Exeter Local Maritime Archives Project

Wirral Archives Service

Name: Wirral Archives Service
Notes: None
Postal address: Cheshire Lines Building
Canning Street
None
Birkenhead
None
CH41 1ND
Telephone: 0151 606 2929
Web address: http://www.wirral-libraries.net/archives/

Documents: 23

A/HH/169

Records of Port Sanitary Hospital, New Ferry, comprising 1, report book, January 1902 - April 1958; 2, register of patients, December

1902 -1958 health sanitary
YPX/18

wage accounts of Alexander Rintoul, seaman, a, on the Intrinsic, 1851, to Savannah, Quebec and New York, 1853-5; b, Justyn, 1852, to New Orleans; c, Jane Glasson, 1856; d, Ailsa, 1857, to Quebec

1853 -1857 wages mariner
ZMX/4

photocopies of misc. employment papers of Mr J. Hosker at Cammell Laird

1907 -1950 shipbuilding
YPX/59

The Ports and Docks of Birkenhead (1848); 2, Minutes of Evidence and of Proceedings on the Liverpool and Birkenhead Dock Bills in the Sessions 1848, 1850, 1851 and 1852 (1853)

1848 -1853 docks wharfs
YPX/69

plan of Birkenhead Docks, 1923

1923 -1923 docks
YPX/70

account entitled `The Wirral Coast', illustrated with postcards, c.1915

1915 -1915 coast
YAT

papers of the Alabama Trust Archive, including boxes 1-2, misc. drawings and prints, mainly the Alabama, c.1850-1990; box 3-9, misc. papers, mostly correspondence, 1987-8, n.d.; files 1-5, photocopies of misc. papers inc. patents

1850 -1990 shipping
ZCL

records of Cammell Laird Shipbuilders Ltd, including sets of plans of vessels `as fitted', c.1897 - 1980; plan pads containing engine room arrangements, drawings and details, 1940 - c.1980; volumes containing parts listing, specifications, etc., 1

1897 -1984 shipbuilding
ZMX/20/1-8

plans of SS Samaria, 1922, built by Cammell Laird Ltd

registration

1922 -1922 construction shipbuilding
ZMX/2

logbook of Daniel Bushel, doctor, on board the Alice, slave ship, to West Africa and St Vincent, May 1791 - April 1792

1791 -1792 None
YPX/14/1-10

journals of Vincent Ashfield King, East Indian merchant, notably 1-3, `Bombay Journals' detailing Indian commerce, 1841-53

1841 -1853 trade
Acc1433 Henry B. Hornby, boatbuilders, Wallasey: photographic and other records 20th century. 1900 -1999 construction shipwrights illustrations
Acc1434

Board of Trade an successors: marine maps.

1850 -1985 commerce charts
Acc1423 Board of Trade: plans, sections and books of reference rel. to marine works on the Wirral Peninsula. 1888 -1966 commerce
Acc 1632 Cammell Laird and Co. Ltd, shipbuilders, Birkenhead: engineer's note book, plans and miscellaneous records 1857 -1976 Companies shipwrights construction
Acc 1609 Save our Shoreline, Wirral: corespondence, accounts, research papers and other records 1979 -1984 campaigns coastal
Acc 1680 Henry Williams, carpenter: papers relating to his career at Laird Brothers, shipbuilders 1902 -1928 construction craftsmen
Uncatalogued

Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd., shipbuilders, Birkenhead: additional records including minutes of Tranmere Bay Development Co. Ltd. 1902-33 20th cent.

1902 -1933 shipwright shipbuilders minutes
acc. no. 1761, 1762, 1767 & ZCL/4/1/232

Cammell Laird & Co. Ltd., shipbuilders, Birkenhead: additional records including ship plans, employment papers of RA Davies, plater and life assurance certificates c. 1930-95.

1930 -1995 shipwright shipbuilders Merseyside
acc no 1751

HMS Conway, school ship, Wallasey: records relating o the Conway Club and correspondence c. 1944-99.

1944 -1999 training ship ships Mersey school
1901

Graham Henry Kitchen, Manchester Ship Canal pilot: record of journeys on Manchester Ship Canal 1960-99.

1960 -1999 canals pilot Lancashire
1911

 HMS Tempest submarine: prisoner of war diary and photographs 1944.

1944 -1944 submarines POWs RN WWII World War Two Second
1869

 Tranmere Sailing Club: minutes, plans, photographs and papers 1892-2000.

1892 -2000 sailing yachting yachts leisure