Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service

Beliss & Morcom Ltd records, general engineers, including of Royal Navy boat engines, including minutes, patents, note books and photographs including design and construction of steam, gas and diesel turbines, c.1890-1950

three papers being duplicate copies of resolutions made at councils of war held onboard HMS Ranelagh, at Port Mahon, Minorca, 1710

`abstract of the ordinary of the navy for 1746'

account of a naval engagement between the English and French fleets, 17 October 1747

three Office of Ordnance accounts of Thomas Baker, storekeeper at Chatham justifying his having expended stores, 1753

letter from Richard Baker to the Board of Ordnance regarding wages due to his late son, William, carpenter onboard the Thunder Bomb, for work on the Grenade Bomb at Barbadoes, 1763

letter from Lieut. Lee regarding visit by William Baker's father concerning his unpaid wages from the Admiralty, 1763

letter from W. Baker to Earl Spencer, First Lord of the Admiralty, concerning the character of Admiral Sir John Thomas Duckworth, 9 December 1799

letter concerning recruitment of ex-servicemen into the Post Office, 1936

lists of company of the St Hiago, taken by the Ambuscade, 3 May 1711

certificate of John Milner, consul general for Portugal, to the Principal Officers and Commissioners of her Majesty's Navy, concerning the capture of the St James by the Ambuscade, 7 August 1711

list of the company of the Ambuscade at the time of her taking the St James, 14 August 1712

account by Nathaniel Alloway of the capture of his ship by a Spanish privateer, San Sebastian, 1740

two bundles of papers, including letters, bills and accounts, including charge of piracy, concerning Archibald Douglas of Plymouth, Devon, Capt. James Verco of Cawsand, Cornwall, John Jago and owners of the Fox, privateer,  .1770-90, 1

letters of marque and reprisal to Capt. James Verco, commander of the Fox, for the taking of French prizes, 1780

case on behalf of the King in the High Court of Admiralty for appeals in prize cases between James Verco, appellant, and James Pentreath, respondent, regarding prizes taken from the Dutch ship Jonge Juffrouw Anna, 1785, with the affadavit o

release from Henry Ley, James Beale, John Ovagan and others, late `marines', of the Fox to Archibald Douglas, merchant, of Stoke Damerel, Devon, of all their interest in five Dutch ships, 1785

certificate from J. Baker, vice-admiral, that Strijnsham Master, son of James Master, deceased, was alive 27 March 1712

five papers concerning Vice-Admiral Sir Henry Loraine Baker including references to his career in Barbadoes and Guadaloupe, 1814-40

receipt from Francis Furbshir to William Coles of £13 for part of the Seaventure, 18 August 1683

bond for the performance of covenants regarding the fitting of the Duke, with the parties being Richard Farr, John Galton and Hannah Galton (widow of Robert), 1757

two copies of arbitration award by Christoper Devonshire, John Lidderdale, Samuel Munckley and Isaac Elton in a dispute between John Galton, Hannah Galton (widow of Robert) and John Page regarding the Duke, 1758

assignment of shares in the Snow Farmer and the Kingston Gally, 1763, with the parties being Joseph Farmer and Samuel Galton

two letters from Kenelm Digby, Madras, India, to Wriothesley Digby, concerning loss of his packets in the Severn Packet, 3 October 1786

letters from John W. Armstrong of USA to Thomas Ross, Birmingham, including references to use of steamships in America, 1843-59

advertising scrapbook of Henry Hope & Sons Ltd of Smethwick, metal window manufacturers including cuttings regarding application of window designs to ships, 1938-56

correspondence regarding William IV, steamship, supplied by Boulton & Watt to Australia, 1986, and regarding the Beaver, steamship, supplied to the Hudson Bay Company, 1987

deed regarding cargo of herring at Leghorn, Italy and Ghent, Belgium, in the Concord, 1672

bill of lading of the Adventure, 1683

account book of John Darbyshire, Daniel Ruston and other owners of the Darbyshire, 1765-75

account of expenses of the Perserverence on a return voyage from Liverpool to Africa and the West Indies, c.1800, with brief details of the sale of slaves

papers regarding wine trade with Lisbon, nineteenth - twentieth centuries

probate copy of the will of Capt. James Verco of Cawsand, Cornwall, 1781, proved 1789 and authenticated copy of his burial register entry of 5 July 1785

journal of a voyage to Lisbon by William Withering, 1793-4

journal by Thomas Clark Jun. of a tour, with Rowland Hill and William Matthews, through North Wales to Liverpool, 1817

reminiscences of George Sydney Ford, including details of journey by The Margaret Evans to New York, c.1850

diary letters of A.B. Albright describing his travels around India, Australia, New Zealand, America, West Indies, 1882-1901

journal of James Bevan Chantrill of a sea voyage to Argentina, 1888

diary describing journey to the Friends' Industrial Mission Station, Chake-Chake, Pemba, Zanzibar, 1910-11

diary letters describing journey to Quaker Mission Centre, Madagascar, 1924

George Wright & Sons, ship's log manufacturers, including stock book, 1868 - c.1910, letter books, 1877-1901 and order books, 1888-1929

Boulton & Watt collection, including plans, surveys and notes regarding Port Glasgow Harbour, Harbour of the City of Aberdeen, Cambeltown Harbour, and rivers and canals, 1770s

records of Scholefield, Goodman & Sons Ltd, export merchants, including shipping journal, 1801-3

address of Archibald Dalzel, governor-in-chief of the settlements on the west coast of Africa, to his officers at Cape Coast Castle, on his departure for Europe, 1798

autobiography of Dr William B. Ullathorne, Roman Catholic priest and former sailor, missionary to Australia, c.1850

letter regarding estate in West Indies, including reference to Negro slaves, 1792

letter concerning the collection of ship money, 9 October 1636