Exeter Local Maritime Archives Project

Documents

Reference Detail Dates Archive Keywords
Port Talbot Port Talbot Harbour Authority: records of arrivals 1904 to 1904 West Glamorgan Archive Service ports shipping
Swansea Swansea shipping registers: additional registers of ships 1922-93, ships' registration papers for the Port of Swansea. Port Talbot shipping register 1959-74, with entries for Llanelli 1965-77 1922 to 1993 West Glamorgan Archive Service None
1704 L.T. Waller, fish merchants, Lowestoft: records 1970 to 2005 Suffolk Record Office None
1678 Royal Naval Coastal Forces (HMS Mantis, Lowestoft): war diary of the 7th Motor Gun Boat Flotilla 1941 to 1944 Suffolk Record Office navy ships journals weapons
DX1191

Joseph A. Arthur, cabin boy, SS Earsdon: journal

1900 to 1900 Tyne and Wear Archives Service ships diaries
DS.DON Donkin & Co., steering gear manufacturers, Newcastle upon Tyne: additional records 1900 to 1983 Tyne and Wear Archives Service None
DS.HL R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd., ship and engine builders, locomotive engineers, Newcastle upon Tyne: photograph albums including monthly progress albums 1898 to 1952 Tyne and Wear Archives Service Companies manufacturers designers
DT.SOU W.A. Souter & Co. Ltd., ship owners, Newcastle upon Tyne: additional records, mainly minutes of Sheaf Steam Shipping Co. Ltd. and Bamburgh Shipping Co. Ltd. 1905 to 1973 Tyne and Wear Archives Service Companies
62/3/1

Letter book of D. B. Davey of Topsham, shipping and shipbuilding firm. letters date between 1834 and 1838. Include correspondance on debt recovery; vessel movements of Ceres, Active and barge, Darby Allen; sale of anchors and chain cables; importing of hemp from St Petersburg

1834 to 1838 Anglesey Record Office shipping shipbuilding
1392M/19/A1

Correspondence and memoranda relating to Armstrong's guns and rifled cannon, their construction, accuracy, etc., 1857 - 1863

1857 to 1863 Devon Record Office ordnance
1392M/19/A2 papers relating to Admiralty personnel, pay, establishment, wages, & pensions, 1858 - 1866 1858 to 1866 Devon Record Office finance, funding
1392M/19/A3 report on French ironclads with plans by E. Savery, 1857 - 1859 1857 to 1859 Devon Record Office French technology
1392M/19/A4 papers relating to prize money in the Crimean War, 1862 1862 to 1862 Devon Record Office None
1392M/19/A5 bundle of miscellaneous papers pertaining to privateers, 1863; Martin's Anchor, 1876; lengthening funnels of Bellerophon, 1866; circular ships in the Russian navy, "popoffkas”, 1876; return of unseaworthy ships, 1874 - 1875; return of H.M. ships, 1867; Admiral Sartorius of Portuguese Squadron of 1837, corr. 1867; ironclads (printed), c. 1866; troop transports and storeships, 1867 – 1859; coast guard, 1865 – 1866; Navy estimates, c. 1860; Admiral Cochrane letter on social status of naval officers, list of First Lords, 1714 – 1859; Notes on patents & law (referring to warships), 1864; copy of patent for navy board, 1861; memo by Seymour and Gladstone on use of gunboards, c. 1862; memo concerning scandal at Mauritius, 1851; copy of telegram from Constantinople regarding ships to Turkey, 1861. 1714 to 1876 Devon Record Office politicians' viewpoints, administration, social composition of the navy
1392M/20/1 Navy estimates, 1838 - 1865 1838 to 1865 Devon Record Office finance
1392M/20/2 bundle of reports and papers pertaining to the Act setting up Admiralty, c. 1859; Jamaica insurrection, 1865; correspondence regarding attack on Porto Novo, 1861; Dimensions of graving docks, undated; remarks on naval retirement, undated; manning and pay of Navy, undated; report on dockyards, 1859; ironclads, 1860, 1861; report on torpedo experiments, 1866; report of Captain Cole and Admiralty on ship-building, 1865. 1859 to 1866 Devon Record Office colonial, finance, provisions
1392M/20/3 bundle of reports and papers pertaining to crime and punishment in the navy, 1863; Admiralty signaling, 1839; state of the navy, 1859; Active Leicester-flag officers, 1861; Navy list, 1859. 1839 to 1863 Devon Record Office discipline
1392M/20/5

bundle of reports and pamphlets, on shipping from H.M. consuls, 1862; Armament of iron-clads by Scott, 1864; Hydraulic lift graving docks, Ark, 1866; improvements in naval architecture - D. Lang, 1848; Portable gun – Puckle, report on the advantages of Darmouth Harbour, 1864; Steam communications with India – Grindlay, 1837; Memo on Indian Navy, 1861; Photographs of H.M.S. Agincourt and various armoured frigates proposed 1861, 1861 – 1865; Greenwich hospital, two copies, 1864.

1837 to 1865 Devon Record Office technology, weaponry
1392M/20/10

reports and papers concerning defence of Canada in event of war with the United States, including maps, 1865; Memo on Canadian Lakes in case of war with the United States, 1861; Memo on defense of Canada, 1862; Confidential report on defence of Canada, undated

1861 to 1865 Devon Record Office None
1392M/20/11 list of chief ports of the United States concerning blockade, two copies, 1861; instructions to navy concerning blockade, 1862; correspondence with United States concerning blockade, 1861; memo to Royal Navy on blockade, undated; Portland Harbor, Maine, two copies, undated. 1861 to 1862 Devon Record Office None