Code |
Description |
Date |
Keywords |
SMV |
Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol: records, 17th-20th cent. |
1600 - 1999 |
|
PBA |
Port of Bristol Authority: volumes relating to docks 1896-1938.
|
1896 - 1938 |
ports docks harbour |
P/XCH/D23 |
Postboy |
1738 |
ship |
Acc 41332 |
Bristol Sailors Home: minutes and financial records. |
1900 - 1999 |
welfare mariners |
AC/WO 9(9-13, 21) |
Financial papers regarding ownership of George of
Bristol, 1682
|
1682 |
ship |
AC/WO 9(8) |
Invoice for goods loaded onto the Concord of Bristol
for Virginia, and for provisions sent to Virginia for the use of the George,
1682
|
1682 |
cargo |
AC/WO 9(74a-f) |
Includes undertakings by shipowners to pay John Hugh Smyth
extra premium of insurance for the detention of the Hope and the Sally,
1768
|
1768 |
|
AC/WO 9(63) |
Insurance policy for the Charming Molly, master John
Barker, 5 July 1731
|
1731 |
ship |
AC/WO 9(49) |
Petition of Thomas Berry to the Commissioners of the Sea
Wall regarding repsonsibility for repairing 7 1/2 perches of the wall, n.d.
[?late seventeenth century]
|
1670 - 1700 |
|
AC/WO 9(26) |
Bill of exchange for £6 of the George of Bristol, 12
December 1693
|
1693 |
ship |
AC/WO 9(103) |
Bill of lading for goods shipped on the William and Mary by
Edward Archer and Joshua Groves for Speights Town, Barbadoes, 28 September 1733
|
1733 |
cargo |
AC/WO 9(102) |
Insurance policy for the ship William and Mary, 21
September 1733
|
1733 |
|
AC/WO 16 |
Letters with invoices and bills of ladings for Jamaican
sugar, late eighteenth century
|
1770 - 1800 |
cargo finance |
AC/VS 53(8-10) |
?, 1738
|
1738 |
|
AC/VS 104 (1) |
?, 1738
|
1738 |
|
AC/PL 63-4 |
Plans, 1792, 1803
|
1792 - 1803 |
|
AC/MU 3(9) |
Exeter, 1781
|
1781 |
ship |
AC/MU 3(7) |
Blaze Castle, merchant ship, 1772-3
|
1772 - 1773 |
|
AC/MU 3(2) |
Nancy,
1748 |
1748 |
ship |
AC/MU 3(12) |
Nelly, 1787
|
1787 |
ship |
AC/MU 3(1)(9) |
Misc. naval
documents, 1720, 1781
|
1720 - 1781 |
miscellaneous |
AC/MU 3(1) |
HMS Dartmouth, 1720
|
1720 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(9) |
The Prudent Sally, 1767
|
1767 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(8) |
Colston, 1767
|
1767 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(7) |
Patient Mary, 1767-8
|
1767 - 1768 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(5) |
Albany, 1765
|
1765 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(3) |
Gloucestershire, 1760
|
1760 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(22) |
Fanny of Bristol, 1786
|
1786 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(21) |
The Ann, merchant ship, 1785
|
1785 |
|
AC/MU 2(19) |
The Hellen Packet of Cork, 1784
|
1784 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(18) |
Druid, 1779
|
1779 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(17) |
Fanny, 1777-80, Haven of Cronstadt, Petersburg, Russia, 1777
|
1777 - 1778 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(15) |
Elizabeth and Mary, 1768
|
1768 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(14) |
Fair Trader, 1768
|
1768 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(13) |
Brittannia, merchant ship, 1768
|
1768 |
|
AC/MU 2(12) |
Eleanor, 1767-8
|
1767 - 1768 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(11) |
Celia, 1768
|
1768 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(10) |
The Hampton, 1767
|
1767 |
ship |
AC/MU 2(1) |
The Hamburgh Merchant, 1747
|
1747 |
ship |
AC/MU 1(8-9) |
Letter of John Smith, commander of the Clifton, from
Barbadoes to Ilfracombe, to Samuel Munckley & Co., owners, regarding
voyage, and wages book, 1762, also enclosing account of sales of goods,
invoices, list of debts, current ac |
1761 - 1762 |
merchants cargo finance |
AC/MU 1(40) & 2(6) |
Greyhound, 1767-73
|
1767 - 1773 |
ship |
AC/MU 1(31) |
Letter regarding import of Russian iron, 1773
|
1773 |
|
AC/MU 1(15 & 17) |
Bills of lading, 1773
|
1773 |
cargo |
AC/MU 1(11-13) |
Papers concerning the Hope, 1760-73, including cargoe
of negro slaves, mariners' wages, also cargo of sugar onboard the Byron,
1773
|
1760 - 1773 |
|
AC/JS 92 |
Papers regarding the Naval Bill, 1758
|
1758 |
navy |
AC/JS 53(7-18) |
Rex & Hopkins v. Thomas |
1700 - 1740 |
Bristol Case lawsuit |
AC/JS 53(6) |
Letter of Edmund Sanders to Jarrit Smith
concerning proceedings against the owners of the Aurora and the Rainbow,
20 October 1737 |
1737 |
Bristol Case lawsuit |
AC/JS 53(4)a-k |
Court papers regarding the regarding the theft
of an anchor and the Boston Merchant, owned by Robert Smith and others,
1736 |
1736 |
Bristol Case lawsuit |
AC/JS 53(3)a-b |
Summons from the Mayor of Bristol against the
owners of the New Kent and the Stockton for bringing their ships
into the quay without a license, 1736 |
1736 |
Bristol Case lawsuit |
AC/JS 53(2) |
Draft declaration on the theft of an anchor at
Taunton, 1736 |
1736 |
Bristol Case lawsuit |
AC/JS 53(19-60) |
Lyde v. Hart |
1700 - 1740 |
Bristol Case lawsuit |
AC/JS 53(1-60) |
Papers regarding the `Bristol Case', early
eighteenth century, in which Bristol merchants objected to the right of the
Mayor to levy 40 shillings for each vessel of over 60 tons for the use of the
quay.
|
1700 - 1740 |
lawsuit ports |
AC/JS 53(1) |
Note on the distraint of an anchor from the Partridge,
1731 |
1731 |
Bristol Case lawsuit |
AC/JS 102(29) |
Petition of the widows of Naval Officers, n.d.
|
|
navy |
AC/JS 102(10) |
George Bonnell's plan for preventing smuggling,
12 March 1759 |
1759 |
|
AC/C61 |
Letters of John Lord Poulett to Thomas Smyth, includes
references to navy at Plymouth and the Admiral, 1635
|
1635 |
correspondence |
93(2)d |
Probate of will of Thomas Smith belonging to HM the
Mariner, 21 March 1740
|
1740 |
mariners |
8023 |
Shipbuilding
|
|
|
7959 |
Bill of sale of six shares in the St David of Bristol, steam
packet, between James Allen Jones, Bristol gent., executor of the will of William
Jones the younger of Bristol, merchant, and Robert Henry Webb, Bristol
merchant, 16 July 1833 |
1833 |
trade shipping |
7946 |
Annual accounts of the Bristol Dock Company, 1849-74
|
1849 - 1874 |
finance |
745 |
Deed for dock insurance for five years including Portishead
Docks & Tobacco Warehouses, 28 September 1934
|
1934 - 1939 |
ports commerce |
742 |
Fire Insurance Deed containing insurances, including
policies for Portishead Docks & Tobacco Warehouses, for five year period,
28 September 1934
|
1934 - 1939 |
ports commerce |
6690(2) |
Forfeited goods, 1738
|
1738 |
customs |
6536(1-13) |
Trustees of Seaman's Hospital
|
|
mariners finance administration |
5918(40)S |
See sched. ?, master mariner about to go on voyage to
African coast, c.1817
|
1817 |
|
4966(28)S |
Articles of partnership, C.H. & H. Williams, shipowners
and merchants, 1857
|
1857 |
shipping |
4547(1-3) |
Bills of sale of the Dispatch, 1830-2
|
1830 - 1832 |
ship |
4487(9) |
The John and Mary
|
|
ship |
44286 |
Fred Llewellyn, sailor: correspondence with family in Staple Hill, Bristol while on naval service, 1944-6.
|
1944 - 1946 |
seamen mariners |
44050 |
Bristol Harbour Festival: oral history interviews with people with Bristol-Nannover [sic], Bristol-Bordeaux twinning links 2007.
|
2007 |
Hannover Bordeaux Bristol harbour ports |
43659 |
Port of Bristol Authority: American cattle ledger and Bathurst Basin licenses book 1912-1929.
|
1912 - 1929 |
Bristol port harbour livestock |
43659 |
Documents relating to the shipping by L. Mendl & Co. of a cargo of maize and barley, in the Arbutus, from Ibrail to London, 1885.
|
1885 |
imports shipping trade Romania |
43651 |
Turner, Edwards & Co. Ltd., shipowners and ship brokers, Bristol: ephemera and photographs, 1952-66.
|
1952 - 1966 |
brokers ships shipowners |
43634 |
Jefferies (Avonmouth) Ltd., ship repairers: records 1800-2000.
|
1800 - 2000 |
shiprepairers companies |
43014 |
Port of Bristol Authority: records formerly at Underfall Yard, 20th century |
1900 - 1999 |
|
42968 |
Charles Hill & Sons Ltd., shipbuilders and repairers, shipowners, Bristol :addditonal records |
1970 - 1979 |
construction Companies |
42829 |
The Old Chequers and Bath Marina Boat Club: minutes, accounts and correspondence |
1948 - 2004 |
societies leisure sailing |
42785 |
Bristol Sailor's Home: additional records |
1979 - 1997 |
welfare mariners |
42696 |
P & A Campbell Ltd, steamship owners, Bristol: copy accounts and papers |
1908 - 1993 |
Companies transport |
42696 |
Bristol shipping registers : registration papers
|
1908 - 1993 |
|
40587 |
Records of the West of England Freight Terminal ltd, 1966-93
|
1966 - 1993 |
|
40556 |
Newspaper reports of Bristol Sailors' Home, 1883
|
1883 |
mariners aid |
40553/5 |
Photograph of PS Ravenswood,
n.d.
|
|
ship |
40525 |
National Dock Labour Board minutes, 1952-89
|
1952 - 1989 |
unions employers |
40514/1-2 |
Papers of T.J. Gyles, ship's engineer, 1912-35
|
1912 - 1935 |
mariners |
40491 |
Naval records of Arthur James Denman, 1920-49
|
1920 - 1949 |
mariners navy |
40479 |
Naval records of Edward Crissup, 1894-1928
|
1894 - 1928 |
mariners navy |
40474/8 |
Denbigh Castle rounding Cape Horn, Tierra Del Fuego, 1912
|
1912 |
|
40373 |
Autobiography of A.J. Brown, customs officer, 1889-1925
|
1889 - 1925 |
trade commerce tax |
40336/7 |
Menu of the Aquitania, Atlantic liner, 1925
|
1925 |
food |
40336/6 |
Ettrick, overturned in Avon, 1924
|
1924 |
ship |
40336/1,6 |
Naval operations, Belgium, 1918
|
1918 |
world war one europe |
40336/1 |
Glenart Castle, hospital ship, torpedoed, 1918
|
1918 |
|
40301 |
Diary of unknown writer, 1878, includes account of the wreck
of the Waterford Steam Navigation Company's vessel the Gipsy and its subsequent
destruction, 13-15 May and notice of the Royal Western Yacht Club Regatta
(Plymouth), 25 July
|
1868 |
travel journal |
40279/1 |
Mervin
|
1776 |
ship |
40272 |
Orion
|
|
ship |
40256 |
Piece of ribbon broken by yacht of Edward VII at
opening ceremony of Royal Edward dock, 1908, with covering letter |
1908 |
ports shipping royalty |
40232 |
Records of Turner Edwards & Co., ship owners and
brokers, nineteenth century, 20c
|
1800 - 1999 |
shipping |
40220 |
Towage journal of R & J.H. Rea, 1962-5
|
1962 - 1965 |
pilots |
40194/B/11 |
Dock labour scheme at Sharpness, 1941 |
1941 |
docks |
40194 |
Dock employees including registers, 1916-89
|
1916 - 1989 |
labour records |
40183/P/1 |
Diary of a voyage of the True
Briton, 1870
|
1870 |
travel literature |
40163/P/38 |
Miguel M. Gomez, sherry shipper, Cadiz, 1952
|
1952 |
merchant |
40163/F/7 |
Goods shipped to Ilfracombe, 1894
|
1894 |
trade |
40163/F/14 |
Cardiff & Bristol Channel Steamship Company, 1912
|
1912 |
|
40156 |
Article regarding privateers, 1913-14
|
1913 - 1914 |
naval |
40145/x/3, ? |
Society of Merchant Venturers, 1909
|
1909 |
trade |
40145/Ph/9(1) |
Plan showing limits of port and harbour of Bristol, 1932
|
1932 |
|
40145/Ph/8 |
Royal Marines Band, Portsmouth, 1893-4
|
1893 - 1894 |
naval musicians |
40140S |
Records of Campbell P & A Ltd, 1893-1971
|
1893 - 1971 |
|
40140/5(a)S |
Bill of sale of the Bonnie Doon, 1899
|
1899 |
ship |
40136/7 |
Actions, 1925-74
|
1925 - 1974 |
Admiralty Court |
40129/1a-b |
Register of marine stores, 1908-74 |
1908 - 1974 |
|
40128/2 |
Correspondence St Lucia, 1774
|
1774 |
|
40095/X/3 |
Centenary of the Great Western, 1938 |
1938 |
ship |
40095/T/8 |
Logbook of the Francis, 1889 |
1889 |
|
40095/Pr/26-44, T/27, & X/7 |
Bristol Shipping Staffs Asssociation, 1922-68
|
1922 - 1968 |
|
40095/Pr/24 |
Pilotage byelaws, 1928
|
1928 |
pilots law |
40095/PP/36 |
Hermes, 1976
|
1976 |
ship |
40095/L/36 |
Agreement, Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Ltd, 1963
|
1963 |
shipping |
40095/L/25 |
Agreement of Cunard Steamship Company, Ltd, 1950
|
1950 |
shipping |
40095/E/12 |
SS Cato, 1939-40
|
1939 - 1940 |
ship |
40095/0/6 |
Brunel, crew list, 1922
|
1922 |
mariners |
40095/0/5 |
Bristol Scout, crew list, 1927
|
1927 |
mariners |
40095/0/30-1 |
Crew lists of the Volunteer, ?
|
|
mariners |
40095/0/27 |
Crew lists of the Sea Queen, 1905-11
|
1905 - 1911 |
mariners |
40095/0/2-3 |
Avonmouth crew lists, 1906-38
|
1906 - 1938 |
mariners |
40095/0/19 |
Crew list of the Peri, n.d.
|
|
mariners |
40095/0/15 |
Crew list of the Lady Morgan, 1916
|
1916 |
mariners |
40095/0/14 |
Crew lists of the King, 1905-35
|
1905 - 1935 |
mariners |
40095/0/13 |
Crew list of John King, n.d.?
|
|
mariners |
40095/0/12 |
Iris, crew list, 1903
|
1903 |
mariners |
40095/0/11 |
Gem, crew list, 1880s
|
1880 - 1889 |
mariners |
40095 |
Records of C.J. King and Sons (Holdings), Ltd,
1850s-, see below for details |
1850 - 1860 |
|
40084/PC/6 |
Illustration of wreck of the Gipsy, 185??78
|
1850 - 1878 |
ship |
40084/NC/30 |
Article on plans for Portbury Dock |
|
development locks |
40068/1-3S |
Certificates of discharge |
1911 - 1940 |
mariners |
4005 |
Poems written onboard the White Eagle, 1861
|
1861 |
poetry |
40015/1 |
Deed, 1861
|
1861 |
trade |
40009 |
Lighthouse at mouth of Avon, c.1850
|
1850 |
Trinity House |
39951/2 |
Journal of a visit to Egypt, 1862
|
1862 |
travel |
39900 |
Ms volume relating to records of prize cargoes
at the port of Bristol, 1915-17 |
1915 - 1917 |
shipping |
39683(1) |
Royal Edward Dock, Avonmouth, opening 1908 |
1908 |
ports |
39654(3) |
Triton, 1770-1803 |
1770 - 1803 |
ship |
39654(2) |
Swift, 1759-60
|
1759 - 1760 |
ship |
39654 (4)S |
Druid, 1790-1803
|
1790 - 1803 |
ship |
39654 (2)S |
Nevis Planter,
1770-5, Sally, 1767-72 |
1767 - 1775 |
ship |
39654 (1)S |
Ruby, 1758-72
|
1758 - 1772 |
ship |
39458(1-13)S |
Deeds and other papers of the Bristol General Steam
Navigation Company, 1836-78
|
1836 - 1878 |
shipping |
39449/6S, 3S |
Letter from Govt Shipping Office regarding seaman, Australia, Brisbane, 1884 & Sydney, 1876
|
1884 - 1876 |
government administration |
39449/5S |
Lord Duncan, 1881
|
1881 |
ship |
39449/3, 5-7S |
Letters with news of certificates of discharge, 1876-86
|
1876 - 1886 |
mariners |
39407 |
Certificates of discharge |
|
mariners |
39290S/FW/PC/7 |
Print of the launching of the Great Western, n.d.
|
|
ship |
39290S/FW/LN/13,14 |
Notes and transcripts regarding shippping, n.d.
|
|
|
39290S/FW/LN/12 |
Transcript of register of shipping, 1795
|
1795 |
ships |
39290/FW/PC/6(f) |
Postcard, Old Harbour, Bristol, n.d.
|
|
ports |
39290/FW/LN/32 |
Notes regarding Alderman Aldworth's Docks, n.d.
|
|
ports |
39290/FW/LN/22, 24 |
Notes and cuttings regarding New Cut |
|
|
39290/FW/LN/19 |
Notes regarding the Fanny, n.d.
|
|
ship |
39290/FW/LN/18 |
Extract from Lloyd's list & shipping gazette, 31
December 1959
|
1959 |
|
39290/FW/LN/17 |
Notes regarding prehistoric ships
|
|
|
39290/FW/LN/16 |
Notes regarding industrial relations, 1911 |
1911 |
labour |
39290/FW/LN/15 |
Plan of city docks, c.1913
|
1913 |
|
39290/FW/LN/12-26 |
Notes, 1959
|
1959 |
Admiralty Court |
39213/9 |
Rates for Cardiff (Bute) docks, 1846
|
1846 |
commerce |
39213/8 |
Kingston-upon-Hull dock company, rates, 1842
|
1842 |
commerce |
39213/7 |
London Dock Company, 1839-41
|
1839 - 1841 |
commerce ports |
39213/6 |
Misc. documents relating to Town and Mayor's
Dues, including see cat. |
|
government administration |
39213/10 |
Birkinhead Docks, extension to, 1846
|
1846 |
development |
39055 |
Two letters concerning the maiden voyage of the
SS Great Britain to New York, at Weymouth and Plymouth, 1845
|
1845 |
passengers |
38770 |
Certificates of discharge |
|
mariners |
38754 |
Papers of Grahame E. Farr
|
|
|
3862(7)a |
Release in fee of the Directors of the Bristol Dock Company
to Samuel Hewlett of two pieces of land, Redcliffe, 29 January 1812
|
1812 |
|
38459/44(a)S |
Presentation plate of HMS Bristol
|
|
ship |
38254 |
Certificates of discharge |
|
mariners |
38247/PP/1-2 |
Records of T.R. Brown & Sons Ltd, 1949-73
|
1949 - 1973 |
|
38247 |
Records of H.D. Thornton & Co., 1935-61
|
1935 - 1961 |
|
38203 |
Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers, Bristol Brigrade, ?date
|
|
naval |
38087 |
Records of the National Nautical School,
1869-1982, including, NS/A4, NS/X4/15, the Polly;
NS/X2/2&3 & NS/X4/5, newspaper cuttings, report and photograph
concerning the training ship Cornwall,
1935, 1938, 1946; NS/A6-7, entr |
1869 - 1982 |
education training |
38083(3-4)S |
Correspondence of Nicholas Pocock with Richard Champion,
1770-75
|
1770 - 1775 |
|
38083(1)S |
Lloyd family correspondence with Charleston, South Carolina,
1760-6
|
1760 - 1766 |
|
38064 |
Merchant seaman's records of William Hynder, 1847-61
|
1847 - 1861 |
mariners |
38032 |
Logbook of Nicholas Pocock, Captain of the Lloyd, of four voyages between Bristol
and Dominica via Madeira, the Canaries and the West Indies, 7 January 1771-2,
highly illustrated throughout with views of the Lloyd, a decorated chart o |
1771 - 1772 |
Travel Pictures |
37980/X4S &A1S |
Log books and advertisment of the Balmoral, 1969-79
|
1969 - 1979 |
ship |
37980/X3S |
Photo of the Cambria, run aground near Ilfracombe,
Devon, c.1920
|
1915 - 1925 |
ship |
37980/F4/1-2 |
Daily receipt books including that of Torquay steamer
voyages, 1937-72
|
1937 - 1972 |
passengers finances |
37980/A1S |
Logbooks of PS Ravenswood, 1948-53
|
1948 - 1953 |
ship |
37980/A1/S |
Logbooks of the Empress Queen, 1948-9
|
1948 - 1949 |
ship |
37980/A1 & X4 |
Logbook and advertisement of the Devonia, 1978
|
1978 |
ship |
37980/A1 & X2 |
Logbooks and photographs of the St Trillo, 1963-7
|
1963 - 1967 |
ship |
37980 |
Records of P. & A. Campbell Ltd, steamship
company, 1888-1967 [also see 40140] |
1888 - 1967 |
Shipping |
37885/6, 8 |
Bristol Port Harbour Committee, 1919, 1936-7
|
1919 - 1937 |
|
37885/5-8 |
Records of the Port of Bristol Employer's
Association, 1914-67 |
1914 - 1967 |
labour |
37885/2 |
Report and minutes of Transport Workers' Court of
Enquiry, 1920 |
1920 |
|
37885/1 |
Report on Ports and Harbours of United Kingdom, 1915
|
1915 |
administration |
37454/14(b) |
Mayor's committee regarding expiry of East India Company
charter, 1812-17
|
1812 - 1817 |
trade |
36292(1-4) |
Plans |
|
|
36075(33) |
Chatham wharf, 1898
|
1898 |
ports harbours |
36075 |
records of Albion dockyard, 1814-1918 |
1814 - 1918 |
Ports |
36074(58) |
Petition of M. Giott, master of the Magdalen of Pennarth,
Brittany, to the Society of Merchants, regarding partial loss of cargo from
ship being piloted in Kingsroad, seventeenth century
|
1600 - 1699 |
pilots |
36074(141) |
Letter with reference to a proposed Act of Parliament for
bridge to `stop the tide', 1640
|
1640 |
|
36074(139a) |
Letter of John Pyne, including news of Ship Money, 1640
|
1640 |
|
36074(119) |
Letter to Sir Hugh Smyth, noting unrest of mariners at
Portsmouth, 18 August 1628
|
1628 |
|
36074(109) |
Letter of Batholomew Giffard to Sir Hugh Smyth,
including reference to discontent of mariners, c.1626 |
1626 |
|
35447 BL |
Ship's securities deposited in bank, 1840; registration of
the Margaret, c.1840
|
1835 - 1845 |
finance administration records |
35447 |
Title to lands in Bedminster from 1679, Bristol
Dock Company |
1679 |
assets |
35036 |
Records of Poole Brothers Galbraith and Company, Ltd, sand,
gravel and coal merchants, 1845-1966, including: 104-18, papers and plans
regarding Poole's Wharf, including, 108, papers regarding Royal visit and
access to SS Camerton, 19 |
1845 - 1966 |
commerce development shipping |
35033(3) |
Insurance plan of Sharpness New Docks, 1891 |
1891 |
ports shipping |
35033(1) |
Avonmouth plans, from 1890 |
1890 |
ports docks locks development |
34907 |
Letter referring to naval shipbuilding, voyages to
Waterford, 25 June 17[torn]
|
1700 - 1799 |
correspondence |
34906(11)b |
Receipt from Thomas Streeter, master of the Hope bound for
Quebec, towards the support of the lighthouse on the Smalls, St George's
Channel, off coast of Pembroke, 1810
|
1810 |
Trinity House |
34906 (11)c |
Letter of Thomas S. Benson to Captain Streeter directing him
to board the John for Quebec and there to take charge of the Mary bound
for London, 1811
|
1811 |
correspondence |
34413(9) |
Bristol City |
|
ship |
34413(7-8) |
Dorser |
|
ship |
34413(4-5) |
Dominion |
|
ship |
34413(3, 6, 11) |
Brooklyn City |
|
ship |
34413(2) |
Somerset |
|
ship |
34413(10) |
Bristol |
|
ship |
34413(1) |
Llandaff City |
|
ship |
33795(1-2) |
Harbour Improvement, 1793
|
1793 |
ports development |
33793/4 |
Chocolate smuggling, 1776
|
1776 |
customs evasion |
33722(19)S |
Chepstow Packet
|
|
ship |
33416(1-32) |
37 volumes of Reports including those of the
Port Medical Officer of Health, 1875-1973 |
1875 - 1973 |
administration medicine |
32956 |
Great Western Steamship Company, ? |
|
|
32835 AC/B64 |
Account book of Anthony Varder, merchant, including trade to
Newfoundland, 1697--1713
|
1697 - 1713 |
finance |
32835 AC/B63 |
Ledger. See Jean
Vanes (ed.), The Ledger of John Smythe, 1538-50 (Bristol Record Society,
XXVIII, 1974). of John Smyth, merchant, including trade to Newfoundland, the
continent, 1534-50
|
1534 - 1550 |
finance |
32835 |
Records of the Smythe family of Ashton Court, including MU,
records of Samuel Munkley, shipowner and merchant, of Bristol, late eighteenth
to early nineteenth centuries [also see 37671]
|
1775 - 1825 |
|
32484 |
Bristol Customs House registers, 1824-99
|
1824 - 1899 |
finance tax |
32229(16) |
Town Clerk's seal matrix with detail of ship & water
gate, ninetenth century, 20c
|
1800 - 1899 |
|
32229 (1-20) |
Admiralty court seal matrix, c.1461
|
1461 |
|
32173/666 |
Docks and Inland Waterways Executive (South Western
Division), 1953
|
1953 |
canals transport government |
32173/433 |
SS Great Britain project, 1970
|
1970 |
ship |
32173/40-6S |
Trade with Prince Edward Island, 1826-8
|
1826 - 1828 |
|
32173/282S |
Lifeboats, 1940-6
|
1940 - 1946 |
|
32173/166-9 |
Bridgehead City Docks, 1957-60
|
1957 - 1960 |
|
32173/(40-50)S |
Sale of the Mary, 1826-9
|
1826 - 1829 |
ship |
32173(77)S |
Mountjoy, 1898
|
1898 |
ship |
32173(65)S |
Two hopper or mud boats, one in river Usk, one building on
stocks, 1850
|
1850 |
|
32173(45)S |
Cambridge, 1828
|
1828 |
ship |
32173(35)di,iiS |
Agreement regarding collection of rates on
tonnage and duties on goods, 1804 |
1804 |
|
32173 |
Records of Port of Bristol Authority, 1695-1971 |
1695 - 1971 |
administration |
30634 (3), (5)S |
Gwyer family merchants at St Petersburg, 1860, 1881
|
1860 - 1881 |
|
30630(12) |
East India Company Fund
|
|
trade |
30299(S) |
Customs collectors
|
|
ports tax |
30189(2)S |
West Indies, merchant's correspondence, 1772-1800
|
1772 - 1800 |
|
30189(2) |
Company of Merchants trading with Africa, 1772
|
1772 |
trade |
30182 |
Logbook
|
|
|
30100 |
Great BritainMDBU, steamship
|
|
|
2998 |
Legal proceedings of the owners of the Vassilakis versus
the owners of the Frome, steam hopper, 1904-5
|
1904 - 1905 |
ship |
29747(1)o |
Queen Mary |
|
ship |
29587(2) |
Cargo of groceries to Kingston, 1707
|
1707 |
|
29587(1) |
Timber supplied to sailing vessels, 1691-2
|
1691 - 1692 |
|
29542(4) |
Solicitor's register of notes and entries of ship's
protests, 1879-1928
|
1879 - 1923 |
mariners |
29226(3) |
Castaway from the Hecktor, 1748
|
1748 |
mariners passengers |
28797 |
Medical officer of Health's reports, urban and
port, 1927-30
|
1927 - 1930 |
administration medicine |
28147(1) |
Lease from, 1811
|
1811 |
trade |
281 |
Copy of Bristol customs roll of 1496-9, printed in 1897
|
1496 - 1499 |
finance tax trade |
28050 |
Bills of lading
|
|
customs cargo |
28049(26)d |
Free Port Day, 1848
|
1848 |
|
28049(26)c |
Improvement
|
|
development |
28048, P4 |
Printed letter urging reduction of town dues
and improvement of the docks, Bristol, 1800 |
1800 |
ports development |
28048, J1/1 |
`Minutes of a journey to Weymouth, voyage to Cherbourg' by
J.S.H., with printed plan of Cherbourg and its fortifications, 1768, includes
mention of bathing machines at Weymouth & Melcombe Regis, voyage to France
|
1768 |
travel illustrations |
28038, P105 |
Case and opinion regarding claim of Capt. Webley
Parry to payments from ships anchoring off Pwllcorn, and from farmers for loads
of sea sand delivered to them on Pwllcarn beach, ?Wales, April 1819 |
1819 |
duties |
26772 |
Society of Merchant Venturers, deeds
|
|
trade |
26226 |
Cargoes |
|
customs |
26167(2) |
Bristol dock scheme drawings, 1885-92
|
1885 - 1892 |
ports development |
25064 |
Photographic albums of Museum and Art Gallery, ?
|
|
photographs |
24867(29, 38), ? |
Society of Merchant Venturers
|
|
trade |
248(2) |
Articles of agreement regarding prize ship the
Gascoyne, 1781
|
1781 |
naval |
248(1) |
Articles of agreement regarding privateers'
prize ship and goods of the Hay, 1759
|
1759 |
naval |
21782BL |
Letters of marque, eighteenth century
|
1700 - 1799 |
|
21129(53) |
Logbook
|
|
|
21125(6) |
The United Brethren |
|
ship |
207(12) |
Entry of protest of the Johnes of Clovelly, Devon, schooner,
5 December 1810
|
1810 |
|
20534 |
Trinity
|
|
ship |
2(4) |
Clifton,
1760-2 |
1760 - 1762 |
ship |
2(1-2 & 16) |
?, 1720-18?2 |
1720 - 1830 |
|
19818(29) |
Hardy, gun-vessel
|
|
ship |
19595(g) |
Reservation for berth on the Nora Creina, steam
packet, ?
|
|
passengers |
19590(4) |
Severn Galley |
|
ship |
19590(3) |
Tyger |
|
ship |
19588 |
Official handbook The Port of Bristol Authority, 1904 |
1904 |
shipping government |
177 |
Film of Bristol docks presented by the Docks
Office staff, 24 May 1933 |
1933 |
ports |
17562(1) |
Plan of slave ship, date?
|
|
slaving |
17557(2) |
Ships sailing from Bristol, 1812-36
|
1812 - 1836 |
|
17196 |
Crew list of the Corsair, 1876
|
1876 |
mariners |
17121 |
Share certificate
|
|
|
17106 |
Plans
|
|
|
17105 |
Book of reference, listing owners and occupiers affected by
proposed improvement of the navigation of the river Avon and river Frome by a
new cut, 30 September 1802
|
1802 |
development |
16163(8-9) |
The Great Cha?,
|
|
ship |
16080(13) |
London Packet |
|
ship |
16079 |
Four photographs of ships from Royal Ontario Museum, ?
|
|
illustrative material |
16078(2) |
Great Western Steamship Company, ? |
|
|
16073 |
Sally |
|
ship |
14180(18-19) |
Steam vessels, ?
|
|
shipping |
13847(64-5) |
Bristol Quadrilles composed in commemoration of Free Port
Day and print of procession in honour of Free Port Day, 1848
|
1848 |
dance south-west |
13458(46) |
Commerce, Unicorn
|
|
ship |
13423(8) |
Danish ships at Bristol, 1859
|
1859 |
shipping |
12964 |
Eagle of
Bristol; Townsend, 1679-1742; Grampus |
1679 - 1742 |
ship |
12774(2) |
Revised report of a speech at a meeting of the Town Council
made by Alderman Proctor Baker on the Extended Dock Accomodation at the port of
Bristol, 14 June 1898
|
1898 |
development |
12715(2-3) |
Pilots Benefit Fund, 1931-9
|
1931 - 1939 |
|
12571(8) |
Copy of letter describing bombardment of Copenhagen,
1807, see cat.
|
1807 |
naval |
12571(5,6,9) |
Valiant, 1809
|
1809 |
naval |
12571(3) |
Victualling account, 1808
|
1808 |
naval |
12571(2) |
Ships bound for Brazil, 1808
|
1808 |
naval |
12571(1) |
Victualling accounts, 1798-1803
|
1798 - 1803 |
naval |
12291/1S |
Lease, 1843
|
1843 |
trade |
12275/3S |
Argentina,
1867
|
1867 |
ship |
12171/38S |
Letter with description of journey to Ontario, 1882
|
1882 |
voyage |
12168(19-20) |
Society of Merchants letter books, 1845-51, 1863-4
|
1845 - 1864 |
trade |
12168(18) |
Minutes of the Bristol Channel Mission, 1843-4
|
1843 - 1844 |
administration |
12162 |
Shipping account book of the Snow Fanny, including to the Baltic and Barbadoes, April 1777 -
November 1791
|
1777 - 1791 |
finance trade |
12152/5 |
Correspondence of the Society of Merchant Venturers
regarding the provision of a lifeboat, 1830
|
1830 |
|
12152/3 |
Papers belonging to the Society of Merchant Venturers,
including correspondence and papers regarding Trinity House lighthouses: Flat
Holme & Mumbles, 1809-18
|
1809 - 1818 |
|
12152/2 |
Papers belonging to the Society of Merchant Venturers,
including correspondence and a petition against the East India Company charter,
1812
|
1812 |
trade |
12152/15 |
Papers of the Society of Merchant Venturers, including a
proposal to make a harbour of refuge at Lundy Island, 1858
|
1858 |
trade developments |
12152/12 |
Papers belonging to the Society of Merchant Venturers,
including bill for Merchant Seamen's Fund, 1850-3
|
1850 - 1853 |
mariners |
12152/1-20 |
Papers relating to various schemes and to Bills
before Parliament, belonging to the Society of Merchant Venturers, 1811-67
|
1811 - 1867 |
trade |
12151/8S |
Wage accounts of sundry ships, including the Martha,
1808-9 |
1808 - 1809 |
mariners |
12151/8,18-19S |
Wages & deed of the Ann, 1799-1809
|
1799 - 1809 |
|
12151/20S |
Bill of sale, the Maria, 1826 |
1826 |
|
12151/17S |
Sale of one half of the Trelawney, 1801 |
1801 |
|
12147(49) |
Receipts for shares, etc of Bristol Docks, 1824-34
|
1824 - 1834 |
finances |
12142/3 |
Lighthouse, Flat Holmes, 1811-18
|
1811 - 1818 |
|
11757(114?)S |
Royal Merchant Navies Appeal, 1945
|
1945 |
naval |
11371 |
Plan of the design for improving the harbour of
Bristol, by William Jessop, civil engineer, W. White, surveyor, 1803; report of
Mr John Wolfe Barry to the Docks Committee of the Corporation, 1896 |
1803 - 1896 |
ports engineering surveying |
11181(5) |
Sale of one quarter share in the Eliza of Bristol,
1819
|
1819 |
ship |
11170/1-2, 6 |
Avonmouth docks, cutting first sod, 1902;
opening Royal Edward Dock, 1908; opening of extension, 1928 see cat. |
1908 - 1928 |
development ports locks |
11168/7(a) |
Cargo of the Hero, 1801
|
1801 |
commerce |
11168/5(a) |
Sugar vessel from Jamaica upsetting near mud
docks, 1792
|
1792 |
commerce ports |
11168/3(b), 12 (d) |
Imports to Bristol from the West Indies, 1787-8, 1806-7
|
1787 - 1807 |
international commerce |
11168/28 |
Ships from the West Indies to London, 1798-9
|
1798 - 1799 |
shipping |
11168/2(a) |
Bristol channel disbursements regarding Hungroad, 1782-95
|
1782 - 1795 |
anchorage |
11168/12d |
Imports from Russia and Portugal to Bristol, 1806-7
|
1806 - 1807 |
international commerce ports |
11168(1-76) |
Documents relating to proposals for improving the harbour of
Bristol, 1766-1828 see cat.
|
1766 - 1828 |
ports development |
11109(8)S |
List of dues payable to quaymen, 1716
|
1716 |
labour docks ports |
11109(12)S |
Hanover, 1739
|
1739 |
ship |
11109(11)S |
Queen Mary |
1733 |
ship |
10750(b) |
Trinity House Corporation, ?
|
|
|
10253(5-6) |
Insurance of goods on the Edwin, 1763
|
1763 |
ship cargo |
10253(4) |
Dreadnought, privateer
|
|
ship |
1016(1-98) |
Shipping receipts of cargoes, Bristol, 1790
|
1790 |
customs |
1(6) |
Letter of John Duntze, Exeter, to Samuel
Munckley regarding shipping news, 1750-1 |
1750 - 1751 |
|
1(5) |
Letter of Herman Katenkamp, Exeter merchant, to Samuel
Munckley regarding Hamburg trade, and travel by sea, 1751
|
1751 |
|
1(26) |
Letters regarding shipping of ginger, London,
1773 |
1773 |
|
1(24) |
Letters regarding shipping sugar, ginger, etc.,
from Barbadoes to England, 1773 |
1773 |
|
1(22) |
Letters regarding shipping of Irish butter,
oats, etc to England, 1773 |
1773 |
|
09860(8) |
The George |
|
ship |
09703(1-2) |
Two photographs of first and last pages of address of
welcome to HRH the Prince of Wales at his visit on the occasion of the opening
of the Dock Extension, Avonmouth, 23 May 1928
|
1928 |
opening ceremony royalty |
09701(25) |
Letter of R. Holland to Thomas Haynes including mention of
excise scheme on tobacco, 22 March 1732
|
1732 |
commerce |
09686(12) |
King David |
|
ship |
09477 |
Release regarding the merchant seamen's almhouse, 16 August 1791
|
1791 |
mariners |
09458(28) |
Printed map of the harbour of Bristol, n.d.
(?nineteenth century) |
1800 - 1900 |
ports |
09458(16) |
John Trygett
|
|
ship |
09448-50 |
Papers regarding the foreshore and riverbed at Portishead,
1926-8
|
1926 - 1928 |
marine geography |
09398 |
Includes minutes of the Port Sanitary
Sub-Committee, 1927-9 |
1927 - 1929 |
administration |
09354 |
Photograph, possibly of a model, of new dock at
Avonmouth, n.d. |
|
ports |
09335(2)a.1-2,(3)a-b |
Papers regarding the report of the Docks Engineer on Frome
Floods Prevention, 1895-7
|
1895 - 1897 |
|
09292(1-2) |
Printed book of reference, reports |
|
administration |
09040 |
See cat.
|
|
emigration |
08996-9000 |
Minute book, ledger and Treasurers' Book and
accounts of the Port Sanitary Authority, 1896-1926 |
1896 - 1926 |
administration funds finances |
08978 |
Pilotage Fund Accounts, 1917-24
|
1917 - 1924 |
pilots finances |
08977 |
Volume of pilot accounts, 1908-23
|
1908 - 1923 |
finance |
08973 |
Ledger of the Bristol Dock Borough Rate, 1855-94
|
1855 - 1894 |
|
08972 |
Port of Bristol Lenders' letters and vouchers, 1811-49
|
1811 - 1849 |
funds |
08971 |
Ledger of the Improvement of the Port of Bristol Sinking
Fund, 1811-49
|
1811 - 1849 |
finance |
08970 |
Cash book of the Improvement of the Port of Bristol Sinking
Fund, 1811-49
|
1811 - 1849 |
finance |
08969 |
Annual accounts of the Bristol Dock Company, 1808-48
|
1808 - 1848 |
administration finances |
08923(5) |
Ms containing 86 entries of Council ordinances
including Bristol Dock Company Balance Sheet, c.1809 |
1809 |
administration |
08847(1) |
Assignment of a messuage or inn near Sea Mills Dock,
Westbury, 26 March 1746
|
1746 |
development |
08840(8)d |
Probate will of Samuel Hartness with mention of
shipping, 1715
|
1715 |
|
08840(8) a-c |
Receipts of Samuel Hartnell regarding the Sarah, 1700-1
|
1700 - 1701 |
finance ship |
08840(18)C |
Case and opinion regarding shares in the Duke of
Cumberland, 30 November 1735
|
1735 |
ship |
08840(18)a-b |
Papers regarding Sea Mills Dock, 1726, n.d. (eighteenth
century)
|
1726 |
shipping |
08533 |
Council minutes regarding the acquisition of
docks, 1880-4 |
1880 - 1884 |
administration ports |
08382 |
Relief of Merchant Seamen
|
|
mariners aid |
08340 |
Dock sanctions of the Board of Trade & Ministry of
Transport, 6 January 1912 - 12 January 1927
|
1912 - 1927 |
government ports administration |
08265 |
Plan showing the limits of the Port &
Harbour of Bristol, 1930
|
1930 |
|
08226 |
Volume entitled `shipping notes, Bristol, 1719-21'
comprising bills of lading for ships from Ireland, Spain, Holland, France, West
Indies, America, Africa, 1719-21
|
1719 - 1721 |
cargo |
07786-9 |
Four parcels of plans probably belonging to the Sanitary
Committee, 1832-1907
|
1832 - 1907 |
health administration |
07783(1-60) |
Misc. plans and docks, 1864-1924. Note, some in this collection were destroyed in 1964.
|
1864 - 1924 |
miscellaneous |
07782(1-37) |
Dock plans, Bristol, 1882-1907
|
1882 - 1907 |
ports development |
07756(1-2) |
Minute book of docks undertaking special committee, 15
December 1908 - 8 December 1910
|
1908 - 1910 |
ports |
07648 |
Official programme of the opening of Royal
Edward Dock, 9 July 1908 |
1908 |
Avonmouth locks |
06615 |
Photograph of insurance policy of the Culloden, 20 June
1748, which was on a slaving voyage from Bristol to America via Africa, 31 May 1925
|
1748 - 1925 |
slavery |
06595(1-2) |
Photograph of bill of lading of the Russia Merchant of
Liverpool in 1770; bill of lading of the Rose Mary of Jamaica, 1770
|
1770 |
commerce shipping cargo |
05192 |
Plan of the Bristol Channell, 1605
|
1605 |
illustrative material |
05150 |
Papers regarding legal proceedings between the owners of the
SS Princess Irene, steamship and Frome, steam hopper, 1904-5
|
1904 - 1905 |
ship |
05131 |
Printed book of reference, various dock reports |
|
ports administration |
05102 |
Printed book of reference, Bristol Channel Pilotage Commission |
|
pilots |
05088 |
Coasting cargo book of Samuel Beckerton, concerning goods
between Bristol and Newport, 1826-7
|
1826 - 1827 |
customs trade |
05077(1-4) |
Volume entitled the `register of ships navigating within the
city of Bristol', 1795-1802
|
1795 - 1802 |
|
04988 |
Minutes of the Port Accommodation Committee, 1840-45
|
1840 - 1845 |
administration housing |
04941 |
Dock dues
|
|
ports |
04931(1-9) |
Papers of the Joint Sub-Committee of Estates
& General Purposes Docks Committee to consider the appointment of a Haven
Master, 1922; papers regarding the Estates & Docks Committee, 1922 |
1922 |
government ports administration |
04884 |
Health Committee records, including
Port-Sanitary Sub-Committee Minutes, 1898-1921 |
1898 - 1921 |
administration |
04581 |
Printed book of reference, Rules & Orders for Pilots |
|
|
04419 |
Volume of Customs House Officers' affadavits, 1702-35
|
1702 - 1735 |
commerce tax |
04399 |
Richard Neale's Day Book, comprising an entry book of ships,
with details of ships and their masters, cargoes and trade port of origin, 1761-4
|
1761 - 1764 |
commerce shipping trade |
04388 |
Papers regarding the visit of King Edward ?? and
Queen Alexandra to the Royal Edward Dock, 1908
|
1908 |
state visit |
04348 |
Commissioners' Book of the Bristol Channel Pilotage
Commission, 1854
|
1854 |
|
04282(3), |
General Committee Books including that of the regulation
of Watermen, 1757-1835
|
1757 - 1835 |
administration |
04282(3) |
Cranage dues
|
|
ports commerce |
04282(1-3) |
Dock dues
|
|
ports |
04156 |
Haven Masters' Account, 1895-1914 |
1895 - 1914 |
ports shipping docks |
04142 |
Decayed pilots fund receipt book & the Surplus Pilotage
Fund Account, 1817-35
|
1817 - 1835 |
|
04069(1-6) |
Cash Accounts and Rates of the Crane Master for
goods landed and shipped by crane at the Quays of the Port of Bristol, 1837-56
|
1837 - 1856 |
commerce |
04068 |
Quay Wardens' receipts, 1833-46
|
1833 - 1846 |
finance docks |
04067 |
Quay Wardens' fees, 1842-6
|
1842 - 1846 |
finance docks |
04066 |
Mayor's Dues (on ships), 1840-7
|
1840 - 1847 |
tax administration customs finance |
04065 |
Mayor's Dues (on ships), 1837-47
|
1837 - 1847 |
tax administration customs finance |
04064 |
Water Bailiff receipts, 1828-47
|
1828 - 1847 |
finance |
04063(1-3) |
Quay Wardens' receipts, 1803-46
|
1803 - 1846 |
ports docks finance |
04062(1-3) |
Mayor's Dues (on ships), 1791-1835
|
1791 - 1835 |
tax administration customs |
04061 |
Volume of imports abstracted from town dues, 1808-9
|
1808 - 1809 |
customs |
04060 |
Volume of abstracts of coasters' town duties, 1789-1807
|
1789 - 1807 |
customs |
04059(1-2) |
Two volumes of abstracts of the foreigners town dues,
1789-1807, 1807-17
|
1789 - 1817 |
customs |
03769 |
'Proposals for laying the ships at the quay at
Bristol constantly afloat', by John Smeaton, 1765 |
1765 |
ports shipping |
01346-7 |
Trinity House Corporation, ?
|
|
|
01255 |
Grant of the office of Water Bailiff to Richard Craford, 12
May 1472
|
1472 |
administration |
01155 |
Sale of seized goods, 1794
|
1794 |
customs |
01146 |
Royal Deed of appointment of Sir Thomas Haines as Water
Bailiff, 23 October, 26 Charles II (?1686)
|
1686 |
office administration |
01129(1-3) |
Haven Masters' reports of the departures and
arrivals at the Port of Bristol, 1847
|
1847 |
shipping commerce |
01112 (1-36) |
Warrants, informations, affadavits and vouchers regarding
goods of the Delaval which ran aground in river, 1708-30
|
1708 - 1730 |
cargo |
01036(1-7) |
Title deeds and reconveyance for a Seamen's Hospital, 1
December 1792
|
1792 |
mariners |
01032(1-7) |
Deed of transfer of the Bristol Docks to the Corporation, 28
August 1848
|
1848 |
administration |
01021(1-3) |
Letters and epitome of the title of the Corporation to
wrecks within the city & county & jurisdiction of Bristol, 1857-60
|
1857 - 1860 |
correspondence |
00428(1-2) |
Articles for building new custom house, 1710
|
1710 |
development ports tax |
00352(1-19) |
Wharfage dock
dues
|
|
ports commerce |