Shipping Companies: Sources

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1 How to use this list of sources This is a list of some of the collections that may provide a useful starting point when researching this subject. It gives the collection reference and a brief description of the kinds of records held in the collections. More detailed lists are available in the searchroom and from our online catalogue. Enquiries should be directed to the Duty Archivist, see contact details at the end of this source list. Adamson, James and William Robertson; photographers, c.1880s-1930s, Scotland (GUAS Ref: DC 101) Glass negatives of various ships in Greenock, Gourock 1880s-1930s and West Renfrewshire Glass negatives of people, scenes and buildings in Greenock, 1880s-1930s Gourock and West Renfrewshire Photograph album containing pictures of ships and scenes late 19th, early 20th century Anchor Line Ltd; shipping company, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 255/1) Accident report 1921 Administration files Advertising boards Advertising scrapbooks Artefacts 1942 Bills of Lading Blanche for payment of one penny for properties of Thomas Dedingston 1577 Board papers Brochures and leaflets Christmas cards 1929 Commercial device and House Flag 1881 Embarkation papers 1963 Fleet particulars Formation papers 1935 Historical files Invitation cards Maps and track cards Menus and wine lists Newspaper cuttings Official registers Passage tickets Passenger lists Pensions Personnel papers Photographs of cruises Photographs of events 1938-c70 Photographs of offices Photographs of personnel Photographs of vessels Pilotage records Plans Posters s Programmes Promotional items Promotional items for other companies Publications Shareholding papers Ship files Page 1 of 10

2 Anchor Line Ltd; shipping company, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 255/1) (continued) Shipping conferences Ships logs Voyage particulars War service Ardgowan Shipping Co Ltd and Blackhall Shipping Co Ltd; Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland (GUAS Ref: GD 323/11) Directors' correspondence files Directors' reports and accounts British Corporation; shipping surveyors, Glasgow, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 304) Survey reports Burntisland Pier & Ferry Co; ferry and pier operators, Edinburgh, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 56) Minute book 1839 Campbell, J M & Sons; shipowners, Glasgow, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 55) Miscellaneous administrative records including insurance documents, account statements, ship specifications etc Photographs Campbell, William (Port Glasgow) Ltd; coal and coke merchant and shipping agent, Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 176/3 and UGD 176/1/15/3) Annual reports and accounts Letter book Minute book Clyde Shipping Co Ltd; shipowners and shipping agents, Glasgow, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 176/1) Abstract and analysis ledgers Agreements Annual and extraordinary meeting records Balance sheets Cashbooks Casualty books Clyde Shipping Co Ltd group accounts Clyde Shipping Co Ltd group taxation records Detailed accounts and end of year statements Directors' minutes Directors' reports and accounts General ledgers Insurance accounts Insurance claim vessels Investment records Journals Labour, industrial action, accident, wage agreements and employers' meeting subject files Memorandum and articles of association Miscellaneous accounts Other ledgers Pension records (investments) Private ledgers Share records Staff, wages and salary records Trading and freight records Towing records Page 2 of 10

3 Clyde Shipping Co Ltd; shipowners and shipping agents, Glasgow, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 176/1) (continued) Trial balances Vessel logs Vessel records Workmen's compensation records Ministry of Transport records including: Annual reports and circulars of trade associations Boat account and analysis books Charter parties c Correspondence - claims and charters Miscellaneous presscuttings, correspondence, published histories and 1819-c90 publicity materials Passenger handbooks and guides Presscuttings Rates department correspondence Registers of sailings and vessel movements Secretary's correspondence Vessel journals Vessel logs Voyage accounts and expenses The collection also includes a large body of annual reports and board papers of subsidiary and associated companies of Clyde Shipping Co Ltd. Along with these records, there are often subject files created by Clyde Shipping Co Ltd regarding each individual company. Records exist for the following companies: Beaton, Neil (Portree) Ltd Campbell, William (Port Glasgow) Ltd Cargo International (Cork) Ltd Cargo Services Ltd Casey Travel Ltd Clyde Shipping Ireland Ltd Clyde Shipping Tugs Ltd Cooper Brothers Ltd Cork Offshore Services Ltd Cork Seabase Ltd Eglinton Limestone Co Ltd Eglinton Store Group FACE Ltd (Freight and Cargo Express) Farrell, Matthew & Son (Waterford) Ltd Forth Tugs Ltd Franco Irish Food Industries Study Group Ltd Fraser & Borthwick Ltd Grangemouth & Forth Towing Ltd Heyn, G & Sons Ltd Hipavia S A Hunt, S & M (Transport) Ltd Irish Mainport Holdings Ltd Irish Offshore Driving Contracts Ltd 1980 Irish Stand-by Boats Ltd Irvine Shipping & Trading Co Ltd, The Kenny (Stevedores) Ltd LAS Air Cargo Ltd LAS Chartering Ltd LAS Group LAS Overseas Ltd LAS Transport Co Ltd Lawson-Batey Tugs Ltd Light Shipping Co Ltd (see UGD 176/2/2) Page 3 of 10

4 The collection also includes a large body of annual reports and board papers of subsidiary and associated companies of Clyde Shipping Co Ltd. Along with these records, there are often subject files created by Clyde Shipping Co Ltd regarding each individual company. Records exist for the following companies: (continued) Line 3 Ltd London Scottish Lines Ltd Mannia Oil Distributors Ltd 1979 Marine Transport Services Ltd Martrans Engineering Co Ltd McAlpine, R L & Co Ltd Peden, J A Ltd Plastic Rotational Mouldings Ltd Powers Coal Ltd Quarry Industries (Belfast) Ltd Ronayne Shipping Ltd Rossman Renovo Ltd 1973 Rastrom Forwarding Ltd 1982 Scott & Co, James (Cobh) Ltd Scott & Co, James (Cork) Ltd Seahorse Ltd Shetland Towage Ltd Simpson-Lawrence Ltd c Toriginol (UK) Ltd 1966 Tralee Seabase Ltd 1978 Waterford Steamship Co Ltd 1902 Waterford Stevedores Ltd Comet, The; centenary of the launch of the steamboat, Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 155) Newspaper articles 1912 Pamphlets 1912 Currie Line Ltd; shipping company, Edinburgh, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 255/5) Alexander Currie s papers Balance sheets Currie family papers Journals Ledgers and cash books Minutes and administrative records Pension fund Photographs and press cuttings Property (including plans and titles) Sale of vessels Shareholders Records Ships records relating to individual vessels Wages and personnel Ellerman & Bucknall (Steamships) Co Ltd; shipowners, London, England (GUAS Ref: UGD 131/3) Agency records 1936, 1946 Annual accounts Journals Ledgers Memorandum and articles of association Minutes Publicity material Share records 1909 Staff records Telegraph cable books Trade agreements Voyage records Page 4 of 10

5 Ellerman City Line Ltd; shipowners, Glasgow, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 131/1) Account books Agency agreements and correspondence Balance sheets, profit and loss accounts and steamers' trading accounts Captain Francis Brown's papers Cash department records Colombo and Calcutta tea trade Conference minimum rates books Contracts and berthage records Correspondence Directors minutes Dundee jute imports East India Steam Trade Conference Estimated daily running expenses for fleet Freight books General meetings minutes George Smith and family papers Homeward earnings books Journals List of agencies 1936, 1948 Loans, insurance policies and guarantees Masters' wartime reports and correspondence Memoranda and articles of association and share records Menus and wine lists Miscellaneous publications Notices to shippers Package re-measuring order books Particulars of fleet Passenger lists and tickets , 1954, 1955 Photographs and images of ships, masters and personnel Presscuttings Publicity materials Quotations Records of The City Line (Travel) Ltd Register of ships Sailings and ship movement books Sailings lists and sailing cards (incomplete) Ship files Ship plans Ship spar plans Sir John Ellerman's bequests to staff 1933 Sir John Ellerman's general notebooks Specifications books Staff records Steamer plans and rate books 1925, 1929 The City Line miscellaneous historical papers The City Line jubilee (1889) records 1889 The City Line centenary (1939) records 1939 Trade agreements War Service records Page 5 of 10

6 Ellerman Lines Ltd; shipowners, London, England and Glasgow, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 131/2) Cabin plans and maps Company history 1970s Correspondence Crew photographs s Financial records Minutes Photographs, posters and postcards s Presscuttings and publicity materials Publicity materials 1870s-1980s Route maps undated Sailings books Share registers Share allotment book c1900s Voyage records Ellerman & Papayanni Lines Ltd; shipowners, Liverpool, England (GUAS Ref: UGD 131/4) Agency records 1934 Financial records Minutes Notes on ships undated Photographs 1930s-40s Share records Vessel particulars Voyage records Forth Tugs Ltd; tug operators, Grangemouth, Falkirk, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 229) Agenda books Annual list and summary Balance sheets Correspondence Journals Ledgers Minutes Miscellaneous accounts Register of members Register of transfers Register of seals 1967 Share certificates Tug records Vessel registration records Gibson, George & Co Ltd; shipping company, Edinburgh, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 255/7) Administrative records Personnel records Shareholders records Ships records Glasgow Salvage Association; Glasgow, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 95/1) Minutes Glenlight Shipping Ltd; ship managers, Glasgow, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 176/2/1a) Annual reports and accounts Board papers and agreements Papers concerning Esso Bernicia/Stonechakker and legal proceedings Page 6 of 10

7 Hall Line Ltd; shipowners, Liverpool, England (GUAS Ref: UGD 131/6) Financial records Minutes Photographs Publicity materials early 20th century Share records Ship records Isaac Line Ltd; shipping company, London, England (GUAS Ref: UGD 255/6) Financial records History of the Isaacs Family c Minutes Shareholding records Jane s Fighting Ships (GUAS Ref: UGD 295) Publications Kelvin Trawlers Ltd; steam trawler owners, Glasgow, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 216) Cash books Cash notebooks Fleetwood branch financial statements Journals Ledgers Kindiesel Shipping Co Ltd; shipowners, Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 171/3) Articles of association 1936 Financial records Minutes Registers of members Returns to registrar of companies Langmuir, Graham Negative Collection; solicitor and steamer enthusiast, Glasgow, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 238) Photographs of vessels, groups of passengers, ship yards and harbours 20th century Photographs of vessels include ships built by the following Scottish shipyards: Scott & Sons (Bowling) Ltd, Bowling, West Dunbartonshire James & George Thomson Ltd, Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire Wood & Reid, Port Glasgow, Inverclyde Robertson & Co, London Caird & Co Ltd, Greenock, Inverclyde John Reid & Co; Blackwood & Gordon T Wingate & Co, Glasgow Robert Duncan & Co; H McIntyre & Co, Paisley, Renfrewshire, and Alloa, Clackmannanshire A & J Inglis, Glasgow Leith Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet Co Ltd; shipping company, Edinburgh, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 255/4) Accidents, damage and repairs Certificate of Registry Correspondence Financial materials Freight books Personal service records Personnel records Plans and property Public relations material and Undated (pre 1939) Salaries and wages Sale of vessels Taxation records books Page 7 of 10

8 Leith Hull & Hamburg Steam Packet Co Ltd; shipping company, Edinburgh, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 255/4) (continued) Trading records Vessel movements Vessel particulars Light Shipping Ltd; shipowners, Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 176/2/2 and UGD 176/1/15/38) Annual returns Board papers and agreements 1966 Company seal mid 20th century Correspondence files Directors' reports and accounts Journal Ledger Vessel diaries Vessel expenses and receipts Lloyds Register (GUAS Ref: UGD 58) Annotated publications McLaren, Thomas & Co (Glasgow) Ltd; shipbrokers, Glasgow, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 165, UGD 280, UGD 281, UGD 294) Cash books Day books Ledgers Plans c Ship registers c Vessel notebooks McQueen, Andrew; ( ), steamship enthusiast (GUAS Ref: UGD 252) Articles/transcripts of lectures c Literary works c Notes and manuscripts concerning ships Personal papers Photograph albums c Photographs Meighan Collection; ship plans and photographs, River Clyde, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 134) Plans of ships built by: Denny, William & Brothers 1890 Scotts of Bowling 1898 Photograph 1952 Photographs of ships built by John Brown & Co Ltd Miller, William; fl.1845, sea captain (GUAS Ref: UGD 65) Log book for the journey from Glasgow to Madeira and San Fernando 1845 and back again Monarch Steamship Company Limited; shipowners, Glasgow, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGC 96) Arrivals and sailings books Cash books and ledgers Contracts (Charter Parties) Employment records Letter books Letters of registration and minute books Photo album Research files Voyage books Page 8 of 10

9 Montgomerie & Workman Ltd; ship and insurance brokers, London, England (GUAS Ref: UGD 131/7) Agreements Correspondence Ship records Moor Line Ltd; shipping company, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 255/3) Abstracts of logs Agreements to build vessels Annual report and accounts Cash books Fleet particulars Insurance of vessels Journals Memorandum and Articles of Association Minutes Moor Investment Co 1917 Personnel Photographs of personnel undated Photographs of vessels Plans 1965 Press cuttings Shareholding papers Shipping conferences 1927 Ships log books Statements of account for vessels Valuations 1917 Vessel movements and voyage accounts War service 1915, 1925 Mossgiel Steamship Co Ltd; shipowners, Glasgow, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 131/8) Minutes Photographs 1927, 1954 Plans Ship records RMS Queen Elizabeth Historical Society; Virginia, United States of America (GUAS Ref: UGD 296) Drawings 1989 Photographs 1989 Plans 1989 River Cart Navigation Trust; waterway managers, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 34) Draft provisional orders and correspondence Papers and bills Ross & Marshall Ltd; shipowners, Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 176/2/1) Admiralty contracts Board papers Correspondence Directors' minutes Financial papers General minutes Ledgers and journals Letter books Share records Vessel diaries Vessel mortgages and bills of sale records Page 9 of 10

10 Ship Photographs, Miscellaneous; River Clyde, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 253) Photographs of ships on the river Clyde, Scotland These photographs include ships of the: Clyde Passenger Ferries Cunard Line Elder Dempster Line There are also views of the following Clyde shipyards: Barclay Curle & Co Ltd Brown, John & Co (Clydebank) Ltd Burns & Laird Connell, Charles & Co Ltd Govan Shipbuilders Ltd Stephen, Alexander & Sons Ltd Stewart, John & Co Shipbuilders Ltd; shipowners, Glasgow, Scotland (GUAS Ref: UGD 213) Cash books Charter parties Fleet particulars Insurance covers Journals Ledgers Master and chief engineers logs Press cuttings Render book and damage claims Sale and purchase records Specifications Summary of voyage accounts Vessel diaries Vessel ledgers Voyage accounts Wage abstracts Waterford Consortium; container service consortium, Waterford, Munster, Ireland (GUAS Ref: UGD 176/3) Records collated by Clyde Shipping Co Ltd as part of the Waterford Consortium: Accounting records Board papers and agreements Correspondence Trade analysis records University of Glasgow Archive Services. Copyright reserved. Version 3, July Page 10 of 10 Archive Services, 13 Thurso Street, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G11 6PE Tel: +44 (0) Fax: +44 (0)