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From: David< >
Subject: Re: Lloyds List, Lloyds Register, Shipwrecks
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 10:54:56 +0100

Anyone who has a query regarding enteries in Lloyds Lists or Lloyds
Registers should consider contacting:
The Enquiries Section
National Martime Museum
Greenwich
London SE10 9NF
Fax 0181 312 6632

If you are within visiting distance of London (Mon-Fri) you can have access
to a complete run of both sets of volumes. I would suggest writing for an
application to join the Library first as it will give you current
information regarding opening times of the Library and what type of ID you
require. Saturday openings of the Library have been discontinued at the
present time. If you want to consult other material it is worth checking if
it is held off site and would have to be brought to the main site for you
to consult or whether arrangements need to be made for you to visit the
outstation

While you can consult the library collections free of charge, in person ,
written enquiries may incur a research fee.

The Museum also has a set of the Mercantile Navy List which contains
registration information on British Registered ships, similar to info in
Lloyds Register.

In Lloyds List you can look up details of ships arrivals and departures,
this is also where you would find details regarding wrecks of ships that
were registered with Lloyds. The Library can also tell you about any other
information they may hold relating to shipwrecks.

Wrecks that posed a hazard to shipping lanes can often be found marked on
contemporary Admiralty Charts but note that wrecks that were not a hazard
will not appear.

The Museum has a large collection of Sea Charts including Admiralty Charts,
but as they are not held on site it is necessary to make arrangements to
view them. the person in charge of the Hydrographic collection is:
Brian Thynne
National Martime Museum
etc

The Museum also has collections of Sea Atlases (comprising Charts rather
than maps) from the c. 17th Cent to modern times. Some Atlases are specific
to a certain part of the world others have charts from a much wider area
and the atlas may comprise several volumes. Currently I understand they are
held by the Library, rather than with the Hydrographic collections. Again
if you know when a ship went down and where, it may appear on one of the
Charts within a Sea Atlas. It is not unknown for local landmarks or rocky
areas where the ship went aground/down to be given the name of the ship in
later years

The museum also has a collection of 19th and 20th Sailing Directions and
Pilot Books, for different parts of the world, again if particular wreck
was a shipping hazard it should appear in the relevant volume . These were
held in Hydrography when I worked in that section but they may now have
moved back to the Library

I am based some distance away from the main site of the Museum and no
longer work in the Hydrographic Section, but any Indiaroots subscriber who
vists the Library and would also like to meet up with me during their visit
should e-mail me at address above.

Geraldine Charles

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