Ships registers
* Register Veritas 1829-1981 [microfilm]  French shipping records
* Lloyd's register of Shipping 1773 - present. [1773 - 1880 on microfilm]
* British Register of Shipping for Aust. ports [microfilm]. Also hold an alphabetical index by ship name & an index by Official No.
* Register Of Aust. & NZ Shipping/Marine Underwriters Association
* Lloyd's register of Yachts

Other Resources
* Lloyd's List 1741- 1826 [hardcopy] 1838-1884 [microfilm]
* Lloyd's List Index 1838 - 1884 [microfilm]
* Lloyd's Captains Register [microfilm]
* Australian Navy List
* Jane's Fighting Ships 1896 -
* Shipping Company histories
* Reference books including - Log of Logs, Shipping arrivals & departure series,  Dictionaries of Shipping Terms, Oxford Companion to Ships & the Sea. Books on
   individual types of ships & trades, e.g. tea trade, etc And books on Aust. Shipwrecks
* Navy List [very incomplete]
* Shipping Company histories
* Daily Transcripts, copies
* Indexes to photographic collections around Aust. -Mitchell Library SLNSW, La Trobe Library SLVIC

Microfilm copies of archival records from various Aust. collections
* Shipping Masters Office. Index to vessels arrived in Sydney 1837 -1900
* Ships inwards Victoria 1839 - 1900
* Certificates masters, mates & engineers in mercantile marine Sydney 1872-1916
* British Register of Ships. Australian Section

Microfilm copies of shipping registration records from PRO,Kew, UK
* BT111. Great Britain. Register General of Shipping & Seamen, Index to Transcripts 1786 - 1907
* BT 107 Great Britain. Board of Trade, Transcripts & Transcriptions. Series 1.East India & Australia 1826 - 1837
 

They also hold Newspapers [all on microfilm] e.g.
* Argus  * Sydney Morning Herald   * Sydney Gazette  *Australasian Sketcher* Shipping Gazette & Sydney General Trade List 1844 - 1860
* Illustrated Sydney News   * Illustrated London News

Not available
* Passenger Lists
* Photos, sketches or paintings of vessels
* Lloyd's Survey Plans
* Logs or any other official records

The Library staff are really helpful & can often assist with individual inquiries
Contact Info. :- Vaughan Evans Library, GPO Box 5131, Sydney,NSW, 1042,
                      Phone: (02)9298 3734. Fax:- (02)9298 3730
                      Web Site:- http://www.anmm.gov.au
 
 

Shirley Gaunt
Taree, NSW, OZ

21.04.02ef