| Reference | Detail | Dates | Archive | Keywords |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Z 19/46/4 | Account of Matthew Limbrey (agent for prisoners of war at Exeter) with the Commissioners for sick and wounded seamen and exchanging prisoners of war 1756-62 |
1756 to 1762 | Devon Record Office | conduct of war, illness |
| Z 19/46/6 | Transcript of minutes of meetings etc of Board of Land and Sea officers appointed under Royal authority to report on proper system of defence and on the expediency and efficiency of proposed plans for better securing dockyards of Portsmouth and Plymouth. Enclosed with chart of Whitsand Bay showing soundings of fathoms at Low water 1785 |
1785 to None | Devon Record Office | None |
| DD\RSH/ 1-7 | Bridgwater Port Shipping Registers 1786-1906 Including Minehead |
1786 to 1906 | Somerset Record Office | None |
| DD\RSH 8-9 | Register of fishing boats Port of Bridgewater 1940-1993 |
1940 to 1993 | Somerset Record Office | fishing vessels |
| DD\FA /12 | Ship Repairs book of F J Carver & Sons of Bridgwater; details of work carried out on vessels in dry dock, 1910-40 |
1910 to 1940 | Somerset Record Office | ship maintenance, upkeep |
| DD/FA 1-9 | Transcripts of Bridgwater registers 1786-1939 |
1786 to 1939 | Somerset Record Office | None |
| DD/FA/10 | Transcript of Minehead 1787-1834 |
1787 to 1834 | Somerset Record Office | None |
| DD/FA/11/1 | Volume of notes on Somerset Maritime History by Graham Farr 16th century ship list; 18th century statistics; vessels built in Somerset; Alphabetical list of vessels registered at Bridgwater and Minehead; chronological indexes to Bridgwater and Minehead Ship Registers books; Alphabetical lists of masters and owners of vessels. |
1500 to 1800 | Somerset Record Office | shipbuilding, shipowners |
| DD/FA/2 | Sully & Co Bridgewater, fleet list and notes by Graham Farr |
None to None | Somerset Record Office | None |
| DD/HY/8/3/1 | Correspondence of William Jolliffe of Petersfield, Hampshire, certificate of discharge of William John Jolliffe from the naval ship Flora, 1787 |
1787 to None | Somerset Record Office | None |
| DD\HY/15/6/1 | Verses in honour of Captain Peter Joliffe who retook a ketch near Poole, Dorset from French Privateers, 1769 |
1769 to None | Somerset Record Office | ballads, naval culture |
| DD\HY/16/1/2 | 1823-38 Statements of account and related papers of concerns of co-partnership of William John Joliffe and Sir Edmund Banks, including reports and prospectus of the General Steam Navigation Company, 1825; information about the steam vessel Enterprize, n.d. [c. 1825]; accounts for the crew of the George the Fourth steamships, 1828. |
1823 to 1838 | Somerset Record Office | None |
| DD\HY/16/2/4 | Merchants account book. Large bound volume of accounts of London Merchant engaged in trade with Russia, kept by a succession of clerks. It is mainly a record of amounts due, bank accounts and bills of exchange. Commodities include indigo, potash, soldiers cloth, linen, cotton wool from Smyrna, lead, iron, hemp, hides and caviar. Much merchandise was shipped from Hull to Petersburg. Includes personal accounts of the estate of Samuel Holden of Winchester Street , London and Roehampton. 1740-65 |
1740 to 1765 | Somerset Record Office | Anglo-Russian trade |
| DD/DN | Accounts of the Dickinson family, merchants originally of Bristol and sometimes of Kingweston, Somerset, sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. Including trade with Africa, Amsterdam, St Petersburg, Carolina, Virginia and Calcutta; the sugar and slave trade to the West Indies, including accounts of Barton Isles plantation, Jamaica; Newcastle coal trade, 1745; shipping accounts for trade between Bristol and Newcastle, 1729-46 |
1500 to 1900 | Somerset Record Office | slavery, sugar |
| DD/DN. 423-521. | Correspondence and accounts of the Alloway. Prankard and Fuller families relating to trade from Minehead, Bridgwater and Bristol to Ireland, St Petersburg, America, Newfoundland, the West Indies and the Baltic, 1683-1746. Including some shipbuilding, sugar and rum trade. supplying ordnance to the King of Sardinia, 1750s, accounts of the Barton, Barton Isles. Appleton and Pepper plantations in Jamaica and traffic with slaves from the Gold Coast, eighteenth and nineteenth century, travel diaries through India and Mid-East, 1836-8. |
1683 to 1838 | Somerset Record Office | plantations, slavery, diaries |
| A\AGK/a | Records of Eastment family of Drayton, including wages paid to officers and seamen on ships at Woolwich, 1661 |
1661 to None | Somerset Record Office | wages |
| A\AGK/b | papers of Surgeon Commander Eastment, 1897-1950 | 1897 to 1950 | Somerset Record Office | None |
| A\AGK/c | papers concerning Admiral H Burley Grant, 1908-1909 |
1908 to 1909 | Somerset Record Office | None |
| A/AJX 1/2/1. | typed transcript of diary of Henry Whitworth, sometime of Hull. 1836-7. including his voyage as a surgeon aboard a Hull whaler |
1836 to 1837 | Somerset Record Office | whaling |
| A\AOV/93 | typescript description of 'a voyage to India in the East India Company's ship 'Thetis' in 1794' | 1794 to None | Somerset Record Office | East India Company |