Shipping collections
These 18th - 20th century collections reflect Liverpool's historic importance as a port city with an active mercantile community.
Research notes and primary research materials
Trading records, logbooks and letter books in the papers of Liverpool historians:
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Archives of shipping firms and personnel
Correspondence, minute books, business records and photographs of shipping lines and personnel trading in or with Liverpool.
- Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd
minutes, registers, letterbooks and photographs, mainly 1878-1960s
- John Swire & Sons Ltd. (MS.25)
copies of original records c.1873-1965 collected by Prof. F.E. Hyde, with his notes
- John Peat & Co.
microfilm copy of letters, 1805-46, concerning trade with Liverpool
- Ward family of North America
John Ward & Sons ships' accounts and correspondence, 1814-44, relating to trade with Liverpool
- Admiral John Pascoe Grenfell (1800-1869)
correspondence, log books, and other material mainly relating to Grenfell's career in the Brazilian navy
- Rathbone family of Liverpool
18th-20th century records of a major Liverpool shipowning family
