Catalogue description Transport Board and successors: Records

This series consists for the most part of documents accumulated by the Transport Board, and thereafter of the transport organisations conducted by the Navy Board and Board of Admiralty. The documents comprise: In-Letters, 1773 to 1829; letters from the Admiralty, Treasury etc. Out-Letters, 1795 to 1817. Minutes, 1794 to 1829. These are generally in the nature of registers of the In-Letters and Out-Letters; Miscellaneous, 1793 to 1837. Ships and freight ledgers, papers, entry books and ledgers relating to the hire of ships at Hamburg and charter parties of the ships, 1795 to 1797; pay books of persons employed, printed rules, a claim Branch precedent book, and letter books of the Transport Office at Deal, 1796 to 1816.

Later records of the Transport Board's successors up to 1917 are in:

MT 23

MT 31