| Reference | Detail | Dates | Archive | Keywords |
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| RYE/47/6/20 | --Safe conduct for Harmon Tyse (?) master of a ship called Lesperans of Rye with 11 mariners and 2 boys, to pass with a cargo of salt belonging to Baldwin Martin, of Rye, merchant, to "Dannske [Dantzic] in Polland" and to return to Rye. - 1573[-4], March 23
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1573 to 1573 | East Sussex Record Office | seamen trade food |
| RYE/47/6/22 | --Safe conduct granted by the Mayor and Jurats of Rye to Lawrence Langlois, mariner, master of a ship of Rye called the Hound of which Thomas Bennard of Rye is owner "together with nineteen maryners in the said ship, all of the religion and French church, at this instant within the towne of Ry, beinge of good name, fame and honest conversation," to sail from Rye to Norway and from thence to Rochelle with merchandize and so to return again. - 1574, April 10 |
1574 to 1574 | East Sussex Record Office | seamen trade travel |
| SHR/2721-2727 |
Business and Investment: John Bridger (1703-84), Papers relating to shipping ventures of 'The Lewes Merchants' or 'John Bridger and Co.' - ref. - date: 1755-57 Receipted bill of William Lee for advertisements in Lewes Journal of meeting (Apr. 1755) and launching of new ship (Dec. 1755); receipts for capital subscriptions; letters of John Gascoigne of Barbados, and John Hutchinson of London on sugar bought for shipment, and giving recent news of Boscawen's fleet off Newfoundland; account with John Gascoigne; policy of insurance for goods in ship Lewis for voyage Newhaven-Madeira-Barbados. |
1755 to 1757 | East Sussex Record Office | trade commerce publications correspondence colonies cargo food |
| AMS6456 | Sentence of the High Court of Admiralty concerning the Discovery, brought into Hastings in 1712
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1712 to 1712 | East Sussex Record Office | navy prosecution ships |
| AMS6456/1 | Photocopy of an exemplification of a definitive sentence of the High Court of Admiralty under the hand of Richard Hill, registrar. 23 Oct 1713 Sentence of Charles Hedges kt, LLD, judge-president of the High Court of Admiralty, that the ship Discovery (John Berliquet captain), its crew and cargo, taken by HMS Experiment (John Hemington captain) and brought into Hastings, was lawfully taken and seized, and at the time of capture belonged to the queen's enemies and was a French privateer (navem privatam bellicam Gallicam), 21 Feb 1712
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1713 to 1713 | East Sussex Record Office | navy court prosecution privateering |
| FRE/521 | Account book of Benjamin Frewen and Stephen Frewen - ref. - date: 1632-1679 There are also memoranda concerning the settling of accounts and money lent out; and accounts of general expenses made on behalf of his brothers Thankfull Frewen, John Frewen and Accepted Frewen and sister Mary Bigg, also a 'doctor' Frewen who appears to be his nephew John Frewen, physician (ie on clothes, utensils, books etc: accounts of Stephen Frewen's purchase of skins in bulk are also entered intermittently, and several retail prices obtained for skins are also noted. Regular entries record goods and money sent by Frewen on merchant adventurer ships for sale and purchases abroad - Newfoundland, 'Rushier' (?Russia), India, Amsterdam, 'Danske' (?Danzig), East Indies, Virginia, The Canaries and France; 1637-1666 |
1632 to 1679 | East Sussex Record Office | finances costs trade |
| FRE/522 | - Accounts ledger of the ship Tenerife - ref. - date: (?1646)-1656 item: Account of receipts and disbursements on crew's pay, at Gravesend, 'In the Downes' and at Newfoundland (Canada) - the latter is accounted in 'ryalles' and 'dollors' and converted into sterling at the total - ref. FRE/522/22r-25r - date: 1649 |
1646 to 1656 | East Sussex Record Office | finances wages mariners |
| SRA10/1/3 | The Commissioners of Newhaven Piers Reports Volume containing reports by John Rennie 4 Oct 1810, Josias Jessop 3 Oct 1819 and 29 Aug 1821, John Whidbey 30 Sep 1823, Josias Jessop 3 Jun 1825, William Cubitt 18 May 1835 and James Walker 31 Mar 1843 and 20 Jun 1846 with plan of the harbour showing projected improvements. - ref. - date: [c1850] |
1810 to 1850 | East Sussex Record Office | ports construction |
| BUCKLE/149 | Certificates of the service of Mathew Buckle as Captain's servant, Able-Seaman, and Midshipman from 4 February 1777 to 10 November 1789. - ref. - date: 28 November 1788-10 November 1789
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1777 to 1789 | West Sussex Record Office | mariners |
| BUCKLE/161 | 'Return of Men and Boys who have volunteered for Continuous Service in H.M. Navy belonging to HMS Valorous.' - ref. - date: 31 December 1854 Records name, rating, age, height, character, and ability as seaman. [others of interest in these papers] |
1854 to 1854 | West Sussex Record Office | naval ships mariners |
| PHA/7740-7742 |
Brief for the prosecution, with witnesses' statements, in the case of Rex v. Thomas Spry, Thomas Duke, William Meeten and Thomas Trevett, accused of forcibly and illegally detaining William Souter and John Morley of Storrington. (2 copies and draft) - ref. - date: 1805 Spry and Duke were members of a pressgang based at Littlehampton, the other two were said to be notorious smugglers, and the pressing to have been set up because Souter stole some tubs of spirits from James Searle of Cootham Common, the master smuggler. |
1805 to 1805 | West Sussex Record Office | navy recruitment alcohol |
| GOODWOOD/154 |
FILE - Miscellaneous papers concerning smugglers and smuggling. - ref. - date: 1745-Nov 1749, nd Includes notes in the Duke's hand on tea running by armed smugglers near Elmer Sluice in Middleton, April 1745; papers about a robbery by smugglers at the house of William Wakeford near Woolmer, Hants., in Aug. 1748.
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1745 to 1749 | West Sussex Record Office | None |
| GOODWOOD/155 | FILE - Letters and papers - ref. - date: Dec 1747-March 1749/50, nd Relating to the attack by smugglers on the Customs House at Poole, Dorset, in Oct. 1747; to the murder the following February at Harting of William Galley, sen., customs officer, of Southampton, and Daniel Chater, shoemaker, of Fordingbridge, Hants., who were endeavouring to bring them to justice, and to the capture and conviction of the smugglers. |
1747 to 1750 | West Sussex Record Office | correspondence crime |
| GOODWOOD/156 |
FILE - Papers - ref. - date: March 1749-Aug 1750, nd Relating to the murder by smugglers of Thomas Carswell, an excise riding officer, at Hastings, in Dec. 1740, and of Michael Bath, a dragoon guard, near Sea Place, Goring, in Jan. 1743/4, and the murderers' subsequent apprehension and conviction. |
1749 to 1750 | West Sussex Record Office | crime prosecution |
| Add Mss 6471 | - date: 6 September 1837 (a) The Worshipful William Calverley Curtiss, Doctor of Laws, and Surrogate of Councillor Sir John Nicholl, kt., Doctor of Laws, Lieutenant of High Court of Admiralty (of which Court he is Official Principal and Commissary General and Special and President and Judge); (b) John Billing, Samuel Carden and Benjamin Bishop, the masters, owners, and crews of the smacks Philippa, Susanne and Kitty, and salvors of the ship Helene; (c) John Lindegren and Arnoldus Vanden Bergh, claimants, on behalf of the owners, of the said ship Helene |
1837 to 1837 | West Sussex Record Office | navy ships |
| WD/9 | Commodore Gerald Norman Jones, master mariner: papers | 1902 to 1960 | Anglesey Record Office | navy seamen |
| WM/2025 | Amlwch and Holyhead ports: books of particulars of wrecks and customs house letter books. | 1860 to 1975 | Anglesey Record Office | harbours correspondence |
| BRO.1047 | Berwick port: fishing vesel registers | 1902 to 1989 | Berwick Upon Tweed Record Office | None |
| 7718 | Llanelli port, Carmarthenshire: shipping register | 1948 to 1977 | Carmarthenshire Archives Service | None |
| D6521 | Humphrey Read, Deputy Controller of Customs, Parkgate: subsidy book listing names of ships and master, port of departure and taxable goods imported through the port of Chester (copy) | 1776 to 1789 | Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service | cargo trade |