Code |
Description |
Date |
Keywords |
W18/8/2 |
description of smuggling activites of one Bennet at Upton turnpike gate, nineteenth century
|
1800 - 1899 |
|
Uncatalogued |
Belle of Weymouth: log book 1866.
|
|
log ships |
SR file |
photographs and information about shipping, particularly Bridport
|
|
illustrations trade commerce |
SR Charts |
list of charts and surveys held by the Hydrographer of the navy
|
|
records |
QS Order Book II, pp279-80 |
Council Orders to Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum to take up seamen, 1779
|
1779 |
government navy impressment recruitment |
QS County Prison 8 |
draft reports of Clerk of Peace and gaol chaplain containing remard on numbers, comparitive disorderliness and `feverish state of mind' of smugglers in Dorchester gaol, 1825; remarks on diminution of numbers, 1826-8
|
1826 - 1828 |
jail minister health prison |
Photocopy 89 |
part of map of harbour showing part of Poole, ?early seventeenth century
|
1600 - 1650 |
charts coastal |
Photocopy 665 |
(original in Wiltshire Record Office), Bond for £2OO relating to a Newfoundland fishing trip, 1608
|
1608 |
|
Photocopy 609/2 |
Trinity House certificate of exemption from impressment for Robert Comben, assistant keeper of the Portland lights, 1806
|
1806 |
service recruitment lighthouses |
Photocopy 608 |
plan of harbour, 1823
|
1823 |
development coastal |
Photocopy 607/1 |
extract from King's Bench plea roll of case against Luke Presley Moon of Preston for signalling to smuggling vessel with lights, rockets, etc., 1828
|
1828 |
prosecution |
Photocopy 568 |
list of contents of JC Robinson's scrapbook on Swanage [held at county library reference dept]
|
|
|
Photocopy 550/3 |
customs certificate for 9 quarters of wheat carried in lez lucke of Christchurch, Elias Pountes master and owner, bound for Rye, 9 January 1542/3
|
1542 - 1543 |
trade commerce cargo ships |
Photocopy 550/2 |
certificate of unloading at Rye of 28 quarters of malt carried in le trynyte (of ?Christchurch), John Burges master, 2 May 1533
|
1533 |
customs cargo commerce ships trade |
Photocopy 513/1-47 |
letters to John Buddle mainly concerning Tanfield Moor Colliery, Durham, 1824-33 with references to shipments of coal to Swanage and Weymouth
|
1824 - 1833 |
correspondence mining shipping |
Photocopy 493 |
plan of Poole harbour and Studland Bay, 1783, corrected, 1829
[D.400/4, corrected plan, 1848]
|
1783 - 1829 |
charts development coastal |
Photocopy 492 |
harbour entrance, 1829
|
1829 |
|
Photocopy 491 |
chart of the Isle Road and Race of Portland, 1779
|
1779 |
maps |
Photocopy 490 |
plan of Weymouth harbour, 1787
|
1787 |
development coastal |
Photocopy 489 |
plan of harbour, 1787
|
1787 |
development coastal |
Photocopy 481 |
table of imports and exports, 1743-1808
|
1743 - 1808 |
trade commerce cargo |
Photocopy 460 |
description of wreck of Norwegian vessel Christiane on Portland Beach, 8 September 1883 by JC Camben
|
1883 |
ships |
Photocopy 454 |
Great Britain's Coasting Pilot, by Captain Greenville Collins, 1753 (Dorset only)
|
1753 |
maps charts |
Photocopy 404 |
rough plan of harbour showing part of Poole, ?early seventeenth century
|
1600 - 1650 |
charts coastal |
Photocopy 403 |
plan of Harbour, Poole and surrounding land, 1597
|
1597 |
development coastal |
Photocopy 365/24 |
copy agreement for extinction of common rights on acquisition of land in manor of Portland for erection of new lighthouse by Trinity House, with plan, 1904 |
1904 |
ownership communications signalling |
Photocopy 365/20 |
plan of proposed site of wooden pier at Castleton for steamboat passengers etc designed by Capt. Charles Aug. Manning, Portland Castle, 1848
|
1848 |
development leisure tourism |
Photocopy 365/17 |
chart by Alexander Lamb to illustrate suggestions for converting Portland Roads into a harbour, 1826
|
1826 |
environment development coastal |
Photocopy 337/1-4 |
papers of Anthony Sturt, Cashier of the Victualling Service, 1683-9, 1706-7
|
1683 - 1707 |
food finances |
Photocopy 266 |
history and development of Messrs Cosens and Co. Ltd of Weymouth, and their pleasure steamers, 1923
|
1923 |
Companies shipping leisure travel tourism |
Photocopy 189/1-2 (Original DC/LR:A 4/3) |
certificates concerning men taken on a voyage from Lyme Regis to Virginia, 1678 and enslaved in Algiers, 1681-2
|
1678 - 1682 |
America Africa pirates piracy slavery |
Photocopy 188 (original DC/LR:F 2) |
memorandum concerning the Friendship of London in Lyme Regis harbour laden with tobacco from Virginia, 1714
|
1714 |
ships cargo trade commerce America colonies |
Photocopy 180 |
list of goods seized at Lyme Regis and elsewhere, eighteenth century
|
1700 - 1799 |
smuggling |
Photocopy 178 |
Admiralty Office letter to Mayor of Lyme Regis, enclosing press warrants, 1787
|
1787 |
navy correspondence recruitment impressment |
PE/WCC/IN15 |
instructions to Whitechurch Canonicorum vicar on procedure to obtain payment of naval prize-money to a parishioner, 1812
|
1812 |
ministers navy |
PE/SYM:RE 1/2 |
reference to money collected for the redemption of seamen held captive by Turks, 1668
|
1668 |
pirates piracy |
PE/SSN/RE |
note in Sydling St Nicholas register that John Webber of Broadmayne, aged 15, was shot in 1832 by the coastguard having been employed by his master to assist smugglers in carrying away tubs
|
1832 |
death |
PE/PL:CW |
rate on ships and assessments of value of imports and exports, 1790s-1837
|
1790 - 1837 |
trade commerce Customs |
PE/LR/RE7,10, 16 |
references to burials and wrecks at Lyme Regis, the Alexander, an East India ship (1815), the Angelina (1851), Heroine (1852), La Jeune Rose (1854), HMS Formidable (1915)
|
1815 - 1915 |
ships navy deaths |
PE/LAH |
certificate of banns called onboard HMS Ajax, 1916
|
1916 |
navy ships marriages |
PE/KIN:RE2 |
burial of Robert Trotman, smuggler shot on the shore, 30 March 1765
|
1765 |
death |
PE/COC/OV.194 |
papers concerning payment of wages to relations and dependents of men serving in the Royal Navy, including abstracts of Acts concerning payment of wages, 1792 and applications for payments and Pay Office circular, 1807
|
1807 |
laws service |
PE/CMO/VE1 |
Charmough vestry minutes including resolution to pay for defence of diggory gordge, parish clerk, prosecuted for smuggling, 1765
|
1765 |
security |
PE/BBK/RE9 |
notes on sudden deaths, including many drownings, and interesting details of shipwrecks, 1837-8, all in Burton Bradstock burial register, 1813-48
|
1813 - 1848 |
|
NG/SR/W |
summary of Weymouth Shipping Registers, 1786-1913; Crew Lists and Agreements, 1863-1913
|
1786 - 1913 |
registration |
NG/SR/PL, NG/SR/WY |
HM Customs & Excise (addnl): returns of vessels registered at Poole and Weymouth and other records |
1892 - 1992 |
trade commerce sailings |
NG/SR/P, MIC/R/6 |
Poole Shipping Registers, 1855-93; Summary of Shipping Registers, 1855-1913; Crew Lists and Agreements, 1863-1913
|
1855 - 1913 |
registration |
NG/SR/L, MIC/R/4 |
Lyme Regis shipping Registers, 1786-1880 and summary; Transactions Book, 1836-55; Crew Lists and Agreements, 1863-80
|
1786 - 1880 |
registration |
NG/SR/B |
summary of Bridport Shipping Registers, 1832-80; Crew Lists and Agreements, 1863-80
|
1863 - 1880 |
registration |
NG/SR |
Poole Customs and Excise: shipping registers, construction, registration and transfer documents |
1855 - 1991 |
|
NG/SR |
Weymouth Customs and Excise: letter book, commissions of appointment, outport records, including Poole |
1703 - 1883 |
correspondence |
NG/SR |
Weymouth Customs and Excise: shipping registers, construction, registration and transfer documents |
1881 - 1993 |
|
NG/PR/A3 |
gaol register note of smuggler released in consequence of coronation of William IV, 1821
|
1821 |
jail Royalty |
NG/DR 3 |
Royal Navy Cordite Factory, Holton Heath: employee records 1918-1966
|
1918 - 1966 |
industry arms armaments |
NG/CG |
Southboume Coastguard Records, 1963-8
|
1963 - 1968 |
|
Microfilm at Weymouth Library |
Port Books at five-yearly intervals, 1660-1750
|
1660 - 1750 |
harbours |
MIC/R7 |
microfilm [original at Harvard] of letterbook of Robert Gregory, Mayor of Weymouth, Vice Admiral of Dorset and Searcher at Poole, c.1560-1610
|
1560 - 1610 |
navy |
M.99 |
chart of Portland to Christchurch, 1946
|
1946 |
maps |
M.98 |
chart of Portland and Weymouth Roads showing proposed harbour and breakwater, 1847
|
1847 |
maps development environment coastal |
M.18 |
chart of Dorset coast (part) showing Portland Bill and Harbour, 1863
|
1863 |
maps coastal |
M.100 |
chart of Straight Point, Exmouth (Devon) to Portland, 1946
|
1946 |
maps |
DI/JT 38 |
petition concerning schooner Margaret, seized by Customs officers at Poole, c.1800
|
1800 |
ships smuggling |
DI/9414 |
letter concerning proposal to construct bank for protection of harbour, 1785
|
1785 |
correspondence environment defence coastal |
DI/9409-10 |
letters of attorney to sign petition for private Act to inclose and divide mudlands in manor of Canford and town of Poole, 1784
|
1784 |
Laws environment |
DI/10543 |
half page concerning smuggling case at Lyme regis with defendent Lancelot Jordan, seventeenth century
|
1600 - 1699 |
|
DI.LV3 & 4 |
customs and excise accounts 1559-60, 1562-3
|
1559 - 1563 |
finances |
DC/WAB/III/I |
Legal Papers, including memorandum of procedure in the Poole Admiralty Court, c.1698; quay duties papers, 1773, 1835-7, 1796-7
|
1698 - 1837 |
navy Law |
DC/LR:additional |
includes Cobb Committee Minutes, 1898-1954; Sea Defence Committee, 1947; Reports of Inspector under pleasure boat bye-laws, 1899-1904; legal papers relating to sea-bathing, 1856 & Cobb duties, 1869; Cobb papers including plan, n.d., extention |
1856 - 1954 |
leisure tourism |
DC/LR/N5 |
account of the cargoe of tobacco aboard the Elizabeth from the Potomac River to Lyme Regis which arrived 13 July 1739
|
1739 |
ships trade commerce |
DC/LR/N2 |
copies of accounts rendered of Burridge family, Lyme Regis, merchants and shipping agents, includes trade with America, 1703-31
|
1703 - 1731 |
commerce |
DC/LR/N1 |
Burridge family papers include agreement about the Hopewell of Lyme Regis, 1653
|
1653 |
ships |
DC/LR/M8-10 |
Lyme Regis apprenticeship indentures, principally seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, includes many to mariners and some sailmakers, shipwrights, many sent to Maryland, Virginia and Barbadoes, late seventeenth century
|
1600 - 1899 |
recruitment construction builders America Caribbean |
DC/LR/additional |
misc., fragment of brief relating to the proposed building of a harbour at Seaton, Devon, n.d.
|
|
construction ports coastal |
DC/LR |
Lyme Regis borough archive, including F, G & H, records relating to the Cobb, including the sea-walls, repairs, officials, Customs House, shipping and financial accounts, 1547-1949; PE/LR:CW 12/2, 12/5, PCC 3/2,SP, correspondence and plans rel |
1547 - 1982 |
environment maintenance buildings trade commerce coastal |
DC/BTB:R I |
plan of part of harbour, ?seventeenth century
|
1600 - 1699 |
development coastal |
DC/BTB:N1-29c |
records relating to harbour, 1280-1922, including G1, `Old Doom Book', c.1312-64 with memorandum on Bridport's maritime rights, grants of indulgences for repair of harbour, 1446, petitions to the Crown regarding repair money, 1619-20, harbour mast |
1280 - 1922 |
ports maintenance |
DC/BTB:M2 |
references within Bridport borough accounts to pirates kept in prison, 1613
|
1613 |
piracy jail gaol |
DC/BTB:L14 |
letter to corporation of Bridport from the Captain of HMS Orestes about measures for coastal protection, 1782
|
1782 |
correspondence navy ships security defence |
DC/BTB:E2 |
alphabetical register of ships or index to insurance broker's register of accounts, with some memoranda and addresses, 1715-17
|
1715 - 1717 |
|
DC/BTB:E1 |
account book of insurance broker or office keeper, with accounts due to underwriters, names of ships & ports, 1716, notes of transactions with William Bignall, 1717
|
1716 - 1717 |
|
D771/4 |
notes about Portland Bill lighthouses, n.d.
|
|
coastal signalling |
D770/1 |
copy of emigrant's diary to Australia, 1888-9 and photocopy of passenger list of Sobraon owned by JT Wright and Co. of Plymouth
|
1888 - 1889 |
journal travel ships Companies |
D699/1 |
certificates of service of William Hansford on Blenheim, Colossus & Leander, 1860-3
|
1860 - 1863 |
ships |
D595/1 |
letters from Thomas Keech to his brother Henry at Toller Porsorum, describing his job as an excise man in Southampton, Cornwall and Bristol, 1816-29
|
1816 - 1829 |
correspondence customs |
D545/F7 |
journal of George Harris of voyages to India, 1793 (Bengal) & 1801; local Indian voyages, 1794-1800, 1803-12; passenger list for voyage to India, 1803; passenger list of voyage to England, 1822
|
1793 - 1822 |
travel |
D503/3 |
examples of contemporary sea trade to France, Cape Town and Jamaica, used in book-keeping exercises, 1873
|
1873 |
commerce Europe Africa Caribbean accounts finances |
D481/4 |
Dorset County Chronicle giving inter alia account of wreck of the Royal Adelaide, 1872
|
1872 |
newspapers ships |
D481/3 |
members' tickets of Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society, 1855-68
|
1855 - 1868 |
illustrations associations |
D481/2 |
discharge certificates from ships of Richard Frampton of Weymouth, 1847-66
|
1847 - 1866 |
service |
D481/1 |
certificate of entry into service of William Norris, 1830
|
1830 |
recruitment |
D480/1 |
Act of restoring and rebuilding the haven and piers..., 1714-21, printed 1722
|
1714 - 1722 |
ports harbours maintenance |
D473/F1 |
journal of voyage from Gravesend to Australia of Mrs Annie Beere of Beaminster, emigrant, 1854-5
|
1854 - 1855 |
travel |
D470/2 |
programme and souvenier of Prince of Wales visit to open harbour, 1933
|
1933 |
Royalty |
D1/9427, 9432-5, 9442a & b, 9449 |
memoranda and legal opinions concerning encroachments on mudlands and waste, rights of Sir John Webb as lord of Canford manor etc., 1788-96
|
1788 - 1796 |
environment ownership |
D/WLC:Z66 |
timetables for London and South Western Railway and Steam Packet, 1858
|
1858 |
transport trains |
D/WLC:Z45 |
Act for prevention of smuggling, 1774
|
1774 |
law |
D/WLC:Z27 |
rules of discipline on board HM ships, 1730, with act amending laws relating to government of ships, 1748-9
|
1730 - 1749 |
navy service |
D/WLC/X13 |
warrant from Lord High Admiral to Lord Howard to deliver up a ship with Spanish wine taken by pirates, 1604
|
1604 |
navy alcohol piracy |
D/WLC/X12 |
indictments of Edward Thynn, Joseph May and Henry Hurding for piracy, Weymouth, 1603
|
1603 |
pirates |
D/WLC/E163 |
papers regarding Sir Bourchier Wrey's estates, 1799-1877, including letters to EJ Weld regarding Ilfracombe harbour
|
1799 - 1877 |
correspondence ports |
D/WLC/C84 |
letter referring to vessel forced onto Portland Beach, 1774
|
1774 |
correspondence wrecks ships |
D/WIM:JO484 |
lease of carriage of earth, sand, clay and gravel from Canford Heath for buildings in Poole, ships' ballast and brick kilns, 1741
|
1741 |
construction |
D/WIM:1380 |
papers concerning inquest on Anne Fry of Canford Magna and trial of three excise officers for her murder, 1821-2
|
1821 - 1822 |
customs crime coroners prosecution |
D/WIB:C94 |
letters from George Till on the ship Duke of York to his wife, 1820
|
1820 |
correspondence travel |
D/WIB:C93 |
letter from Thomas Honeybome on the ship Princess Amelia in the East Indies, 1809
|
1809 |
correspondence travel |
D/WCH:P3&4 |
charts showing Portland Bill and St Aldhelm's Head with Portland Harbour, 1848 and Start Point to Portland, 1857
|
1848 - 1857 |
maps coastal |
D/WCH:F34 |
papers, commissions, etc. of Commander E F Weld, RN, 1844-66
|
1844 - 1866 |
navy service |
D/WCH:28 |
papers relating to the Weld family yachts and races, 1859-78
|
1859 - 1878 |
leisure yachting |
D/TRD:F22 |
certified copy parish register entries for Worth Matravers, concerning wreck of the Halsewell off Purbeck coast, 1786
|
1786 |
ships |
D/TRD:C76 |
letters mentioning the loss of HMS Camilla, 1861
|
1861 |
correspondence navy ships wrecks |
D/SHE:13 |
journal of Charles K Sheridan on a voyage to Portugal & Spain, 1837, with some illustrations
|
1837 |
travel Europe |
D/RYVR:X3-6, 8 |
out-letter books and papers of Henry Fox, Secretary at War, referring to Army transports, marine regiments, occasionally to Naval affairs, 1746-55
|
1746 - 1755 |
government navy |
D/RWR:X3 |
out-letter book of Henry Fox, Secretary of War with reference to troops required to suppress smuggling, 1747-8
|
1747 - 1748 |
government |
D/RWR:X16 |
out-letter book of Thomas Milner Gibson at the Board of Trade, including references to Trinity House, lighthouses, Ramsgate harbour and other coastal matters, Fitzroy's storm signals etc., 1861-6, notably letters about Sir David Brewster's claims |
1862 - 1866 |
navigation communications |
D/RWR:X 17 |
letters from Samuel Morley to John Bright at the Board of Trade about the use of HM ship as a training vessel at Bristol, 1869
|
1869 |
correspondence government navy |
D/RWR:T75 & L8 |
deeds and lease of Ower Passage House, 1698, 1722 and 1789
|
1698 - 1789 |
|
D/RWR:T504, E107 |
two letters mentioning stone for Ramsgate Pier, 1771
Wareham
|
1771 |
correspondence construction coastal |
D/RWR:T306 |
leases of coal wharfs near Wareham Quay, 1759-72
|
1759 - 1772 |
mining |
D/RWR:T239 |
provision in a Wareham deed for f5O to be adventured in the Dolphin of Bristol (150 tons) sailing to Newfoundland for a summer fishing voyage, 1671
|
1671 |
ships investment |
D/RWR:T1 |
annuities charged on 3/32 share of Eddystone Rock lighthouse, 1761, 1764
|
1761 - 1764 |
ownership communications signalling coastal |
D/RWR:F3 |
agreement for sale of new-built ship on stocks at Hamworthy, 1768, with references to purchase of ships allegedly at election bribe, in Poole election papers, 1768-9
|
1768 - 1769 |
government |
D/RWR:F2 |
letters regarding detention of fly cutter by customs officers, Poole, 1769
|
1769 |
correspondence |
D/RWR:F11 |
assignment of portions of salary of Anthony Lucas as Commissioners of Excise, 1788
|
1788 |
wages customs |
D/RWR:E65 |
letter from Robert Cribb to Henry Drax regarding position within Customs, 1739
|
1739 |
correspondence |
D/RWR:26 |
Notice of auction of Mariner and Port Glasgow at Bristol, 1869
|
1869 |
ships |
D/RWR/E19 |
request of John Strugnell for post of coal meter at Portsmouth, undated but within bundle 1755-71
|
1755 - 1771 |
mining |
D/RS:X2 |
agreement to mortgage harbour dues, petty customs etc. to pay for harbour improvements and rebuilding bridge, 1847
|
1847 |
development environment maintenance |
D/RNW:T527 |
bills of sale of shares in the Elizabeth (formerly the Halifax1714-17
|
1714 - 1717 |
ships ownership |
D/RGB:LL640 |
a list, made in 1922, of records at the Weymouth Customs House, with transcripts of some letters, (1694-1722)
|
1694 - 1922 |
archives correspondence |
D/RGB:LL 640 |
a list, made in 1922, of records at the Customs House, with transcripts of some letters, (1694-1772)
|
1694 - 1922 |
archives correspondence |
D/RGB:640 |
transcripts of letter to and from the Weymouth collector of Customs mentioning wrecks, 1694-1772
|
1694 - 1772 |
correspondence |
D/RGB:322 |
2 small notebooks containing material for Dorset naval history lectures by RG Bartelot, c.1900
|
1900 |
navy education |
D/RAC:NU140 |
letter book of Isaac Solly, chiefly concerned with Royal Dockyard matters, 1837-8
|
1837 - 1838 |
|
D/PRS:X 3 |
contract for lighting outer pier and bridge, 1847
|
1847 |
coastal |
D/PLR:X3 |
release for money held by deputy Collector of Customs, Plymouth, 1682
|
1682 |
|
D/PLR:X2 |
appraisal under writ directed to Richard Enys and Timothy Hamlyn of 26 bunches of coral, six remnants of cambric and one piece of coarse black say seized by William Gluvias as forfeit, Cornwall, 1667
|
1667 |
cargo |
D/PLR:T468 |
deed of 1/16th of the Grantham, 1725
|
1725 |
ships ownership |
D/PLR:F52 |
includes journals of voyages from St Helena to Bombay, 1822 and aboard the Duchess of Athol from England to Bombay via the Cape of Good Hope and return via Egypt, illustrated, 1828
|
1822 - 1828 |
travel India ships Africa |
D/PLR:F45 |
journal of Robert Cater Oakley with 20th Reg., includes description of Heligoland, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, St Helena, 1811-24
|
1811 - 1824 |
travel Europe |
D/PLR:E10 |
memorandum on rating dispute in consequence of exciseman moving from Bere Regis to Shitterton, eighteenth century
|
1700 - 1799 |
customs |
D/PIT:T3, T6 |
deeds of Thomas Green's New Passage House and ferry to Poole, 1721-53
|
1721 - 1753 |
transport routes |
D/PIT:P3 |
map of harbour, 1883
|
1883 |
charts coastal |
D/PIT:E92 |
Wareham Docks Bill, including schedule of tolls, 1849
|
1849 |
Laws Customs |
D/PAV:7, 8 |
photographs of Charmouth beach, n.d.
|
|
illustrations |
D/NJH:B1-8 |
ballast regulations 1811-21 and notice about ballast lighters, 1821; bills of exchange and sale for various ships, 1817-71; crew list for Two Brothers of Poole, 1820; deed of settlement and papers about Poole, Isle of Purbeck, Isle o |
1811 - 1875 |
ownership ships commerce |
D/NJH:B/Z2 |
includes poster of Bournemouth/Swanage Motor road and Ferry Company, n.d.
|
|
illustrations transport shipping |
D/NJH:B |
Parliamentary bill to authorize works on harbour, 1914
Swanage
|
1914 |
Laws government |
D/NJH:A/F21 |
copy will of George Holland of Poole, coal merchant, 1838, with notes; accounts of his estate and executors giving details of the shipping and coal trade, 1833-45
|
1833 - 1845 |
mining commerce |
D/NJH:A/B 1-8, F 18,19 |
ballast regulations, 1811-21; bills of exchange and sale for various ships, 1817-71; crew list, 1820 and papers about Newfoundland trade; deed of settlement and papers about Poole, Isle of Purbeck, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth Steam Packet Company |
1811 - 1871 |
ownership commerce transport |
D/NJH:A |
letter of thanks to E Dean for help in conveying Isle of Purbeck lifeboat, 1866
|
1866 |
correspondence rescue |
D/NCW |
National Coastwatch, St Alban's Head: daily registers of passing ships 1995-2009.
|
1995 - 2009 |
ships sealanes shipping volunteer |
D/MPL:43 |
3 volumes of the diary of Sir George Bingham KCB Lt Col. 53rd Reg. during the voyage from Plymouth to St Helena on board HMS Northumberland which took Napoleon to St Helena, 1815-21
|
1815 - 1821 |
travel America navy ships |
D/MHM:8834 |
bundle of bills of sale of the Thomas and Ann, 1718-24
|
1718 - 1724 |
ships ownership |
D/MAR:F22 |
papers of Henry John Woolcott, including orders as captain of SS Guayaguil, 1860 & letters of thanks from passengers of SS Pacific, 1868
|
1860 - 1868 |
ships travel |
D/LRM:T21 |
copy of an Order of Council referring to the seamen of Dorset press-ganged, 1756
|
1756 |
recruitment navy impressment |
D/LRM:T19 |
notes referring to four Lyme Regis sailors held for ransom by Algiers pirates, 1677-9
|
1677 - 1679 |
piracy kidnap |
D/LRM:PI |
Mayoral ship certificate for the Ann and Emily , 1848
|
1848 |
|
D/LRM/T7 |
photocopy of letter of Capt. John Byng to the Mayor of Lyme regarding convoy from Plymouth to Newfoundland, 23 April 1742
|
1742 |
correspondence navy |
D/LEG:F9 |
diary of Benjamin Lester of Poole with reference to visit of excise officer in consequence of information laid about rum on Lester's premises, 9 August 1790
|
1790 |
customs alcohol smuggling |
D/LEG:F5-10 |
references to press gangs in diaries of the Lester family of Poole, 1770-1802
|
1770 - 1802 |
impressment navy recruitment |
D/LEG:F4-10 |
diaries of Isaac Lester, 1765-78
|
1765 - 1778 |
journals |
D/LEG:F35 |
advice on management of crew in a letter from Admiral T M Russell, 1813
|
1813 |
navy discipline |
D/LEG:F3 |
photocopy of sea journal of Benjamin Lester to Newfoundland, 1767-71, with description of French and English fishing there
|
1767 - 1771 |
travel |
D/LEG:F21 |
letter from George Garland to HO Wills, with mention of slave trade, 1806
|
1806 |
correspondence commerce slavery |
D/LEG:F2 |
diary of Benjamin Lester, at Newfoundland, with highly detailed entries referring to the fisheries, 1762 with detailed specifications for vessel, 1719 & 1745
|
1719 - 1762 |
fishing |
D/LEG:F19 |
letters of George Garland from Rouen, 1775-6, with remarks on advantages of smuggling for private individuals
|
1775 - 1776 |
correspondence |
D/LEG:F 2-10 |
various wrecks mentioned in the diaries of the Lester family, 1761-1802
|
1761 - 1802 |
ships |
D/LEG/Z15 |
account of death of Preventative officer on Purbeck coast, pre-1839
|
1839 |
smuggling |
D/LEG/F1- |
diaries and letter books and other business papers of the Lester and Garland families of Poole, Newfoundland merchants, eighteenth to nineteenth centuries
|
1700 - 1899 |
traders commerce |
D/LEG |
records of the Lester and Garland families including diaries, ledgers, letter-books, particularly concerned with the trade with Newfoundland, seventeenth - nineteenth centuries, for details see below
|
1600 - 1899 |
commerce |
D/JNH:B/22 |
photograph of old stone pier at ?Swanage, 1929
|
1929 |
illustrations |
D/GOO:3069 |
sale of 1/8th of the pink Adventurer to James Gould of Dorchester, 1689
|
1689 |
ships ownership |
D/GOO:3047 |
sale of 1/16th of the William of Weymouth, 1683
|
1683 |
ships ownership |
D/FRY:614a & b |
customs bonds (coal and pipe clay), of Patience of Poole, 1732 and customs bond, 1734
|
1732 - 1734 |
ships cargo |
D/FRY:31 |
customs cocket of the Jesus at Bridport, 1564/5
|
1564 - 1565 |
ships |
D/FRY:1304 |
Portland ferry agreement, 1671
|
1671 |
ferries transport boats |
D/FIL:X9 |
inquest into drowning of Elizabeth Taylor, whilst trying to walk across mudland when the Ower passage boat was driven aground, 1759
|
1759 |
death ferries |
D/FIL:X3 |
appointment of Roger Clavell as collector of customs, Poole, 1721
|
1721 |
recruitment |
D/FIL:F35 |
plea in libel case concerning conduct of John Crouch, master of ship belonging to Samuel Rolles, in Savannah and elsewhere, 1786
|
1786 |
America prosecutions |
D/FIL:9344 |
warrant authorising searches of ships etc. by Commissioners of Customs, Poole, 1721
|
1721 |
|
D/FAR:AFII |
letters to Captain, later Vice Admiral, Robert O'Brian Fitzroy, some about command of HMS Royal Sovereign, 1859-95
|
1859 - 1895 |
correspondence navy ships |
D/FAR:A/FIO |
papers concerning the naval career of Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy, 1818-63
|
1818 - 1863 |
navy service |
D/DEV |
J.A. Devenish plc, brewers, Weymouth: brewing, public house, shipping and family records. |
1800 - 1980 |
alcohol distilleries |
D/DES:Z1 |
specimen letters of credit for Greek warship, 1832
|
1832 |
finances |
D/COO:J |
sale particulars for Osmington station property, 1925
|
1925 |
|
D/COL:X14 |
engineers agreement to build harbour, 1740; accounts; Improvement Act, 1823; agreement on proposed canal, 1825
|
1825 |
ports Laws development waterways |
D/COL:B 16,17, X 14 |
accounts and shares in various ships, 1810-47; description of the launching of Alfred the Great, 1850
|
1810 - 1850 |
ownership |
D/COL/F30 |
account by Mrs Hannah Abbot of five week holiday from Clapham to Dorset, September 1798, includes references to the Royal Family and their saltwater bathing, their staying onboard the St Fiorenzo, the Guernsey Packet, and the celebrations o |
1798 |
leisure travel Royalty ships |
D/BTM/F24/1 |
letter from Harry Jennings to brother Wal of account of first world war naval actions and the sinking of HMS Speedy, 9 October 1914
|
1914 |
correspondence navy ships wrecks battles |
D/BLX:X4 |
minutes taken at the Committee of the Council by the Secretary of State, 1693, concerning the navy which was engaged in the War of the League of Augsburg, 1689-97
|
1689 - 1697 |
government |
D/BLX:X15 |
list of ships under command of Sir Cloudesley Shovell to go before Dunkirk, 1695
|
1695 |
navy |
D/BLX:L12, X17, 19, 24, 26-8, 30, 41; D.800/1 |
letters concerning the fleet, to Sir John Trenchard, Secretary of State from the Secretary at War and the First Lord of the Admiralty, 1692-5
|
1692 - 1695 |
correspondence navy |
D/BLX:L12 |
papers in the case of John Willie, collector of customs for Poole, 1677-9
|
1677 - 1679 |
|
D/BGL:A56 |
cash book of William Hounsell & Co of Bridport, 1777-1856
|
1777 - 1856 |
accounts finances Companies |
D/BGL:A 31, 44, 56 |
sale of shares in various Bridport ships, 1752-97; other papers regarding Gundry family ships, 1874-5 - note of shares of Hounsell family in Bridport ships, 1777-1856
|
1752 - 1875 |
ownership |
D/BGL |
records of Bridport-Gundry Ltd of Bridport, manufacturers of fishing nets, ropes etc., who held shares in various ships and were involved in the shipment of goods, eighteenth to twentieth centuries, includes journey books recording traveller's acc |
1811 - 1999 |
Companies ownership shipping commerce |
D/ASH:B/X3 |
correspondence and papers concerning the completion of the sea wall, 1802-11
|
1802 - 1811 |
coastal development environment |
D.RWR:F26 |
diary of Guy Montagu Marston as Sub-Lieutenant & Lieutenant serving in gunboats mainly in Scottish and West African stations, 1892-4
|
1892 - 1894 |
journal navy |
D.I/LV3,4 |
customs and excise: Poole accounts, 1559-60, 1562-3
|
1559 - 1563 |
trade commerce levies fees |
D.I/JT38 |
petition concerning schooner Margaret seized by customs officials, Poole, c.1800
|
1800 |
ships |
D.I/JC 12 & 15 |
harbour Acts, 1722, 1823
|
1722 - 1823 |
Laws ports |
D.I/10447 |
day book of John Richards (of Warmwell) London merchant trading to Spain, 1713-18
|
1713 - 1718 |
trade commerce Europe |
D.FIL:9344 |
warrant authorising searches of ships etc. by Commissioners of Customs, 1721
|
1721 |
trade commerce |
D.FIL:9334a & b |
draft letters concerning dues, c.1776
|
1776 |
correspondence customs payments |
D.BLX:E 7 |
map of mudlands, ?seventeenth century
|
1600 - 1699 |
charts environment |
D.934 |
map of Harbour, 1671
|
1671 |
charts coastal |
D.739/2 |
petition by the inhabitants of Melcombe Regis regarding exemption of Exeter merchants from payment of Petty Customs, c.1625
|
1625 |
trade commerce |
D.574/57 (Article in the Southern Times, 1936) |
Weymouth marine history, by A M Gill
|
|
newspapers |
D.574/107 |
newspaper article by A C Cox on losses of salt and malt certified in the Quarter Sessions
|
|
Press cargo stocks |
D.547/1 |
note of wrecks of Alexander (1815), Taberan (1821), Golden Grove (1795), Spritly (1821), Saggitario (1840), and others unnamed off Portland, 1795-1840
|
1795 - 1840 |
ships |
D.530 |
records of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Swanage, including returns of services, 1876-1975 & minutes 1895-1957
|
1876 - 1975 |
rescue coastguard |
D.523/1 |
memoranda by John Thomas Elliott on Portland wrecks, 1815-76
Calendar of Prisoners Epiphany QS 1839, prosecutions for theft of articles washed ashore from the schooner Mary Ann of Plymouth stranded on the beach at Abbotsbury, Novemb |
1815 - 1876 |
crime ships |
D.522 |
letter book of Messrs Ledgard, Gosse and Chancey of Poole, chiefly Newfoundland merchants, 1807-10
|
1807 - 1810 |
trade commerce |
D.504/5 |
articles of co-partnership between Katherine and George Penney of Poole in family coal and clay shipping business, 1806, inventory of ships and stock, 1805
|
1805 |
ownership mining |
D.504/2 |
accounts of George Penney of Poole, mariner, 1763-77 (with reference to a voyage to Newfoundland)
|
1763 - 1777 |
travel |
D.432/1, 330-438 |
many references to shipping in transcript of John Mowlem's diary, 1845-51
|
1845 - 1851 |
|
D.318/B12,13 |
bills of sale of Ocean Lady and Harwick, 1854, 1874, 1875
|
1854 - 1875 |
ownership ships |
D.257/F3-5 |
papers of Rear-Admiral H W Battiscombe, 1846-63, including order to join his new command the Snipe, certificates as to conduct and service on HM ships
|
1846 - 1863 |
navy recruitment ships discipline |
D.239/Z2 |
certificate that the Wentworth, about to sail for the Straights, was free of plague, 1718
|
1718 |
ships navy health disease |
D.239/Z1 |
order from Admiralty Commissioners to allow free passage for the Wentworth, 1699
|
1699 |
navy ships |
D.239/F14 & 13 |
journal of Lieut. A H W Battiscombe in Pelorus Naval Brigade during Maori war in New Zealand, 1860-1, and papers regarding his promotions and commands
|
1860 - 1861 |
navy service |
D.239/F13 |
complement of HMS Victory before paying off, 1868
|
1868 |
navy ships |
D.2213 |
Trinity House, Isle of Wight: Engineers Department drawings for lighthouses at Portland and Swanage, 1952-92.
|
1952 - 1992 |
lighthouses engineering construction |
D.2206 |
HMS Osprey, Royal Navy Air Station, Portland: maps and plans 1960-99.
|
1960 - 1999 |
seaplanes training heliport |
D.1726 |
Poole harbour: Commission copy letter book, bye-laws and papers |
1872 - 1972 |
ports correspondence |
D.137/T9 |
bill of sale of the sloop Liberty of Weymouth, 1790
|
1790 |
ships ownership |
D.1/8291-2 |
draft warrant for grant of embanked lands in harbour, summary of statements concerning 'drowned lands', c.1638
|
1638 |
environment ports coastal |
D.1/8286 |
particulars of project for recovering drowned lands, with chart of harbour, c.1662
|
1662 |
environment maps coastal |
D.1/4903 |
assignment of 1/4th share of the ship Wheatsheaf, 1776
|
1776 |
ownership |
D.1/2693e |
petition against Turkish pirates from the merchants and ship owners of Exeter, Plymouth, Barnstaple, Dartmouth, Lyme Regis, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, n.d. [?1636]
|
1636 |
piracy |
D.1/2693d |
petition regarding arrest at Poole of the Diamond, licensed for France but intending to sail to Spanish territories, 1587
|
1587 |
ships |
D.1/2693c |
note of vessels seized from 'Hynton and Blunte two Pirates' and brought into Poole, 1580
|
1580 |
piracy |
D.1/2487 |
grant to reclaim lands in harbour, 1665
|
1665 |
environment ownership coastal |
D.1/2482 |
copy of inquisition concerning customs (1341) made in 1792
|
1341 - 1792 |
trade ports harbours |
D.1/2480 |
pleas concerning anchorage and docking of vessels (1336), copy made, 1792
|
1792 |
ships ports harbours |
D.1/10939 |
bill of £13 as an adventure in a trading voyage to the West Indies by the Edward of Weymouth, 1604
|
1604 |
ships commerce investments Caribbean colonies |
Cox's Index, Appendix B |
Acts of Parliament, Notices and Orders, and Plans and Books of Reference relating to Docks, Ferry, Harbours and Piers for coastal towns in Dorset, 1821-1973 (see attached list)
|
1821 - 1973 |
Laws |
Cox's Index lb |
plan for Portland Breakwater, 1835
|
1835 |
environment development coastal |
Cox's Index la |
plans for Breakwater (pier) in Portland Roads, 1825
|
1825 |
development coastal environment |
Cox's Index |
records relating to the Portland Ferry Bridge, 1834-1938
|
1834 - 1938 |
waterways crossings |
BW:B4 |
correspondence regarding water supply to Portland Bill lighthouse, 1925 with Portland Water Supply Committee minutes
|
1925 |
coastal |
BW:B1 |
water supply to Portland coastguard station by Portland Water Supply Committee, 1905 onward
|
1905 |
|
BW:B/12 |
trade book of Waterworks Company with reference to water for ships, 1857-73
|
1857 - 1873 |
|
BW:A2 |
water supply to coastguard property, West Bay, Bridport, 1896
|
1896 |
|
BW/B2 |
correspondence, 1906, concerning water supply to new lighthouse, Portland, between Southwell and coastguard stations, with advice as to wording of license as lighthouse situated on common land vested in the Crown
|
1906 |
ownership coastal |