Maritime history

Sources of maritime history include the following:

Material for naval and merchant shipping, port, dockyard,

Breakwater, trade etc

• Shipping registers 1824 to 1876; ships' logs, 18th to 20th centuries
• Royal Naval Commissions, certificates of service etc, 18th to 20th centuries
• Queen's Harbour Master's records, 19th century
• Correspondence, diaries and journals, 17th-20th centuries
• Plans, 19th to 20th centuries
• National Dock Labour Board, minutes, 20th century
• Eddystone Lighthouse Committee, minutes, 1882-1886
• Apprenticeship records, 19th to 20th centuries

Follow the link for the shipping catalogue.

Printed sources

• Ships' Crew Lists: A Handlist of Records in the Devon Record Office, (1987)
• Early-Stuart Mariners and Shipping, (The Maritime Surveys of Devon and Cornwall
• (1619-1635), Todd Gray, (Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1990)
• The New Maritime History of Devon, Volumes 1 and 2, (Conway)
• Maritime Press
• University of Exeter, 1992)
• The Historic Defences of Plymouth, Andrew Pye and Freddy Woodward, (Exeter Archaeology, 1996)

Internet source

Follow the link to the pages of the National Maritime Museum.