Exeter Local Maritime Archives Project

Documents

Reference Detail Dates Archive Keywords
X106/67

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

1780 to 1799 Bedfordshire County Record Office Navy Administration Personnel Recruitment
W1/5134

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

1809 to 1809 Bedfordshire County Record Office Navy Administration Personnel Press Recruitment
X52/86

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

1797 to 1799 Bedfordshire County Record Office Navy Discipline Personnel Administration
OR2293/1

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

1915 to 1915 Bedfordshire County Record Office UBoat
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 to 1815 Bedfordshire County Record Office Navy Operations
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 to 1950 Bedfordshire County Record Office Navy Engineering Procurement
X50/4

Prize list of the Polyphemus, post 1806

1806 to 1806 Bedfordshire County Record Office Navy Administration
W1/5170

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

1810 to 1810 Bedfordshire County Record Office Navy Administration Personnel
TW 317

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

1570 to 1570 Bedfordshire County Record Office Piracy Privateering
D.D.P.49/5/1 p.25

Reference to money given to captives of pirates, 1691

1691 to 1691 Bedfordshire County Record Office Piracy Privateering
Q.S.R. 1730/73

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

1730 to 1730 Bedfordshire County Record Office Piracy Privateering
SA 706

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

1738 to 1738 Bedfordshire County Record Office Piracy Privateering
X291/367

Picture of lighthouse and section through it, nineteenth century

1800 to 1899 Bedfordshire County Record Office Navigation Art Plans Drawings
Z160/54

Postcard of the Titanic, pre 1912

1910 to 1912 Bedfordshire County Record Office Wreck Art Photograph Memorabilia
Z313/23

Account of the Titanic disaster, April 1912

1912 to 1912 Bedfordshire County Record Office Wreck
Z727/5

Four poems regarding the Titanic, July 1912

1912 to 1912 Bedfordshire County Record Office Wreck Poetry
P85/5/13(viii) Collection in church for the Titanic Disaster Fund, 1912 1912 to 1912 Bedfordshire County Record Office Wreck Appeal
OR2388/3

 Letter regarding sinking of Otranto, 18 October 1918

1918 to 1918 Bedfordshire County Record Office Wreck
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 to 1789 Bedfordshire County Record Office Slaving Plantations Slavery
Z269/52-60

 

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

1860 to 1888 Bedfordshire County Record Office Canada