Code |
Description |
Date |
Keywords |
Worth W50 |
book relating to Plymouth town clerk, 1593-1601, inc. relating to shipping, prizes, ship ownership;
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1593 - 1601 |
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Worth W49 |
book of misc. borough business, fifteenth-sixteenth centuries, inc. wrecks, Fowey vice-admiralty court, fishing, quays;
|
1400 - 1599 |
navy |
Worth W48 |
book of Plymouth constitutions & acts, known as the White Book, 1560-1754, inc. references to harbour regulations, pilchard fishing, defence;
|
1560 - 1754 |
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Worth W46 |
Plymouth town ledger or chronicle, known as `the Black Book', fourteenth to eighteenth centuries, inc. references to local events such as wrecks, pirates, navy, etc., with copies of misc. documents;
|
1300 - 1799 |
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Worth W359-62 |
misc. collection of many dozens of papers relating to Plymouth, 1496-1800, inc. the widest range of maritime matters inc. fishing, defence, quays, customs, shipping, impressment
|
1496 - 1800 |
|
Worth W130-2 |
Plymouth Receivers' books, 1491-1807, inc. references to shipping, defence, fishing |
1491 - 1807 |
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Woollcombe 923 |
account of cruise around the world, nineteenth century;
|
1800 - 1899 |
travel leisure |
Woollcombe 918-22 |
papers relating to HMS Retribution, HMS Lord Warren, 1856-60, HMS Lord Warden, 1867-70;
|
1856 - 1870 |
navy ships |
Woollcombe 910-17 |
naval papers of Henry Bedford Woollcoombe inc. inventory of clothes & goods taken on joining HMS Camperdown, 1844-5, papers relating to HMS Thalia, 1872-9, HMS Audacious, 1880;
|
1844 - 1880 |
navy cargo ships |
Woollcombe 871 |
misc. papers, 17-19th centuries, inc. naval;
|
1600 - 1899 |
navy |
Woollcombe 823-45 & 846-54 |
misc. papers inc. logbooks, letter books, crew lists, c.1811-30 relating to HMS Loire, HMS Grampus, HMS Tonnant, HMS Inconstant, HMS Semiramis, HMS Heron, HMS Owen Glendower, HMS Barn, HMS Victor;
|
1811 - 1830 |
correspondence navy ships |
Woollcombe 817-22 |
papers relating to naval appointments of George Woollcombe, 1810-62;
|
1810 - 1862 |
navy recruitment |
Woollcombe 755 |
letter regarding Plymouth exports, 1820;
|
1820 |
correspondence trade cargo |
Woollcombe 743 |
address from the inhabitants of Plymouth to the Crown regarding the state of the navy, nineteenth century;
|
1800 - 1899 |
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Woollcombe 719 |
papers regarding prize money during the Dutch war, 1783;
|
1783 |
battles navy |
Woollcombe 714-15 |
logbooks of HMS Shrewsbury between London & Plymouth, 1702 & Norway, 1719;
|
1702 - 1719 |
navy ships Scandinavia |
Woollcombe 710 |
Woollcombe family papers inc. 356, account book, 1838-43, inc. of the Torpoint Steam Ferry;
|
1838 - 1843 |
transport |
Woollcombe 400-626 |
correspondence referring to naval news, early nineteenth century, notably naval letters of George Woollcombe, 1815-25;
|
1815 - 1825 |
navy |
Woollcombe 391-7 |
diaries of Henry Woollcombe, 1798-1825, notably with naval news
|
1798 - 1825 |
navy journal |
Woollcombe 1318 |
invitation to Mrs Woollcombe to the opening of the Woollcombe block WRNS Quarters, 1973;
|
1973 |
navy |
Woollcombe 1279 |
order book of Captain Charles Stirling, HMS Thetes, nineteenth century;
|
1800 - 1899 |
navy ships |
Woollcombe 1245 |
request for six month's survey of cables, HMS Resistance, 1842;
|
1842 |
navy ships |
Woollcombe 1229 |
notice to mariners concerning new lighthouse on Skellig's Rock, 1826;
|
1826 |
navigation |
Woollcombe 1210 |
directions for ships sailing by Longships Lighthouse 1795;
|
1795 |
navigation |
Woollcombe 1011 |
legal papers regarding Dutch prize goods, 1783;
|
1783 |
piracy |
Bond, Pierce & Co. 831 |
papers of Bond, Pierce & Co., late nineteenth century, inc. of the Plymouth Piers Pavillion & Saltash Three Towns Steamship Co. Ltd, Plymouth Pier Company Ltd, Saltash Three Towns & District Steamboat Company Ltd & bills of sales, mortages, etc, the Albert, Alexandra, Aerial, Eleanor, Empress, Iolanthe, Lady Ernestine, Lady of the Lake, Millbrook, Prince, Prince Edward, Princess Royal, Victoria
|
1850 - 1899 |
Companies leisure transport ships |
Aubyn 153 |
plans of the St Aubyn family who owned the manor of Stoke Damerel, inc. much of the borough of Devonport, nineteenth to twentieth centuries
|
1800 - 1999 |
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Acc2621 |
Plymouth and District Merchant Navy Association: minutes and correspondence. |
1987 - 1999 |
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Acc. 3093 |
Diaries of John and Elizabeth Hoar of Devonport with privateers' accounts of the ship Maria |
1800 - 1802 |
|
Acc. 3077 |
T. Evan Davies of Devonport: notebook and notes on extension of HM Dockyard, Keyham, Devonport |
1895 - 1896 |
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Acc 3249 |
Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: files including Torrey Canyon oil disaster, correspondence, reports and newspaper cuttings, South West of England ports, annual fishing statistics, and informaton on the setting up of Lundy Island marine nature reserve 1947-90.
|
1947 - 1990 |
government oil spill environment fishing |
Acc 3048 |
Plymouth Shipping registers: registration papers |
1892 - 1994 |
|
Acc 2988 |
George Chirgwin, sailor: papers |
1813 - 1896 |
mariners |
Acc 2978 |
Merchant Navy Association, Plymouth branch: additional accounts |
1990 - 2001 |
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Acc 2949 |
Bayly, timber merchants, Plymouth (addnl): timber accounts
|
1799 - 1812 |
wood |
Acc 2907 |
Plymouth port: shipping registers |
1877 - 1994 |
|
Acc 2669 |
Plymouth Sea Rangers: minutes, watch record books and scrapbooks |
1940 - 1960 |
security defence |
Acc 2478 |
Torpoint Steam Ferry Co.: papers |
1899 - 1905 |
transport Companies |
acc 2215 |
D.G. Hoppins, dock manager in Plymouth and South Wales: records |
1861 - 1995 |
wharfs |
acc 2194 |
National Union of Seamen: registers |
1921 - 1980 |
mariners sailors societies organisations |
Ac 2487 |
Bent family of Tamerton Foliot: family and Royal Naval papers. |
1840 - 1890 |
navy records |
993/1-19 |
correspondence & sermons of Frederick George White Hooper, Plymouth missionary to Mauritius, 1813-15, n.d.
|
1813 - 1815 |
religion Islands Asia |
981/1-5 |
photocopies & transcripts of papers relating to Major Edmund Lockyer & the expedition to found a settlement at King George's Sound, Australia, 1826-7, inc. journal
|
1826 - 1827 |
adventure exploration colonies |
98/1 |
printed notice of a procession by officers & workmen of Plymouth Dockyard in honour of the coronation of William IV, 8 September 1831
|
1831 |
King Crown |
975, 978, 1010, 1020, 1082 & 1836 |
photocopies of correspondence of the Corsini brothers, Italian merchants, c.1600, concerned with Plymouth commerce (also see 1836)
|
1600 |
trade |
965/240 |
papers relating to British Sailors' Home, Plymouth, 1925
|
1925 |
welfare mariners |
965/236 |
papers relating to Plymouth Sailors' Home, 1909-10, 1916-17
|
1909 - 1917 |
welfare mariners |
958/50-81 |
papers relating to the Mount Edgcumbe & Goshawk, industrial training ships comprising 50, accounts, 1891-1900, 1920-1; 51-3, reports, 1895, 1900-11, 1913; 54-67, correspondence, 1899-1928; 68-9, bank books of the Mount Edgcumbe; 70-81, general papers, inc. bills of sale of the Goshawk, 1897-8, reports, insurance policies, printed schemes, etc.
|
1891 - 1928 |
|
938 |
Bickford family papers inc. 2, papers relating to James Edward Bickford, comprising 1-25, certificates of service, 1843-76; 26-44, commissions & letters of appointment, 1842-73; 45-57, correspondence mainly from the Admiralty, 1854-77; 58-62, obituary papers, 1877, 1905, n.d.
|
1842 - 1905 |
correspondence recruitment navy |
910 |
plan of Sutton Pool, November 1831
|
1831 |
|
896/2 |
articles of agreement between Sir Jonathan Trelawney & James Hill of London, merchant, for resignation as Commissioner for Prize Office of Plymouth, 29 April 1672
|
1672 |
|
896/1 |
order signed by Duke of Buckingham to the Commissioner of Prizes for the Port of Plymouth to stop Dutch shipping, 22 February 1664
|
1664 |
Royalty privateering piracy |
894/1-13 |
Plymouth shipping registers, 1824-64 (now on microfilm)
|
1824 - 1864 |
|
887/1 |
invoice of Clarke & Son, Printer, Bookseller & Stationer, 45 Fore Street, Devonport, to Admiral Hickley for Navy lists & cards, 1 May 1902
|
1902 |
Companies stationery |
880 |
photograph of the Try, Brixham built Plymouth sailing trawler, n.d.
|
|
boats fishing |
88/10 |
report & plans by Sir John Wolfe Barry & Mr Cuthbert Brereson to Plymouth Corporation on Cattewater Harbour, 11 November 1897
|
1897 |
ports |
872/1 |
transfer list of Issac M. Murphy, acting assistant engineer, from HMS Princess Charlotte to HMS Volcano, 18 August 1858
|
1858 |
navy ships crew |
862/251 |
certificate of seaman's competence of John Patrick Drayton of Limerick, Ireland,
1903-9
|
1903 - 1909 |
|
862/250 |
apprenticeship indenture of John Drayton of South Stockton to Francis Davis, boat builder & shipwright of Stockton-on-Tees, county Durham, 30 September 1884
|
1884 |
training constuction |
86/1-2 |
letter, with later copy, from Jacob Richards, onboard HMS Euryalus, at Spithead to Mrs Nicols of account of the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805, with a water-colour sketch of three flags
|
1805 |
correspondence navy ships war illustrations |
853, |
St Aubyn estate papers of the manor of Stoke Damerel inc. Torpoint Ferry accounts, early nineteenth century
|
1800 - 1850 |
|
845 |
service papers relating to William Edward G. Charles Dickson, naval surgeon, 1822-58
|
1822 - 1858 |
navy medical doctor |
829 |
photographs of Royal Naval Engineering College, late nineteenth century, c.1950-79
|
1950 - 1979 |
navy education training |
81R/8/3/22 |
bargain & sale of shares in the Salisbury & the Houghton, sailing vessels, 1747
|
1747 |
ownership ships |
81N/86/1 |
timetable of Cunard sailings from Liverpool to Boston & New York, 1897
|
1897 |
America |
81A/43-7 |
papers relating to the Naval Bank, c.1808-72, inc. clients' correspondence & papers
|
1808 - 1872 |
navy |
810/1 |
ts diary of Michael Evens of Holbeton, tailor, with references to smuggling, 1836-63
|
1836 - 1863 |
journal |
772 |
letters, plans, diagram, etc. relating to Great Western Dock extension, 1874-6, n.d.
|
1874 - 1876 |
correspondence illustrations construction |
752/1-82 |
correspondence of Private W.O. Reynolds to his wife, 1915-18, inc. embarking from Plymouth for the Mediterranean, conditions aboard ship, etc, with three sketch books of Egypt (see 761/1, diary of voyage)
|
1915 - 1918 |
navy service Europe illustrations Africa |
750 |
Committee minute books of Plymouth Seamans' Bethel, 1888-1937
|
1888 - 1937 |
welfare mariners sailors |
72/1232-3 |
appointments of Sidney Strode at customs officer in Bideford & Barnstaple, 1705
|
1705 |
trade duty |
72/1204Ai-ii |
two coloured drawings of Plymouth Barbican & Victualling Yard, seventeenth century
|
1600 - 1699 |
illustrations |
70/321 |
inventory of the cargo of the Crab of Horn, 24 March 1637
|
1637 |
trade ships |
69M/6/450-86 |
leases & misc. papers relating to Plym Fishery & Oysterage, 1719-1914;
|
1719 - 1914 |
fishing |
691/1-29 |
working books of Geoffrey K. Rylands, comprising 1-2, journals of HMS Commonwealth, 1908-9, HMS Colne, 1910, HMS Warrior, 1910, HMS Collingwood, 1910; 3, navigation officers' reports of HMS Topaze, 1916-18; 4-12, navigation officers' notebook of HMS Dryad, HMS Iron Duke, 1914, HMS Leviathan, 1914, HMS Ark Royal, 1914-16, HMS Topaze, 1916-19, HMS Titania, 1918-19; 13-17, surveying books of HMS Duncan, n.d., HMS Mutine, 1912-13, HMS Ark Royal, 1915-16; 18-25, navigating officers' work books, HMS Mutine, 1912, HMS Dryad, 1914, HMS Leviathan, 1914, HMS Ark Royal, 1915-16, HMS Topaze, 1916-18, HMS Amphone, n.d.; 26-7, navigation notes, 1914, n.d.; 28, naval record & certificates of Edward Fisher-Rowe, 1927-34
|
1910 - 1934 |
navy ships |
691/1-29 |
working books of Geoffrey K. Rylands, comprising 1-2, journals of HMS Commonwealth, 1908-9, HMS Colne, 1910, HMS Warrior, 1910, HMS Collingwood, 1910; 3, navigation officers' reports of HMS Topaze, 1916-18; 4-12, navigation officers' notebook of HMS Dryad, HMS Iron Duke, 1914, HMS Leviathan, 1914, HMS Ark Royal, 1914-16, HMS Topaze, 1916-19, HMS Titania, 1918-19; 13-17, surveying books of HMS Duncan, n.d., HMS Mutine, 1912-13, HMS Ark Royal, 1915-16; 18-25, navigating officers' work books, HMS Mutine, 1912, HMS Dryad, 1914, HMS Leviathan, 1914, HMS Ark Royal, 1915-16, HMS Topaze, 1916-18, HMS Amphone, n.d.; navigation notes, 1914, n.d.;
|
1910 - 1934 |
navy ships |
69 |
papers of Morley of Saltram inc. C/6/246-56, papers relating to Falmouth harbour, inc. correspondence, 1844-5, papers referring to Falmouth Harbour Improvement Bill, 1845;
|
1844 - 1845 |
ports |
684 |
St Aubyn estate papers inc. title deeds & bundles of letters relating to Devonport Dockyard, 1719-1862
|
1719 - 1862 |
ownership correspondence |
67/1 |
printed notice of procession of officers & artificers of dockyard in honour of His Majesty & the establishment of peace, 1 July 1814
|
1814 |
King |
663/56 |
Plymouth dockyard plans, mainly architectural & building, eighteenth - twentieth centuries, inc. Keyham Yard, Royal Naval Hospital, Torpoint
|
1700 - 1999 |
construction navy medical |
648/1-61 |
misc. papers relating to construction of Plymouth Breakwater, 1818-45, n.d.
|
1818 - 1845 |
|
629 |
collection of misc. letters, inc. 2, extract regarding export of Cornish tin to China, 1789; 3, note regarding possible invasion of Plymouth, c.1789; 6-7, letters regarding case in King's Bench & cargoes of the Two Brothers & the Sparkler; 8-9, letters regarding cargoes of wheat, 1829; 10, letter regarding Royal Naval Annuitant Society, 1829; 19, bill of landing of the Ariel from river Duoro to Plymouth, 1845
|
1789 - 1845 |
correspondence trade commerce metal Asia ships grain navy |
60/2 |
customs permit for transfer of two gallons of brandy from James Webber to John Beer, both of Modbury, 1844
|
1844 |
wine alcohol cargo |
60/1 |
shipping docket for hogshead of port from Douro to Plymouth on the Hull, 1834
|
1834 |
alcohol wine trade cargo ships |
59/1 |
volume of plan of Great Western Docks, engineer IK Brunel, with specification & pricing for inner dock, two warehouses, pontoon & landing stages & the construction of a railway at Millbay, 1851-4
|
1851 - 1854 |
construction transport |
587/1-14 |
bills of sales of Plymouth vessels, 1855-1908, n.d., of the Edwin, Emerald, Mary, Misty, Two Brothers
|
1855 - 1908 |
ships |
583/1-12 |
papers of Royal Naval & Royal Marine Branch & Special Duties Officers Benevolent Fund, 1920-49, inc. minutes, reports, correspondence, accounts
|
1920 - 1949 |
navy welfare |
581/1-17 |
Plymouth Harbour Master `ships books', 1782-1834, transaction books, 1838-91, letter books, 1838-1900
|
1782 - 1900 |
ports |
570/79-110 |
naval papers relating to Antigua, West Indies, 1762-1810, n.d., inc. receipts, orders, letters, cash vouchers
|
1762 - 1810 |
navy Americas Caribbean Colonies correspondence |
570/123 |
commission of Thomas Simpson as Lieutenant on board HMS Hound, 1807
|
1807 |
navy ships |
570/122 |
letter regarding restraining sailors going onshore at Plymouth, 1696
|
1696 |
correspondence mariners |
567/97/108 |
certificate of competence as master in merchant service of Richard Richards of Flushing, Cornwall, 1855
|
1855 |
mariners trade |
567/69/10-51 |
papers relating to Duke of Bedford's estates inc. 34-40, relating to Orestone & the Admiralty, 1908-1911
|
1908 - 1911 |
navy Royalty |
567/68/35 |
bill of sale of the Belmont, 1855
|
1855 |
ships |
567/62/45 |
papers relating to Peter Warren, shipwright, inc. apprenticeship indenture, work references, 1799-1850
|
1799 - 1850 |
construction shipbuilding training |
560/9 |
bill of funeral expenses of Rear Admiral Innes, 1786
|
1786 |
deaths costs navy |
560/1 & 3 |
papers of General George Dyer, inc. diaries, 1815, 1817, with naval news notably imprisonment of Napoleon on Bellerophon
|
1815 - 1817 |
journals navy ships |
548/1-4 |
papers of William John Quick of Newton Abbot, inc. apprenticeship indenture (Sea Fishing Service) on the Ocean Ranger of Brixham, 1887
|
1887 |
|
530/1-9 |
papers relating to naval service of Samuel Louis Hutchings, headmaster in HM Fleet, 1907-28
|
1907 - 1928 |
navy |
528/1-2 |
logbooks of the Prince of Wales, 1858-65, the Walmer Castle, 1862 to India, Australia, etc.
|
1858 - 1865 |
ships travel |
519/1-34 |
papers relating to the Royal Naval & Marine Officer's Death Benefit Association, 1903-47, inc. collector's book
|
1903 - 1947 |
navy welfare |
518/1-8 |
papers relating to Royal Naval Constructive Officers' Mutual & Death Benefit Association, inc. minutes of Portsmouth & Chatham branches, 1949-64, Devonport Branch, 1950-64, correspondence, list of Devonport members, etc., 1935-69
|
1935 - 1969 |
navy welfare |
502/1-2 |
photocopy of apprentice indenture & discharge certificate of Samuel Lane Tucker of Plymouth, 1870, 1878
|
1870 - 1878 |
training mariners |
500/92 |
letters & related documents sent to the Bayly family, 1909, inc. relating to Mediterranean cruise
|
1919 |
correspondence Europe travel leisure |
500 |
papers of Bayly Bartlett, timber merchants of Plymouth, inc. 85, accounts of Plympouth & Oreston Timber Co. Ltd ships' timber cargoes & related papers, mainly 1814-24 (also see 242, inc. timber account books, 1771-1834)
|
1771 - 1834 |
wood trade commerce |
498/1 |
certificate of protection from impressment to Alexander Tait, joiner of Edinburgh, 1807
|
1807 |
navy recruitment pressganging |
487-504 |
letters, notices, memorandum, notices & Acts regarding Cattewater Harbour & moorings, 1806-85;
|
1806 - 1885 |
correspondence ports |
475/12 |
journal of James Grant onboard the George W. Clyde from New York to San Domingo, & return, 1886
|
1886 |
diary ships Americas |
470/7 |
journal of W. Fowler, Royal Naval Engineer, with references to voyages along West Africa, 1854-80
|
1854 - 1880 |
diary navy travel |
470/6 |
letter book of JC, from Plymouth Gun Wharf, inc. family & naval correspondence, 1780-1
|
1780 - 1781 |
weaponry navy |
470/14 |
schedule & plan of Turnchapel dry dock, Stonehouse, 1839
|
1839 |
|
470/13 |
section of log of HMS Resolution, Halifax, Nova Scotia, eighteenth century
|
1700 - 1799 |
navy ships Canada |
470/10 |
notebook of William Cookworthy, inc. report on sea-water experiments, mid-eighteenth century
|
1700 - 1799 |
science |
470/1 |
copy of diary of James Yonge of late seventeenth century, 1888, with details of life at naval surgeon
|
1888 |
journal medical doctor navy |
469 |
photocopies of letters to George Treby, Plympton MP, 1671-8, with naval news, Turkish pirates
|
1671 - 1678 |
correspondence navy piracy |
467/1-23 |
photocopies of plans, surveys, maps, etc. of Plymouth held at Public Record Office
|
|
|
427/14-17 |
service papers relating to Henry Broad, ship's cook, 1864-77
|
1864 - 1877 |
|
425 |
photocopies of port books held at Public Record Office for Port of Plymouth, 1565-1638, Port of Dartmouth, 1615
|
1565 - 1638 |
harbours |
407/File 1/PQ/1 |
share certificates, etc. in East India Company, 1811-36
|
1811 - 1836 |
trade commerce |
407/File 1/L1-32 & Mc1-6 |
correspondence regarding Lieut. Copleston Radcliffe, RN, regarding his naval service, 1806-15; relating to loss of the Sloop HMS Delight off the coast of Calabria, 1806-8
|
1806 - 1815 |
navy ships |
406/1-2 |
diaries of events regarding construction of Plymouth Breakwater, 1827, 1830
|
1827 - 1830 |
journals |
40 |
photocopy of JPs' orders to high constable of Warrington division of hundred of Derby regarding straggling seamen, 27 June 1739
|
1739 |
mariners |
4-5 |
logbooks of voyage onboard HMS Racer, West Africa, 1885-9, 1886-7 |
1885 - 1889 |
travel navy ships |
4-12 |
accounts, 1828-85; 13, correspondence with the British & Foreign Sailors' Society, 1870-4 |
1828 - 1885 |
welfare mariners |
375/5-14 |
papers, mostly service documents, of Henry Bayley, R.N., 1840-60
|
1840 - 1860 |
|
3671 |
Gordon, Rogers and Shepherd Families of Plymouth: William Gordon, gunner and driver, 9th Battalion, Royal Artillery, clothing book, with note of stationing at Port Royal, Jamaica and Woolwich, 1833-1845; Gordon and Rogers family papers, including mariner's register tickets, service and discharge certificates, birth and marriage certificates 1833-2000.
|
1833 - 2000 |
military army Caribbean Jamaica posting |
365/3 |
letter of marque for the Earl of Effingham, 5 November 1756
|
1756 |
ships privateering |
3482 |
Richard Hill, shipbuilder, Cattedown, Plymouth: research papers, prints and photographs 1800-2009.
|
1800 - 2009 |
shipwright shipbuilders ships design |
342/1 |
plans & specifications of Royal Naval & Military School, 1858
|
1858 |
navy education training |
339/17-35 |
papers relating to Woolcoombe, Square & Stephens, solicitors, Plymouth, inc. reference to the Genereux, 1814, wine trade with Lisbon, 1834, HMS Modeste & China station, 1844, conditions of sailors' wives & children, c.1852
|
1814 - 1852 |
ships alcohol commerce exports Portugal navy Asia |
339/1-3 |
three letters to Charles Cox & Sons, Naval Agents, London, 1795-1819
|
1795 - 1819 |
correspondence Companies navy |
338/1 |
printed volume on night signals, n.d.
|
|
communications navigation |
337/1-16 |
papers of Commodore George Johnstone, inc. 1, correspondence relating to prizes taken by HMS Monmouth, 1786; 2-10, papers relating to HMS Rattlesnake & prizes, 1780-7, n.d.; 11, letter relating to HMS Romney & prizes, with accounts, 1786
|
1780 - 1787 |
privateering navy ships |
335/1-7 |
papers of Edwin Parker include 1-3, certificates of service of Edwin Parker of Devonport;
|
|
crew navy |
326 |
printed invitation from Mayor of Plymouth to attend the annual `fishing feast' & completion of Burrator Reservoir, 1 September 1898
|
1898 |
leisure events waterways |
325/1 |
copy of instructions for the Commissioners of Prizes for Plymouth giving details for proceedings to be taken in respect of prize ships brought into Plymouth, 1664-5
|
1664 - 1665 |
piracy privateering |
320 |
papers of Capt. P. Green, inc. 1, journal of Baltic cruise onboard HMS Cornwall, 1909; 2, journal during First World War at Scapa Flow, 1917
|
1909 - 1917 |
travel navy ships |
319/20 |
declaration of appointment as corn metre, weigher & tally keeper for the port of Plymouth by James Henry Sprague of East Stonehouse, labourer, 1879
|
1879 |
grain trade |
319/2 |
certificate of service in Royal Navy of Samual Sprague of Plymouth, 1879
|
1879 |
|
318/1 |
list of sloops onboard HMS Belleisle, 29 June 1848
|
1848 |
navy ships |
310 |
papers of George Templer of Stover, early nineteenth century, regarding granite export, inc. letters relating to sending by sea, family voyage on the Achilles to Ceylon, 1839
|
1839 |
trade commerce correspondence travel ships Asia |
307/384 |
paper relating to Plymouth Navy Week, 1930
|
1930 |
|
298/1-15 |
papers of Capt. Richard Dale of St Ives, Cornwall, inc. diary onboard the Toxteth, working books, 1917-23, n.d.
|
|
journal ships |
289 |
papers of Plymouth & Dartmoor Railway Company, inc. 1, account of stores supplied from Plymouth Yard not entered in carpenters' or boatswains' abstracts, 1815; 3, copy letter from Navy Board regarding moor stone, 1818
|
1815 - 1818 |
transport |
277 |
papers relating to Sir Francis Drake, inc. 14, draft of Royal Letters Patent relating to his voyage around the globe, 1582; 15, Royal Letters Patent relating to voyage to Cadiz, 1587
|
1582 - 1587 |
travel exploration Africa |
25 |
papers regarding purchase of houses in Durnford Street, East Stonehouse, by the Admiralty, 1798-1863, inc. rental papers
|
1798 - 1863 |
navy property |
242/3 |
eight volumes of papers of Robert Bayly junior regarding improvement of coastal communications, 1889-96
|
1889 - 1896 |
|
240/4 |
letter from Francis Richard Vincent to Henry Woollacombe asking for £100 towards passage to India, 1827
|
1827 |
correspondence travel |
240/1 |
letter from Thomas Fife, Lieut. R.N. of HMS Belleisle, at Dock, to Mr A. Standert of London, enclosing his will, 1802
|
1802 |
correspondence navy ships |
23/1 |
letter from Lewis Chalmers of Fraserburgh to William Stuart, engineer, of Woodside, Plymouth, about construction of a south pier at Fraserburgh, 2 March 1818
|
1818 |
correspondence leisure seaside |
216/5 |
journal of M. Allenby, mid-shipman, onboard HMS Anson on voyages from Plymouth to Spain & Ireland, 1891-3
|
1891 - 1893 |
diary navy ships travel crew |
216/4 |
visitors' book of Mrs Lyons onboard HMS Bermuda & at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1887-8
|
1887 - 1888 |
navy ships Canada |
216/3 |
`remarks on the action of the squadron in case of war', May 1888
|
1888 |
navy |
216/2 |
letter book of Admiral Algeron Lyons of HMS Bellerophon, West Indies & Canada Station, 1886-7
|
1886 - 1887 |
correspondence navy ships Caribbean |
216/1 |
misc. volume inc. obituaries of Admiral John Lyons, 1872; journal by Arthur Frankland of a cruise in HM Sloop jaseur from Mauritius to Madagascar on anti-slave trade operations, October - December 1830, with illustrations; copies, with one original, of letters of the Ramiaramanana of Madagascar; map of voyage
|
1830 - 1872 |
navy diary travel ships islands slavery correspondence |
2107 |
Merchant Navy Association, Plymouth branch: records |
1988 - 1994 |
naval trade |
2103 |
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery: records relating to the Royal Navy |
1581 - 1699 |
naval |
210/1/1-12 |
letters of James Olver of Plymouth to Frederick Huth of Firmin de Taslet & Co. of London, 1812, relating to shipping
|
1812 |
correspondence companies |
2087, 2134 |
Institute of Maritime Studies, University of Plymouth: student and other records 18th-20th centuries |
1700 - 1999 |
education |
198 |
book with letters of Richard Fletcher of Beechwood, Lieut. in 43rd Regiment, 1823-6, with notes of leave & attempt to regain ship
|
1823 - 1826 |
correspondence navy |
195 |
notebooks of Capt. Welbank on lighthouses & vessels visited, c.1836-43, inc. Bristol, Aberystwyth, Lundy, Cornwall, Scilly, Isle of Wight, Yarmouth, Wells & Hunstanton, Kings Lynn, Milford, Dungeness, Thames, Tynemouth to Harwich, North Shields to Yarmouth
|
1836 - 1843 |
navigation islands |
1904 |
index of shipping registers
|
|
|
190 |
Davis family papers include 6-11, certificates of service, 1914-22
|
1914 - 1922 |
mariners |
1874/1 |
order book of Lieut. Bewes, Plymouth & Portsmouth, of guard duties at RNH, Gun Wharf, Mount Wise & Mill Prison, 1796-7
|
1796 - 1797 |
security |
186 |
Astor papers include 20/4, file on visit of American fleet, 1934; 41, port development, 1926-7
|
1926 - 1934 |
navy |
1828 |
bill of sale of the Three Brothers, 1829, shipping accounts, 1832-8 |
1829 - 1838 |
ships |
182/10 |
letter of Capt. William Pope, onboard the Enterprise, at Paignton, 1845, to Edward James, Plymouth concerning timber onboard
|
1845 |
correspondence ships wood cargo trade |
182/1 |
letter book of Captain George Drake, 1806-13, inc. relating to whilst on duty at Portsmouth Dockyard
|
1806 - 1813 |
correspondence navy |
178/219 |
printed papers relating to shares in the Great Western Docks, 1859-61
|
1859 - 1861 |
ownership |
166 |
navy board office letter book, 1815-28
|
1815 - 1828 |
correspondence |
1652/1-3 |
lantern slides, late nineteenth century, inc. 3/1-35, of shipping & Cornwall
|
1850 - 1899 |
|
164 |
measured drawings of the hull of the Alderney sloop built at Saltash, 1757
|
1757 |
illustrations ships |
1631/1-12 |
letters of Thomas Brown, emigrant to Australia, 1848-57, n.d. inc. description of voyage
|
1848 - 1857 |
correspondence travel emigration |
161 |
papers relating to the estate of Admiral Vincent, 1819-34
|
1819 - 1834 |
navy |
1538/1-3 |
minutes of Plymouth Port Sanitary Authority, 1882-1923
|
1882 - 1923 |
harbours |
152 |
correspondence of Royal Engineers, Western District, Plymouth Dock, 1809
|
1809 |
navy |
1485/1 |
bond for George Moore to pay for & take away a brass gun out of a Spanish prize ship at Plymouth, 1706
|
1706 |
|
1477/1 |
bill of sale of the Agnes, 1695
|
1695 |
ownership ships |
1476/3 |
copy typescripts of Americans in Britain during second world war, with notes on US Naval Advanced Amphibious Base
|
|
navy |
140/4-7 |
notebooks of a student of naval architecture, 1862-4, of gun & small arms drill, nineteenth century, geometry & trigonometry, nineteenth century
|
1862 - 1864 |
navy design construction weapons |
140/2 |
journal of commanding or flag officer onboard HMS Bellerophon, West Indies Station, 1886-9
|
1886 - 1889 |
diary navy ships Caribbean |
140/1 |
signal book of HMS Royal Albert, Mediterranean Station, 1857-8
|
1857 - 1858 |
navy ships Europe |
14/2-12 |
letters from Charlotte Sainthill to Mary Green & family regarding voyage from the Downs to Ancona, Trieste, Leghorn, Nice & Gibraltar, 1785
|
1785 |
correspondence travel Europe Italy France |
139/2/1-2 |
newspapers cuttings book & letters relating to the Cornwall County Fisheries Exhibition at Truro, 1893
|
1893 |
correspondence fishing |
139/1/1-4 |
letter books of Inspecting Commander Fowey District Coastguards, 1834-65
|
1834 - 1865 |
correspondence rescue security |
1386/1-97 |
misc. photographs, c.1885-1970, inc. of Isles of Scilly
|
1885 - 1970 |
islands |
1375/1-12 |
Acts, bye-laws & poster of the Sutton Harbour Improvement Company, 1811-95
|
1811 - 1895 |
legislation ports illustrations |
1363/58 |
annual reports of the Plymouth Port Sanitary Authority, 1907-10
|
1907 - 1910 |
harbours |
1353/1 |
French treatise on navigation of 119 folios, c.1630
|
1630 |
|
1332/1 |
journal of R. Wharton of tour of North Britain, inc. Newcastle, Berwick & Scotland, 1830, with sketches
|
1830 |
diary illustrations |
1326/5-11 |
misc. shipping papers of William Harris of Plymouth, 1828-35, n.d., inc. loading notice,
|
1828 - 1835 |
|
1323 |
copy petition of skilled & ordinary labourers at Devonport Dockyard regarding pay & conditions, November 1892
|
1892 |
wages |
1322/1-11 |
leases of the oyster fishery, Cattewater, 1764-1870
|
1764 - 1870 |
fishing shellfish |
1307 |
misc. papers of Sutton Harbour Improvement Company, inc. correspondence & directors' reports, 1926-39, n.d.
|
1926 - 1939 |
ports |
1305/4 |
two copies of letters written by John Winter, fishing station manager, Maine, to Robert Trelawny of 1632-4
|
1632 - 1634 |
correspondence America |
1301/1 |
naval service certificate of Edmund John Stroud of Devonport, 1896-1919
|
1896 - 1919 |
navy |
130/2 |
calling card of B. Call, house & ship-joiner & undertaken of 14 Vauxhall Street, Plymouth
|
|
construction |
1289/1-4 |
papers of Roy Ernest James Cattle relating to his apprenticeship at Devonport Dockyard, 1919-25
|
1919 - 1925 |
training |
1274/2 |
travel journal of Revd James Yonge from Falmouth to Lisbon, 1773-4
|
1773 - 1774 |
diary Cornwall Portugal |
1261/1-46 |
papers relating to Sutton Harbour Yacht Club, 1923-48, mainly race cards
|
1923 - 1948 |
leisure sailing |
1260 |
list of officers serving onboard HMS Sappho, 30 September 1940
|
1940 |
crew navy ships |
126/1/1-3 |
letters regarding Thomas Whitby Toby, 1823-7, & efforts to obtain his release from Newgate & opportunity of sending him to sea in a trading vessel to Honduras
|
1823 - 1827 |
correspondence prison navy Americas |
1259 |
correspondence of the Parker family of Saltram, late eighteenth - early nineteenth century, inc. some naval news
|
1750 - 1850 |
navy |
1226/1-2 |
testimonial to William Dalley, chief mate of the Richard, who died during a hurricane at Cattewater, 1824, & copy of memorial inscription
|
1824 |
ships deaths weather |
1195/1-2 |
transactions & indexed letter book of Queen's Harbour Master, Plymouth, 1865-70, 1877-89
|
1865 - 1889 |
correspondence ports |
1190/1 |
journal kept on board the George & Elizabeth, 28 July - 5 September 1742
|
1742 |
diary ships |
1188/1-22 |
annual reports of the Royal Sailors' Rests, Devonport & Portsmouth, 1905-33, with envelope of printing blocks
|
1905 - 1933 |
welfare health |
1185 |
certificate of naval service of Henry Northcott of Plymouth, 1877-99
|
1877 - 1899 |
navy |
1163 |
copy letter from Sir Edward Berry to Admiral Sir James Saumarez regarding his nephew, 1825
|
1825 |
correspondence navy |
116/99-101 |
collection of photographs of woodcarvings by the firm of Rashleigh Pinwill of Plymouth, inc. of four wooden medallions by R. Pinwill, onboard HMS Concord, n.d.; of armorial bearings & group of officers & Lords of the Admiralty with King George V by R. Pinwill, 1913, with coloured sheet; models for memorials, HMS Swiftsure, n.d. (also see 244 for HMS New Zealand, HMS Monarch, HMS Lion, HMS Swiftsure, HMS Queen Mary, HMS Hawke
|
1913 |
navy ships Royalty |
1127/1-225 |
architectural plans mainly of Geoffrey Bazely & Barbary, chartered architects, inc. of the Royal Citadel, Seaton Barracks & Stonehouse Barracks, twentieth century
|
1900 - 1999 |
design navy construction |
112 |
letter book of in-letters of the commanding officer of the Royal Engineers, Plymouth, inc. details about repairs to Plymouth Citadel, the building of a wall around Devonport, the construction of fortifications outside Plymouth & a dispute amongst the garrison in the Scilly Islands, 1787-9
|
1787 - 1789 |
correspondence navy construction security defence |
1119/1-12 |
misc. papers & photographs relating to Torpoint Ferry, 1921-86, n.d.
|
1921 - 1986 |
transport |
1107/16-23 |
misc. papers, mainly financial, of the Plymouth Soup Society, 1907-49, later home of the Seamen & Boatmens' Friendly Society
|
1907 - 1949 |
welfare health mariners sailors |
1107/1-15 |
papers relating to the Plymouth Seamens' Bethel, inc. 1-3, missionary journals, 1855-68;
|
1855 - 1868 |
religion welfare diaries |
1106/1-4 |
certificates of Henry Coombes, petty officer, c.1914-22
|
1914 - 1922 |
navy service |
11/2 |
letter from Sir Cloudesly Shovell, onboard the Triumph at Spithead to William Wright, H.M. Dockyard commissioner, regarding signal colours & the St George, 17 June 1703
|
1703 |
correspondence ships |
11/1 |
letter from Arthur Holdsworth, mayor of Dartmouth, & others to Sir Richard Temple, H.M. Customs Commissioner, regarding assistance in collecting petty customs, seventeenth century
|
1600 - 1699 |
correspondence duty levies |
1092 |
letters of the Yonge family, inc. 11-12, reference to voyage of the Southern Cross, 1855
|
1855 |
correspondence travel ships |
1085/2 |
correspondence concerning coastal & wreck rights in Wembury, 1982-5
|
1982 - 1985 |
|
107/954 |
note on the method of measuring timber in the Dock Yard, eighteenth century
|
1700 - 1799 |
wood |
107/949 |
certificate of registration of the Toil, ferry, for the river Yealm, 4 August 1795
|
1795 |
waterways transport |
107/918 |
certificate regarding cargo of French salt destined for England, 25 June 1436, in Anglo-Norman
|
1436 |
trade |
107/917 |
safe conduct for Jehan Foyer & Gilos Lyton of Grande, Island of Batz, Brittany to bring merchandise of Stephane Russh, Plymouth mariner, from Brittany to Plymouth, 7 September 1435, in Anglo-Norman
|
1435 |
trade |
105/170 |
bills of sale of the Snow Triune of Sunderland, 1826, the Transport of Sunderland, 1828, Junia of Sunderland, 1828, Red Rover of Sunderland, 1831
|
1826 - 1831 |
ownership ships |
1049/1 |
letter book of John Prideaux, 1784-6, with accounts of some crew members of 88 navy ships possibly complied by agent for collection of wages
|
1784 - 1786 |
correspondence |
103/4 |
prospectus of the proprietors of the Saltash Turnpike for the improvement of the roads on the establishment of the Tamar floating bridge, with map, 1832
|
1832 |
highways |
103/1 |
muster rolls & pay lists for a lieutenant, gunners & matresses at Pendennis Castle (Falmouth) & Plymouth, January 1718 - August 1718
|
1718 |
wages navy |
101/1-9 |
correspondence relating to the Cattewater Harbour Commissioners, 1917-18
|
1917 - 1918 |
ports |
1004/11 |
menu for luncheon on the SS Himalaya, 1961
|
1961 |
ships |