Exeter Local Maritime Archives Project

Documents

Reference Detail Dates Archive Keywords
D/Z447

photocopies of documents relating to Capt. William Twitchett, including apprenticeship indenture to William Madder of Wivenhoe, 6 June 1840; master's certificate of service for 14 years in the British Merchant Service in the foreign trade, 29 March 1851; certificate of discharge from the Norman, 5 May 1866; testimony to the bad health and death of William Curtis Twitchett after serving on the west coast of Africa, 7 February 1869; correspondence with the Superintendent, Mercantile Marine Office, Southampton, 16 & 24 March 1964

1840 to 1869 Southampton Archives training navy ships illness
D/SH

records of the Southampton Sailors' Home, including minutes of the General and House committee, House Committee, financial records, correspondence files, legal papers and related correspondence, 1863-1971

1863 to 1971 Southampton Archives welfare
TC/box6/101

magistrate's note for safe passage of the Vulcan, Peter Havey master, on a voyage to Hamborough, Holland, n.d.

None to None Southampton Archives travel ships Europe
TC/box79

includes legal papers of Davidson, Unwin & Co vs Corporation regarding destruction of cargo of RMSP Araguaya by Health Authorities, 1910-11

1910 to 1911 Southampton Archives Companies trade ships
D/Z116/1/14

letter of John Ralph Engledue from Falmouth to Robert Shepard including news of naval events and ships in Egypt, 5 July 1841

1841 to 1841 Southampton Archives correspondence Cornwall navy Africa
D/Z69/1

copy of the will of Thomas Cooper, mariner of Burlesdon, includes reference to the Friend, sloop and shares in other ships, 13 December 1795

1795 to 1795 Southampton Archives ships ownership
D/Z99

letter from Walter Jones, Cardiff, to Mrs E. Gilbert, Sholing, about her son, a sailor, 5 May 1885

1885 to 1885 Southampton Archives correspondence mariners
D/Z105/1

letter from Lieut. J. Whylock, Bishop's Waltham, to Charles Cox & Son, London, asking them to put in a claim for prize money for the crew of the Vigilante, 1 August 1817

1817 to 1817 Southampton Archives correspondence navy ships
D/Z116/1/8

vouchers for the Sir John Falstaff, ship, 513 tons, for provisions and equipment, 1844-5

1844 to 1845 Southampton Archives None
D/Z579

certificates relating to the mercantile career of Frederick John Pitt, 1902-33, including certificates of competency as second class engineer, 29 March 1902, of efficiency as life boatman, 23 May 1933 and of discharge from the SS Duchess of Cornwall, 11 October 1933

1902 to 1933 Southampton Archives ships
D/Z309

photocopy of Robert Arthur Harding's Continuous Certificate of Discharge and Master's Report of Character, 1916-26

1916 to 1926 Southampton Archives service
D/Z83

two letters by John Bennet, Southampton, to Callaway & Hellerd, solicitors, Portsmouth, regarding claim of William Main for pilotage of Liverpool, ship, 11 & 29 July 1835

1835 to 1835 Southampton Archives correspndence
D/Z93

photograph of handbill advertising sale of the Wiltshire, brigantine, at Southampton, 14 November 1752

1752 to 1752 Southampton Archives ships
D/Z95

Southampton Docks pamphlets, Christmas cards & map, 1938, 1957, 1960, n.d.

1938 to 1960 Southampton Archives None
D/Z116/3, 1-4

bills of sales of the Oporto, launched at Emsworth 4 August 1792, 15 August 1792 and of 1/8 share, 31 August 1792; mortgage of 1/2 share, 4 September 1792; 5, bill of sale of 1/8 share of the James, built at Dover in 1788, 16 March 1803; 6, bill of sale of 1/8 share of the Oporto, 30 March 1808; 7, vouchers for provisions and equipment for the Oporto, brig, 1826-7

1788 to 1827 Southampton Archives ownership
D/Z679

bill of sale of Stormfinch, cutter yacht, 22 August 1842

1842 to 1842 Southampton Archives ownership
D/PSR/69-70

bills of sale in Laura, a sailing ship of 178 tons built at Shields in 1855, 26 November 1877; in Anna Dixon, sailing ship of 162 tons built in Liverpool in 1842, 1877

1842 to 1877 Southampton Archives ownership
D/Z580

photocopies of bills of sales for the Frederica, 1868; Frederica and Louisa, 1872 and 1887; passenger certificates for Hotspur and Hampton, 1895

1868 to 1895 Southampton Archives ownership
D/Cd

includes 2, annual reports, Associated Coal & Wharf Companies Ltd, 1946, 1948, 1950-1, 1954, 1957, 1959-60; 16, annual reports, Gosport & Portsea Steam launch Co. Ltd, 1942, 1945; 38, balance sheets, Ocean Trading Company, 1944-6 with 7 letters, 1946-7; 44, annual reports, Port of Portsmouth Steam Launch & Towing Company, 1944-5, 1947-8, 1950; 51, scheme of amalgamation, Royal Pier & Queens Hotels, Southsea Ltd, Southsea Beach Mansions & Hotel Co. Ltd, 1940; 52, annual reports, Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. Ltd, 1940, 1943, 1945-50, with circulars, 1935, 1941-3, 1947-8 and prospectus, 1948 & 94, annual reports, 1951-3, 1955-8, with prospectus and circular letter, 1957-8; 71, annual report of J. Samuel White 7 Co. Ltd, 1942; 85, annual reports, Hythe Pier Co. Ltd, 1948, 1950-61; (no number), reports and balance sheets, Portsmouth Harbour Ferry Company Ltd, Gosport, 1965-71; (no number), reports and accounts, Southampton, Isle of Wight and South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company Ltd, 1966-9

1935 to 1971 Southampton Archives None
D/MW/boxes 34-5

deeds, etc of West Indian sugar plantations in the islands of St Kitts, St Vincent and Nevis, 1799-1852; Nevis, 1741-1875, including letters, list of slaves, 1748; coloured plantation plan, 1761

1741 to 1875 Southampton Archives Caribbean Colonies slavery