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Board of Trade: Fisheries Department and successors: Returns of Fishing Boats
Catalogue reference: BT 145
What's it about?
BT 145
These records of the Fisheries Department contain entries of the annual returns made by ports of the fishing boats on their registers and contain details of the names numbers and tonnages of all fishing boats and cover five year periods.
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 145
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Trade: Fisheries Department and successors: Returns of Fishing Boats
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Date (When the record was created)
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1887-1938
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Description (What the record is about)
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These records of the Fisheries Department contain entries of the annual returns made by ports of the fishing boats on their registers and contain details of the names numbers and tonnages of all fishing boats and cover five year periods.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Some fishing boats were registered under the provisions relating to the main Register of Merchant Ships in Part 1 of the Act. In these cases a distinction is made in the list and the relevant part is shown in brackets.
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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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- Board of Trade, Fisheries and Harbour Department, 1898-1904
- Board of Trade, Fisheries Department, 1886-1898
- Board of Trade, Harbour Department, 1904-1918
- Board of Trade, Public Utilities and Harbour Department, 1918-1919
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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689 files and volumes
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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
- Fishing
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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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Section 373 (2) of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 (Part 4) states that every fishing boat shall be lettered and numbered and have official papers and shall for that purpose be entered in the Fishing Boat Register; and section 373 (5) authorises the making of regulations relating to the adoption of any existing system of registry or lettering and numbering of boats.
Statutory Rules and Orders 1927 No. 642 (Regulation 10 (2)) places an obligation on Registrars to forward annually to the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen a list of all boats which have appeared on the Register during the preceding year.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3183/
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Board of Trade: Fisheries Department and successors: Returns of Fishing Boats
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