RootsChat Senior; Posts: 379; Albert Gall 1897-1951 ; Merchant Navy Ships « on: Tuesday 10 September 19 16:46 BST (UK) » Hi all would I be right in thinking that the list of numbers on my Uncles MN service card is list of the ships numbers he served on. Contact Merchant Navy on Messenger . By 2012, the merchant navy—still remaining one of the largest in the world—held only 3% of total tonnage. Some of the seamen discharged during this period had been in service as far back as 1913 and the records reflect this. Search the Shipping and Seamen First and Second World War Rolls of Honour (BT 339) on Ancestry (£). Officer ranks. The Mercantile Navy List, compiled by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen, was first published from 1849 to 1855, and annually thereafter from 1857 until 1976 (with supplements up to the end of 1977); excluding 1941 to 1946, during the Second World War. Although the numbers of ships and trained sailors have been recorded since the medieval period, few of these early records survive. This is a guide to locating records of merchant seamen in service since the end of the First World War, including records from the Second World War, and up to the last decades of the 20th century. As the outbreak of World War II edged closer in 1939, the British merchant fleet remained the largest in the world, employing some 200,000 men and women. This largely includes the merchant navies of British Overseas Territories and UK merchant navy interests in former colonies. The entries for 1913-1918 were destroyed, therefore the register covers the period from the last two months of 1918 to 1941. By registering with our site you will have full instant access to: 229,000 posts on every subject imaginable contributed by 1000's of members worldwide. Search the MarineTraffic ships database of more than 550000 active and decommissioned vessels. The Central Index Register, or Fourth Register of Seamen, was started in 1913 and maintained until 1941. In a third series, BT 390, you can browse references to seamen’s pouches for service in the Second World War. Discovery is a catalogue of archival records across the UK and beyond, from which you can search 32 million records. Find locations of ports and ships using the near Real Time ships map. You can try a search with a specific name and learn something about what the records contains from the BT 390 series description. For more information read Crew lists, agreements and log books of merchant ships after 1861. v3.0, except where otherwise stated, You can find out more about what these records tell us in the, registry cards from the Central Index Register, Second World War campaign medals issued to merchant seamen, Shipping and Seamen First and Second World War Rolls of Honour, records from the Central Register of Seamen 1941-1972, seamen’s pouches for service in the Second World War, browse catalogue descriptions for records from 1951 onwards, Crew lists, agreements and log books of merchant ships after 1861, Tracing your Ancestors in The National Archives, Friends of The National The database includes every British registered ship from 1855 … From 1786 boys were prepared for sea aboard a training ship; in 1862, the Warspite, a third-rate built in 1807 was obtained from the Admiralty and although she has been replaced by other vessels, the name was retained. Not all agreements and crew lists are searchable on our catalogue by ship’s number. Crew lists, originally termed muster-rolls or muster-books, began in the 18th century and were initially kept in order to collect a levy from seamen's wages for a relief fund, and as a record of the names, ratings, dates of entry and final discharge for all men serving on board a ship. The Merchant Shipping Act of 1835, replaced Muster books with agreements and crew lists which were filed at the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen (previously known as the Register Office of Merchant Seamen). There are three principal sources of service details for merchant seamen up to 1972 (from 1972 go to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency). For exact searches, it shows matching names and their official number, sorted first by name, then by official number. Membership is open to all that are interested in the British Merchant Navy both past and present. Volumes of the Lloyd’s Register of Ships which are fully accessible and searchable online (up to 1909) can be accessed via archive.org.Please note that not all editions have been digitised yet but the Heritage & Education Centre (HEC) are creating searchable scans of our entire Register Book collection up to 2000 and making them freely available online. The database includes every British registered ship from 1855 to the early 1950s with official numbers 1 to 200000. Where Found. British naval vessels did not have official numbers. 248,696 people follow this. ABS verifies that merchant ships and marine structures presented to it comply with Rules that the society has established for design, construction and periodic survey. The ‘agreement’ was effectively an employment contract between the ship’s master and each member of his crew, signed by both parties before the ship sailed. This fast moving and technologically advanced industry requires highly trained seafarers working across navigation, engineering, electro-technical and on-board services disciplines at both officer and rating levels. This is in contrast to pleasure craft, which are used for personal recreation, and naval ships, which are used for military purposes.. The information in these records usually includes: To access these records you will either need to visit us, pay for research (£) or, where you can identify a specific record reference, order a copy (£). In the merchant navy the term ‘officer’ can refer to a master, mate, engineer, fishing boat skipper, second hand or cook. For the more celebrated and famous ships you can also search by ship’s name. Join our page for Joining Merchant Navy with Placement. As the official, comprehensive listing of all merchant vessels registered under the British flag, it is one of the most important reference tools for anyone researching the history of British merchant shipping, and includes many ships not listed in its nearest equivalent, Lloyd's Register. See More. Archives, Open Government Licence Crew lists and agreements were introduced in 1835. Separate Logs The National Archives (BT 165, Registry of Shipping and Seamen: Ships’ Official Logs, 1905-1912 and 1914-1918) Crew Agreements The National Archives (BT 98, 1835-1860; BT 99, 10% sample covering 1861-1938 & 1950-1994) National Maritime Museum (90 per cent coverage) Maritime History Archive (1863-1977 excluding years covered by TNA and the NMM) Use the box below to search for these agreements and crew lists by ship’s official number in BT 99, BT 380, BT 381 and BT 100. These are not two separate documents but one and the same thing; you may see them referred to simply as ‘crew lists’, or sometimes simply as ‘agreements’. Armed Forces. After the First World War King George V, in recognition of the contribution made to the British war effort by merchant ships, granted the title of ‘Merchant Navy’ to non-military sailors. As of the year ending 2012, British Merchant Marine interests consists of 1,504 ships of 100 GT or over. Merchant Navy Officer Ranks In general, the Merchant Navy Officer Ranks are mainly divided into the following categories: […] 1913 to 1940 Fourth Register of Merchant Seaman's Service. MarineTraffic Live Ships Map. This title has a U.S./Canadian perspective. Merchant Seaman records sometimes identify a vessel an individual served on only by the Ships’ Official Number. Author Topic: Merchant Navy Ships (Read 708 times) mickgall. Thanks Mick. Other guides which may be useful for researching the Merchant Navy are: Although care has been taken in preparing the information contained in this document, anyone using it shall be deemed to indemnify the National Maritime Museum from any and all injury or damage arising from such use. The same numbering system is used for crew lists and certificates held at The National Archives and in other repositories, making the Mercantile Navy List a primary resource for searching maritime records. Boys entered both the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy. Select from one of the eight subseries of the register to target your browsing of the series more efficiently (for seamen of European origin you should look for records in both Part 1 and Part 2). The Roll of Honour lists merchant seamen who died in service during the war or who were declared ‘missing, presumed dead’. Search the Maritime and Coastguard Agency website for ‘service records’ to find their information leaflet which offers further advice, or contact them directly. Records of merchant seamen serving after 1972 are not held by The National Archives. They are arranged in alphabetical ranges, though a few describe individual seamen. For example, although the United Kingdom 's merchant navy totals 30.0 million GT and 40.7 million DWT in shipping, actual UK merchant navy interests worldwide consists of 59.4 million GT and 75.2 million DWT in shipping. Search and download registry cards from the Central Index Register (BT 348, BT 349, BT 350 and BT 364) of merchant seamen employed between 1918 and 1941 on Findmypast.co.uk (£). The Merchant Navy is the collective term for commercial shipping and incudes a variety of vessels from cruise ships to tankers and cargo ships of all description. For fuzzy searches, it shows an alphabetic list of matching ship names, from which you can select an … Narrow your search by using double quotation marks to find a ships’s or person’s full name, such as “Sydney Star” or “John Williams”. Page Transparency See More. The Mercantile Navy List provides a comprehensive index to ships' official numbers from 1849 to 1976, and an index to certificates of competency up to 1864. This page is an index of ships by name. The database includes every British registered ship from 1855 to the early 1950s with official numbers … This collection includes Merchant Navy Seamen records held at The National Archives. The Crew List Index Project (CLIP) offers a searchable index of ships by official number. Official numbers were introduced in 1855, so no ships had official numbers before that time. For quick pointersTuesday to Saturday A merchant ship, merchant vessel, trading vessel, or merchantman is a watercraft that transports cargo or carries passengers for hire. You can use the CLIP (Crew List Index Project) website to trace a ship by the: See our guide to Abbreviations in merchant seamen records for further help interpreting information in these records. Read Tracing your Ancestors in The National Archives by Amanda Bevan (The National Archives, 2006). Sometimes the only way to track down a record of a seaman is to trace the records of the ships he served on. Name of ship and official number, date of engagement (Joining ship) MSF 5323 REV 10/16 2 Date of discharge (Leaving ship), whether ship was a foreign going of home trade vessel In some cases National Insurance contributions Details shown in these records are similar to those contained in an individual seaman's discharge book. www.merchantnavyjoining.com. research. Ships by name. For service records of seamen serving after 1972 go to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency. The National Archives holds the following proportions of agreements and crew lists after 1861: Use the box below to search for these agreements and crew lists by ship’s official number in BT 99, BT 380, BT 381 and BT 100. The Marine Society was founded in 1756 by Jonas Hanway to provide poor or destitute boys willing to go to sea, with clothing and a place on board a ship. Please note only a sample of the indentures was preserved, a two-month sample for every five years except 1960-1962, for which years the sample covers the entire year. Official numbers referred only to British merchant ships, not foreign registered ships. For details of what sort of information the records may provide read the descriptions of BT 348, BT 349, BT 350 and BT 364 in our catalogue. We can either copy our records onto paper or deliver them to you digitally, Visit us in Kew to see original documents or view online records for free, Consider paying for The originals are held by Southampton Archives. Assistance with determining a ship’s official number, together with finding the location of these records, can be found at the Crew List Index Project. The Merchant Navy is a private organisation of commercial and trading ships. Sometimes a log book, with details of the ship’s voyages (see section 6), was filed along with the agree… Monthly supplements were issued under various titles from 1886. Browse the indexes of apprentices registered in the merchant navy in BT 150. In 2012 British merchant marine interests consisted of 1,504 ships of 100 GT or over. These are records of seamen serving on British registered vessels but the seamen themselves need not have been British to appear in the records. In addition CLIP offers a searchable index of ships by name. The merchant ships employ a huge number of skilled workers to carry and deliver goods from one country to another. TweetShare106SharePin1107 Shares Merchant Navy is the backbone of international trade. Ships’ numbers. Read My Ancestor was a Merchant Seaman by Christopher and Michael Watts (Society of Genealogists, 2002). Browse BT 151 and BT 152 by date in Discovery to find your microfilm number. 24000 photos and videos mainly relating to the British Merchant Navy. Our catalogue descriptions are arranged alphabetically in ranges of surnames. Access to full details of seamen born less than 100 years ago may be restricted. 1854: The Merchant Shipping Act (1854) introduced official numbers for all newly-registered ships and further revised calculations of tonnage. They were decommissioned at the end of the Cold War. Official logs for merchant ships were required to be kept from October 1851 onwards, and are are usually filed with crew agreements. This guide gives a brief introduction to the Board of Trade's official list of all British registered ships. https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/.../registration-merchant-ships Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. View vessel details and ship photos. Surviving apprentices’ indentures are in BT 151, 1845-1962, and BT 152, indentures for fishing, 1895-1935. The Navy’s new shipbuilding plan calls for more such submarines and many other types of ships. There are two sections: the first covers U.S. and Canadian ship the second foreign ships. You can also browse titles at The National Archives’ Bookshop and search for further publications available at The National Archives’ Library in Kew. The National Maritime Museum editions cover the period from 1857 to 1976. For more details see the series descriptions for BT 372 and BT 391. Use the box below to search our catalogue, by name in BT 372 and BT 391 to see if a seaman’s pouch survives. Registration of ships came about as a result of these Acts. Early volumes also include useful appendices, such as lists of pilots, receivers of wreck, and obituaries, and records of awards and testimonials for services at sea. A list of the crew accompanied these agreements. Not every pouch survives and many were destroyed before any were transferred to The National Archives. You may need to browse catalogue descriptions for records from 1951 onwards in BT 99 as the ships’ numbers are not itemised and are, instead, displayed in ranges. Although a basic reference source, it is considerably rarer than Lloyd’s Register or other equivalent series, such as the (Royal) Navy List. U.S. Navy / Petty Officer 1st Class Steven Myers. The same numbering system is used for crew lists and certificates held at The National Archives and in other repositories, making the Mercantile Navy List a primary resource for searching maritime records. Research guide C6: The Merchant Navy: The Mercantile Navy List. The contents of the records vary, but they usually include name, age, place of birth, register ticket, ship names, and dates of voyages. Discover information and vessel positions for vessels around the world. The registers are filed in eight parts according to the nationality or ‘origin’ of the seamen and other criteria (each part has been assigned its own subseries in BT 382). The Marine Society is still in existence today and their records are on loan to this m… These CRS 10 forms are often referred to as seamen’s docket books and can include the following details (for the full list of possible details see the series description of BT 382): Merchant seamen who were discharged from the navy between 1940 and 1972 had their records filed in what became known as ‘seamen’s pouches’. The Mercantile Navy List provides a comprehensive index to ships' official numbers from 1849 to 1976, and an index to certificates of competency up to 1864. Search our catalogue by name of person or ship in T 335 to find what the award was, the person’s rank at the time, and the ship they were serving on. The Crew List Index Project (CLIP) offers a searchable index of ships by official number. They are: If the seaman was only employed temporarily, or was an apprentice, he may not have been issued with a discharge ‘A’ number or a British Seaman’s Identity Card in which case he is unlikely to appear in the registers. In addition, UK merchant marine interests possessed a further 308 ships registered in other countries and 271 foreign-owned ships were registered in the UK. A series of Navigation Acts from 1660 onwards aimed to make British merchants use British built ships with predominantly British masters for the carriage of their goods. Search for popular ships globally. In 2010 the Merchant Navy consisted of 504 UK registered ships of 1,000 gross tonnage (GT) or over. These records come from The National Archives' record series BT112, BT113, BT114, BT115, BT116, BT119 and BT120. It provides basic information on each ship, which can be used to trace other records and to compile an outline history of a ship and its owners. 1855: New measurement became compulsory for any ship re-registered or transferred to a different registry. These workers work under various ranked officers. About See All +91 97899 48276. 09:00 to 17:00. Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events.Sign up, All content is available under the Open Government Licence Merchant Seaman records sometimes identify a vessel an individual served on only by the Ships’ Official Number. Search and download (£) records of Second World War campaign medals issued to merchant seamen (BT 395) on our website. It may help to know the number of a ship as ships are sometimes referred to in the records by their number rather then their name. Browse the catalogue descriptions of records from the Central Register of Seamen 1941-1972 in BT 382 (the records themselves were known as CRS 10 forms). Please note the indexes for 1824-1910 are available online; indexes up to 1953 are on microfilm. In 1939, the merchant navy was the largest in the world with 33% of total tonnage. v3.0, Central Index Register, 1918-1941 (also known as the Fourth Register of Seamen), Central Register of Seamen, 1941-1972 (also known as the Fifth Register of Seamen), Seamen’s Pouches, 1940-1972 (created primarily as files for paperwork supporting applications for discharge – files can contain paperwork from both the Fourth and Fifth Registers), a list of ships and their official numbers with date and place of engagement, F or H (for Foreign or Home trade voyage), date and place of discharge from the ship. The Victoria class are British built diesel-electric fleet submarines designed in the late 1970s to supplement the Royal Navy's nuclear submarine force. The Crew List Index Project (CLIP) offers a searchable index of ships by official number. Merchant Seaman records sometimes identify a vessel an individual served on only by the Ships’ Official Number. Only a few near-complete sets exist; even the British Library set is missing two volumes. Community See All. 248,911 people like this. See actions taken by the … It was not regulated by the government until the nineteenth century. Discover a ship’s official number at the Crew List Index Project website (CLIP) or the Miramar Ship Index (£). Look at the websites of other archives and organisations which hold agreements and crew lists, including the Maritime History Archive in Newfoundland, the National Maritime Museum, the National Records of Scotland, the National Archives of Ireland, and local archives. 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