Archifdy Ceredigion Archives

Aberystwyth Harbour Records - All records

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1. Ships' Manifests

Box 1 S.S. Countess of Lisburne

617. 4th April, 1903 660. 8th March, 1904

652. 1st Jan., 1904 661. 18th March, 1904

653. 12th Jan., 1904 663. 5th April, 1904

654. 22nd Jan., 1904 678. 30th July, 1904

655. 29th Jan., 1904 700. 30th Dec., 1904

656. 6th Feb., 1904 860. 3rd Jan., 1908

657. 19th Feb., 1904 862. 17th Jan., 1908

658. 26th Feb., 1904 863. 24th Jan., 1908

659. 2nd March 1904

Box 2 S.S. Countess of Lisburne

864. 3rd Feb., 1908 865. 7th Feb., 1908

867 29th Feb., 1908 868. 6th March, 1908

869. 14th March, 1908 870. 20th March, 1908

882. 12th June, 1908 883. 19th June, 1908

884. 26th June, 1908 885. 3rd July 1908

886. llth July 1908 888. 25th July, 1908

Box 3 S.S. Dora

889. 31st July 1908 890. 7th Aug., 1908

891. 14th Aug., 1908 892. 21st Aug., 1908

893. 31st Aug., 1908 894. 5th Sept., 1908

895. 12th Sept., 1908 896. 19th Sept., 1908

141. 4th Aug., 1911

Box 4 S.S. Grosvenor

897. 26th Sept. 1908 2. 23rd Oct., 1908

3. 30th Oct. 1908 4. 6th Nov., 1908

6. 20th Nov. 1908 15. 5th Feb., 1909

16. 12th Feb., 1909 17. 19th Feb., 1909

18. 26th Feb., 1909 19. 5th March, 1909

20. 12th March, 1909 24. 10th April, 1909

25. 17th April, 1909 26. 23rd April, 1909

27. 3rd May, 1909

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Box 5 S. S. Grosvenor

28. 7th May, 1909 29. 14th May 1909

40. 7th Aug., 1909 41. 13th Aug., 1909

52. 5th Nov., 1909 53. 13th Nov., 1909

59. 31st Dec., 1909 60. 8th Jan., 1910

61. 15th Jan., 1910


Box 6 S.S. Grosvenor

62. 22nd Jan., 1910 63. 29th Jan., 1910

64. 4th Feb., 1910 65. 12th Feb., 1910

71. 4th April, 1910 72. 9th April,1910

73. 15th April, 1910 84. 2nd July, 1910

115. 3rd Feb., 1911 116. 10th Feb., 1911

117. 17th Feb., 1911


Box 7 S.S. Grosvenor

124. 7th April, 1911 130. 19th May, 1911

133. 9th June, 1911 134. 16th June, 1911

136. 1st July, 1911 137. 7th July, 1911

138. 15th July, 1911 142. llth Aug., 1911

143. 26th Aug., 1911 144. 2nd Sept. 1911

145. llth Sept., 1911 146. 16th Sept.,1911

147. 22nd Sept., 1911 148. 30th Sept. 1911

149. 6th Oct., 1911 150. 13th Oct., 1911


Box 8 S.S. Grosvenor

151. 20th Oct., 1911 152. 27th Oct., 1911

153. 3rd Nov., 1911 154. llth Nov., 1911

155. 27th Nov., 1911 156. 1st Dec. 1911

157. llth Dec., 1911 158. 19th Dec. 1911

159. 30th Dec., 1911

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Box 8 [continued]

188. 9th Aug., 1912 189. 16th Aug.., 1912

190. 24th Aug., 1912 191. 31st Aug., 1912

192. 9th Sept. 1912 194. 21st Sept., 1912

195. 27th Sept. 1912

Box 9 S.S. Grosvenor

206. 20/21st Dec., 1912 207. 1st Jan., 1913

208. 10th Jan., 1913 209. 18th Jan., 1913

210. 27th Jan., 1913 211. 3rd Feb., 1913

212. 10th Feb., 1913 213. 14th Feb., 1913

215. 4th March 1913 216. 13th March 1913

217. 22nd March 1913 218. 2nd April 1913

219. 12th April 1913 220. 21st April 1913

Box 10 S.S. Grosvenor

221. 25th April 1913 222. 2nd May 1913

224. 16th May 1913 225. 23rd May 1913

226. 30th May 1913 227. 6th June 1913

228. 12th June 1913 243. 27th Sept. 1913

244. 3rd Oct., 1913 245. 10th Oct., 1913

246. 20th Oct., 1913 247. 27th Oct., 1913

248. 31st Oct., 1913

Box 11 S.S.Grosvenor

249. 14th Nov., 1913 250. 24th Nov., 1913

252. 9th Dec., 1913 253. 12th Dec., 1913

254. 19th Dec., 1913 266. 3rd April 1914

267. 9th April 1914 268. 18th April 1914

270. 4th May 1914 271. 18th May 1914

272. 22nd May 1914 280. 20th July 1914

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Box 12 S.S. Grosvenor


281. 24th July, 1914 282. 31st July 1914

283. 10th Aug., 1914 284. 14th Aug., 1914

285. 21st Aug., 1914 286. 28th Aug., 1914

287. 5th Sept. 1914 288. 18th Sept. 1914

289. 25th Sept. 1914 290. 3rd Oct,, 1914

291. 9th Oct., 1914 292. 16th Oct., 1914

293. 23rd Oct., 1914 294. 30th Oct., 1914

295. 6th Nov., 1914 296. 16th Nov., 1914

297. 20th Nov., 1914


Box 13 S.S. Grosvenor

298. 30th Nov., 1914 299. llth Dec., 1914

300. 21st Dec., 1914

Two boxes of unidentified fragments


Harbour Records; Financial

1. Cash Journals containing records of

transactions, freight charges, labour costs

etc. fragmentary, Feb. 1900 - June 1905

2. Labour Accounts: wages of the crew of the

S.S. Grosvenor, Jan. - Dec. 1912

3. 'Labour Accounts'; details of expenses on

voyages of the S.S. Grosvenor,

Jan. - Sept. 1912

4. Harbour dues and rents

1. Revised copy of harbour dues, 1898

2. Harbour dues list, 1900, with note [on

reverse] of dues uncollected, March 1900;

dues payable, March - Sept. 1900;

dues collected, Sept. 1900

3. Half-year rent due, Aug - Sept. 1900

4. Rents due for offices and stores on

Rofawr, Sept. 1906, Sept. 1912, Dec. 1913

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4. Harbour dues and rents [continued]

5. Receipts for harbour dues: Caernarfon,

Feb. - May 1912; Aberystwyth, Feb. 1902,

April - July 1912; Mersey Docks and

Harbour Board, March - June 1912

6. Payment of salary of harbour master by the

Corporation of Aberystwyth, Sept. 1906

5. Stock

1. Coal storage space at Rofawr, 1895

2. Exports [rough notes], 1902

3. Exports [rough notes], 1903 - 4

4. List of stock [flour and grain] and

consignees, April 1905 - Jan 1906

5. Goods in stock at Aberystwyth [flour and

grain] Oct. 1906

6. Aberystwyth Stock Account: Portmadoc Flour

Mills Co.; list of consignees, 1906

7. List of freight on S.S.Grosvenor, Oct. -

Dec. 1910


6. Receipts

1. Bundle of receipts for cartage of goods;

Gas Light Office, Liverpool; bill to Robert

Owen, Trafalgar Dock, and receipt of same,

March 1912

2. Two receipts relating to the maintenance of

the boiler of the S.S. Grosvenor, 1912

3. Six receipts from the Liverpool and Menai

Straits Steamship Co. Ltd. relating to the

loading of slates, and pilotage, Jan. - May 1912

4. Two receipts from Ismay Imrie & Co. Dockers,

for loading slates, Feb. - May 1912

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Receipts [continued]

5. Four receipts for loading of slates at

Caernarfon, Feb. - Sept. 1912; list of

expenses at Caernarfon, Sept. 1912

6. Liverpool Corporation Waterworks:

receipt for delivery of water to the S.S.

Grosvenor, Feb. 1911

7. Belfast Steamship Co. Ltd.: Accounts for

carriage of goods, April 1904 - March 1912

8. Miscellaneous: unidentified financial

jottings; blank income tax forms

3. Harbour Records; Correspondence

1. Harbourmaster, 1899 - 1909

2. Relating to orders and deliveries, 1905 - 1913

3. Relating to payments and accounts, 1899

[2 items]

4. Relating to William Boundy Krieger and

Co. Ltd., 80 Gracechurch St., London

[in liquidation], 1909 - 1910

5. Miscellaneous, including chart of Liverpool

Bay, 1893

4. Aberystwyth and Aberdovey Steam Packet Co. Ltd;

Legal and Administrative Papers


1. Articles of association, 10th March 1885

2. Reports of Directors, 1906, 1913, 1914;

notice of Directors' meeting, March 1907

3. Blank form letters concerning dividends

4. Blank form letters concerning shares

5. Printed notices concerning raising freight

charges, June 1907, Oct. 1911

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4. Continued..

6. Printed notices re overdue accounts.

7. Notice of cancellation of sailing,

14th Nov. 1911

8. Printed advertisement for the weekly

sailing of the S.S. Countess of

Lisburne, from Aberystwyth to Liverpool

departing Fridays, n.d.

9. Advertisement, received by the company,

for a 'buoyant cover for Ship' Boats'

life-saving appliance, c. 1906

10. Form letter from Haddon and Beavis, Sail

and Steamship Brokers, 83 High St., Southampton

1907; visiting card of same.

11. Cambrian News and Welsh Gazette; accounts

for advertisements, June, Dec. 1911

12. Insurance

1. The West of England Steamship Owners'

Protection and Indemnity Association Ltd. :

list of claims paid [class III], Feb.1912;

receipt for renewal fee for the S.S.

Countess of Lisburne, April 1912

2. Agreement made between W. and H.M. Goulding

Ltd., North Wall, Dublin, and John Owens,

agent for the owner of the S.S.

Grosvenor, for the transport of a cargo

of 170 tons of chemical manure from

Dublin to Cardigan, 20th January 1913;

and bill for loading


13. Memordandum of agreement between the

Aberystwyth and Aberdovey Steam Packet

Company, and Arthur Clifton of 83 Grace-

church St., London, concerning the sale, by

the former to the latter, of the screw

steamer 'Countess of Lisburne', Glasgow,

7th July 1908

14. Letter from H. Graham King and Co.,

Chartered Accountants, concerning the posting

of the manifest books, n.d.

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5. Aberystwyth and Aberdovey Steam Packet Co. Ltd.;

Financial Records


1. Accounts for freight, 1909 - 1913

2. Delivery dockets/advice of charges payable;

1. Vale of Rheidol Light Railway Co.,

Nov. 1911 - May 1912

2. Cambrian Railways Co., May 1912

3. Receipt books, containing details of

delivery and receipt of goods, six volumes

[damaged] and several undated fragments,

1906 - 1916

4. Notebook, containing list of debtors[?]

1904 [?]

6. Aberystwyth and Aberdovey Steam Packet Co. Ltd,

Correspondence

1. Quotations and Estimates, 1905 - 1906

2. Payments and orders, 1906 - 1912

3. Claims, 1906 - 1912

4. Telegraphs, 1906 - 1919

5. Forwarding notes, 1907 - 1914

6. Management of the company, 1908 - 1911

7. S.S. Grosvenor, 1908 - 1912

8. Sale of the S.S. Countess of Lisburne,

1906 - 1908, and the proposed purchase

of other ships, 1907 - 1908


7. Consignment Notes c. 1900 - c. 1914

Groceries and General Provisions

W. Williams and Co. Ltd., 5 Button Street,

Liverpool [2 boxes]

D. Jones and Co., 33 Redcross Street,

Liverpool [2 boxes]

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Groceries and General Provisions [continued]

Morris and Jones, 13 Sir Thomas Street,

Liverpool [2 boxes]

Henry Tate and Sons Ltd, Liverpool [1 box]

R. Davies and Co. Ltd., 16 - 22 Grayson Street

Liverpool [1 box]

G. & J. Nickson and Co. Ltd. [1 box]

Fairrie and Co. Ltd. [1 box]

Crosfields Ltd. [1 file]

Griffiths and Crowshaw, Fruit Merchants,

54 Thomas Street, Liverpool [1 file]

MacFie and Sons [1 file]

Bryant and May, Diamond Match Works [1 file]

Co-operative Wholesale Society [1 file]

J. A. Irving and Co., 25 Victoria Street,

Liverpool [1 file]

Mandeno, Son and Hewitson, 27 - 29 Atherton

Street, Liverpool [1 file]

Grieg Brothers, 11 Preston Street, Liverpool

[1 file]

Wright, Crossley and Co. Ltd., Liverpool

[1 file]

S. H. Perry and Co. Ltd. [1 file]

Jonathan Edmondson and Co., Ltd. [1 file]

Bills & Co. Ltd., 12 Hanover Street,

Liverpool [1 file]

Roberts and Stephen, Fruit Merchants [1 file]

H. J. Heinz and Co. [1 file]

G. Wall and Co. [1 file]

Lever Bros. [1 file]

Miscellaneous [1 box]

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7. continued..

Flour Mills

W. Vernon & Sons [1 box]

Buchanan's Flour Mills [1 box]

City Mills [1 file]

North Shore Mill Co. Ltd. [1 file]

Paul Bros. [Birkenhead] [1 file]

Robert Baxendell and Son [1 file]

Thomas Rigby & Son [1 file]

Miscellaneous [1 box]

Animal Feed

J. Bibby and Sons [1 box]

Miscellaneous [1 box]

Sawmills and Timber Supplies 1 box

Fuel 1 box

Hardware and Building Supplies 2 boxes

Beverages 2 boxes

Fancy Goods 1 box

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7. continued..

Chemists' Supplies

1 box

1 box of unidentified and damaged notes

8. Advice Notes

1. Liverpool, Greenock and Glasgow Steamers,

Aug. 1900 - Aug. 1915

2. M. Langland and Sons, April 1904

3. Manchester Ship Canal Co., Aug. 1907

4. London and North-Western Railway,

Oct. 1907 - May 1914

5. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Co.,

March 1909 - May 1912

6. The Isle of Man Steam Packet Co., Oct. 1913

7. Cheshire Lines Committee, May - June 1914

8. W. Vernon and Sons, Jan. 1916

ACC.908

Ref: CDD/ABM/HA/2

Deposited in the Cardiganshire Record Office by the Harbour Master, Aberystwyth

Harbour per RCAHMW, Crown Buildings, Plas Crug, Aberystwyth, 27th July 1994.

1. Financial

1/1. Register of harbour dues (and enclosed receipts 1955-1959) 1928-1954

1/2. Petty cash book. 1937-1965


2. Records relating to shipping

2/1. Register of vessels arriving at and sailing from Aberystwyth. 1926-1937

2 entries for 1954 and 1972.

2/2. Boatmens' licences. 1943-1961

2/3. Pleasure boat licences. 1943-1967


3. Miscellaneous

3/1. Logbook of Aberystwyth harbour. 1929-1939,

1948-1950

3/2. Notebook re streetlighting: measurements and calculations, n.d.


4. Meteorological Registers

4/1. January 1938 - March 1943

Enclosed reports 1926 - 1932

4/2. April 1958 - August 1959

4/3. July 1959 - May 1961

4/4. January 1971 - March 1972

4/5. March 1972 - April 1973

4/6. May 1973 - April 1974

4/7. May 1974 - May 1975

4/8. June 1975 - June 1976

4/9. July 1976 - July 1977

4/10. August 1977 - August 1978

4/11. September 1978 - August 1979