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Series
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Apprentices' Indentures for Fishing
Catalogue reference: BT 152
What's it about?
BT 152
This series comprises apprentices' indentures for fishing kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen.
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 152
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Apprentices' Indentures for Fishing
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1895-1935
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises apprentices' indentures for fishing kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen.
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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)
- Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, 1872-1992
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 9 box(es)
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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
- Labour
- Fishing
- Merchant seaman
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Unpublished finding aids (A note of unpublished indexes, lists or guides to the record)
- An index for this series is in BT 150
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- These records are specimens selected at five year intervals.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3190/
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