Uncatalogued: Photographic Blocks depicting various locations and events in Scarborough; Books and Notes relating to Scarborough.

2 Boxes - BOX 1: 9 individually wrapped blocks each depicting a different scene which are as follows: First Lighthouse 1800-1801; Hospital Trinity House Rebuilt 1832; Lifeboat Appeal; Paradise House 1960; Tindall's Yard, Scarborough; Merchant Seamen's Hospital, Showing Gree[n/k]gate Mill; John Gill - Nocturnal 1704; After the Great Storm 1880; "Hero" of Scarborough. BOX 2: The final photographic block is in a similar condition to the rest, with the title specified upon the wrapping being "Pleiades". Of the other items in the box, there are 4 notebooks. There is also a folded letter, and a printed book. Two of the notebooks make up an alphabetical list of Scarborough shipowners, with the first going from A to H, and the second from H to S. The average date of registration for the ships listed in these books is between the last quarter of the 18th Century and the first of the 19th Century. The third notebook includes a chronological list of ships owned between 1849-63. Additionally, it also includes lists of Paddle Trawlers, other ships, vessels captured, vessels lost, ships built at Scarborough and details of a Yacht race. The fourth notebook, which is emblazoned with a large number 5 appears to be a further list of ships, beginning with the year 1744. The letter actually appears to be a charter of some sort, dated in the text to the 20th year of the reign of George II (1747). It concerns provisions to be made for widows, injured/disabled seamen and the children of those seamen slain, drowned or otherwise killed. It lists the election of a number of Trustees to oversee the process. At the bottom of the charter, a list of 48 witnesses has been drawn up, each of which has included their own seal to the document. Finally, the printed book. The book itself seems to be the product of the other items of research found in the boxes, with th

Record Details

Item reference: MSS/69/006
Catalogue Section: Uncatalogued material
Level: COLLECTION
Date made: 1704-1880
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
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