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:
- Eric Hardwicke Rideout
includes transcripts of Customs Houses letter books
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 (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
See Shipping collections in the Highlights gallery
- Launch of the Queen Elizabeth 1938
- Valentine's Day menus
- Launch of the QE2
- Cunard jigsaw of the Queen Mary