## Information On Series Of Documents

| Series                                                                             |
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| Title                                                                              |
| BT 156: Board of Trade: Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen: Monthly          |
| Lists of Deaths of Seamen 1886-1890                                                |
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| BT 157: Board of Trade: Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen: Registers        |
| of Seamen's Deaths, Classified by Cause 1882-1888                                  |
| BT 153: Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and predecessor: Registers        |
| of Wages and Effects of Deceased Seamen 1852-1889                                  |
| Structure                                                                          |
| BT 156 is arranged by chronologically by year, 1 volume per year except for BT     |
| 156/1, which covers 1886-1887.                                                     |
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| BT 157 is arranged chronologically, each volume consists of half a year (Jan to    |
| June or July to Dec), except for BT 157/1 which covers all of 1882.                |
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| BT 153 is arranged chronologically by year.                                        |
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| Size/Scope                                                                         |
| Approx 6600 images                                                                 |
| for BT 156&7,                                                                      |
| Approx 15400 images                                                                |
| for BT 153.                                                                        |
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| BT 156 consists of 4 bound volumes, and contains lists of the death of seamen      |
| kept by the Registrar General of Shipping for 1886 to 1890. These were             |
| compiled monthly, usually from crew lists and agreements. The records provide      |
| name and age, rating, nationality or birth place, last address, cause and place of |
| death, ship's name, official number and port of registry                           |
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| BT 157 consists of 9 bound volumes containing the registers of seaman's deaths     |
| kept by the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen for 1882-1888. These          |
| manuscript lists classified the entries by cause and were compiled twice a year.   |
| The records give name and age, rating, nationality or birth place, last address,   |
| cause and place of death, ship's name, official number and port of registry and    |
| also gives the information about the last voyage. The column marked 'remarks.'     |
| May also contain additional information.                                           |
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| BT 153 consists of 22 bound volumes contains registers of the Registrar General    |
| of Shipping and Seamen containing entries of the receipt of dead sailors' wages    |
| and effects (such as clothes of sea-chests), or their proceeds, handed to          |
| Shipping Masters by the masters of British ships                                   |
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| Physical Format                                                                   |
| and Condition                                                                     |
| Large bound registers, stored in cardboard boxes, the majority of which are       |
| approx. A2 size although size is highly variable. Condition is good, although     |
| some pages are creased with torn edges, some paper is fragile. Some pages are     |
| blank in a small number of cases.                                                 |
| BT 153 has variable, sometimes poor condition of binding, some is fragile.        |
| BT 156 is compiled of foliated printed lists, while BT 157 consists of manuscript |
| registers. Mainly fair to good condition, the condition of bindings is variable.  |
| Approx 150-200 pages per volume in BT 156, 250-350 in BT 157, and 400             |
| pages in BT 153, pages are double sided in the main, a mixture of printed forms   |
| and handwritten information.                                                      |
| Popularity                                                                        |
| In conjunction with the BT 334 registers, these lists could be extremely valuable |
| to family historians for tracing merchant seamen who died at sea. It is expected  |
| that popularity would increase with increase in the general knowledge on          |
| availability of the records.                                                      |
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| Crown Copyright                                                                   |
| Copyright                                                                         |
| clearance                                                                         |
| Research Guide                                                                    |
| Births, Marriages and Deaths at Sea                                               |
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| Name, Date of Death, Name of Ship, Official Number of Ship                        |
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| Possible areas                                                                    |
| for indexing                                                                      |
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