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Name: Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service
Notes:

Formerly Bedfordshire Record Office. Established 1913. See Guide to the Bedfordshire Record Office (1957), Guide Supplement (1966), Guide to the Russell Estate Collections for Bedfordshire and Devon to 1910 (1966).

Principal collections: Payne Papers, including material relating to West Indian plantations, late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries

Postal address: Riverside Building
Borough Hall
Cauldwell Street
Town: Bedford
County: Bedfordshire
Post code: MK42 9AP
Telephone: 01234 228883
Web address: http://www.bedfordshire.gov.uk/CommunityAndLiving/ArchivesAndRecordOffice/ArchivesAndRecordOffice.as

222 documents found for Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service:

Code Description Date Keywords
2153/52

Records of the Willington Depot for making knitted garments for the Royal Navy, 1941-6

1941 - 1946 navy stores clothing
2313/1-2

Clothing coupons for Instructor Lieutenant Brownridge of HMS Illustrious, c.1948

1948   navy personnel stores rationing
A.B.P./W 1684/20

Paper regarding Parliamentary tax towards building of 32 men of war, 1678.

1678   navy shipbuilding
A.D. 1083

Letter from Viscount Torrington asking Admiralty for interest for Treasury Office, 1723

1723   navy finance
A.D.3943

 

Advert card for Union Steam Ship Co. Ltd for South Africa, 1889

1889   Advertisement Passenger
AD 3273

Account book of London silk merchant, 1648-9

1648 - 1649 Trade Commerce
AQ and X703

Business records of W.H. Allen of Bedford, relating to manufacture of diesel engines etc, 19th-20th century, including naval contracts

1800 - 1950 Navy Engineering Procurement
BD1423-5

Letters to T.H. Barnard with thanks for gifts to Sailors' Canteen Committee, 1914-15

1914 - 1915 navy personnel ratings
BD1430

Paper relating Sailors' Canteen Committee adopted T.H. Burnard as their patron, 1914-15

1914 - 1915 navy personnel ratings
BP44-5

Scrapbooks containing pictures of ships in the British Fleet, 1897-8

1897 - 1898 navy photographs
BS 2093-138

Letters from William Lee Antonie to Edward Arrowsmith and others regarding naval academy, HMS Agamemnon, HMS Amphitrion, 1797-1802

1797 - 1802 navy education correspondence
C.504 Crown grant of office of Registrar of Acts in Admiralty 1698   legal
C.P.R.O.

Timber return by Clerk of Peace for county, c.1808

1808   navy supplies shipbuilding
CCV54

Receipt for picture of HMS Bedford, 1905

1905   navy art painting
CCV54 Receipt for picture HMS Bedford, 1969, painted by W. Fred Mitchell in 1905 1905 - 1969 navy art painting
CRT 150/117

Notes on William Garratt of Roxton, convict transported to Australia in 1840.

1840   emigration transportation
CRT 160/113

Photocopy of two posters advertising the White Star Line

1880 - 1930 Adverising PR Art Photographs Illustrations
D.D.J.1548

Letter from the Admiralty to Lord St John regarding his request for passage to Corunna or Lisbon in a man-of-war for Ensign St John, 30 June 1813

1813   passenger
D.D.P.49/5/1 p.25

Reference to money given to captives of pirates, 1691

1691   Piracy Privateering
DW 303 Debts owing to a London mercer involved in the Muscovy Company, East India Company and Flemish and Hamburg trade, 1608 1608   Trade Commerce Accounts
Fac.E/317

Trees in Ampthill Park marked for Parliamentary Survey regarding naval use, 1649.

1649   Timber Building Ship Navy
FN 1055

Letter book of the Royal African Company, 1727-8 (transcript CRT 180/546)

1727 - 1728 Correspondence Commerce Trade
HG 12/10/152-7

Letters from Kenneth Longuet Higgins, Royal Marine, killed in the Dardanelles, 1915

1915   Correspondence Gallipoli Memoirs
HG12/4/28

Letter mentioning frigate's sighting of French and Spanish fleets off Lisbon, 10 August 1799

1799   navy napoleonic correspondence
HG12/4/6

Letter with mention of Lord Gambier having destroyed French line of battleships in Basque lands, April 1809

1809   navy correspondence battle despatch
HG12/4/7

Account of great naval fire at Portsmouth, 23 May 1791

1791   arson navy dockyard
HG12/5/4

Letter mentioning Capt. Hancock ready to sail from Portsmouth, 28 January 1815

1815   navy correspondence
HG12/6/19

Letter from Revd Henry Higgins with relation of journeys in West Indies, Vera Cruz and the Philippines, 1876.

  Correspondence Travel Mexico Pacific
HW 97/1

Printed prospectus of the South Sea Company, 1720

1720   Commerce Trade
HY 830

Paper regarding search ordered for straggling seamen, 1701.

1701   navy dessertion
HY 939-42

Diaries and misc. papers regarding travel to Holland and Italy, 1698-1714.

1698 - 1714 Correspondence Europe Ferry
J1505

Arrangements for John St John to travel to Batavia in East India Company's ship as an apprentice, 1719

1719   Indenture
JN 70-90

Papers of Sir H.C. Janes relating to world travels, including photographs, maps, 1937-67.

1937 - 1967 Correspondence
L List 148

Notebook of list of names of naval officers to be interviewed at Admiralty Board, April 1835.

1835   personnel
L list 149

Note of cost of alterations of the Mermaid, nineteenth century

1800 - 1899 Shiprepair Modifications
L29

L29, papers of William Robinson including 187-341, as Commissioner of Trade and Plantations, 1754-1783, notably concerned with Africa, America, Honduras, Portugal, Board of Trade; 342-546, as Ambassador to Spain, 1760-77, including summaries of na

1754 - 1783 Diplomatic Commerce Correspondence
L29/332

Report on trade with Ireland, 1785

1785   Commerce
L29/559/49

Paper relating to French gains in Newfoundland, 20 February 1783

1783   fishing colonial
L29/562/3

Letter regarding Danish convoy taken by three privateers, 1782.

1782   navvy correspondence privateering
L29/562/4

Letter regarding Dutch capturing British vessels, 1782.

1782   navvy correspondence prizes
L29/562/7

Letter regarding use made by Dutch merchants of neutral flags, 1782

1782   Correspondence Disguise
L29/563/5

Claims by East India Company when Hinde Cutter seized at Rio de Janeiro, 1782

1782   legal correspondence
L29/564/13 Letter regarding capture of the Elbe by the Dutch, 1783. 1783   navvy correspondence prizes
L29/565/31

Paper relating to area of Newfoundland for French fishing, 1783.

1783   whaling colonial
L29/565/46

Letter regarding action taken regarding Dutch privateers, 1782.

1782   navy Holland correpondence
L29/566/1

Letter regarding action of Dutch ships on Swedish and Danish coast, 1782.

1782   navy Holland correpondence
L29/568

Correspondence relating to the Newfoundland fishery, 1782-3.

1782 - 1783 whaling colonial
L29/568/22

Resolve of Suffolk and other countries to build ships of war by voluntary contribution, October 1782.

1782   navy shipbuilding
L29/568/35-8

Letters regarding passenger services between Dover and Calais, October 1782.

1782   travel correspondence
L29/568/66

Letter regarding capture of the Dolphin packet boat by the Dutch, December 1782

1782   Mail Prize Privateering Correspondence
L29/568/9

Letter regarding action of Sir E. Hughes against the French in India, 2 September 1782.

1782   Correspondence
L30/21/1/5

Letter from Lady Anson regarding naval commissions, c.1740-50s.

1740 - 1760 navy officer personnel correspondence
L30/21/1/9

Letter regarding possible chaplain for Plymouth Docks, c.1759

1759   navy officer appointments personnel correspondence
L30/8/19/2

Description of Channel crossing, 1691.

1691   Travel Ferry Europe France
L30/9/17/74-6

Letters regarding sea bathing at Taymouth, 1764

1764   bathing correspondence
L30/9/3/27

Letter with description of sea bathing around Southampton, 1751

1751   bathing correspondence
L30/9/54/2-5

Letter regarding Brighton and sea bathing, 1764

1764   bathing correspondence
L30/9/97

Letter regarding career of Admiral J.S. Yorke, c.1780-90

1780 - 1790 navy personnel officers
L30/9a

Accounts of tours by Marchioness Grey to East Anglia, 1750, Scarborough, 1752, Taymouth, 1755.

  Correspondence Travel Yorkshire
L30/9a/2/169, 173 & 175

Letters from Marchioness Grey to Mary Gregory including relating to trial of Admiral Byng, December 1756 - January 1757 (see L30/9a/3/2 & 7)

1756 - 1757 legal correspondence
L31/111

Account by Lady Henrietta Cole of travels from Holyhead to Yorkshire, 1803.

1803   travel correspondence
L31/114/6-7

Accounts by Thomas Phillip, 3rd Lord Grantham, of yachting trip from Cowes to Plymouth, with visits ashore in Devon and Cornwall, 1813, and of travels from Edinburgh to Inverness followed by voyage in yacht to Inner Hebrides and northern Scotland,

1813 - 1829 Pleasure Tourism
Li/Lib B 1/19/7

Nineteenth century autograph collection with references to South Sea Co. shares, 1717-1720s

1717 - 1729 Travel Commerce Trade Diary
Li/Lib B 1/19/7 (42)

Note by Sir Robert Inglis regarding Lieut. Briscoe who died on the Nellish, c.1820

1820   discharge navy
Li/Lib B 1/19/7 (88)

Correspondence regarding problems over discharge of James Newbery, 1813

1813   discharge navy
LJ1/1-2

Diaries with entries on travel to South America and South Africa, 1903-4.

1903 - 1904 Correspondence
LL 19/2

Travel diaries of Mary Anne Brooks of Flitwick including to Liverpool, 1845, north Wales and Liverpool, 1847

1845 - 1847 travel correspondence
LL17/325

Panorama of Nelson's defeat of French at the Nile, 1 August 1798.

1798   picture art illustration
M.10/2/95-157

Letters of Christian Russell to his wife with references to naval officer, 1756-63 (see 10/2/246 pp24, 29)

1756 - 1763 navy correspondence
M10/2/246, p.102

Paper regarding unsuccessful highwayman handed to press gang, 1761

1761   navy recruitment press
M10/4/51

Paper regarding release of man from pressgang, 1778

1778   navy press
M13/103-4

Pilotage Handbook (1906-17), Printed Admiralty Charts, 1927

1906 - 1927 navigation
Micf.61-2

Service records of those who enrolled at Bedford and Luton from 1914-18

1914 - 1918 Personnel Naval Mariner Enlistment
O164/7-8

Estimates for carriage of timber from Chicksands to Lyon, 1739.

1739   navy
O185.5-22

Letters of Admiral Sir George Byng including on leaving Admiralty, 1710-26.

1710 - 1726 resignation
O185/30

Letter regarding Henry Osborn's naval rank, 1747.

1747   navy officer personnel correspondence
OR 958

Copy Privy Council order regarding apprehension of straggling seamen, 1759

1759   Navy Administration Personnel Dissertion
OR1770 Letter with mention of shipping bill, 1787 1787   Correspondence
OR2071/207

Account of travels from Dublin to Carlisle, eighteenth century.

1700 - 1799 Scotland Ireland Ferry
OR2071/221

Account of travels from Newcastle, mid eighteenth century.

1725 - 1775 Correspondence
OR2071/317

Description of journey to Port Patrick and boat trip to Ireland, 1783.

1783   Travel Ferry Scotland
OR2071/319

Letter with mention of sea bathing at Southampton, 1784.

1784   bathing correspondence
OR2071/337

Account of sea voyage to France, 1785.

1785   Europe Ferry Travel
OR2071/341b

Account of start of sea voyage from Calais, 1785.

1785   France Travel Correspondence
OR2071/388

Account of Lord Bridport's victory over the French, 1795

1795   navy napoleonic correspondence
OR2071/461

Letter from John Orlebar on HMS Larne in Jamaica, 1834 (also see 466A-B)

1834   navy correspondence
OR2071/578

Letter relating journey to Netherlands, 1829.

1829   Correspondence Europe Ferry
OR2164

Poem regarding War of Jenkins Ear, mid-eighteenth century

1739 - 1748 Poetry navy
OR2166

Print of Battle of Porto Bello, 1743

1743   Art Navy
OR2223/5 & 8

Paper regarding promotion of Orlando Orlebar, 1811 - c.1815

1811 - 1815 navy personnel
OR2223/6

Reference to Henry Ortebar about to embark on ship under Captain Jones, 1812

1812   navy recruitment
OR2236/1

Travel diary of Richard Ortebar to France, and Italy and Constantinople, 1856.

1856   Correspondence Europe Ferry Turkey
OR2244/5

Account by Frederica St John Rouse-Boughton of Larden of travels including to North Wales, 1860, Aberystwyth, 1863

1860 - 1863 travel correspondence
OR2244/6

Visit by Mr Ortebar to Aberdeen, Inverness, 1861.

1861   travel correspondence
OR2244/7

Account by Frederica St John Rouse-Boughton of Larden of travels including to North Wales, 1860, Aberystwyth, 1863.

1860 - 1863 travel correspondence
OR2285/22a

Account by Gurney Gow of journey to Orkney, the Shetlands, 1891.

1891   travel diary
OR2293/1

Letter mentioning sighting of German submarine in mouth of Solway firth, August 1915

1915   UBoat
OR2344/1

Diary with mention of round Isle of Wight trip stopping at Ryde, 29 May 1883.

1883   travel
OR2358

Printed transcript of letter from Edward VI to Sir Barnarby Fitzpatrick with itinerary of progress to Portsmouth, Southampton, etc. with mention of defences, on 22 August 1552.

1552   correspondence travel
OR2386/4 p.18

Letter regarding Nelson and the Battle of the Nile, present deficiency of the navy, 1893

1893   navy napoleonic correspondence
OR2386/4 p.9

Paper regarding discovery of location of HMS Anson, 1902

1902   navy wrecks
OR2388/3

 Letter regarding sinking of Otranto, 18 October 1918

1918   Wreck
P.C.Stotfold 9/1

Certificate regarding HMS Balsam adopted by Stotfold during Warship's Week, 1942

1942   navy
P122/1/3

Sketch of sea-going ship etched in parchment cover of parish register, eighteenth century.

1700 - 1799 picture art illustration
P32/17

Precept for general search for idle men in Renhold, 1795

1795   press recruitment navy
P38/1/20/3 Form of prayer for victory obtained over the Dutch, 1797 1797   navy religion Holland
P38/1/20/5

Form of prayer for victory obtained over the French by Admiral Nelson, 1 August 1798

1798   navy religion France
P38/1/8

Note of three Cardington boys, aged 10-11, entered on HMS Lion, 1781

1781   recruitment navy juvenilles
P70/12/1

Shefford overseers' accounts including help to sailor, 1794-1809

1794 - 1809 navy
P85/5/13(viii) Collection in church for the Titanic Disaster Fund, 1912 1912   Wreck Appeal
P89/28/2 (Ravensden) Certificate of appointment of Revd A. Copinge as a friend of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Help Society, November 1900 1900   navy personnel ratings
PLBP/W 1830/46

Will of John Bates, Private Marine, HMS Blake, 1830, with engraving.

1830   Mariner Art
PLPB/W 1818/48

Will of Thomas Bradshaw, late 1st Lieutenant of HMS Pearl, with etching of sea scene, 1818.

1818   Art
PM 2745-87 Merchant account books of Dutch and East Indian trade, 1737-62 1737 - 1762 Trade Commerce Accounts
PM3004

Paper regarding HMS Bedford, 1905

1905   navy correspondence
PM3009

Printed rules of Royal Yacht Squadron, 1891.

1891   Yachting
PM3009

Sheet 5, includes 3 humorous menus of SS Toshi, 1891

1891   meal
PM3009

Paper regarding Nelson's victory at the Nile, 1798

1798   Napoleonic Navy
PM3009

Sheet two, bill of fare of SS Pekin, 1891

1891   Menu Catering
PM3010

Pym family log book of Lady Evelyn, yacht, on voyage to Norway from Southampton, 1880; Albania and Corfu via Brindisi, 1880; Ireland via Cowes, Devon and Cornwall.

1880   Yachting Tourism
PO14 p.8

Renold assessment for building ships, 1677

1677   navy
Q.S.R. 1730/73

Examination of sailor who was captured by pirates in the Azores, 1730

1730   Piracy Privateering
Q.S.R. 1731/86

Examination of Italian sailor impressed in Navy 1731

1731   Navy Administration Personnel Recruitment
Q.S.R. 1781/38

Paper regarding illegal return of impressed man, 1781

1781   Navy Administration Personnel
Q.S.R. 1787/9-10

Order and paper to Lord Lieut. for searching for straggling seamen, 1787

1787   Navy Administration Personnel Dissertion
Q.S.R. 1812/140

Settlement examination of Hungarian man who served in Navy, 1812

1812   foreigner navy
Q.S.R. 1812/199

Gaolers' bill taking James Read to London for naval service, 1812

1812   navy recruitment press
Q.S.R. 1816/217, 219

Settlement examination of man who served in Creole frigate and merchant vessel, 1816

1816   navy personnel
R Box 401

 Duke of Bedford vouchers and accounts for holidays to Brighton, Worthing, Bognor Regis, 1823, 1824.

1823 - 1824 Leisure Seaside Beach Hampshire
R.H.5/10

Person drowned on steamship voyage from Liverpool to Beaumaris, 1831

1831   death
R.O.32/26

Bill of sale of 1/16 share in the Queen then on voyage to East Indies, 5 May 1768

1768   Commercial Partnership
R.O.5/362

Lease and release relating to William Shotbolt, late of Madras, merchant, deceased, 1733

1733   Correspondence Will
R5/79/8

Paper regarding money for two boys who enter the merchant navy, 1646-7

1646 - 1647 Recruitment Appentice
SA 706

Copy of petition to House of Lords relating to French privateers at Lundy Island, 1738

1738   Piracy Privateering
SFM2/10-13

Letters from Henry Badcock, 1849-51, including relating to voyage to Australia.

1849 - 1851 emigration correspondence
SJ/iv/a(3)misc Shipping accounts, showing freight charges, regarding Island of Grenada, 1805-6; inventories and accounts of West Indian estates with lists of named slaves, 1788-9 1788 - 1789 Slaving Plantations Slavery
SM/E/54

Travel diaries of Mary Louisa Smyth of Edworth including to Folkstone, 1907, Lyme Regis, 1910, North Wales, 1912, Cromer, St Leonards on Sea, 1914, Torquay, 1915, Bude, 1916.

1910 - 1916 Devon Kent Norfolk
SM172

 Poster regarding sinking of the Lusitania, 1915

1915   Propaganda art
SM176-81

Service papers, 1918-26

1918 - 1926 navy personnel
Stuncat 484/1

Will of James Talbot, naval pensioner, Bedford Regiment, 1901

1901   navy personnel ratings
SX/39

Declaration of trust reciting conveyance held in trust for brother while overseas, 13 April 1614.

1614   Mariner Property Possessions
SY 245 Travel diaries of Emily Starey of Highgate including to Folkstone, 1871, 1872, North Wales, 1874, Isle of Wight, 1875. 1871 - 1875 correspondence
TCKempston 9/1/12

Correspondence regarding shield commemorating adoption of HMS Thorn by Kempston, 1978

1978   navy
TW 317

Money left for ransom of son, a captive in `Barbaria', 1570

1570   Piracy Privateering
TW 397

Letter from Nicholas Lawrence who travelled to Morocco, 1590

1590   Trade Commerce Travel Correspondence
W1/2593-724

Whitbread family papers relating to prisoners of war, 1800-15, including 2708-24, Dartmoor prison, 1805-15, notably 2714, account of Inspector of Naval Hospitals, 1810

1800 - 1815 Legal Napoleonic
W1/3218

Letter with account of Trafalgar, 14 April 1810

1810   navy correspondence
W1/3749-876

Whitbread family papers regarding Privy Council, 1780-1812, mainly relating to trade, particularly overseas, including lists of ships, export and import accounts

1780 - 1812 Commerce Trade Government
W1/3877-962

W1/3877-962, Whitbread family papers relating to America, 1800-1814, including relating to trade

1800 - 1814 Commerce Trade
W1/4137-78

Whitbread family papers relating to the slave trade, 1795-1815, including account of treatment on British ships, 1814, account of capture of slave ships

1795 - 1815 Commerce Slavery
W1/4947, 4988-5005

Whitbread family papers relating to convict hulks, 1810-14

1810 - 1814 Correspondence Prisoners
W1/5126-290

Whitbread family papers relating to the Navy, 1797-1815, including relating to naval news relating to West Indian affairs, mutiny at Spithead, war with America, Plymouth breakwater, pay and prize money, promotions, petitions, cases of Peter Wilson

1797 - 1815 Navy Operations
W1/5134

Petition of West India merchants regarding pressing of officers, 13 April 1809

1809   Navy Administration Personnel Press Recruitment
W1/51554

Paper regarding British sailors enlisting in American forces, 30 March 1813

1813   Navy recruitment USA
W1/5170

Paper regarding 250 privateers waiting for prize money seized by press gang, 1810

1810   Navy Administration Personnel
W1/5826-8

Whitbread family papers relating to wharfingers and Wet Docks Act, 1810

1810   Legislation
W1/7000/6

Whitbread family papers comprising misc. legal evidence used in naval cases, late eighteenth century

1770 - 1799 Court Legal
W3491

Navy estimates annotated and indexed by Samuel Whitbread III, 1860-1

1860 - 1861 navy finance
W3933/2-6

Journals of Samuel Whitbread II of Grand Tour to Scandinavia including 2, with reference to export of Norwegian timber to England, 1784

1784   Travel Diary Trade Commerce
W3958

Papers regarding cruelty on the high seas and murder of merchant seamen on ships between England and the USA, 1857-9

1857 - 1859 Crime Punishment Torture
W3961

Papers concerned with removal of Sir Spencer Robinson from Admiralty office, 1871.

1871   resignation personnel
W3963

Paper regarding H.M. ships to provide asylum for fugitive slaves, 1876

1876   navy slavery
WY 1000

Bundle of correspondence of William Stuart relating to travel in Europe and Near East, 1846-90.

1846 - 1890 Voyages Asia Passenger
X106/284

Account of honeymoon in Jersey and Guernsey, 1909

1909   Marriage
X106/603

 Letter regarding shipping of ten carts to Glasgow from Fife, 1854

1854   Correspondence Freight
X106/67

Printed notice requiring volunteer from four North Bedfordshire parishes for the navy, late eighteenth century

1780 - 1799 Navy Administration Personnel Recruitment
X143

East India Company records including 8a-b, index sheet to letter book, 1795

1795   Correspondence Commerce Trade
X170/1/1

Fair copies of rough log of HMS Cumberland, 1802-3, HMS Leviathan, 1803

1802 - 1831 Navy Administration
X170/1/2

Rough log of HMS Leviathan, 1805

1805   Navy Administration
X170/1/3

Fair copy of rough log of the voyage of HMS Africa to the Plate estuary, 1806-8

1806 - 1808 Navy Administration Navigation
X170/1/4

Fair copy of rough log of HMS Milford, 1809-10

1809 - 1810 Navy Administration
X170/2/1

Muster book of HMS Cumberland, c.1802

1802   Navy Administration Personnel
X170/2/2

Muster book of HMS Leviathan, n.d.

1790 - 1810 Navy Administration Personnel
X170/3/1

Order book of HMS Thunderer, 1801, HMS Quebec, 1799-1800, HMS Nereide, 1801-2, HMS Cumberland, 1801

1799 - 1802 Navy Administration
X170/4/1

Letter books of HMS Quebec, 1799-1800, HMS Leviathan, 1803-4, HMS Nereide, 1801, HMS Cumberland, 1801-3

1799 - 1804 Correspondence Navy
X170/5/1-8

Maps and charts of English Channel, Spain, Mediterranean, east coast of South America, Gulf and Windward Islands, 1789-1800.

1789 - 1800 hydrographic survey cartographic
X202/41

Printed address to navy regarding feared French invasion, 1803

1803   navy napoleonic correspondence
X234/63b

Copy administration of William Travell, late seaman on HMS Veteran, July 1807.

1807   Mariner Property Possessions
X249

Dedication album and correspondence relating to HMS Bedford, 1903-5

1903 - 1905 commissioning navy photograph
X254/88/377

Watercolour of three-masted ship, nineteenth century

1800 - 1899 Art
X263/1

Logbook of the Sir William Bensley carrying male convicts, 1816-18.

1816 - 1818 emigration transportation
X263/2-12

Personal papers of Capt. Richard Bastard, 1819-59 (also see Mic.83, withdrawn papers, 1798-c.1850)

1819 - 1859 Correspondence Diary
X291/367

Picture of lighthouse and section through it, nineteenth century

1800 - 1899 Navigation Art Plans Drawings
X299/1-5

History and letter relating to HMS Oakley, 1942-51

1942 - 1951 navy correspondence
X328/5,15, 17

Papers regarding Ampthill man impressed into Navy, c.1807

1807   Navy Administration Personnel Recruitment
X353/13-14

Deeds regarding Robert Jackson, Royal Navy Captain, 1821

1821   navy wills personnel officers
X459

Records of United Services Club, Ampthill, 1920-63

1920 - 1963 society
X50/3

Pay allotment by marine of HMS Polyphemus to his mother at Harrold, 10 November 1806

1806   navy personnel
X50/4

Prize list of the Polyphemus, post 1806

1806   Navy Administration
X50/5

Certificate of service of Richard Summerland, 1812.

1812   Personnel Naval Mariner
X52/86

Minute book of Committee to take measures to counter mutiny at the Nore, 1797-9

1797 - 1799 Navy Discipline Personnel Administration
X550/18/13 Soldier's journal of travel from Gold Coast to Sierra Leone, 1946 1946   Diary Military
X619/3,8

Sea Scout records, 1945, 1963

1945 - 1953 Youth
X668/88-9

Accounts regarding bills of sales of ships, 1811

1811   Commercial Partnership Shares
X703

Photographs of W.H. Allen steamship turbines, etc., c.1880-1947

1880 - 1947 Engineering Propulsion Illustrations
X758/3/10

Printed cabin plan of the twin screw SS Llandaff Castle, 1934

1934   Drawing GA
X766

Album of photographs (including site plan) charting the construction of the Royal Naval Airworks at Cardington and related papers, 1917

1917   RNAS
X77/6

Bequest of shares in two ships, 1759

1759   `Will
Z 462/1-30

Travel letters of George and Ann Duncombe of their tours in England and to France, 1813-44, with mention of development of Brighton.

1813 - 1844 Correspondence Europe Ferry
Z 678/2-56

Includes holiday accounts of travels throughout Scotland, Ireland and Bermouth, 1952-75, with transparencies.

1952 - 1975 Travel Correspondence Photographs
Z128/20 Sketch of upper deck fittings of HMS Nimble, gunship, c.1870 1870   navy plans drawings
Z128/21

Sketch of upper deck plan of HMS Bouncer and Snap, gunboats, c.1870

1870   navy plans drawings
Z128/39 Drawing of steel-protected cruiser to be called the Brilliant, 1926 1926   GA Plans Warship
Z145/52

Reprint of paper of 1797 regarding execution of Richard Parker for mutiny, twentieth century

1797   navy sentence legal
Z160/54

Postcard of the Titanic, pre 1912

1910 - 1912 Wreck Art Photograph Memorabilia
Z160/645-7

Photographic albums of Revd W. Hewetson of Bedford including of seaside holidays, c.1911-22.

1911 - 1922 Travel Pictures
Z160/807

Holiday photographs at Blackpool, Eastbourne, c.1930.

1930   Travel Pictures Lancashire Sussex
Z186/1-211

Letters of Evelyn Chaldecott mainly from India, 1907-18, including accounts of voyage on the SS Kaiser-I-Hind.

1907 - 1918 Travel Passenger Voyage
Z216/23/1

Menu for Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmens' Families Association (SSAFA) dinner and dance, 1954

1954   navy social
Z269/52-60

 

Papers relating to New Brunswick, 1860s-1888, including shipping

1860 - 1888 Canada
Z313/22

Programme of sports on a voyage of the Arlanza from Southampton to Buenos Aires, 1924

1924   Passengers Entertainment
Z313/23

Account of the Titanic disaster, April 1912

1912   Wreck
Z426/10

Naval Air Service Training Manual (1914)

1914   navy publication
Z429/5

Discharge certificate, 1902.

1902   Personnel Mariner
Z434/12

Photograph of launching of HMS Neptune, 1933.

1933   navy shipbuilding illustration
Z489/6-8

Mementoes, comprising painting, menu card and Christmas card, of HMS Mauretania, while hospital ship, December 1915

1915   Navy social stationery
Z49/678

Photograph of five people on a ship, 1890s

1890 - 1899 Personnel Naval Mariner Passenger
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Account by David Odell, HMS Verulam, submarine on Haifa Patrol, regarding encounter with ship carrying illegal Jewish immigrants, 1948

1948   Palestine navy blockade
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Letter regarding burial at sea, 1902

1902   navy death committal
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Dance invitation, 1927, and portrait and snapshot photographs relating to the Canadian Navy, 1920s

1920 - 1929 navy Canada social
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Poem by Revd R. Atherton on Nelson centenary of Battle of Trafalgar, 1905

1905   navy poetry
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Four poems regarding the Titanic, July 1912

1912   Wreck Poetry