CONTACT ADDRESS
The following is a list of contact addresses for various archives, maritime organisations or institutions whose collections include the primary documents required in tracing British Merchant and Royal Navy ships and seamen.
The Public Record Office, Ruskin Avenue, Kew, Surrey, TW9 4DU 0181-876-3444 http://www.pro.gov.uk
Family Record Centre, Myddleton Place, London EC1 1UW 0181-392-5300 http://www.pro.gov.uk
The National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF 0181-858-4422 http://www.nmm.ac.uk/
The Guildhall Library, Aldermanbury, London EC2P 2EJ0171-606-3030 http://www.earl.org.uk/partners/corp_of_london/guildhal.htm
The Registry of Shipping and Seamen, Anchor House, Cheviot Close, Parc-Ty-Glas, Llanishen, Cardiff CF4 5JA
Lloyds Register of Shipping, 100 Leadenhall Street, London, EC3A 3BP http://www.lr.org/
Maritime History Archive, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, Newfoundland, Canada A1C 5S7 http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~mha/
Ministry of Defence, CS(R)2E, Bourne Avenue, Hayes, Middlesex
Glasgow University Archives and Business Records Centre, http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/
Glasgow City Archives http://www.glasgow.gov.uk/gcl/home.htm
National Archives of Scotland (NAS) formerly Scottish records Office(SRO). H.M.General Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3YY. Tel : 0131 535 1314. Email : mailto:research@sro.gov.uk,
National Archives of Canada - Borrow Microfilm - ILL http://www.archives.ca/exec/naweb.dll?fs&020207&e&top&0
National Archives of Canada - Send an inquiry http://www.archives.ca/02/020209/gen_inq_form.html
National Archives of Canada - Obtain copies of Records http://www.archives.ca/exec/naweb.dll?fs&020206&e&top&0
For those who do not know For the UK (also read below re USA etc) Whitepages go to http://www.bt.co.uk/phonenetuk/
For the Australian Whitepages go to http://www.whitepages.com.au/
Great Lakes & Seaway Shipping Neil Schultheiss ncschult@oakland.edu http://www.boatnerd.com/
The Mariners' Museum Research Library & Archives 100 Museum Drive Newport News, VA 23606-3759 http://www.mariner.org/
For the New Zealand Whitepages go to http://www.whitepages.co.nz/
For the U.S.A. Whitepages (AND OTHERS - including the UK) go to http://www.realwhitepages.com/info.bls/index.htm An interesting point with this one is that you can also list the neighbouring area, ie neighbours of the selected person.
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