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Occupation Interests / Re: Master Mariner (MM)
« on: Sunday 03 January 10 22:28 GMT (UK) »
As mentioned previously I used a professional maritime researcher to pull all the information so if it helps I can give you what I can glean from what she gave me as her sources.
(1) The Masters Certificates are housed at the NMM in Greenwich. She tells that the NMM take three weeks or more to answer specific enquiries and are adamant that to make the search they need the number of the MM's certificate. Our MM's number started with a CO and then had 5 numbers following.
(2) Where do you get this number ? My researcher told me that she usually finds them in BT 122 - BT 127 which are a series of Board of Trade records relating to Merchant Seamen which covers competency certificates. They are supposed to be indexed in BT 127 but she could not find his entry there. I had told her that he had served in the merchant marine in WW1 and having provided her with this clue she found his medal card in BT 351 which had his MM's certificate number.
(3) How to read The Captains Registers of Lloyds of London Guildhall Library Ms 18567 ? Mr researcher told me that she ordered them in advance of her visit to The London Metropolitan Archives. Once there she took photographs of our MM's entries in four of the registers because of the use of colored inks and underlinings to denote various key pieces of information such as whether the MM was Captain, 2nd Mate or even 3rd of 4th Mate. There are also some really neat blue entries that describe "incidents" such as sinkings, groundings etc. This is all very well explained in an 8 page document that my researcher sent me entitled 'Lloyds "Captains Registers" at Guildhall Library and related sources elsewhere'
Hope this is of use to you
(1) The Masters Certificates are housed at the NMM in Greenwich. She tells that the NMM take three weeks or more to answer specific enquiries and are adamant that to make the search they need the number of the MM's certificate. Our MM's number started with a CO and then had 5 numbers following.
(2) Where do you get this number ? My researcher told me that she usually finds them in BT 122 - BT 127 which are a series of Board of Trade records relating to Merchant Seamen which covers competency certificates. They are supposed to be indexed in BT 127 but she could not find his entry there. I had told her that he had served in the merchant marine in WW1 and having provided her with this clue she found his medal card in BT 351 which had his MM's certificate number.
(3) How to read The Captains Registers of Lloyds of London Guildhall Library Ms 18567 ? Mr researcher told me that she ordered them in advance of her visit to The London Metropolitan Archives. Once there she took photographs of our MM's entries in four of the registers because of the use of colored inks and underlinings to denote various key pieces of information such as whether the MM was Captain, 2nd Mate or even 3rd of 4th Mate. There are also some really neat blue entries that describe "incidents" such as sinkings, groundings etc. This is all very well explained in an 8 page document that my researcher sent me entitled 'Lloyds "Captains Registers" at Guildhall Library and related sources elsewhere'
Hope this is of use to you