User Guide 6 - Maritime Trade and Navigation
Revised August 2004

This User Guide lists the more important records relating to shipping, tugs and ferries, pilotage, navigation, river control, the coal trade, trade regulations and dues and insurance. It is seen to best effect when used in conjunction with User Guide 5.

Please note, it is not normally possible to produce unlisted collections for consultation in the Search Room.

1. Shipping
2. Tugs and Ferries
3. Pilotage, Navigation and River Control
4. Coal Trade
5. Trade Regulations and Dues
6. Ships Brokers
7. Insurance
8. Other

1. Shipping

Account:

of gratuities, discounts, fittage and tonnage of ships, 1849 Ref DF.HUG/169

Argosy Steamship Co Ltd, Sunderland:

Journal 1882-1922 Ref DX74

Bamburgh Shipping Co Ltd: see Souter, Hamlet and Co

Cambay and Carlton Steamship Companies:

Ledgers 1892-1909; day book 1892-1924; voyage books 1893-1913; log books 1905-1917 Ref 1475

S S Caspian:

Registration certificate, muster rolls, photograph etc, 1828-41 Ref DX669

Chapman and Willan (also Chapman and Miller, R Chapman and Son, and Chapman and Son), Newcastle:

Letter books 1905-1906; ledgers 1889-1929; voyage ledgers 1889-1956; ships' logs 1830-1930; capacity and general arrangement plans of ships 1892-1968 etc Refs 245, 1217 (unlisted), 1475, 1956

Common Bros, Newcastle:

Fleet cost books 1922-1948; paint record books 1931-1938; balance sheets 1924-1929; launch particulars 1953-1975; bill book 1906-1964; steamer specifications, notes, plans etc 1913-1930 Ref 1765

R S Dalgleish Ltd (Dalgleish Steam Ship Co), Newcastle:

Minutes, shareholders registers, accounts 1917-1980 Ref 2388 (unlisted)

E R Newbigin Ltd, Newcastle:

Financial records, 1939-1975; Annual Statements of Accounts 1953-1974 Ref DX418

Free Trade Wharf Company Ltd, London:

Partnership papers 1900; correspondence and plans 1866-1901; agreements in use of wharves 1876-1886 etc Ref 882

Granta Steamship Co Ltd, Newcastle:

Ledgers 1927-1950; cash books 1926-1955; journals 1926-1958 etc Ref 915

Hall Bros, Newcastle:

Ledgers 1883-1947; cash books 1914-1938; charter books 1936-1971 etc Ref 1202

S S Hare:

Deeds 1831-1834 Ref DT/SC/232

Hebburn Steam Shipping Co Ltd: see Souter, Hamlet & Co

John George Hill Steamship Co Ltd, Newcastle:

Ledgers 1892-1954; cash books 1903-1953; journals 1866-1953; letter book 1904-1909 Refs 915, 1658

P H Matthiessen & Co Ltd, Newcastle:

Scrapbooks 1938-1984; photographs c1930-1978 Ref DX1064

L F McLachlan:

Records of service at sea, 1948-1956 Ref DX1025

Moor Line:

Book of Remembrance 1939-1945 Ref DX1054

Newbigin Steam Shipping Co, Newcastle:

Share ledger 1907-1970 Ref DX420

J Nicholson, Newcastle:

Log book, agreements, crew accounts of ship Joseph Nicholson 1868-1881 Ref 986

Ormston, Dobson & Co, wharfinger:

Partnership agreement 1855 Ref DT/SC/195

Prince Line (1895) Ltd, Newcastle and South Shields:

Ledger 1896-1897; correspondence 1898-1899; River Plate Agency, charter books, passenger lists, voyage accounts, crew lists 1895-1899; Ships Ledger 1896-1897; log of coded messages between Newcastle and Buenos Aires 1896-1898; copy accounts 1898-1899; cash book 1896-1899; letter books 1896-1898 Ref DT/PR

Walter Runciman & Co, Newcastle:

Book of Remembrance 1939-1945 Ref DX1054

Scholefield Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Newcastle:

Annual reports 1911-1912; balance sheets 1912-1913 etc Ref 936

Sharp Steamship Co, Newcastle:

Ledgers 1912-1947; cash books 1918-1949 etc Ref 166

Sheaf Steam Shipping Co Ltd: see Souter, Hamlet & Co

Shipping Federation:

Local committee minutes (Wear and Seaham) Ref 2812 (unlisted)

S S Snowdon Range of Sunderland and Captain E J Dickenson papers:

Photographs 1913-1925; press cuttings 1913-1914 etc Ref DX284

Souter, Hamlet and Co, Newcastle:

Ledgers 1920-1946; journals 1940-1968; Chief Engineers' and Officers' log books 1959-1973 etc Refs 889, 1452

Stag Line Ltd, North Shields:

Ledgers 1920-1967; cash books 1936-1970; journals 1933-1970; balance sheets 1944-1949; profit and loss accounts 1885-1922; bills of sale 1895-1898; voyage ledgers 1929-1959; charter books 1935-1966 etc Refs 628, 1351

Stephenson Clarke Shipping Ltd, Newcastle:

Ship launch photographs 1943-1958; disbursements 1904-5; details of vessels 1876-1975; plans n.d. Refs 991 (unlisted), 1008, MF712