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Catalogue description Board of Trade, Merchant Shipping Records
This record is held by Lincolnshire Archives
| Reference: | PRO/MSR |
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| Title: | Board of Trade, Merchant Shipping Records |
| Description: |
Accounts of voyages and crew agreements for ships registered at Boston and Gainsborough, 1861-1913, extracted from Board of Trade files at P.R.O., Hayes depository, and transferred to Lincoln, 28 July, 1971. Gainsborough 1863-1881, 1 box Boston 1863 1864 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1876 1877 1878 1879 sample 1880 1881 sample 1882 sample 1883 sample 1884 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 small sample 1891 small sample 1892 small sample 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 27 boxes. Fishing vessel crew agreements 1886-1913. 14 boxes The P.R.O. is preserving a ten per cent random sample, which includes a number of Boston ships, varying from year to year. The National Maritime Museum has received on deposit the remaining records for 1861, 1862, 1865, 1875, 1885, 1895, 1905, and records of unregistered ships for all years. Records remaining after extraction of local records are to be preserved in Newfoundland. These will inevitably include a significant number of records for ships registered at Lincolnshire ports, for the lists of official numbers compiled from the Port Registers, were found by experience to be incomplete. The time available permitted only partial selection, and it was thought best to concentrate on obtaining good coverage for runs of years at the beginning and end of the period, and for a few years in the middle. |
| Date: | 1863-1913 |
| Related material: |
Records of Grimsby ships have been extracted for the same years as Boston, and these are to be deposited in Grimsby Borough Archives. |
| Held by: | Lincolnshire Archives, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 42 boxes |
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