20485 Seafarers: Life Afloat and Ashore, 1800-1914 Gorski David Starkey & Richard Full catalogue entries can be found at www.hullhistorycentre.org.uk/catalogue Shipping Companies Earle's Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd. (1845-1932): [U DEA; U MIC 234] Including plans of land, estimates of cost of named vessels, balance sheets and annual reports, abstracts of title deeds, and particulars of vessels built, 1853-1931 Ellerman’s Wilson Line (est. 1825): [U DEW] Including personnel records (mainly of masters and officers); notebooks and log books, especially by Capt. William Colbeck; records of vessels lost or damaged during the First World War; company correspondence, minutes and accounts during the war; corporate and share records, minutes, accounts, bills of sale and mortgages, agreements, correspondence, subject files, instructions and regulations, log and note books, personnel records, publications, records about vessels, specifications and contracts, branch and subsidiary company records, papers of members of Wilson family, Oswald Sanderson, and Hubert Stanley Holden, 1825-1974 Hellyer Brothers, Trawler Owners (1887-1979): [C DBHB] Includes records for a number of fishing companies, including Devon Fishing Company Ltd (later Hellyer Brothers), Caledonian Fishing Company Ltd, West Dock Steam Fishing Company Ltd, and Pickering & Haldane's Steam Trawling Company Ltd, etc. Records include staff records, insurance policies, correspondence, minute books, settlement books, and navigation charts. John Good & Sons (est. 1833): [U DGO] Shipping company: Including diaries of John Good, seafarer and shipowner, minutes of directors and shareholders, private ledgers and journals, records of agency vessels, registers of shipping maintained by Finnish consulate in Hull, samples of company advertising, diaries of John and Joseph Good Thomas Hamling and Co. LTD. Trawler Owners (1894-1983): [C DBTH] Company records including minutes, correspondence and individual vessel records. Covers many different shipping companies based in Hull. Individuals Admiral Sir Henry Hotham (1777-1833): [U DDHO/7] Official correspondence, orders, journals and diaries, accounts and other papers, mainly relating to his naval service as Rear Admiral and second in command on the America station in 1814 (during the American War of 1812-1815), and as Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean fleet in 1815 (during the Napoleonic Wars) and the early 1830s. Christian Agerskow (fl.1928-1955): [U DX/117] Trawler skipper: Including fish notes and details of landings, settling sheets (with financial details of about 100 voyages), some log books, and accounts of fish landed at Hull between 1931 and 1946 and settling sheets (financial accounts) William Philip Baines (d.1895): [U DDBH] Letters about his experiences as an apprentice seafarer and death at sea in the wreck of the Port Yarrock, 1890-95 Ship Records Hull vessels: [U DX/65] Including certificates of survey and/or declarations of ownership for 11 named vessels, 18591878 Fishing Vessel Crew Agreements (1884-1914): [C DPF] Provides list of crew down to 4th Hand. Gives detailed information on the Captains in particular Records from Customs & Excise (1804-1994): [C DPC] Includes registers of shipping (1804-1893, 1897-1902); transaction books; declaration books; fishing registers. Fishing Vessel records (1892-1907): [C DMX/82] Photographs of fishing activities; a postcard of the Russian Outrage memorial; a ship's bible Bills of entry [Local Studies collection] Includes lists of ships leaving foreign ports with quantities and ownerships of cargoes, and a list of ships outwards giving destination ports of ships leaving Hull Other Records Hull Trinity House (c. 1714 - 1906): [U DTR] Wardens’ accounts and vouchers; committee minutes; muster rolls; reports, acts of Parliament; proceedings, bylaws; miscellaneous papers Quarter Session records (1837-1898): [C CQB] Coroner’s inquest papers recording deaths on ships Magistrates records: [C DPM] Show sentences on seamen for petty crimes General histories of fishing and ship building [Local Studies Section] Information about archive resources across the UK National Register of Archives http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/ Summary digital version of long-established paper-based resource. More comprehensive, but more summary information. You can only search by corporate name, personal or family name, or place, not by subject or keyword Simpler format - search results give standard, summary information about collections. A2A - Access to Archives http://www.a2a.org.uk/ Catalogues relating to archives held in England. Can provide very detailed information, but is not comprehensive. Complex results - including several levels of information. Search results may be collection-level descriptions or entries to individual items. Read guide to database first. Archives Hub http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/ Database gateway to archives held in universities and colleges. Free text search. Clear layout - split screen - lists of search results with links to summary or more detailed collectionlevel descriptions. Specialist databases Providing information on sources within historical themes - eg Genesis (sources for women’s history). Your tutor may be able to suggest sites within your area of interest. A good list of thematic and specialist sites relating to archive resources can be found on the History Online website – at http://www.history.ac.uk/ihr/Resources/Type/archive.html ARCHON http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archon/ Contact details for record repositories in the United Kingdom and also for institutions elsewhere in the world which have substantial collections of manuscripts. Includes website addresses. It is always worth looking at the website of a record office you are planning to visit, or even one which you think might have relevant material - many have online catalogues or guides. Things to think about: Are there resources which are in a record office that you can get to easily Will there be any problems reading the records? - handwriting pre c. 1750 uses some different letter forms, and some records will be in Latin. Some 19th century handwriting (eg in private letters) is just illegible! Have transcripts of the records been published? Always ring or e-mail before visiting a record office - places may be limited, or records stored at a distance from the reading room. Bring pencils (or a laptop) rather than pens