutally suppressed. -
Focus on
Smuggling gangs and coastal policing in 19th-century England
Following the Napoleonic Wars, smuggling became a major concern for the British government.
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.