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David R. MacGregor

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SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

Abbreviations used in the references



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A S & Sons             Alexander Stephen & Sons
CH                     Custom House
LR                     Lloyd's Register
MM                     The Mariner's Mirror
NMM                    National Maritime Museum
PP                     Parliamentary Papers

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Ships plans and models

The structure of the book depends on the plans, which have been
redrawn or photographed fron old originals, or which have been
prepared from measurements taken from models. In a majority of
cases, the source of the plan is fully described in the text, and the
scope of any large collection is referred to, so it is not proposed
to repeat such information here. The following list comprises collec-
tions consisting of more than one model or plan which have been
consulted.

  National Maritime Museum. Admiralty Collection of Draughts;
plans of merchant ships embodying drawings from various ship-
builders and collectors, including the Croad Collection, Denny Col-
lection, Hilhouse Collection, Lisslie Collection and Longstaff Collec-
tion; also numerous models.

  Alexander Stephen & Sons. Plans and half-models from 1852
onwards for almost all vessels launched at the Glasgow yard; plans
now housed at National Maritime Museum. Nothing located from
Dundee yard except two plans and one half-model which were found
in the Glasgow yard.

  Barclay, Curle & Co. From about 1850 onwards, plans of almost
all vessels; now housed at National Maritime Museum.

  Science Museum. Geddie Collection of plans; sail plans drawn
by G C Watson; photographic negatives of Hilhouse Collection and
vessels from other sources.

  Liverpool Museum. Many models, including Kellock Collection.

  Whitehaven Museum. Some half-models; sail plans from William
Kennaugh.

  Glasgow Museum. Half-models of clippers built by Alexander Hall
& Sons; also of ships by John Reid; many other models.

  Sunderland Museum. Half-models of ships built by Robert Thomp-
son; other models of locally-built ships.

  Whitby Museum. Plans of locally-built ships.

  Brixham Maritime Museum. Half-models of locally-built vessels.

  Bristol Museum. Half-models of ships built by G K Stothert from
1851; other models, some of locally-built vessels.

  Thos & Jno Brocklebank. Plans of ships built in Whitehaven.

  Smith's Dock Co. Models at N Shields and Middlebrough offices.

  The late James Steele. Half-models of ships built by Robert Steele
& Co. Their whereabouts are now unknown.

  J W & A Upham. Half-models of ships built in their yard.

  B E Nicholson. Half-models of ships built at Annan 1853-65.

  Howard I Chapelle. Various plans; lines taken off half-models.

  Janes Henderson. Models of Aberdeen-built ships; plans drawn
from models or redrawn from originals.

  William Salisbury. Some models; plans drawn from models or
redrawn from originals.

  Author's Collection. Some models; plans drawn from models or
redrawn from originals.

  F Holm-Petersen Coll. Models and plans of Danish-built vessels.

  Mariners Museum, Newport News. G Hillman Plans (c 1850-65)
and eighteenth-century plans of French vessels.

  Francis Russell Hart Nautical Museum, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. Some models; original plans of Mckay's clippers.

  Peabody Mus, Salem. Some models; plans from various sources.


Manuscripts

It is a harder task to establish lists of ships according to their builder
rather than their owner, perhaps because most research in the past
has been directed towards shipowning. This has been accentuated
by the material readily available in such publications as Lloyd's Register
of Shipping where the builder's name was never published prior to
1859 and the place of building was often inaccurately named.
Shipowning-research has been further assisted in the past by the
detailed information as to division of shares in a ship, obtainable
in the Custom House registers, and by the fleet lists given in Lloyd's
Register as from 1878. By contrast, particulars on shipbuilders require
more research.

  A valuable source of shipbuilders' lists is that formed by Arthur
C Wardle at the Liverpool Museum. In addition, I have located
others at shipbuilder's offices, in the Museums and Libraries of ship-
building towns, and in private collections. A systematic transcription
of the Custom House registers would eventually provide complete
lists of vessels constructed by every builder, but this is a time-
consuming occupation. In the case of a small port whose ships are
almost entirely locally-built, the Custom House records at that port
alone can provide a fairly complete list of ships built there; but in
larger ports, this is impossible. A very valuable way of obtaining
data on shipbuilders and their ships is by consulting the Lloyd's
Register survey reports, now at the National Maritime Museum.
Although many ships were never classed by Lloyd's Register, these
reports provide the surest way to obtain an accurate sample of any
shipbuilder's activities, together with a surveyor's coments on the
ships produced.

  The principal manuscript sources consulted are listed below:

  Barclay, Curle & Co. List of ships built.

  Baring Brothers. Specification and operating costs of the clippers
Black Prince and Norman Court; letters and specification about the
Falcon (1824); and Captain Andrew Shewan's writings.

  Blyth, Greene, Jourdain & Co. Letters from James Blyth and list
of ships owned.

  Custom House registers: consulted at London and Glasgow.

  Dr and Mrs Donald. Log-books and letters of Captain Thomas
Mitchell, master in the Aberdeen White Star Line.

  L E Evans. Log books and documents of Captain Joseph E McGill
and his son Captain J Edward McGill.

  Grahame Farr. Lists of ships built in the Ports of Bideford, Barn-
staple &c, compiled from Custom House registers and other sources.

  Glasgow Museum. List of ships built by William Simons, including
spar dimensions.



India Office Library. Log-books of Farquharson and St Helena.

James Henderson Collection. Cost accounts of ships built by
Alexander Hall & Sons.

Sir James Laing & Co Ships built, with spar and rigging dimensions.
Liverpool Museum, Shipping Collection. List of ships built by Jones,
Quiggin & Co; MS lists compiled by Arthur C Wardle of shipbuilders
in the British Isles together with lists of ships built.

Lloyd's Register. Visitation Committee Reports to shipbuilding
centres from 1851; Surveyor's Committee Reports 1838-74; survey
reports of some ships.

London Missionary Society. Papers relating to ships John Williams
II and to Samoa, later John Williams III.

National Maritime Museum. Lists of ships built at the Blackwall
Yard, London; Lubbock Collection, letters from James MacCunn;
various log-books; Lloyd's Register survey reports from c 1834.

B E Nicholson. Voyage account books of ships owned by John
Nicholson & Co.

W Salisbury Collection. MS lists of ships built and owned in north-
west England and compiled by W Stewart-Rees.

Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd. Diaries kept by Alexander Stephen
Snr 1824-51, and by Alexander Stephen Jnr 1856 onwards; also
note books kept by the latter 1851-56. Letter books for Clyde-side
yard from 1856. (All now deposited with Department of Economic
History, Glasgow University, since I examined them.)

Tower Hamlets Borough Council (formerly Poplar). Collection
of records compiled by Daniel R Bolt, including individual sailing
ship histories.

J W & A Upham. List of ships built, 1856 onwards.
Whitehaven Library and Museum. Lists of locally-built ships and
particulars of shipbuilders, compiled by Daniel Hay; also account
books.

Author's Collection. Lists of ships built by William Pile of Sunder-
land, beginning at no 52 (1858); and of Robert Steele & Co
(complete); also log-books and voyages accounts.


NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS

This list comprises those most frequently consulted.

Aberdeen Journal

Albion (Liverpool)

American Neptune (Salem, Mass, from 1941)

Argus (Melbourne)

Artizan (London)

Australia and New Zealand Gazette (London, from 1851)

Canton Register

Chronicle of London Missionary Society

Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston, Tasmania)

Economic History Review (Cambridge)

Glasgow Herald

Illustrated London News (London, from 1841)

Lloyd's Lists

Log Chips (Washington, 4 vols, 1948-59)

London and China Telegraph (London, from 1859)

Marine Models (London, c 1927-39)

Mariner's Mirror (London, from 1911)

Mechanics' Magazine (London)

Mercantile Marine Magazine (London, 1856-64)

Monthly Nautical Magazine and Quarterly Review (New York)

Nautical Magazine (London)

Nautical Research Journal (USA, from c 1948)

Norfolk Sailor (Norwich, from 1959)

North British Daily Mail (Glasgow)

Sea Breezes (Liverpool, from 1919)

Ships and Ship Models (London, from 1931)

Ships Monthly (London, from 1966)

Smith's Dock Monthly (North Shields)

Sunderland Echo

Sydney Morning Herald

The Times (London)

Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects (London, from
1860)



PRINTED WORKS
The following are the principal books and articles referred to,
but the Notes, Queries and Answers in the Mariner's Mirror are too
numerous to list here, with one or two exceptions, although they
are given fully in the References.

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Blake, George, Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1769-1960, London 
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Bouquet, Michael R. No Gallant Ship, London 1959.

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Brett, Henry, White Wings, 2 vols, Auckland 1924 and 1928.

Brewington, M W, Shipcarvers of North America, Barre, Mass 1962.

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Defects of the Present Methods of Measuring and Registering the
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Chapelle, Howard I, The Baltimore Clipper, Salem, Mass, 1930.

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Jardine, Matheson & Company, London 1965.

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