Uncatalogued (previously BIS Extra boxes 1-7)

A summary listing is as follows:

-BIS/EXTRA/1 (oversize box)
Director’s Annual Reports, circa 1857-1969 (2 volumes)
Fleet particulars compiled 1934-1980 (1 volume)

-BIS/EXTRA/2
Contracts and schedules, 1872-1878 (1 volume)
Agreements with Port of London Authority and related papers, 1894-1962 (1 folder)
Depreciation statement, 1905 (1 item)
Agreement between BISN and P&O, 1914 (1 folder)
Director’s reports, 1956 and 1971 (1 ring binder and 2 booklets)

-BIS/EXTRA/3
Memorandum and articles of association, 1952 and 1969 (6 booklets)
Elimination of preference share capital, 1968-1969 (1 folder)
New memorandum and articles of association, 1969 (1 folder)

-BIS/EXTRA/4
Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co Ltd, London Committee, Sir William Currie’s papers, 1951-1959 (1 file)
Board papers, BI Reorganization and purchase of the Mackenzie Group Agencies, 1956-1971 (1 file and 1 envelope)

-BIS/EXTRA/5
Queensland Line of Steamers, 1892-1953 (1 folder)
Horse charters, 1903-1911 (1 volume)
Baldock Bunker Coal contract, 1930-1934 (1 folder)
Microscope inspections, 1934-1941 (1 folder)
Transcriptions of letters of Rober Duncan Cameron Sinclair (1 folder)
Photograph of Islay Kerr staff at Penang, 1948 (1 folder)

-BIS/EXTRA/6
Research material for Centenary History, 1953 (3 folders)
Including some letters from Australia dated 1887

-BIS/EXTRA/7-8
Group accounts and line results, 1956 (2 folders)

-BIS/EXTRA/9
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Staff service book for Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co Ltd, Calcutta, 1954-1958 (5 volumes)

-BIS/EXTRA/10
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Staff service (assistants) for Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co; Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co (Burma) Ltd; Islay Kerr & Co Ltd and Gibb Livingston & Co Ltd, 1932-1934 (3 volumes)
Staff service book for Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co Ltd, Calcutta, 1959-1960 (2 volumes)
Eastern Shore Staff, British India Steam Navigation Co Ltd, circa 1962 (1 volume)
Staff service book for Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co Private Ltd, Bombay, 1965 (1 ring binder)

-BIS/EXTRA/11
Printed fleet particulars, 1954-1966 (3 volumes)
Printed manning scales, 1970 (1 volume)
Vessel draught data, 1966-1975 (1 volume)

-BIS/EXTRA/12
Various fleet lists and papers, circa 1980 (4 folders plus loose papers)

-BIS/EXTRA/13
Handbooks, 1937-1951 (1 volume)
Handbooks, 1957, 1958 and 1971 (3 volumes)
Regulations & Instructions, 1949 and 1966 (4 volumes)
Fleet Orders, 1966-1970 (1 binder)

-BIS/EXTRA/14
‘The Chantalian’ (newsletter of the CHANTALA), Voyages 23-29, 31-34 and 68/69 (10 volumes)
Booklets and leaflets on BI vessels, services and history, employment and careers
Regulations and instructions for the operation of landing ships, 1968 (1 booklet)
Various publicity brochures, menus, cruise handbooks, souvenir programmes, magazine articles, etc.
Cap badge design (1 envelope)

-BIS/EXTRA/15-18
‘BI News’ house journal, Vols. 1-14, Nos. 1-69, April 1949-September 1971
15 volumes total (2 copies of Vol.10)

-BIS/EXTRA/19
Album of cabinet card photographs showing portraits of BI officers, circa 1880

-BIS/EXTRA/20
Two albums containing Xerox copies of photographs showing the rebuilding of the EDAVANA (1911) after being wrecked in 1917 (2 volumes)

-BIS/EXTRA/21
Printed books:
‘Merchant Fleets 11: British India S.N. Co’ by Duncan Haws, TCL Publications, 1987
‘Ship School’ by Tam Dalyell, Newman Neame Ltd, London, 1963 (2 copies)
‘Valiant Voyaging: A Short History of the British India Steam Navigation Company in the Second World War 1939-1945’ by Hilary St. George Saunders, Faber & Faber Ltd, London (2 copies)

Record Details

Item reference: BIS/EXTRA/1-21; BIS Extra boxes 1-7
Catalogue Section: Records of semi-governmental and non-governmental organisations
Level: FILE
Extent: 21 boxes
Date made: 1857-1980; 1881-01-01 - ?
Creator: British India Steam Navigation Company Limited
Credit: On loan from the P&O Heritage Collection