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The following public archives, libraries and museums hold collections of
maritime periodicals, including titles selectively indexed in The (New) Electronic Ship Magazine Index. ½
To see Union List of maritime periodicals held in these libraries ½
To see "Maritime History on the Internet" ½
To see "Index to Ships Mentioned in Maritime History Books"
Go down to "Glasgow" ½ Go down to "Maritiem" ½ Go down to "Portsmouth"
AMM = Aberdeen Maritime Museum, Shiprow,
Aberdeen AB11 5BY. Tel.
(01224) 337700
Biblioteca Facultat de Nautica, Pla de Palau 18, 08003 Barcelona. Library of the University Politecnica de Catalunya.
e-mail: carme.urgell@upc.es
Internet URL: http://escher.upc.es/
Holds a large number of maritime titles in Spanish and English.
CBL = City Business Library, (Corporation of London Libraries), 1 Brewers' Hall Garden (off Aldermanbury Square, London EC2V 5BX. Tel. 020 7332 1812 (press button 4 for Enquiries) http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/leisure_heritage/libraries_archives_museums_galleries/city_london_libraries/cbl.htm
DCL = Dundee Central Library, The Wellgate, Dundee DD1 1DB. Tel. (01382) 434377. e-mail: local.studies@dundeecity.gov.uk Subject index of local topics on card; book volumes of local maritime history.
ECL = Edinburgh City Libraries, Central Reference Library, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EG, Scotland. Press cuttings of local maritime history.
Glasgow City Archives: e-mail: archives@cls.glasgow.gov.uk Archives of Fairfield, Charles Connell, Barclay, Curle
GUA = Glasgow University Archives, Business
Record Centre, 13 Thurso Street, Glasgow G11 6PE, Scotland. Tel. (0141) 330 5515
e-mail: dutyarch@archives.gla.ac.uk
URL: http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/
Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury, London EC2P 2EJ; tel: 020 7332 1868
Hartlepool Borough Libraries holds an incomplete set of manuscript yardbooks from c.1878 to c.1941 produced for William Gray & Company. The seven volumes have 'Ships Particulars' as a spine title. I understand these to have been records kept in the shipyard as the ship was under construction.
Hartlepool Borough Libraries holds four volumes of account books produced by L. Blumer & Son, another local shipbuilder and ship repairer. These manuscript records cover the years 1853 - 1868.
Contact: Reference Services Officer, Hartlepool Borough Libraries, Tel:
01429 263778;
Fax: 01429 275685; e-mail: reflib@hartlepool.gov.uk
HL = Humberside Libraries, Central Library, Albion Street, Hull HU1 3TF. Tel. (01482) 210055
LRIG = Lloyd’s Register Information Group, 71 Fenchurch Street, London EC3M 4BS, England. Tel. (020) 7423 2475; e-mail: barbara.jones@lr.org ("Plain text" only, please)
Computer indexing of articles using Filemaker Pro.
The email address for historical enquiries is histinfo@lr.org. We usually ask people to look at our website http://www.lr.org/code/home.htm as there are quite a number of information sheets there, which should help them with their research, plus there is a form that they have to fill in if they want us to do the research, which also gives details of payment etc.
MLG = The Mitchell Library, Glasgow City Libraries, North Street,
Glasgow G3 7DN, Scotland. Tel. (0141) 287 2937. e-mail: history_and_glasgow@cls.glasgow.gov.uk
Internet URL: www.glasgow.gov.uk/
(This site was not accessible, 22 October 2000)
Subject index of local topics on card.
MMM = Merseyside Maritime Museum Maritime Records' Centre, Liverpool L3 4AA. Tel. (0151) 478 4424.
Internet URL: www.nmgm.org.uk/
There is a subject index of local topics.
MMPH = Maritiem Museum Rotterdam, Leuvehaven 1, 3011 EA Rotterdam, Netherlands. Library e-mail: biblio@mmph.nl Internet URL: www.maritiemmuseum.nl/
Holds a range of maritime titles in Dutch, English and German, etc.
Musée de la Marine, Place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre, 75116 Paris, France. Tel. (Paris, France) 45 53 31 70. There is an Internet website. The Museum Library is open to the public, by prior appointment. Information on the French navy and merchant shipping companies. For contact with "Association des Amis des Paquebots" (interest in French passenger ships).
NLS = The National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EW, Scotland
NMM = National Maritime Museum, Park Row, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF.
Newcastle City Council, City Library, Princess Square,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE99 1DX; Tel. (0191) 261 0691; Fax. (0191) 261 1435; e-mail: mailto:city.information@newcastle.gov.uk
Website: http://www.newcastle.gov.uk/libraries
The City Library has a computerised list of its periodicals’ holdings, including shipping titles. There are newspaper cuttings on local shipping topics, and some of these are indexed.
PCL = Portsmouth Central Library, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2DX.
Tel. 02392 819311
e-mail: aking@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
Subject index of local (naval) topics on card.
The Royal Naval Museum Library, HM Naval Base (PP66) Portsmouth, PO1 3NH.
Tel. 02392 723795.
Fax: 02392 723942
e-mail: library@royalnavalmuseum.org
At present, the Library’s "Ship
Summaries" are being transferred to computer; dbase programme is MS Access
97.
School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. Holds the Papers of Sir William Mackinnon, co-founder of the British India Steam Navigation Co., including the letters of John Inglis of A & J Inglis (Glasgow shipbuilder) re: specifications of and offers to build ships for British India and associated companies.
e-mail: docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
South Tyneside Central Library, Local History Library, Prince Georg Square, South Shields, Tyne & Wear NE33 2PE. Tel. (0191) 427 1818, ext. 7860.
e-mail: reference.library@s-tyneside-mbc.gov.uk
Subject index of local topics on card.
SCL = Southampton Central Library, Special Collections’ Library,
Civic Centre, Southampton SO14 7LW. Tel. (02380) 832 205.
e-mail: local.studies@southampton.gov.uk
Subject index of local topics on computer.
SRO = Scottish Record Office, West Register House, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, Scotland.
e-mail: wsr@nas.gov.uk
UFTM = Ulster Folk & Transport Museum, Cultra, Holywood, Co. Down, N. Ireland, BT18 0EU: Tel: +44(0)28 9042 8428
If your library has holdings of maritime periodicals and a subject index of maritime topics, and you would like to be included in the list above, please mail macdonald.mike@planetinternet.be
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