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