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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Passes and Renewals of Skippers' and...
This series contains registers kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen recording passes and renewals of certificates of competency for fishing officers (skippers and 2nd hands).
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1883-1959
- Reference
- BT 396
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers and Statistics of Passes and Renewals...
This series contains registers kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen recording passes and renewals of certificates of competency for masters and mates for foreign-going and home-trade vessels.The registers contain the following details…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1913-1977
- Reference
- BT 317
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Daily Casualty Registers and Index to Ships, War...
This series contains daily casualty registers from the Second World War, kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen.The registers record the daily ship casualties mainly due to enemy action but also including other routine causes of losses …
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1940-1945
- Reference
- BT 347
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages of Passengers...
This series consists of registers compiled from ships' official logs of births, deaths and marriages of passengers at sea by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and its predecessor. Electronic images of these records can be searched online t…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1854-1890
- Reference
- BT 158
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- Catalogue level
- Series
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Rolls of Honour, Wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945
Volumes which lists the dead, and missing presumed dead, from the ranks of the merchant marine fleets during the wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945.
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1866-1970
- Reference
- BT 339
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists, Series II
This series consists of a ten per cent sample of agreements and crew lists (with log-books where they survive) for the years 1861-1938, 1951-1994. Agreements and crew lists for the period 1939-1950 are generally in BT 380 and BT 381, but some are in …
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1861-1994
- Reference
- BT 99
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- Series
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Royal Naval Reserve Ratings' Records of Service...
This series contains microfiche copies of service record cards of Royal Naval Reserve ratings, mainly covering men who served during the First World War, maintained by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. Digital copies of Royal Naval Reserv…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1908-1958
- Reference
- BT 377
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Central Register of Seamen: Seamen's Records ('Pouches')
Records relating to individual seamen filed together in a pouch. These documents may include application forms (most with a photograph of the seaman), certificates, identity cards, cessation documents and notifications of death. The contents of any …
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1913-1972
- Reference
- BT 372
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Ships' Official Logs
This series contains ships' official logs kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and its predecessor.The logs are primarily concerned with matters of discipline, and were normally attached to the Articles of Agreement for the voyage to …
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1857-1972
- Reference
- BT 165
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- Series
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Register of Seamen, Central Index, Numerical Series...
This series contains a microfiche copy of the CR 2 Central Index cards to the register of Seamen which was kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen. Each card typically gives the following information: discharge A number; certificate of c…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1921-1941
- Reference
- BT 348
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Precedent Books, Establishment Papers, etc.
This series contains miscellaneous material from the Registrar General's office, which does not belong with the main series of registers, etc, from that office. The records include historical material on the administration and organisation of the var…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1702-1993
- Reference
- BT 167
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Inquiries into Deaths at Sea: Papers and Reports
This series contains the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen's files on inquiries into deaths at sea under sections 386 and 690 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1894. The files contain correspondence, papers and reports regarding deaths at sea and i…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1939-1995
- Reference
- BT 341
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: War of 1939-1945; Combined Office Merchant Navy...
These records detail the sea service record of merchant seamen engaged in the liberation of Europe (6 June 1944 to 8 May 1945). They give the seaman's name, discharge 'A' number, rank or rating and qualifications together with details of the ships on…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1944-1945
- Reference
- BT 391
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists, Series I
This series contains surviving muster rolls from 1747, agreements, 1835-1860, and official log books kept by the General Register and Record Office of Seamen.A few of the official log books survive from about 1852, but it was not until 1854 that mast…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1747-1860
- Reference
- BT 98
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Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Appropriation Registers
The Appropriation Registers record the allocation of an official number to ships registered in the UK and Dependant Territories. They document the ship's official number; name of the ship; tonnage; steam/sail; port of registration and date of registr…
- Held by
- Date
- 1837-1987
- Reference
- BT 388
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- Catalogue level
- Series
Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Transcripts and Transactions, Registries
Information forwarded from each port to the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, detailing ships' initial registration (transcript) and subsequent amendments (transactions).The papers include the official numbers allocated by the Registrar Gener…
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- 1994
- Reference
- BT 340
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- Catalogue level
- Item
Goodwin George Frederick Birkenhead 1892
GoodwinGeorge FrederickBirkenhead1892
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- [1914-1925]
- Reference
- BT 351/1/52405
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- Catalogue level
- Item
Honey Edwin Geo Guernsey 1888
HoneyEdwin GeoGuernsey1888
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- [1914-1925]
- Reference
- BT 351/1/64603
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- Catalogue level
- Item
Holbeck Niel Peter Kristian Sillerslev, Denmark 1894
HolbeckNiel Peter KristianSillerslev, Denmark1894
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- [1914-1925]
- Reference
- BT 351/1/63944
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- Catalogue level
- Item
Gommo Edwin Bristol 1892
GommoEdwinBristol1892
- Held by
- The National Archives, Kew
- Date
- [1914-1925]
- Reference
- BT 351/1/52129