Catalogue description Records of Eskdale, Smales and Cato, Shipbuilders

This record is held by Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society

Details of 0137
Reference: 0137
Title: Records of Eskdale, Smales and Cato, Shipbuilders
Description:

This collection comprises an account book bearing a twentieth century label identifying it as a wages book relating to Peter Cato's shipyard at Salt Pan Yard, Church Street. Internal evidence, however, suggests that these accounts relate to the shipbuilders Eskdale, Smales and Cato. It records disbursements, cash in hand and bank balances.
Date: 1802-1810
Held by: Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Eskdale, Smales and Cato, ship builders of Whitby, North Riding of Yorkshire
Physical description: 1 item
Access conditions:

Open
Subjects:
  • Whitby, North Riding of Yorkshire
  • Shipbuilding industry
Administrative / biographical background:

This collection was deposited in July 1961.

 

In the 1790s Ingram Eskdale occupied a shipyard above Spittal Bridge, later the site of the Whitehall Shipyard, and Peter Cato a Salt Pan Yard, at the bottom of Green Lane. It was the former site that was occupied by Eskdale, Smales and Cato.
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