FLINTSHIRE SHIPPING REGISTERS

PUBLIC RECORDS.

Ship registration records of the Port of Chester, 1836-1970, relating to Flintshire ships, including shipping registers and transaction registers, 1836-1913; declarations of ownership, builder's and surveyor's certificates and correspondence, 1846-1961; and miscellaneous Customs and Excise records relating to Flintshire, 1923-1970. S/6-143 consist of Registration documents and associated papers including declarations of ownership, builder's and surveyor's certificates, records of transactions and correspondence

The Port of Chester is the point of registry for all shipping from Flintshire ports on the River Dee. The port was responsible for the registration of shipping and the collection of duties on imports. Shipping registers provide details about vessels including the owner, the master, changes of owner, and the eventual fate of the vessel.

Arranged into the following groups: Group One, shipping registers; Group Two, Customs and Excise registration documents; and Group Three, miscellaneous registers.

Data Protection Act restrictions will apply to any items less than 100 years old that contain personal information as defined by the Act.

Transferred under the Public Records Act , 1958, Section 4 (1), by H. M. Customs and Excise, Holywell, Clwyd, 1980; Deposited by H. M. Customs and Excise, North West Collection, Liverpool, 1999; and by H. M. Customs and Excise, Connah's Quay, Flintshire, 2000.

Please order documents using the alternative reference number (where provided).

Compiled by Richard Burman for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Flintshire Record Office, Shipping registers catalogue; Maritime Records, Glamorgan Record Office website (http://www.glamro.gov.uk/adobe/MaritimeRevised.pdf), viewed 4 February 2004.

A hard copy of the catalogue is available in Flintshire Record Office.

Compiled by Richard Burman for the ANW project. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Flintshire Record Office, Shipping registers catalogue; Maritime Records, Glamorgan Record Office website (http://www.glamro.gov.uk/adobe/MaritimeRevised.pdf), viewed 04 Feb 2004.

Usual copyright regulations apply.

Public records. May be copied without any need for a copyright form.

All records deposited at Flintshire Record Office have been retained.

Accruals are not expected

Further material is Flintshire Record Office, SR.

Transcripts (full details) of Registration Certificates held at The National Archives Ref. BT107/190 for the following years:

1826-1836 and later (1825 lost)