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Series
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Deaths at Sea of British Nationals
Catalogue reference: BT 159
What's it about?
BT 159
This series contains registers of deaths at sea of British nationals kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. From 1874, the RGSS was required to report births and deaths at sea, aboard all ships registered in Britain or its colonies...
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 159
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Title (The name of the record)
- Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Deaths at Sea of British Nationals
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1875-1888
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registers of deaths at sea of British nationals kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen.
From 1874, the RGSS was required to report births and deaths at sea, aboard all ships registered in Britain or its colonies and on foreign-registered ships carrying passengers to or from the UK, to the Registrars General of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland (the General Register Offices). The name of this series is misleading as it includes events related to persons of any nationality, not just British nationals. It should also cover events on foreign-registered passenger ships travelling to or from an UK port, but there is little evidence of this in the registers themselves.
There are separate volumes for England, Scotland and Ireland corresponding to the GRO to whom the details were to be reported. The registers for Scotland and Ireland contain details where the deceased was a 'Scotch or Irish subject of Her Majesty'. The registers for England include all events not reported to the GROs for Scotland and Ireland and thus contain entries for foreign nationals as well as those for English and Welsh subjects.
Electronic images of these records can be searched online through our partner website.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Registers of Birth at Sea of British Nationals, 1875-1891 are in BT 160
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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)
- 10 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Available in digital format only
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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3197/
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
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Deaths at Sea of British Nationals
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