Mort's Dock and Engineering Company records, 1879-1958

MLMSS 434/Items 1-17, 18a-28
MLMSS 434/Items 29X-84X

fonds

1879-1958

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Cartographic Materials, Drawings, Photographs

897631

20 boxes, 9 volumes and 56 outsize portfolios of textual material

Item 1: Minute book, 20 May 1879 - 18 January 1881

Item 2: Letter books, 21 February 1892 - 29 June 1903; 10 January 1903 - 12 November 1907

Item 3: Docking records, 1940-1946, 1946-1951, 1952-1957

Item 4: Shore measurements for ships in dry dock, 1923-1933, 1933-1950, 1950-1958

Item 5: Arrivals and departures of vessels, 19 January 1938 - 15 April 1955

Item 6: File books, Nos. 1-3

Item 7: Drawer books, Nos. 1-5

Item 8: Employee's time book, 26 November 1890 - 1 September 1892

Item 9: Record of apprentices since 1911

Item 10: Order book, Balmain and Woolwich, 1925-1928

Item 11: Work issue sheets, Balmain dock, 1946-1948

Items 12-13, 15: Receipt butts, Balmain and Woolwich, 1921-1958

Item 14: Papers relating to erection plans for Woolwich floating dock

Item 16: Measurements of ships

Item 18a: Specifications of pilot ship Captain Cook

Items 17, 19-28, 29X-84X: Diagrams, plans and drawings of ships, engines etc. built by the Company
(Maps at M Series 4 000/1 MLMSS 434/18X)

Items 85-94: Miscellaneous records, photographs, drawings etc.

Item 94d: Builder's certificate

Item 95: Detailed list of items

Item 96a: Woolwich Dock pumping records, August 1947 - October 1958, and Occurrence Book, November 1958 - January 1959 (1 volume)

Item 96b: Woolwich Dock Berthing Operations, 10 April 1943 - 23 October 1958 (1 volume)

Item 96c: Woolwich Large Dock repairs to vessels, 4 December 1901 - 8 April 1908 (1 volume)

Item 96d: Woolwich Graving Dock repairs to vessels, 6 May 1908 - 2 May 1923 (1 volume)

Items 97a-l: Receipts for regulations concerning docking etc. of ships at Woolwich Dock, 28 February 1916 - 23 October 1958 (12 volumes in 1 box)

Items 98a-j: Receipts for regulations etc. at Pontoon Dock, 16 March 1916 - 26 June 1925, and receipts for regulations etc. at Docks, 29 December 1920 - 23 July 1929 (10 volumes in 1 box)

Items 99a-n: Daily records of repairs to ships in dock, 8 April 1903 - 24 August 1916 (14 volumes in 1 box)

Items 100a-o: Daily records of repairs to ships in dock, 25 August 1916 - 11 January 1930 (15 volumes in 1 box)

Items 101a-h: Details of shoring records of repairs to ships in dock, 3 December 1901 - 16 November 1938. Pages numbered continuously from vol. to vol. pp. 1-1158. Index in separate volume, A-Q only. Some pages in index are headed Iron Dock (8 volumes in 1 box)

Item 102a: Details of repairs to ships, 1935 - 25 November 1943. Volume labelled Propeller Pitches. Some rough diagrams of propellers and tables of figures are pasted over first 18 pages of volume (1 volume)

Item 102b: List of ships with repairs to propellers according to size of propeller. Volume labelled Propellers. Index at end of volume. Dates in index range from 28 February 1878 to 4 June 1953 (1 volume)

Item 102c: Volume labelled Propellers and shafts stored in works - spare gear, 8 May 1940 - 14 September 1959 (1 volume)

Item 103a: Record of ships in Pontoon Dock, 17 December 1901 - 21 August 1916 (1 volume)

Item 103b: Index to vessels in Pontoon Dock (does not seem to refer to item 103a) (1 volume)

Item 103c: Iron Dock record of ships, January 1902 - 26 June 1908 (1 volume)

Items 103d-g: Records of repairs to ships in dock, 5 September 1906 - 19 September 1907; 24 November 1938 - 13 October 1958; 29 June 1955 - 16 October 1958; 22 April 1958 - 24 October 1958 (4 volumes)

Item 103h: Index to ships in Iron Dock and Pontoon Dock (first pages torn off and stuck to cover of volume of daily record of repairs to ships in dock, 17 May 1917 - 23 February 1918 - Item 100b) (1 volume)

Items 104a-b: Records of measurements of ships in dock, 3 December 1901 - 17 May 1944 and 17 June 1944 - 13 October 1958 (2 volumes)

This collection includes maps at M Ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 434/18

Information transferred from Manuscripts Leaf Catalogue No. 2 as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010