Exeter Local Maritime Archives Project

Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre

Name: Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre
Notes: None
Postal address: Clocktower Building
Strood
None
Rochester
Kent
ME2 4AU
Telephone: 01634 332714
Web address: http://www.medway.gov.uk/leisureandculture/libraries/archivesandlocalstudies.aspx

Documents: 12

RBS/RO

ten volumes of registers of Rochester shipping , 1824-7

1824 -1827 ship registration
RGS/RO

Crew lists and agreements of Rochester, 1862-1904

1862 -1904 mariners ships
V480/C1-3

letters from Admiral Lord Vernon concerning his service in the Americas and West Indies, 1739-43

1739 -1743 navy
DE629/1 Medway Mater Mariners Society, Rochester: records, inc. minutes 1846 -1876 societies sailors
DE629/2 William Spink, ship chandler: notebook 1735 -1751 dealers sellers trade
Thomas Watson Thomas Watson (Shipping) Ltd, ship owners and ship brokers, Rochester: records. 1880 -1974 Companies trade
DE828 Maritime and Coastguard Agency, Seafarers's Section: register of sea fishing boats rel. to the Port of Rochester 1902 -1988 harbours
DE829 Port of Rochester: custom collector's in-letter book comprising letters received from assistance secretary's branch, payments branch and Long Room branch 1857 -1862 harbours trade commerce correspondence
DE987 Thomas John Hill, dredgerman, freeman of Rochester Oyster Fishery: typed biographical reminiscences None journals fishing
DE1010 MS account of battle of Trafalgar by Robert Sands, Boy 3rd Class, HMS Temeraire 1805 -1850 navy ships war
RBS/Ro

Rochester shipping records: shipping registers, transfer books and ships' registration papers

1865 -1994 None
DE1184

Medway Rotary club: scrapbooks and associated material relating to Cockleshell 85 reconstruction of Operation Frankton (raid on Bordeaux shipping, 1942) 1985-2002.

1985 -2002 commandos