Code |
Description |
Date |
Keywords |
880 |
photograph of the Try, Brixham built Plymouth sailing trawler, n.d.
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|
boats fishing |
1476/3 |
copy typescripts of Americans in Britain during second world war, with notes on US Naval Advanced Amphibious Base
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|
navy |
338/1 |
printed volume on night signals, n.d.
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|
communications navigation |
335/1-7 |
papers of Edwin Parker include 1-3, certificates of service of Edwin Parker of Devonport;
|
|
crew navy |
467/1-23 |
photocopies of plans, surveys, maps, etc. of Plymouth held at Public Record Office
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|
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130/2 |
calling card of B. Call, house & ship-joiner & undertaken of 14 Vauxhall Street, Plymouth
|
|
construction |
1904 |
index of shipping registers
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|
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298/1-15 |
papers of Capt. Richard Dale of St Ives, Cornwall, inc. diary onboard the Toxteth, working books, 1917-23, n.d.
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|
journal ships |
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;
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1300 - 1799 |
|
Worth W49 |
book of misc. borough business, fifteenth-sixteenth centuries, inc. wrecks, Fowey vice-admiralty court, fishing, quays;
|
1400 - 1599 |
navy |
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
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1435 |
trade |
107/918 |
certificate regarding cargo of French salt destined for England, 25 June 1436, in Anglo-Norman
|
1436 |
trade |
Worth W130-2 |
Plymouth Receivers' books, 1491-1807, inc. references to shipping, defence, fishing |
1491 - 1807 |
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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 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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425 |
photocopies of port books held at Public Record Office for Port of Plymouth, 1565-1638, Port of Dartmouth, 1615
|
1565 - 1638 |
harbours |
2103 |
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery: records relating to the Royal Navy |
1581 - 1699 |
naval |
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 |
Worth W50 |
book relating to Plymouth town clerk, 1593-1601, inc. relating to shipping, prizes, ship ownership;
|
1593 - 1601 |
|
Woollcombe 871 |
misc. papers, 17-19th centuries, inc. naval;
|
1600 - 1899 |
navy |
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 |
72/1204Ai-ii |
two coloured drawings of Plymouth Barbican & Victualling Yard, seventeenth century
|
1600 - 1699 |
illustrations |
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 |
1353/1 |
French treatise on navigation of 119 folios, c.1630
|
1630 |
|
1305/4 |
two copies of letters written by John Winter, fishing station manager, Maine, to Robert Trelawny of 1632-4
|
1632 - 1634 |
correspondence America |
70/321 |
inventory of the cargo of the Crab of Horn, 24 March 1637
|
1637 |
trade ships |
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 |
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 |
469 |
photocopies of letters to George Treby, Plympton MP, 1671-8, with naval news, Turkish pirates
|
1671 - 1678 |
correspondence navy piracy |
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
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1672 |
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1477/1 |
bill of sale of the Agnes, 1695
|
1695 |
ownership ships |
570/122 |
letter regarding restraining sailors going onshore at Plymouth, 1696
|
1696 |
correspondence mariners |
107/954 |
note on the method of measuring timber in the Dock Yard, eighteenth century
|
1700 - 1799 |
wood |
663/56 |
Plymouth dockyard plans, mainly architectural & building, eighteenth - twentieth centuries, inc. Keyham Yard, Royal Naval Hospital, Torpoint
|
1700 - 1999 |
construction navy medical |
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 |
2087, 2134 |
Institute of Maritime Studies, University of Plymouth: student and other records 18th-20th centuries |
1700 - 1999 |
education |
Woollcombe 714-15 |
logbooks of HMS Shrewsbury between London & Plymouth, 1702 & Norway, 1719;
|
1702 - 1719 |
navy ships Scandinavia |
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 |
72/1232-3 |
appointments of Sidney Strode at customs officer in Bideford & Barnstaple, 1705
|
1705 |
trade duty |
1485/1 |
bond for George Moore to pay for & take away a brass gun out of a Spanish prize ship at Plymouth, 1706
|
1706 |
|
103/1 |
muster rolls & pay lists for a lieutenant, gunners & matresses at Pendennis Castle (Falmouth) & Plymouth, January 1718 - August 1718
|
1718 |
wages navy |
684 |
St Aubyn estate papers inc. title deeds & bundles of letters relating to Devonport Dockyard, 1719-1862
|
1719 - 1862 |
ownership correspondence |
69M/6/450-86 |
leases & misc. papers relating to Plym Fishery & Oysterage, 1719-1914;
|
1719 - 1914 |
fishing |
40 |
photocopy of JPs' orders to high constable of Warrington division of hundred of Derby regarding straggling seamen, 27 June 1739
|
1739 |
mariners |
1190/1 |
journal kept on board the George & Elizabeth, 28 July - 5 September 1742
|
1742 |
diary ships |
81R/8/3/22 |
bargain & sale of shares in the Salisbury & the Houghton, sailing vessels, 1747
|
1747 |
ownership ships |
1259 |
correspondence of the Parker family of Saltram, late eighteenth - early nineteenth century, inc. some naval news
|
1750 - 1850 |
navy |
365/3 |
letter of marque for the Earl of Effingham, 5 November 1756
|
1756 |
ships privateering |
164 |
measured drawings of the hull of the Alderney sloop built at Saltash, 1757
|
1757 |
illustrations ships |
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 |
1322/1-11 |
leases of the oyster fishery, Cattewater, 1764-1870
|
1764 - 1870 |
fishing shellfish |
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 |
1274/2 |
travel journal of Revd James Yonge from Falmouth to Lisbon, 1773-4
|
1773 - 1774 |
diary Cornwall Portugal |
470/6 |
letter book of JC, from Plymouth Gun Wharf, inc. family & naval correspondence, 1780-1
|
1780 - 1781 |
weaponry navy |
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 |
581/1-17 |
Plymouth Harbour Master `ships books', 1782-1834, transaction books, 1838-91, letter books, 1838-1900
|
1782 - 1900 |
ports |
Woollcombe 719 |
papers regarding prize money during the Dutch war, 1783;
|
1783 |
battles navy |
Woollcombe 1011 |
legal papers regarding Dutch prize goods, 1783;
|
1783 |
piracy |
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 |
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 |
560/9 |
bill of funeral expenses of Rear Admiral Innes, 1786
|
1786 |
deaths costs navy |
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 |
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 |
Woollcombe 1210 |
directions for ships sailing by Longships Lighthouse 1795;
|
1795 |
navigation |
339/1-3 |
three letters to Charles Cox & Sons, Naval Agents, London, 1795-1819
|
1795 - 1819 |
correspondence Companies navy |
107/949 |
certificate of registration of the Toil, ferry, for the river Yealm, 4 August 1795
|
1795 |
waterways transport |
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 |
Woollcombe 391-7 |
diaries of Henry Woollcombe, 1798-1825, notably with naval news
|
1798 - 1825 |
navy journal |
25 |
papers regarding purchase of houses in Durnford Street, East Stonehouse, by the Admiralty, 1798-1863, inc. rental papers
|
1798 - 1863 |
navy property |
567/62/45 |
papers relating to Peter Warren, shipwright, inc. apprenticeship indenture, work references, 1799-1850
|
1799 - 1850 |
construction shipbuilding training |
Acc 2949 |
Bayly, timber merchants, Plymouth (addnl): timber accounts
|
1799 - 1812 |
wood |
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 |
|
Woollcombe 743 |
address from the inhabitants of Plymouth to the Crown regarding the state of the navy, nineteenth century;
|
1800 - 1899 |
|
Woollcombe 923 |
account of cruise around the world, nineteenth century;
|
1800 - 1899 |
travel leisure |
Woollcombe 1279 |
order book of Captain Charles Stirling, HMS Thetes, nineteenth century;
|
1800 - 1899 |
navy ships |
853, |
St Aubyn estate papers of the manor of Stoke Damerel inc. Torpoint Ferry accounts, early nineteenth century
|
1800 - 1850 |
|
Acc. 3093 |
Diaries of John and Elizabeth Hoar of Devonport with privateers' accounts of the ship Maria |
1800 - 1802 |
|
3482 |
Richard Hill, shipbuilder, Cattedown, Plymouth: research papers, prints and photographs 1800-2009.
|
1800 - 2009 |
shipwright shipbuilders ships design |
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 |
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 |
182/1 |
letter book of Captain George Drake, 1806-13, inc. relating to whilst on duty at Portsmouth Dockyard
|
1806 - 1813 |
correspondence navy |
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 |
487-504 |
letters, notices, memorandum, notices & Acts regarding Cattewater Harbour & moorings, 1806-85;
|
1806 - 1885 |
correspondence ports |
570/123 |
commission of Thomas Simpson as Lieutenant on board HMS Hound, 1807
|
1807 |
navy ships |
498/1 |
certificate of protection from impressment to Alexander Tait, joiner of Edinburgh, 1807
|
1807 |
navy recruitment pressganging |
81A/43-7 |
papers relating to the Naval Bank, c.1808-72, inc. clients' correspondence & papers
|
1808 - 1872 |
navy |
152 |
correspondence of Royal Engineers, Western District, Plymouth Dock, 1809
|
1809 |
navy |
Woollcombe 817-22 |
papers relating to naval appointments of George Woollcombe, 1810-62;
|
1810 - 1862 |
navy recruitment |
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 |
1375/1-12 |
Acts, bye-laws & poster of the Sutton Harbour Improvement Company, 1811-95
|
1811 - 1895 |
legislation ports illustrations |
407/File 1/PQ/1 |
share certificates, etc. in East India Company, 1811-36
|
1811 - 1836 |
trade commerce |
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 |
993/1-19 |
correspondence & sermons of Frederick George White Hooper, Plymouth missionary to Mauritius, 1813-15, n.d.
|
1813 - 1815 |
religion Islands Asia |
Acc 2988 |
George Chirgwin, sailor: papers |
1813 - 1896 |
mariners |
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 |
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 |
Woollcombe 400-626 |
correspondence referring to naval news, early nineteenth century, notably naval letters of George Woollcombe, 1815-25;
|
1815 - 1825 |
navy |
166 |
navy board office letter book, 1815-28
|
1815 - 1828 |
correspondence |
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 |
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 |
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 |
648/1-61 |
misc. papers relating to construction of Plymouth Breakwater, 1818-45, n.d.
|
1818 - 1845 |
|
161 |
papers relating to the estate of Admiral Vincent, 1819-34
|
1819 - 1834 |
navy |
Woollcombe 755 |
letter regarding Plymouth exports, 1820;
|
1820 |
correspondence trade cargo |
845 |
service papers relating to William Edward G. Charles Dickson, naval surgeon, 1822-58
|
1822 - 1858 |
navy medical doctor |
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 |
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 |
894/1-13 |
Plymouth shipping registers, 1824-64 (now on microfilm)
|
1824 - 1864 |
|
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 |
1163 |
copy letter from Sir Edward Berry to Admiral Sir James Saumarez regarding his nephew, 1825
|
1825 |
correspondence navy |
Woollcombe 1229 |
notice to mariners concerning new lighthouse on Skellig's Rock, 1826;
|
1826 |
navigation |
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 |
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 |
406/1-2 |
diaries of events regarding construction of Plymouth Breakwater, 1827, 1830
|
1827 - 1830 |
journals |
240/4 |
letter from Francis Richard Vincent to Henry Woollacombe asking for £100 towards passage to India, 1827
|
1827 |
correspondence travel |
4-12 |
accounts, 1828-85; 13, correspondence with the British & Foreign Sailors' Society, 1870-4 |
1828 - 1885 |
welfare mariners |
1326/5-11 |
misc. shipping papers of William Harris of Plymouth, 1828-35, n.d., inc. loading notice,
|
1828 - 1835 |
|
1828 |
bill of sale of the Three Brothers, 1829, shipping accounts, 1832-8 |
1829 - 1838 |
ships |
1332/1 |
journal of R. Wharton of tour of North Britain, inc. Newcastle, Berwick & Scotland, 1830, with sketches
|
1830 |
diary illustrations |
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 |
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 |
910 |
plan of Sutton Pool, November 1831
|
1831 |
|
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 |
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 |
60/1 |
shipping docket for hogshead of port from Douro to Plymouth on the Hull, 1834
|
1834 |
alcohol wine trade cargo ships |
139/1/1-4 |
letter books of Inspecting Commander Fowey District Coastguards, 1834-65
|
1834 - 1865 |
correspondence rescue security |
810/1 |
ts diary of Michael Evens of Holbeton, tailor, with references to smuggling, 1836-63
|
1836 - 1863 |
journal |
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 |
Woollcombe 710 |
Woollcombe family papers inc. 356, account book, 1838-43, inc. of the Torpoint Steam Ferry;
|
1838 - 1843 |
transport |
470/14 |
schedule & plan of Turnchapel dry dock, Stonehouse, 1839
|
1839 |
|
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 |
375/5-14 |
papers, mostly service documents, of Henry Bayley, R.N., 1840-60
|
1840 - 1860 |
|
Ac 2487 |
Bent family of Tamerton Foliot: family and Royal Naval papers. |
1840 - 1890 |
navy records |
Woollcombe 1245 |
request for six month's survey of cables, HMS Resistance, 1842;
|
1842 |
navy ships |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
1631/1-12 |
letters of Thomas Brown, emigrant to Australia, 1848-57, n.d. inc. description of voyage
|
1848 - 1857 |
correspondence travel emigration |
318/1 |
list of sloops onboard HMS Belleisle, 29 June 1848
|
1848 |
navy ships |
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 |
1652/1-3 |
lantern slides, late nineteenth century, inc. 3/1-35, of shipping & Cornwall
|
1850 - 1899 |
|
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 |
470/7 |
journal of W. Fowler, Royal Naval Engineer, with references to voyages along West Africa, 1854-80
|
1854 - 1880 |
diary navy travel |
1107/1-15 |
papers relating to the Plymouth Seamens' Bethel, inc. 1-3, missionary journals, 1855-68;
|
1855 - 1868 |
religion welfare diaries |
567/97/108 |
certificate of competence as master in merchant service of Richard Richards of Flushing, Cornwall, 1855
|
1855 |
mariners trade |
567/68/35 |
bill of sale of the Belmont, 1855
|
1855 |
ships |
587/1-14 |
bills of sales of Plymouth vessels, 1855-1908, n.d., of the Edwin, Emerald, Mary, Misty, Two Brothers
|
1855 - 1908 |
ships |
1092 |
letters of the Yonge family, inc. 11-12, reference to voyage of the Southern Cross, 1855
|
1855 |
correspondence travel ships |
Woollcombe 918-22 |
papers relating to HMS Retribution, HMS Lord Warren, 1856-60, HMS Lord Warden, 1867-70;
|
1856 - 1870 |
navy ships |
140/1 |
signal book of HMS Royal Albert, Mediterranean Station, 1857-8
|
1857 - 1858 |
navy ships Europe |
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 |
342/1 |
plans & specifications of Royal Naval & Military School, 1858
|
1858 |
navy education training |
528/1-2 |
logbooks of the Prince of Wales, 1858-65, the Walmer Castle, 1862 to India, Australia, etc.
|
1858 - 1865 |
ships travel |
178/219 |
printed papers relating to shares in the Great Western Docks, 1859-61
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1859 - 1861 |
ownership |
acc 2215 |
D.G. Hoppins, dock manager in Plymouth and South Wales: records |
1861 - 1995 |
wharfs |
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 |
427/14-17 |
service papers relating to Henry Broad, ship's cook, 1864-77
|
1864 - 1877 |
|
1195/1-2 |
transactions & indexed letter book of Queen's Harbour Master, Plymouth, 1865-70, 1877-89
|
1865 - 1889 |
correspondence ports |
502/1-2 |
photocopy of apprentice indenture & discharge certificate of Samuel Lane Tucker of Plymouth, 1870, 1878
|
1870 - 1878 |
training mariners |
772 |
letters, plans, diagram, etc. relating to Great Western Dock extension, 1874-6, n.d.
|
1874 - 1876 |
correspondence illustrations construction |
1185 |
certificate of naval service of Henry Northcott of Plymouth, 1877-99
|
1877 - 1899 |
navy |
Acc 2907 |
Plymouth port: shipping registers |
1877 - 1994 |
|
319/2 |
certificate of service in Royal Navy of Samual Sprague of Plymouth, 1879
|
1879 |
|
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 |
1538/1-3 |
minutes of Plymouth Port Sanitary Authority, 1882-1923
|
1882 - 1923 |
harbours |
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 |
1386/1-97 |
misc. photographs, c.1885-1970, inc. of Isles of Scilly
|
1885 - 1970 |
islands |
4-5 |
logbooks of voyage onboard HMS Racer, West Africa, 1885-9, 1886-7 |
1885 - 1889 |
travel navy ships |
475/12 |
journal of James Grant onboard the George W. Clyde from New York to San Domingo, & return, 1886
|
1886 |
diary ships Americas |
216/2 |
letter book of Admiral Algeron Lyons of HMS Bellerophon, West Indies & Canada Station, 1886-7
|
1886 - 1887 |
correspondence navy ships Caribbean |
140/2 |
journal of commanding or flag officer onboard HMS Bellerophon, West Indies Station, 1886-9
|
1886 - 1889 |
diary navy ships Caribbean |
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 |
|
216/4 |
visitors' book of Mrs Lyons onboard HMS Bermuda & at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1887-8
|
1887 - 1888 |
navy ships Canada |
750 |
Committee minute books of Plymouth Seamans' Bethel, 1888-1937
|
1888 - 1937 |
welfare mariners sailors |
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 |
216/3 |
`remarks on the action of the squadron in case of war', May 1888
|
1888 |
navy |
242/3 |
eight volumes of papers of Robert Bayly junior regarding improvement of coastal communications, 1889-96
|
1889 - 1896 |
|
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 |
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 |
|
1323 |
copy petition of skilled & ordinary labourers at Devonport Dockyard regarding pay & conditions, November 1892
|
1892 |
wages |
Acc 3048 |
Plymouth Shipping registers: registration papers |
1892 - 1994 |
|
139/2/1-2 |
newspapers cuttings book & letters relating to the Cornwall County Fisheries Exhibition at Truro, 1893
|
1893 |
correspondence fishing |
Acc. 3077 |
T. Evan Davies of Devonport: notebook and notes on extension of HM Dockyard, Keyham, Devonport |
1895 - 1896 |
|
1301/1 |
naval service certificate of Edmund John Stroud of Devonport, 1896-1919
|
1896 - 1919 |
navy |
88/10 |
report & plans by Sir John Wolfe Barry & Mr Cuthbert Brereson to Plymouth Corporation on Cattewater Harbour, 11 November 1897
|
1897 |
ports |
81N/86/1 |
timetable of Cunard sailings from Liverpool to Boston & New York, 1897
|
1897 |
America |
326 |
printed invitation from Mayor of Plymouth to attend the annual `fishing feast' & completion of Burrator Reservoir, 1 September 1898
|
1898 |
leisure events waterways |
Acc 2478 |
Torpoint Steam Ferry Co.: papers |
1899 - 1905 |
transport Companies |
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 |
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 |
862/251 |
certificate of seaman's competence of John Patrick Drayton of Limerick, Ireland,
1903-9
|
1903 - 1909 |
|
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 |
1188/1-22 |
annual reports of the Royal Sailors' Rests, Devonport & Portsmouth, 1905-33, with envelope of printing blocks
|
1905 - 1933 |
welfare health |
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 |
530/1-9 |
papers relating to naval service of Samuel Louis Hutchings, headmaster in HM Fleet, 1907-28
|
1907 - 1928 |
navy |
1363/58 |
annual reports of the Plymouth Port Sanitary Authority, 1907-10
|
1907 - 1910 |
harbours |
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 |
965/236 |
papers relating to Plymouth Sailors' Home, 1909-10, 1916-17
|
1909 - 1917 |
welfare mariners |
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 |
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 |
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 |
190 |
Davis family papers include 6-11, certificates of service, 1914-22
|
1914 - 1922 |
mariners |
1106/1-4 |
certificates of Henry Coombes, petty officer, c.1914-22
|
1914 - 1922 |
navy service |
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 |
101/1-9 |
correspondence relating to the Cattewater Harbour Commissioners, 1917-18
|
1917 - 1918 |
ports |
500/92 |
letters & related documents sent to the Bayly family, 1909, inc. relating to Mediterranean cruise
|
1919 |
correspondence Europe travel leisure |
1289/1-4 |
papers of Roy Ernest James Cattle relating to his apprenticeship at Devonport Dockyard, 1919-25
|
1919 - 1925 |
training |
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 |
1119/1-12 |
misc. papers & photographs relating to Torpoint Ferry, 1921-86, n.d.
|
1921 - 1986 |
transport |
acc 2194 |
National Union of Seamen: registers |
1921 - 1980 |
mariners sailors societies organisations |
1261/1-46 |
papers relating to Sutton Harbour Yacht Club, 1923-48, mainly race cards
|
1923 - 1948 |
leisure sailing |
965/240 |
papers relating to British Sailors' Home, Plymouth, 1925
|
1925 |
welfare mariners |
1307 |
misc. papers of Sutton Harbour Improvement Company, inc. correspondence & directors' reports, 1926-39, n.d.
|
1926 - 1939 |
ports |
186 |
Astor papers include 20/4, file on visit of American fleet, 1934; 41, port development, 1926-7
|
1926 - 1934 |
navy |
307/384 |
paper relating to Plymouth Navy Week, 1930
|
1930 |
|
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 |
1260 |
list of officers serving onboard HMS Sappho, 30 September 1940
|
1940 |
crew navy ships |
Acc 2669 |
Plymouth Sea Rangers: minutes, watch record books and scrapbooks |
1940 - 1960 |
security defence |
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 |
829 |
photographs of Royal Naval Engineering College, late nineteenth century, c.1950-79
|
1950 - 1979 |
navy education training |
1004/11 |
menu for luncheon on the SS Himalaya, 1961
|
1961 |
ships |
Woollcombe 1318 |
invitation to Mrs Woollcombe to the opening of the Woollcombe block WRNS Quarters, 1973;
|
1973 |
navy |
1085/2 |
correspondence concerning coastal & wreck rights in Wembury, 1982-5
|
1982 - 1985 |
|
Acc2621 |
Plymouth and District Merchant Navy Association: minutes and correspondence. |
1987 - 1999 |
|
2107 |
Merchant Navy Association, Plymouth branch: records |
1988 - 1994 |
naval trade |
Acc 2978 |
Merchant Navy Association, Plymouth branch: additional accounts |
1990 - 2001 |
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