Code |
Description |
Date |
Keywords |
WRO3 |
ledger with entry and departure of ships from Boston Dock, 17 October 1909 - 14 August 1919
|
1909 - 1919 |
wharfs ports sailings |
Worsley 37 |
account of voyage by Sir Richard Worsley off France and Italy, 1769-70
|
1769 - 1770 |
travel Europe |
Winn/1/1/53-4 |
notebook of Henry Winn, 1845-6, with reference to the Lifeboat regatta and meeting of the Wainfleet branch of the Shipwrecked fishermen and mariners Society at Skegness
|
1845 - 1846 |
rescue welfare |
WHIT/4/2/93 |
papers regarding purchase of Old Lifeboat House, Skegness, 1914
|
1914 |
|
TdE/G/5/3 |
conveyance of share of the Elizabeth & Sarah of Grimsby, 17 February 1737
|
1737 |
ownership |
Td.E/H/9/2 |
regulations for students' admission to Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 1821
|
1821 |
education navy training |
Td.E/H/9/12 |
guide card for visitors attending the foundation stone ceremony at Grimsby new docks, 18 April 1849
|
1849 |
events ports wharfs |
Td.E/H/12 |
correspondence of Lord Nugent, Mr G. D'Eyncourt, and Edwin C. D'Eyncourt on HMS Rapid regarding conditions in the eastern Mediterranean and Corfu, 1832-4
|
1832 - 1834 |
navy ships Europe |
T.d'E/H/62 |
letters to Charles Tennyson, 1804, with mention of the auction of a ship at Grimsby
|
1804 |
correspondence |
T.d'E/H/102 |
letters to Charles Tennysonm, 1827, with mention of Lord Yarborough's yacht being built at Portsmouth
|
1827 |
correspondence boats |
Sib2/4/1--67 |
letters to Humphrey Sibthorp, 1798-1806, including from his brother Henry with naval news
|
1798 - 1806 |
correspondence navy |
Sher plans H/94, 113 & 126 |
plans of New Boat house and parlour, Hob Hole coast guard station, and repair of banks
|
|
maintenance coastal erosion |
Sher plans H/80 |
plan of new slipway at Thompson's Shipyard, Boston, nineteenth century
|
1800 - 1899 |
|
Sher plans F/32 |
plan of repairs to Fosdyke coast guard station, 1896
|
1896 |
maintenance |
Sher plans C/76 |
plan of repairs to Frieston coast guard station, 1892
|
1892 |
maintenance |
Sher plans C/36 |
plan of coast guard station, 1866
|
1866 |
|
Sher plans B125, 144 & 166 |
plans of Boston docks
|
|
wharfs ports harbours |
Sher plans B/70, 72-4 |
plans of Boston Harbour Comm. relating to coastal erosion
|
|
ports |
SE9 |
misc. papers relating to Grimsby, mainly mortgages and bills of sale of the Brittannia, John Bull, Waverley, Killarney, Anglesey, Sirdar, Khedive, 1895-1900, 1902, with memorandum of association and certification of incorporations of the Meadows Steam Fishing Company, Ltd, 1901
|
1895 - 1902 |
ships fishing ownership |
PRO/MSR |
27 boxes of crew lists and running agreements, Boston, 1863 - 1913 and Gainsborough, 1863-81
|
1863 - 1913 |
mariners trade |
PRO/MSR |
14 boxes of fishing vessel crew agreements, 1886-1913
Gainsborough
|
1886 - 1913 |
mariners |
ORM 19/1-6 |
leases relating to Skegness and Winthorpe with reference to coastal erosion, 1818-48
|
1818 - 1848 |
|
Munson 28/7 |
papers regarding convict ship to Van Dickman's land, 1846
|
1846 |
prisoners emigration |
MSR/Boston |
Boston shipping registers (addnl): account books. |
1800 - 1999 |
trade commerce |
MSR/BOSTON |
Boston Port: appropriation book |
1855 - 1989 |
harbours |
MSR/BOSTON |
Boston shipping register: registers of sea fishing boats at port
|
1902 - 1988 |
|
Monson20/A2 |
printed report on the state of Wainfleet haven, September 1814
|
1814 |
|
Monson 31/1-38 |
journals of Thomas Thistlewood, 1748-65, including voyages to and from Jamaica, accounts of daily life on the Egypt and Bread Nutt Plantations, Westmoreland, Jamaica and voyage to the Netherlands
|
1748 - 1765 |
travel Caribbean Colonies |
Monson 3/VI/3/3 |
receipt for payment of ship money by Randolph Sparrow, alderman of Richmond, York, 1637/8
|
1637 - 1638 |
|
Monson 28A/14/12 |
letter from John Hallett regarding the Fort St George, 2 September 1749
|
1749 |
correspondence ships |
Monson 25/6/50 |
fragment of document relating to a son in the navy, Lincoln, 1740
|
1740 |
|
Monson 21/XII/10 |
paper regarding absence of Mr Gatehouse and lack of coastguard on Lincolnshire coast, n.d.
|
|
security coastal |
Monson 21/I/17 |
list of French ships lost at Aboutier Bay, late eighteenth century
|
1750 - 1799 |
wrecks battles navy war |
Monson 11/5 |
vouchers, 1738-47, including account of goods on the Providence for Gainsborough
|
1738 - 1747 |
cargo ships trade |
Mon.7/51 |
accounts of John Dawtry concerning the King's wars by sea, 1513
|
1513 |
battles navy |
Misc. Don. 143/7 |
letter regarding cost of sending son as midshipman, c.1826
|
1826 |
correspondence recruitment |
Misc. Don. 143/1-2 |
letters to William Marshall on East India man, 1810
|
1810 |
correspondence |
MISC DON 1237 |
HM Customs and Excise, Port of Boston: records relating to customs and excise, including instructions from the Customs House and Whitehall, London and miscellaneous papers |
1690 - 1875 |
harbours |
MISC DEP 606 |
Enchanter, barque: crew and cargo records. |
1870 - 1889 |
barge mariners trade commerce |
MF1/72 |
Gainsborough, 2 shipping registers, 1841-79, transaction book, 1841-54
Boston
|
1841 - 1879 |
|
MF1/71 |
registers of vessels, 1824-37
|
1824 - 1837 |
registration |
MF1/71 |
transaction book, 1855-1926, covering ships registered, 1836-98
|
1836 - 1926 |
registration |
MF1/71 |
register of steam boat certificates, 1856-1909
|
1856 - 1909 |
registration |
MF1/70-1 |
2 registers of fishing boats, 1869-1901
|
1869 - 1901 |
registration |
MF1/69-70 |
ships' registers, Boston, 4 registers, 1827-92
|
1827 - 1892 |
registration |
MCD/489/II/13 |
letters regarding bill to improve port of Boston, 1776
|
1776 |
correspondence harbour legislation development |
Mass31/86 |
letter from C. Burrell Massingberd, 2 July 1828, with request for details of shipwreck association
|
1828 |
correspondence welfare |
Mass.6/1-92 |
letters of Lincolnshire Shipwreck Association, 1825-51
|
1825 - 1851 |
correspondence welfare |
M.M.VI/8/3 |
letters and notes concerning right of wreck at Croft and Skegness, c.1675, with note of the Prosperous of Scarborough wrecked near Ingoldmells, 12 September 1671
|
1671 - 1675 |
correspondence ships |
M.M.6/10/10/5-7 |
assessments for ship money at Ketsby and South Ormsby, 1677-8
|
1677 - 1678 |
|
M.M.2/1/70-1 |
agreements of Elizabeth Hyrne and her sons Burrell Massingberd and Henry regarding their shares in merchandize to be sent to South Carolina on the True Love, 27 September 1723
|
1723 |
ownership trade Americas ships |
M.M.11/1/50 |
letter from John Booth to C.B. Massingberd regarding danger to foreshore of removing gravel at Ingoldnells, 9 January 1832
|
1832 |
correspondence coastal erosion |
M.M. 11/1/49 |
letter from John Booth to C. B. Massingberd regarding use of a house at Skegness as refuge for shipwrecked persons, 1831
|
1831 |
correspondence welfare |
M.C.D. 1132 |
extracts from deeds regarding lighthouse at Winterton, 1656-92
|
1656 - 1692 |
communications navigation |
LQS |
registration list of 37 river and canal craft, 1795-1801 [access restricted]
|
1795 - 1801 |
waterways boats |
Lindsey Dep Plans 1/63 |
plan of Lincolnshire Estuary Amendments and Wainfleet Harbour Improvements, 1851
|
1851 |
waterways ports development |
Lindsey Dep Plans 1/149 |
plan of harbour and dock of the North Sea Fisheries, East Lincs., 1883
|
1883 |
ports wharfs fishing |
LD24/3/5/1 |
transcripts of papers relating to the navy, eighteenth century, with navy financial account for 1701-10
|
1701 - 1710 |
|
LD24/3/4/4 |
book of official papers concerned with armed forces, 1689-1701, including revenue related to the navy
|
1689 - 1701 |
navy finances |
LD24/3/4/3 |
book of official papers concerned with navy victualling and debt, 1671-97, n.d.
|
1671 - 1697 |
food finance |
LD24/3/2/8 |
book of official reports, mainly printed, concerned with telegraphs and mails, 1853-74, including reports of steam navigation companies, memoranda and letters, contracts
|
1853 - 1874 |
communications postal |
LD24/3/1 |
volume of official printed reports and memorada relating to customs and the Isle of Man, nineteenth century, including mail contract, 1883
|
1883 |
|
Johnson II/2 |
log of the Natal Star from London to Durban, 1865-9
|
1865 - 1869 |
ships Africa |
Johnson II/1 |
log of the Windsor Castle, East India Company ship, on voyage from London to Colombo, Bombay and return, 1862-3
|
1862 - 1863 |
trade travel Ceylon India |
Jarvis V/B/2-5 |
drawings of ships and places visited while on military service, including Heligoland, the Needles, Falmouth, St Maur, Madeira, Palma, Mayo, Bonavista, the Cape of Good Hope, St Helena, the river Plate, Cork, 1805-7; journal of the troops on the Lord Nelson, 1 January 1807 - 22 April 1807; rhyming account of a day on the Active transport at sea on its voyage to Buenos Aires, n.d., part of a daily journal on board a troop ship, June 1807
|
1805 - 1822 |
illustrations navy Americas ships |
Jarvis IX/5/7 |
draft letter from James Gunman denouncing attempts to supplant him as collector of lights, possibly of Dover, 2 February 1792
|
1792 |
correspondence communication |
Jarvis IX/5/6a |
letter from John D'Oyly, Customs House, London, to James Gunman, with accounts due to various lighthouses, Kent, etc., 11 January 1792
|
1792 |
correspondence communication navigation |
Jarvis IX/5/5/3 |
appointment of James Gunman as collector of duties on prize wines, 1744
|
1744 |
alcohol cargo customs |
Jarvis IX/5/5/1 |
appointment of James Gunman as collector at Dover of duties for enlarging Ramsgate and Sandwich harbours, 9 September 1773
|
1773 |
ports development |
Jarvis IX/4/16 |
letter from J. Angell to Christopher Gunman regarding lighthouse project, place unknown, late eighteenth century
|
1750 - 1799 |
correspondence communication navigation |
Jarvis IX/3/8 |
letter of Edward Wyvill to the navy commissioners with a list of Dover port officers and salaries, 20 February 1699
|
1699 |
correspondence |
Jarvis IX/3/6 |
warrant from the victualling office to Lord Orford to honour a bill of exchange for beef for the navy, 1698
|
1698 |
food meat |
Jarvis IX/2/1-45 |
papers of James Gunman, 1696-1757, including service papers of James Gunman, 1696-1703; lines of battle drawn up by Sir Cloudesley Shovell, 17 September, 16 December 1706; printed order by George Prince of Denmark regarding manning of ships, impressment of fishermen, 1707; naval orders
|
1696 - 1757 |
navy war recruitment |
Jarvis IX/1/1-5 |
journals of Christoper Gunman, 1662-85, including of HMS Oxford, 1663, HMS Orange, 1666, HMS Reserve, 1667-8, the Anne, 1669-71, HMS Prince Royal, 1672, Anne, 1675-7, HMS Mary, 1677-7, HMS Mary, 1679-85, with papers regarding shipwreck of the Gloucester, 1682
|
1662 - 1682 |
navy ships |
Jarvis III/B/4/1 |
account book with accounts of prize ship St Barbara, 1711
|
1711 |
|
Inv.201/2 |
inventory of John Chambers, mariner of Gainsborough, on HMS Bedford, 1707-8
|
1707 - 1708 |
navy ships |
Flinders 1-3 |
two diaries of Mathew Flinders, 1775-1802, and letters from his son on HMS Investigator, imprisonment by the French, general news of the navy
|
1775 - 1802 |
journals correspondence navy ships prisoners |
Fane6/4/3 |
bundle of letters from General Sir Henry Fane to Vere Fane, 1835-9, with reference to voyage to India
|
1835 - 1839 |
correspondence travel Asia |
Fane/6/8/1 |
diaires of Col. Francis Augustus Fane, 1848-84, including 2, to Gosport and Isle of Wight on his yacht, voyage to the West Indies, 1849; 3, West Indies voyage and return to England, 1850; 4, voyage to New York on the Niagara, 1851; 6, voyage from Quebec to New York and England, 1853; 7, voyage to India from Southampton on SS Sultan and the Hindostan, 1854; 8, voyage to England, 1855; 9, voyage on the Enchantress, yacht, 1856; 10, voyage to India, 1857; 12, voyage from India on the Alma, shipwrecked near Aden, voyage to Marseilles on the Candia, sailing on the Enchantress, yacht, 1859; 13, voyage on the Pera from Gibraltar to Engand, 1860; 14-15, naval affairs at Gibraltar, 1861-2; 17-19, voyages to Malta, Quebec and return to England, 1864-6; 30, on the Mauritania, yacht, to Southampton, Portsmouth, Rye, Cowes, 1877; 31, voyage on SS Mohammed to Algiers, 1878; 36, voyage from Hull to Norway on the Dominico, 1883
|
1848 - 1884 |
|
Fane/6/6 |
papers and travel journals of General Sir Henry Fane, 1834-8, with account of voyage to India, 1835
|
1835 |
travel Asia |
Fane/6/13/6 |
memoranda on various subjects by John, 10th earl of Westmorland, 1780-2, mostly concerned with naval affairs in North America, including notes on the war, two list of ships lost, 1780, comparison of numbers of ships, 159 and 1781, notes about ship building, return of numbers of ships of the line at Jamaica, Leeward Islands, North America, 1780-1
|
1780 - 1782 |
navy battles wrecks construction Caribbean colonies |
Fane/6/12/2-3 |
journals of Millicent Mary Chaplin, 1838-40, including voyage from Liverpool to New York on the Cambridge
|
1838 - 1840 |
travel Americas ships |
Fane/6/11/1/7 |
reminiscences of William Vere Reeve King-Fane, including of his voyage around the world in 1893
|
1893 |
travel |
Fane/6/10/8/F/14 |
letter from Charles Goldspink at Melbourne regarding death of his wife Charlotte from measles on the Bangalora, 1880
|
1880 |
correspondence disease ships |
Fane/6/10/8/C/1-3 |
letters of W.D. Fane regarding his continental tour, 1855, including voyage from Southampton to Le Havre, voyage on steamer off Italian coast
|
1855 |
correspondence Europe travel |
Fane 6/10/6/B |
minutes of meetings of the Mercantile Law Commission, 1853-5
|
1853 - 1855 |
|
F.L.MISC/11/4 |
certificate concerning prize ships relating to the Caesar, formerly L'Union, 12 April 1810
|
1810 |
|
F.L.MISC/11/3 |
mathematical formula to calculate a ship's burthen, mid to late eighteenth century
|
1750 - 1799 |
|
F.L.MISC/11/2 |
copy of naval instructions by Philip Durrell to store ships sailing up the St Lawrence River, 24 April 1759
|
1759 |
navy |
F.L.MISC/11/1 |
landing certificate of the Chapman, coal ship, at Wainfleet, 8 August 1715
|
1715 |
fuel |
F.L.MISC./4 |
registration of William Remmer in navy, 22 December 1696
|
1696 |
|
Dixon 22/4/9/p222 |
ledger, 1871-93, with the Shipwreck Association, 1873-93
|
1871 - 1893 |
welfare |
Dixon 22/4/4/f.123 |
general ledger with subscriptions of the Shipwreck Association, 1861-71
|
1861 - 1871 |
welfare |
DIXON 21/5/5/22 |
note of the crew of the Richard
|
|
mariners ships |
DIXON 21/5/5/21 |
copy of the Louth Times reporting the launching of the Richard at Donna Nook, 14 December 1878
|
1878 |
newspapers ships sailings |
DD24/3/2/7 |
book of official reports, mainly printed, relating to the Mercantile Marine Fund Enquiry, 1888-98
|
1888 - 1898 |
|
Cragg3/91 |
bond regarding exporting cargo of beans currently at Grimsby in the Charity of Bridlington, 1691
|
1691 |
trade ships food |
Cragg 5/3/79 |
copy petition to the House of Commons, c.1627, with reference to decay of trade
|
1627 |
Parliament |
Cragg 5/3/1/9-10 |
copies of enrolment cases relating to goods and a wharfinger at Gainsborough, 1813, 1821
|
1813 - 1821 |
customs |
Cragg 5/3/1/15 |
bond of Michael Martin of Gainsborough to discharge goods, 1813
|
1813 |
customs |
Cragg 5/3/1/14 |
bond of George Clayton of Grimsby to discharge goods, 1691
|
1691 |
|
BRAD3/34 |
report on Bradey haven, Isle of Wight, 1803
|
1803 |
|
BRA 833/35/6 |
certificate of taking a prize by HMS Clyde, 1800
|
1800 |
navy ships |
BRA 833/35/5 |
pass for the Mary and Ann Snow of Dartmouth, 1766
|
1766 |
ships |
BRA 833/33/7 |
bond of George Clayton, Grimsby merchant, and Samuel Johnson, Scarborough mariner, to deliver cargo of barley to British port, ?
|
|
trade food grain |
Br.14/39-40 |
papers regarding Gainsborough struggle for independence, 1833, etc.
|
1833 |
|
BOSTON/MSR |
Boston shipping registers: registers of ships (5) and files relating to individual vessels
|
1892 - 1993 |
|
BOSTON BOROUGH |
Boston borough: records relating to the Boston Harbour Bill and to Boston Docks. |
1870 - 1987 |
ports government legislation |
Banks Mss, Lincolnshire Coll. 5/1 |
folder of misc. papers on Boston with account of wool trade through the port, 1800-1801
|
1800 - 1801 |
|
Banks Mss, Lincolnshire Coll. 3/2/42 |
letter from Lord Liverpool to Sir Joseph Banks with reference to possible naval action in the Mediterranean, 29 August 1798
|
1798 |
correspondence navy Europe operations |
Banks Mss, Lincolnshire Coll. 13/3/1-2 |
Privy Council order, and covering note, regarding straggling seamen, 17 February & 18 March 1756
|
1756 |
mariners |
Banks Mss, Lincolnshire Coll. 11/1/2 |
proposals for manning batteries on the sea coast in relation to possible invasion, c.1800
|
1800 |
security defence coastal |
Asw9/1/20 |
list of those paying ship money in Algarkirk
|
|
|
Asw2/66/6-7 |
petition of shipowners of Gainsborough, 1682
|
1682 |
|
A.H.1/6/2/4 |
Whitby, 1914
|
1914 |
|
3Sib/1/11-12 |
letters of Henry Sibthorp at Gosport and Yarmouth Roads, to his brother Humphrey, 1799, 1803, regarding yachting
|
1799 - 1803 |
correspondence leisure |
3Fane/2/1-9 |
diaries of Col. Francis Augustus Fane, 1885-93, including voyage on HMS Northampton from Cowes to Spain, 1886, trip to Isle of Wight, 1887, 1892, voyage to Canada on the Circassian from Liverpool, 1890
|
1885 - 1893 |
journals travel navy ships Europe |
3Anc8/6/12 |
personal scrap book of Lord Willoughby D/Eresby, 1902-17, with photographs of HMS Formidable, Venerable, Bellona, Monmouth, c.1909-12
|
1902 - 1917 |
navy ships |
3Anc8/5/6-10 |
orders of the Privy Council and other papers regarding straggling seamen, 1734-9
|
1734 - 1739 |
mariners |
3/Anc8/2/5-9 |
two contracts and two letters regarding Charles Bertie and Flintshire timber for navy, 1694-1710
|
1694 - 1710 |
correspondence wood construction shipbuilding |
3/Anc2/1/141 |
notification of a quitclaim of right regarding property where vessels tie up at Boston, late twelfth or early thirteenth century
|
1150 - 1250 |
foreshore |
3 Anc.5/97/1-18 |
studies in fortifications, early eighteenth century, mostly unidentified but including 6, general plan of the Hamoaze and Plymouth, 1718
|
1718 |
defence security coastal |
2TGH1/28/3/4 |
bill of sale of the Elizabeth, sloop, possibly of Axholme, 1816
|
1816 |
ships ownership |
2Sib/4/1-147 |
letters from Henry W. Sibthorp while serving in navy, c.1798-1806, including from Portsmouth, Gibraltar, Spithead, Dublin Bay
|
1798 - 1806 |
correspondence Europe |
2BO1/G/23-4 |
Gainsborough Steam Packet Company, 1860-82
|
1860 - 1882 |
|
2Anc14/77 |
plan by William Dawson of three proposed harbours at Howth Town, Holyhead and Dunleary, July 1809
|
1809 |
ports development |
2Anc14/17 |
advice of John Guevara to Robert Lord Willoughby on death of his father regarding avoiding owning ships, c.1601
|
1601 |
ownership |
2Anc10/5/1 |
printed proceedings in court martial of Admiral John Byng, 1757
|
1757 |
navy discharge |
2Anc1/7/52 |
notification of a lease regarding messuage in Salthaven with empty plot on harbour, 1431
|
1431 |
ports |
2Anc1/7/27 |
notification of a bond regarding property on harbour, mid-thirteenth century
|
1200 - 1299 |
ports |
2Anc1/7/26 |
notification of a grant regarding marsh and sea bank with undertaking not to allow to land to flood, mid thirteenth century
|
1200 - 1299 |
environment coastal erosion defence |
2Anc1/12/2 |
notification of a grant regarding property on Trusthorpe haven, early thirteenth century
|
1200 - 1250 |
|
1Anc.9/A/6 |
bonds and conveyances of part shares in various ships to Samuel Mitchell of Leghorn and his son Christopher, 1677-1703
|
1677 - 1703 |
ownership |
10 Anc357/14 |
letter of Sir Roger Bertie to his brother Montagu regarding state of war and English naval attacks on the French, 1628
|
1628 |
correspondence battles navy |
10 ANC/342 |
naval notebook of the first earl of Lindsey, 1635, with orders to the fleet
|
1635 |
navy |
10 ANC/341/1 |
paper regarding service of the earl of Lindsey to the Crown, c.1630, with reference to naval affairs
|
1630 |
navy |