Catalogue description Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists, Series IV, Fishing Agreements

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Reference: BT 144
Title: Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Agreements and Crew Lists, Series IV, Fishing Agreements
Description:

This series contains a ten per cent sample of the agreements for fishing vessels under eighty tons kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen.

Date: 1884-1929
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, 1872-1992

Physical description: 280 box(es)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Administrative / biographical background:

Under the Merchant Shipping (Fishing Boats) Act 1883, special arrangements were introduced for fishing vessels under eighty tons, and the agreements, etc, were filed separately.

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