Reference | Detail | Dates | Archive | Keywords |
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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 |