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Major accessions to repositories in 2021 relating to Maritime |
Local
- Notebook on navigation 1842 (WM/2728/1)
- Photograph of ship's crew with lifebuoy labelled 'Trevithick, St Ives' 1921-1924 (AD3025)
- Peter Hodge Collection of shipping history, incl photographs and research notes rel to shipping and tug boats in Bristol 20th cent (46579)
- Records rel to maritime merchants and shipping, incl a volume of mounted documents on shipping, insurance and charges, mostly 18th century c1750-1850 (46588)
- Keeper-in-charge, St Bees Lighthouse: reports on Supernumerary Assistant Keepers of St Bees Lighthouse 1925-1976 (YGLA)
- Aire and Calder Navigation records and rel sources 19th-20th cent (DDAC)
- B.M.E. O'Mahoney (fl1980), author: albums rel to the Newhaven - Dieppe ferry service c1850-1980 (13750)
- Dowty Marine Ltd., producer of water jet propulsion systems, Staverton: blueprints of propellers used for the Dowty Turbocraft, and photographs of the Turbocraft c1958-1965 (D8347)
- Training Ship Mercury: records incl Management Committee minute books (3 vols); roll books for boys (3 vols); staff register (1 vol); photographs; and misc papers c1885-2019 (74A11)
- John (Jack) Lilley (1936-2006), trawler man and skipper: papers incl letters, log books, diaries, schedules and press cuttings 1950s-1970s (C DILY)
- Isle of Man Post Office: Manx Millennium Viking Voyage First Day Covers carried on board 'Odin's Raven' on her maiden voyage from Trondheim, Norway to the Isle of Man in summer 1979 1979 (A181)
- Bideford Harbour Master: shipping registers, wages books, bills of entry, Harbour undertakings 1958-2006 (ND/2021/39)
- Cammell Laird: launch records of various ships including the Thetis 1938-1955 (2454)
National
- Albert Joseph Denbuoy (c1886-1912), of Les Sauvages, St Sampson, fruit grower and footballer with Northerners A.C.: handwritten letter from on board the R.M.S. Titanic to his sister, Mrs A. E. McGahy, in Guernsey. With photograph and obituary of Denbuoy and several postcards of the Titanic. He was lost at sea following the sinking of the ship 1912 (AQ 1620/89)
- Henry Charles Otter (1807-1876), Captain, RN: manuscript entitled 'Description of the north coast of Scotland', in which is recorded a survey of the coastline, landscape and localities; with related letters of Otter to the Duke of Sutherland, and a manuscript report on the east coast of Sutherland 1844-1849 (Acc.14226)
- Dreadnought Seaman's Hospital: treatment cards (4500) containing the age, occupation, marital status, and diagnoses of patients admitted to the hospital, as well as clinical observations for the period of their stay 1938-1974 (REG20/000288 (uncatalogued))
- Ben Williams (fl1939-1945), Petty Officer: diary, dated 1945, charting his time in the Far East undertaking duty patrols, medicals, Sunday Divisions, make and mend and training aboard HMS Royalist and LCT(E) 384 1939-45 (NMRN 2021/101)
- Frank Orchard (1910-1993), merchant seafarer: documents rel to his experience of being torpedoed in the Second World War and being held as Prisoner of War by the Vichy French in West Africa 1942-2021 (DX/2682)
- Captain Samuel Flood (1821-1889) and John Panteleone Schilizzi (fl1855-1865), Greek merchant, based in Liverpool: papers rel to the barque Pantoleon, its owner John Panteleone Schilizzi and ship's master Samuel Flood 1855-1865 (DX/2681)
University
- Cunard staff and passenger memorabilia 20th cent (CNDA)
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