Records of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and successorBT 3171913-1977Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Registers and Statistics of Passes and Renewals of Certificates of Competency of Masters and Mates
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: Date application received; Number of certificate of competency; Name of seaman; Grade; Port of examination (where the examination was held); When (examination was held); Port sent to (Marine Office certificate was sent to and Date (Certificate was collected from the Marine Office).
The registers also record replacements for lost certificates of competency. Some of the registers contain examination passings in Steam and Compass Deviation, and statistical tables of the numbers of candidates who attempted the various examinations to become masters, mates and engineers.