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  • Catalogue level
    Series

    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
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    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
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    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
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    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
  • 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
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    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
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    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
  • Catalogue level
    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
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    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
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    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
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    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
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    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
  • Catalogue level
    Series

    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
  • 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
  • Catalogue level
    Item

    Goodwin George Frederick Birkenhead 1892

    GoodwinGeorge FrederickBirkenhead1892

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    [1914-1925]
    Reference
    BT 351/1/52405
  • Catalogue level
    Item

    Honey Edwin Geo Guernsey 1888

    HoneyEdwin GeoGuernsey1888

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    [1914-1925]
    Reference
    BT 351/1/64603
  • 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
  • Catalogue level
    Item

    Gommo Edwin Bristol 1892

    GommoEdwinBristol1892

    Held by
    The National Archives, Kew
    Date
    [1914-1925]
    Reference
    BT 351/1/52129

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