Tag: Merchant navy Records and researchTracing merchant seamen in the 19th centuryTuesday 17 September 2024Thanks to our offsite volunteers it's now easier to research 19th century life at...Records and researchGarveyism: A letter from the black working classThursday 25 August 2022Some years ago a letter in our collection from a group of black working-class...Archives and archivistsCracking the code of mid-19th century Merchant Navy seaman service recordsMonday 16 May 2022The Merchant Navy Port Rotation Numbers project is a collaboration between Pete and Jan...Records and researchForgotten victims of war: Black merchant seamen interned in the Second World WarFriday 29 October 2021To mark the end of Black History Month I would like to share with...Records and researchThe food here is terrible: Accounts of Merchant Seamen interned in the Second World WarSunday 6 June 2021The series BT 373 Merchant Seamen Prisoner of War Records, Second World War, comprises...Archives and archivistsA face through time: Further opening up our prisoner of war recordsThursday 18 June 2020There are millions of stories, both personal and political, buried inside the hundreds of...Records and researchThe Fourth Service: Cataloguing merchant seamen in the Second World WarMonday 1 June 2020To celebrate National Volunteers’ Week, today we focus our attention on the subject of...Records and researchWar at Sea: Privateers and Prize PapersTuesday 14 April 2020When I think of war at sea, my mind turns to images of Trafalgar...Records and researchA lot to be excited about – Admiralty Allotment RegistersFriday 22 February 2019Finding next-of-kin details for men who served in the Royal Navy and the Royal...Records and researchThe Medway Raid and 17th century maritime warfareThursday 22 June 2017The Medway Raid was the final and decisive major operation of the Second Anglo-Dutch...Records and researchMerchant Navy ships’ official logs projectTuesday 13 June 2017Starting in 2014, The National Archives recruited volunteers to transcribe the information contained in...Records and researchMerchant Navy shipwrecks in the First World WarFriday 17 February 2017Battles and diplomacy tend to dominate the narrative of the war, but little of... 1 2 »