Code |
Description |
Date |
Keywords |
B119/1-9 |
Misc. papers relating to the Bideford Ship Company Ltd, 1986-7 [closed access]
|
1986 - 1987 |
Ships Shipping |
B361 |
Minutes and correspondence of North Devon Lifeguard Committee, 1972-3
|
1972 - 1973 |
Rescue |
4347/2 |
Notebook containing, inter alia, reminiscences of John H.A. Stucley's naval training at Dartmouth and career, late 1970s
|
1970 - 1980 |
Navy Education |
B155/20 |
Menu for Championship Regatta dinner, 1955 |
1955 |
Leisure |
2681/1-101 |
Misc. papers regarding the Lynmouth flood of 1952, inc. correspondence
|
1952 |
flood |
B155/18 |
Programme for Championship Regatta, Plymouth Amateur Rowing Club, 1950
|
1950 |
Leisure |
B114/1-6 |
Notes, transcripts, drafts, etc., by Stanley Thomas for book on The Nightingale 1950s
|
1950 - 1959 |
Ships Shipping |
A208 |
Corporation of Trinity House: plans of lighthouses: Bideford, Lundy and Lynmouth 1950-99.
|
1950 - 1999 |
lighthouse |
B120add/2 |
Minute book of Braunton Shipowners' Mutual Insurance Association Ltd, 1946-59
|
1946 - 1959 |
Ships Shipping Insurance |
B355add/3/1-2 |
Copy greetings telegrams, HMS Lauderdale 1944
|
1944 |
Navy |
H/14/1-4 |
Extracts from diary of Jack Freer of HMS Stevenstone April to November 1944
|
1944 |
Navy Operations |
R2379A/Z9 |
Correspondence regarding Bideford shipping, 1942-7
|
1942 - 1947 |
Ships Shipping |
B333 |
Papers of Barnstaple and Bideford Port Health Authority, inc. inspector's records of inspections, 1939-88; reports of port medical officer of health, 1940-76; bundle of correspondence, 1949-89
|
1939 - 1989 |
Mariners Health Welfare |
R2379A/Z47 |
scrapbook of press cuttings in Admiralty case of owners of SS Devonia vs corporation of Bideford, 1937
|
1937 |
steam legal |
4347/1 |
Journal of John H.A. Stucley, midshipman, on the Malaya, Ramillies, Furious, Wren, Royal Sovereign, Foresight, Leander and Fame,1934-6 |
1934 - 1936 |
Navy diary |
B120add4/3 |
Midshipman's journal of Colin C. Lowry, 1929-31, with misc. service papers
|
1929 - 1931 |
navy service papers |
B120add3/1-3 |
Letters and sketch plan regarding hospital ship at Barnstaple, c.1927
|
1927 |
Mariners Health Welfare |
B99/1 |
Copy of statement of liabilities and assets regarding the Hansen Shipbulding and Ship-Repairing Co. Ltd of Northam, 1925 |
1925 |
Ships shipbuilding |
2006 Acc 18 |
Bideford ships' registration papers, 1925-92.
|
1925 - 1992 |
ships registration documentation |
B272/1-3 |
Papers relating to H.M. Customs, Appledore comprising statements of trade, 1961-83, register of seamen, 1935-64, wreck books, 1919-82 |
1919 - 1982 |
Customs |
B155/1-15 |
Programmes for Bideford regatta, 1919-55, and for Appledore and Instow regatta, 1926, 1955 |
1919 - 1955 |
Leisure Yachting |
B369/1/2 |
Journal of B.R. Bickford containing notes on flags and pendants used in naval signals, 1915-16
|
1915 - 1916 |
Navy Papers, WW1 |
A73 |
Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Appledore branch: minutes, reports, accounts and papers, 1914-2001.
|
1914 - 2001 |
lifeboat coastguard Devon |
B420/1-2 |
Correspondence regarding Association for the Efficient Watching of our Coast, 1910-11
|
1910 - 1911 |
Rescue |
3318 add |
Barnstaple shipping register |
1910 - 1987 |
trade commerce |
B50G |
Records of North Devon Yacht Club, inc. lists of members, 1909-65, race records, 1909-85, financial accounts, 1975-85
|
1909 - 1985 |
Leisure |
B261/1-36 |
Papers of Captains GG and HGG Clarke of Braunton, inc. ships' account books, 1909-22, financial papers relating to the CFH, Democrat, Result, St Austell and other ships, 1927-33, papers relating to the British Sail |
1909 - 1931 |
Ships Shipping |
B120add4/2 |
Account book of the Braunton Shipowners Mutual Insurance Association, 1908-45
|
1908 - 1945 |
Ships Shipping insurance |
682/0 |
Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, Barnstaple: register of sea fishing boats |
1903 - 1988 |
|
3579B/B14 |
Papers of J.B. Reed and Co. relating to transport comprising 1, correspondence regarding the purchase of the Leader, ketch of Hull and shipments, 1897-8; 2, insurance policies and premium certificates, 1898-1904; 3-8b, receipted bills, bi |
1897 - 1925 |
Trade Commerce |
B120add/1 |
certificates of Royal Humane Society for preventing drownings, 1893-6
|
1893 - 1896 |
Mariners Health Welfare |
3289add2/1-3 |
District register of Royal Navy ratings, c.1892-1925; return of engagements, discharges, etc., of Naval Reserve officers and men, 1920-49
|
1892 - 1949 |
Navy Papers Reserves |
B354 |
Records of P.K. Harris and Sons, Appledore shipbuilders, 1891-1963
|
1891 - 1963 |
Ships Shipping shipbuilding |
B128/1-10 |
papers of HM Customs and Excise, Barnstaple, relating to Appledore Customs House, inc. correspondence, 1932-58; records of seizures, 1860-1961; charts and plans for proposed public works (piers), 1886-1953
|
1886 - 1961 |
customs |
P/28/1-10 |
Photocopies of poems by James C. Harding of Appledore on wrecks from 1885 to 1912
|
1885 - 1912 |
Wrecks |
683/0 |
Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, Bideford: register of sea fishing boats |
1884 - 1988 |
|
2309B/Z11/5 |
Brixham Seamen's Orphan Boys' Home prospectus, 1883
|
1883 |
Mariners |
B422/1-3 |
Technical drawings of James Goss, Barnstaple shipbuilder, 1882-6
|
1882 - 1886 |
Ships Shipping shipbuilding |
2239Badd8/157/1-3 |
letter from Joseph Risdon with plan of wall to prevent sea encroachment at Westward Ho! and rough sketches of sea defences, 1877
|
1877 |
harbours |
1201A/PZ6-18 |
Notes by H.H. and R.P. Chope of Hartland, inc. accounts of wrecks, 1871-c.1900
|
1871 - 1900 |
Wrecks |
2239Badd8/111 |
Envelope of misc. papers on shipyards inc. sale particulars for shipbuilding yard, Northam, 1868, mortgage of the John and Ann of Braunton, 1875, prospectus, plan, etc. of Bideford and Bristol Channel Ship-Building and Shipping Co. Ltd, 1878 |
1868 - 1878 |
Ships Shipping shipbuilding |
B118/1/1-3 |
Crew lists of the Ellen Martin, Maria and Psyche of Bideford, 1863-90
|
1863 - 1890 |
Ships Shipping Crew |
3318/2 |
HM Customs and Excise, Barnstaple (addnl): register and appropriation book
|
1855 - 1986 |
|
3319/3 |
HM Customs and Excise, Bideford (addnl): registers, appropriation and transfer books |
1855 - 1993 |
|
B120add4/1 |
Account book of the Rhea Sylvia, 1853-67
|
1853 - 1867 |
accounts |
50/11/33/12c |
Copy of memorandum of agreement with John Stanbury as to wreck and insurance of Woolacombe, 26 March 1852
|
1852 |
Wrecks |
50/11/127 |
Misc. papers inc. letter on the improvement of Combe Martin harbour, c.1845
|
1845 |
Ports Harbours |
50/11/129 |
Misc. prospectuses, 1845-6, inc. of London, Rotterdam and Harlingen Steam Schooner Shipping Co.; Metropolitan and Brighton Sea Water Conveyance Co.; Sutton Harbour and Dock Co., Plymouth; Monzani's Patented Ships' Life and Shore Boat Co.
|
1845 - 1846 |
Ships Shipping |
1142B/SS/4 |
Solicitors' papers relating to shipping comprising agreement for sale of the Alert ,smack of Barnstaple, 1842; certificate of registration of the Lilly of Barnstaple, 1846; bill of sale for mortgage regarding the Betsey of |
1842 - 1863 |
Ships Shipping |
B262add2/1/1-28 |
Correspondence relating to Capt. Henry Gribble and his travels in the Far East in the 1840s
|
1840 - 1850 |
Mariners |
50/11/181/1-5 |
bundle of papers concerning emigration to Australia and New Zealand, 1837-9 |
1837 - 1839 |
Emigration |
3319S/1-8 |
Shipping registers for Bideford, 1786-1897, and register of transactions, 1836-1908
|
1836 - 1908 |
Ships Shipping Registration |
50/11/143 |
Petition to House of Commons from inhabitants of Barnstaple, Bideford and area in favour of River Severn improvement, c.1835
|
1835 |
Ports Harbours |
P/70 |
Extracts from diary of R. Ellis, Bideford merchant, inc. lists of exported goods, account for provisioning the William bound for Prince Edward Island, 1840, dimensions of spars for a vessel being built at Bideford, 1840, calculation for mea |
1833 - 1852 |
Mariners |
50/11/126 |
Bundle of letters from Lieut. Obadiah Newell, Plymouth, to J.B.P. Chichester, Arlington Court, on naval, family and estate matters, 1831-2
|
1831 - 1832 |
Navy |
3318S/1-4 |
Shipping registers for Barnstaple, 1824-1906, and register of transactions, 1831-1940 |
1831 - 1940 |
Ships Shipping Registration |
50/11/158 |
Plan of proposed harbours, Combe Martin bay, c.1830
|
1830 |
Ports Harbours |
H/17 |
Extracts from letter books, port of Ilfracombe, 1827-9
|
1827 - 1829 |
Ports Harbours |
50/11/62 |
Two parliamentary bills, plan and book of reference by James Green, surveyor, and other papers relating to proposed road and harbour scheme, Combe Martin, 1827-37
|
1827 - 1837 |
Ports Harbours |
B11Z/37 |
Certificate of registry of the Nightingale at Barnstaple, 1825
|
1825 |
Ships Shipping Registration |
B69/28 |
Journal of Browne Smith, 1824-7, regarding navy duty on the Tagus Portugal and aboard the Aurora
|
1824 - 1827 |
Navy |
3317S/1 |
Shipping register for Ilfracombe, 1824-37
|
1824 - 1837 |
Ships Shipping Registration |
B69/41/1-3 |
Rules of the Mariners Union Society of Clovelly, 1823-38
|
1823 - 1838 |
Mariners |
|
Large bankers box 2 (3), envelope of papers relating to harbour shipping and navigations at Barnstaple, Bideford and Appledore, including Taw Shipyard plan, 1920, with photocopy and two photograph; envelope of nine disbursements accounts of the |
1820 - 1828 |
shipping |
1774/B4 |
Accounts of the Newton brig, 1816
|
1816 |
Ships Shipping |
P/72/1-2 |
Maps of areas of jurisdiction of ports of Barnstaple and Bideford taken from atlas, c.1815
|
1815 |
Ports Harbours |
B76Zadd/3 |
Order from Sir Edward Pellew for a survey of the Swallow 1813
|
1813 |
Navy |
50/11/137 |
Official letters, commissions, certificates, etc. relating to naval service of Lieut. John P.B. Chicester, 1812-28, inc. a mess book, 1814-15, statement of dimensions of mast and yards of the Pandora
|
1812 - 1828 |
Navy Papers |
B76Z/9 |
Statement of James Lord Gambier, Admiral of the White Squadron, regarding public employment, 1 July 1812
|
1812 |
Navy |
B9/18/27 |
Bill of sale of the Hope of Bideford, 1812
|
1812 |
Ships Shipping sale |
1774/B3 |
Bill of sale of 1/8 of the Favre of Barnstaple, 1811
|
1811 |
Ships Shipping |
B9/5/32 |
Assignment of the Eliza, sloop of Bideford, 1809
|
1809 |
Ships Shipping Registration |
178B/Z1 |
Letter from McCarthy and Brown of London to Capt. Twokig, 7 December 1807, regarding sale of the materials of the General Suwano wrecked at Bude
|
1807 |
Wrecks |
B84Z/8 |
Certificate of discharge of Thomas Smith, late surgeon of HMS Peterell , 1807
|
1807 |
Navy |
1774/B2 |
Power of attorney regarding salvage of the Rigby 1806
|
1806 |
Wrecks |
R2379A/Z8 |
Register of Bideford shipping, June 1805 - 1813
|
1805 - 1813 |
Ships Shipping Registration |
B689-1 |
HM Customs and Excise, Barnstaple: customs house bonds, leases and commissions |
1804 - 1870 |
|
Cann Box 1/2b/5 |
Insurance certificate for church bells on the Nautilus from Bideford to London, 1803
|
1803 |
insurance |
B76Zadd/2 |
Memorandum of private signals from Admiral Lord Keith, 1800
|
1800 |
Navy |
R2379A/Z38/56/2 |
Articles of the Maria privateer, 1800
|
1800 |
Piracy Privateering |
B325/1 |
Plan of ports of Bideford, Barnstaple and Ilfracome, showing out-stations and dependencies, nineteenth century
|
1800 - 1900 |
Ports Harbours |
D900.Mor |
Ts notes by Marshall Edwin Harris, including copy of nineteenth-century notes by Henry Watts on shipping
|
1800 - 1899 |
shipping |
1774/B1 |
Bond of indemnity regarding the Aurora, 1798
|
1798 |
Ships Shipping |
Cann Box 1/25b |
Bill of sale of the Friendship brigantine of Appledore, 1798 & bond for faithful service of agent to Barnstaple and Bristol Shipping Co., 1854
|
1798 - 1854 |
sale shipping |
B1/3113 |
Account for building Little Quay, Barnstaple, 1796
|
1796 |
Ports Harbours Quays |
North Devon Atheneum |
Four scale Navy plans of HMS Naiad 1795
|
1795 |
Plans |
B262add2/11/10 |
Papers relating to Charles Besley Gribble's account of meeting Napolean on St Helena, notes on Gribble's voyages, 1788-1801, notes on voyages of Capt. Henry Gribble, 1818-32, notes on voyages of Charles Besley, 1826-c.73
|
1783 - 1873 |
Mariners |
B1/3120-1 |
Legal papers regarding quayage at Barnstaple, 1779, 1789
|
1779 - 1789 |
Ports Harbours Quays |
B76Z/6, |
Letter from A. Keppel to Vice Admiral Lord Shuldham, Plymouth, regarding men for the spy tender, 1778
|
1778 |
Navy Recruiting |
1774/LE1 |
Bundle legal documents, 1769-1804, inc. papers relating to vessels owned by the Hogg family
|
1769 - 1804 |
Ships Shipping legal |
B149/2 |
Marriage settlement with a quarter part of the Sally brig, 1768
|
1768 |
Ships Shipping |
2364M/E1 |
Volume of estate accounts, with accounts of voyages made by the Elizabeth, sloop, 1768-71
|
1768 - 1771 |
Trade Commerce |
R2379A/Z60 |
Account books of the Sally and Albion, 1767-1815
|
1767 - 1815 |
accounts Shipping |
R2397A/Z60 |
Account Book of the Sally, Snow and Albion brigantine, 1767 - 1815 |
1767 - 1815 |
accounts shipping commerce |
3704M |
Incledon family papers inc. FC1-25, collection of letters with naval news, 1754-1804
|
1754 - 1804 |
Navy |
D900.Lun |
Ts of account of the burning of the Nightingale in 1754
|
1754 |
wreck |
Cann Box 1/2b/4 |
Pass for the Swallow , brigantine, 1753
|
1753 |
pass shipping |
3704M/SS/LU1 |
Ms book entitled `The Island of Lundy', with journals of visits in 1752 and 1787, c.1787 yachting
|
1752 - 1787 |
Leisure |
B44Z/2 |
Incomplete account of George Crocker of Bristol to the owners of the Barum, inc. purchase of provisions and customs and pilotage fees at Cork, 15 June 1752
|
1752 |
Trade Commerce |
B1/1765 |
appointment of officer for duty on salt as collector of subsidy of tonnage and metage, 1751 |
1751 |
Emigration |
B1/3122 |
Barnstaple quay repair account, 1750
|
1750 |
Ports Harbours Quays |
|
Photocopies of scale Navy plans of Childers , sister ship of HMS Weazle of the late eighteenth century
|
1750 - 1800 |
navy shipbuilding |
B1/4025 |
oath of allegiance of Barnstaple Customs and Excise Officer, 1742
|
1742 |
Emigration |
B1/1128-9 |
Papers regarding cargo of hard soap, Appledore and Barnstaple, 1738-9
|
1738 - 1739 |
Trade Commerce |
B1/2032 & 2204-11 |
bonds and contracts regarding transportation of felons to Virginia or Maryland, 1727-92 |
1727 - 1792 |
Emigration |
B1/909 |
Printed notice for keeping `The Walk', Barnstaple, clear of casks, bales and idle persons, 1714
|
1714 |
Ports Harbours Quays |
B69/38 & add3/1 |
Letter and account book of a London merchant, 1704-5 & 1705-11, mainly with Francis Arundell at Leghorn and also throughout England and the continent
|
1704 - 1711 |
Trade Commerce |
48/25/10/6-9 |
summary book, abstract of title and correspondence with Admiralty relating to ownership of fisheries, weirs and rights of wreck, Heanton Punchardon and Braunton, c.1700-1848, with plan of fisheries, c.1850 |
1700 - 1850 |
fishing |
50/11/66-100 |
papers on Chichester estate in Wales, notably 70, tithe account books of the Chichester estates, inc. list of Aberystwyth fishing boats and tithes payable, 1730; 85, bundle of papers, some legal, on disputes over tithes of Llanbadarn Fawr and Llanfih |
1700 - 1714 |
Fishing |
H/20/2 |
Extracts from letter book, port of Barnstaple, eighteenth - nineteenth centuries
|
1700 - 1900 |
Ports Harbours |
R2379A/Z7 |
Map of old and new quays at Bideford c.1690
|
1690 |
Ports Harbours Quays |
B69/37 |
Account book of Benjamin Smale, merchant of goods carried inc. from Bideford, Topsham, Swansea, Dublin, Milford, Oport
|
1687 - 1690 |
Trade Commerce |
R2379A/Z38/3 |
Two copies of statement regarding limits of port of Bideford in 1676, 1801
|
1676 - 1801 |
Ports Harbours |
3704M/SS/W1-12 |
Letters,accounts and misc. papers relating to wrecks on Croyde, Saunton and Putsborough Sands 1668 -1936 |
1668 - 1936 |
Wrecks |
1142B/EA94 |
Account of wool shipped to London, 1668
|
1668 |
Trade Commerce |
B1/1733 |
bond regarding Edward Kettlewell and Grace Stevens of Montserrat, two children, sent in the Forteene from the West Indies, 26 November 1658 |
1658 |
Emigration |
B1/46/515 |
Barnstaple Corporation order regarding bags of imported wool from Wales, Ireland or any other `infected place' and plague, 2 September 1651
|
1651 |
Trade Commerce |
B1/1730-1 & 1735 |
papers regarding fishery and nets, 1649-50 |
1649 - 1650 |
Fishing |
B21Z/1/12 |
Letter from Andrew Turner, senior, to Robert Phipps, merchant of Exeter, complaining of losses caused by Parliamentary forces and navy, 6 September 1647
|
1647 |
Navy Operations |
B1/623 |
Letter from Governor of Exeter regarding French trade, 1637
|
1637 |
Trade Commerce |
B1/4024 & 621 |
Copy order from Board of Trade regarding French trade with Western ports and account of monies paid attending French ambassador regarding London merchants' grievances, 1636-7
|
1636 - 1637 |
Trade Commerce |
B1/558 |
Probate will of Thomas Heywood of Northam, mariner, with bequest of quarter of William of Northam, 1633
|
1633 |
Mariners |
B1/682 |
Deed of arrangement concerning wool bought in Ireland, regarding merchants of Minehead and Bristol, 1632
|
1632 |
Trade Commerce |
B65Z/1-11 |
papers regarding enquiry into weirs on river Taw, c.1627-30
|
1627 - 1630 |
Fishing |
3416M/E3 |
Copy of orders and articles concerning payment of harbour dues in 1603, c.1700
|
1603 - 1700 |
Harbours |
B2M/Z1 |
grant of arms to John Hawkins for `courageous worthy and famous entreprises... into the unhaunted parts of Africa and America', 1566
|
1566 |
Exploration |
D.656 |
Notes and ts copy on Bristol Channel shipping recorded in Welsh port books from 1560 to 1603
|
1560 - 1603 |
shipping trade |
B1/619 |
extract regarding legal case of unwholesome fish in market, 1547 |
1547 |
Fishing |
B1/905 |
printed resolution at Exeter, accepting government's supply of herrings to the poor due to the high price of corn, 1500 |
1500 |
Fishing |
B1/1134-a |
Corporation petition regarding remitting narrow cloth custom, 1423, with transcript of 1774
|
1423 |
Trade Commerce |
H/20/1 |
notes on smuggling in north Devon by Graham Farr, twentieth century |
|
Smuggling |
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Box of twelve scrapbooks by Basil Kennelly on north Devon maritime themes, mid-twentieth century, with original photographs and postcards of ships (index)
|
|
merchant pictures |