Search Results

Seafarers and Other Individuals

Dawn Littler (ed.)

in Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2

This chapter provides a record on individual seafarers of all ranks, mostly originating from Liverpool, who held positions ranging from captain and lieutenant to sailmaker and greaser. The chapter ... More

This chapter provides a record on individual seafarers of all ranks, mostly originating from Liverpool, who held positions ranging from captain and lieutenant to sailmaker and greaser. The chapter provides an archive of resources concerning the seafaring career, including personal certificates, obituaries, diary extracts, interviews and correspondence letters. In doing so, it highlights the difficulties in obtaining official records from a British seaman’s career and analyses the usefulness and reliability of general registries and crew lists.Less

Maritime Library

Dawn Littler (ed.)

in Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2

This chapter lists the collections of material on maritime history that are available in the reference library of the Merseyside Maritime Museum.

Emigration

Dawn Littler (ed.)

in Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2

This chapter describes the opportunity Liverpool gave to people wishing to travel across the Atlantic in order to achieve a better life in North America. It charts Liverpool’s success in maintaining ... More

This chapter describes the opportunity Liverpool gave to people wishing to travel across the Atlantic in order to achieve a better life in North America. It charts Liverpool’s success in maintaining a dominant position as the main transatlantic and emigrant transhipment port from the early nineteenth century until the late nineteenth century, when ports with greater geographical advantages such as Southampton, Naples and Bremerhaven began to supersede Liverpool as the busiest emigrant ports in Europe. The article acknowledges the lack of sufficient official records on Liverpool’s emigration history, including passenger lists, but details the existing records, lists and images provided by the Merseyside Maritime Museum, which concern specific ships, sailing dates and the conditions of a journey. The chapter concludes with a detailed list of further resources regarding the emigration experience, including passenger diary extracts, surviving lists, advertisements and newspaper clippings.Less

Liverpool Shipowners, the Mediterranean, and the Transition from Sail to Steam During the Mid-Nineteenth Century

P.L. Cottrell

in From Wheel House to Counting House: Essays in Maritime Business History in Honour of Professor Peter Neville Davies

P.L. Cottrell’s essay explores significant developments in Merseyside trade with the Mediterranean, with a special emphasis on the transition from sale to steam. Cottrell reviews the nature of ... More

P.L. Cottrell’s essay explores significant developments in Merseyside trade with the Mediterranean, with a special emphasis on the transition from sale to steam. Cottrell reviews the nature of Anglo-Mediterranean commerce and shipping during the second quarter of the nineteenth century and the emergence of Liverpool as a centre for these trades, focusing on the constitution and dissolution of the Liverpool and Mediterranean Steam Screw Shipping Co.Less

Merchants, Ship Brokers and Agents, Stevedoring and Warehousing Companies

Dawn Littler (ed.)

in Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2

This introductory chapter provides brief descriptions of the roles of merchants, shipbrokers and agents, and defines stevedoring and porterage. The chapter focuses in particular on the maritime ... More

This introductory chapter provides brief descriptions of the roles of merchants, shipbrokers and agents, and defines stevedoring and porterage. The chapter focuses in particular on the maritime development of Liverpool from the eighteenth century and uses resources from Merseyside Maritime Museum to provide records and accounts of merchants, ship brokers and agents, and stevedoring and warehousing companies.Less

Research, Miscellaneous and Non-Maritime

Dawn Littler (ed.)

in Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2

This chapter describes miscellaneous and non-maritime research that has no suitable place in the previous chapters of the collection. It provides maritime related records compiled by The Liverpool ... More

This chapter describes miscellaneous and non-maritime research that has no suitable place in the previous chapters of the collection. It provides maritime related records compiled by The Liverpool Nautical Research Society; Merseyside Docklands History Survey; Alsop, Wilkinson, the solicitor’s firm specialising in maritime cases; The Bryson Collection, provided by the collector, Joe Bryson; Turner and Dunnett, a stationery manufacturer responsible for producing passenger tickets and receipts for all the leading Liverpool shipping companies; and includes the specific research collections of individual scholars, including Dr D.P. Birch and J. Gordon Read; Michael K. Stammers; William McQuie Mather; Leslie Harrison; and Maurice Rigby. The chapter also lists non-maritime related records provided by companies of manufacturing, theatre and engineering backgrounds.Less

Bigots or Patriots? The Political and Religious Allegiances of the Liverpool Ships' Carpenters, 1815-1851

Frank Neal

in From Wheel House to Counting House: Essays in Maritime Business History in Honour of Professor Peter Neville Davies

Frank Neal examines the organisation of ship carpenters in Liverpool, demonstrating how this affected shipowning and shipbuilding in the port. In the first half of the century the group of indigenous ... More

Frank Neal examines the organisation of ship carpenters in Liverpool, demonstrating how this affected shipowning and shipbuilding in the port. In the first half of the century the group of indigenous workers most prominent in street warfare was the ships’ carpenters. This episode in Liverpool’s history services to remind us that the maritime history of a port must include the communities that ships and shipping activities bring into being.Less

Maritime Charities, Missions and Educational Establishments

Dawn Littler (ed.)

in Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2

This chapter explores Liverpool’s charitable maritime history and dedication toward raising the interest of welfare provision for Liverpudlian seamen and their families. It lists specific nineteenth ... More

This chapter explores Liverpool’s charitable maritime history and dedication toward raising the interest of welfare provision for Liverpudlian seamen and their families. It lists specific nineteenth century Merseyside institutions with their respective mission statements and founding dates, and provides a detailed resource list of each charity’s archives, including official records, minutes taken, account books, annual reports and letters.Less

Maritime Families

Dawn Littler (ed.)

in Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2

This chapter contains a detailed record of seven Liverpool-based families and their involvement in the city’s historical maritime economy. The report focuses on the social and economic lives of the ... More

This chapter contains a detailed record of seven Liverpool-based families and their involvement in the city’s historical maritime economy. The report focuses on the social and economic lives of the Cropper, Earle, Crosbie-Oates, Danson, Stubbs, Mather and Laird families, and uses the family’s business and social affairs to provide an insight into slave trade; abolition; maritime law; shipping trade; the palm oil trade with West Africa; and emigration to Ireland and America. Resources featured include letters; minutes taken; estate deeds and family papers; business papers; newspaper clippings; accounts; diary extracts and travel journals; scrapbooks; and printed pamphlets.Less

Pictorial and Audio

Dawn Littler (ed.)

in Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2

This chapter offers a brief summary of the scale and content of pictorial and audio records offered by the Merseyside Maritime Museum, and divides each resource into categories of maps; charts; dock ... More

This chapter offers a brief summary of the scale and content of pictorial and audio records offered by the Merseyside Maritime Museum, and divides each resource into categories of maps; charts; dock plans and drawings; ship’s plans; photographic records; postcards; film; and video and audio tapes.Less

Transatlantic Slavery and Slave Trading

Dawn Littler (ed.)

in Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2

This chapter presents the involvement of Liverpool in the slave trade. As the European port most involved in slaving during the eighteenth century, much of Liverpool’s prosperity was due to the ... More

This chapter presents the involvement of Liverpool in the slave trade. As the European port most involved in slaving during the eighteenth century, much of Liverpool’s prosperity was due to the trade, which meant that there was no part of the whole port of Liverpool that went untouched by slavery. This chapter outlines the role of the city and its citizens in the slave trade by offering a breakdown of slavery records in the form of registers and archives that detail Liverpool slaving vessels and its masters and owners. It also discusses the effects of abolition and Liverpool’s subsequent trade with West Africa and America.Less

Shipbuilding and Repairing, Engineering and other Maritime Trades

Dawn Littler (ed.)

in Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2

This chapter outlines the development of shipbuilding in Liverpool during the late seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century. It discusses the city’s initial success in the business but ... More

This chapter outlines the development of shipbuilding in Liverpool during the late seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century. It discusses the city’s initial success in the business but reports that due to high costs, competition from Sunderland and Canada, and a lack of demand, the 1890s saw the end of shipbuilding in Liverpool. The chapter also provides a detailed archive on Merseyside based shipbuilding, ship-repairing, and engineering companies, as well as a record on related trade businesses, such as supplying and manufacturing. Included in the collection of records are advertisements; wage books; engineering drawings; operational records; accounts; deeds; registers; ship specifications; and letters.Less

Alfred Jones: Integration and Adversity in Liverpool

Adrian Jarvis

in From Wheel House to Counting House: Essays in Maritime Business History in Honour of Professor Peter Neville Davies

Adrian Jarvis’ contribution looks at the role of Alfred Jones (about whom Peter Davies has written extensively) in the development of the port system on the Mersey. Jarvis explores how Jones placed ... More

Adrian Jarvis’ contribution looks at the role of Alfred Jones (about whom Peter Davies has written extensively) in the development of the port system on the Mersey. Jarvis explores how Jones placed power before profit in his impressive rise to riches, and how he sought control over every aspects of the trades in which he engaged, not always by very scrupulous methods.Less

Addenda to Guide, Volume I

Dawn Littler (ed.)

in Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2

This chapter concludes the volume with a description of recent additions to the collection since 1995, and includes records from the Radio Officers Marconi examination results; the Liverpool Shipping ... More

This chapter concludes the volume with a description of recent additions to the collection since 1995, and includes records from the Radio Officers Marconi examination results; the Liverpool Shipping Staff’s Association; London and Overseas Freighters Ltd; early MDHB miscellaneous papers; and John Holt and Co. (Liverpool) Ltd.Less

Special Collections: Titanic and Lusitania

Dawn Littler (ed.)

in Guide to the Records of Merseyside Maritime Museum, Volume 2

This chapter provides a collection of original documents relating to the Titanic and Lusitania, two Liverpool-registered ships that both sank with an enormous loss of life. The report presents ... More

This chapter provides a collection of original documents relating to the Titanic and Lusitania, two Liverpool-registered ships that both sank with an enormous loss of life. The report presents personal and poignant items associated with the ill-fated ships, including telegrams; photographs; general arrangement plans; unused tickets; memorial service programmes; letters; news-cuttings; and pamphlets. The chapter is also complemented with the Merseyside Maritime Museum’s collection Floating Palaces of the Edwardian Age.Less

The Mary and the Lady Lansdowne

Michael K. Stammers

in From Wheel House to Counting House: Essays in Maritime Business History in Honour of Professor Peter Neville Davies

Michael Stammers writes about Peter Davies’ pioneering role in the development of nautical archaeology in the region, focusing on two significant achievements – the excavations of the Royal Yacht ... More

Michael Stammers writes about Peter Davies’ pioneering role in the development of nautical archaeology in the region, focusing on two significant achievements – the excavations of the Royal Yacht Mary and the paddle steamer Lady Lansdowne. Stammers argues that Davies’ efforts to ensure material collected from both wreckages was recovered and preserved at museum level influenced sports divers and government legislation, ultimately protecting Britain’s underwater maritime heritage.Less

Chapter 8

Nancy Redmayne Ross (ed.)

in The Diary of a Maritimer, 1816-1901: Life and Times of Joseph Salter

This chapter describes important changes in Salter’s life; personal changes include the births of two of his children, Sidney and Bessie, and professional changes include the purchase of a shipyard ... More

This chapter describes important changes in Salter’s life; personal changes include the births of two of his children, Sidney and Bessie, and professional changes include the purchase of a shipyard in Moncton in 1846. Many extracts are devoted to recalling time spent in Liverpool. The chapter conveys the pressures and responsibilities involved in contracting large numbers of ships and vessels and portrays the necessary correspondence, recruitment and transactions of a shipyard manager.Less