Voyage account books

• Reference:GB 248 UGC 199/2/1
• Dates of Creation:1878-1922
• Physical Description:
  43 volumes.

• Scope and Content

  Voyage account books for steam ships owned by the company. Each volume typically records: voyage number, voyage date(s), ports of call, costs expended on stores, victualling, repairs, pilotage, insurance, crew wages (includes name and rank) and earnings from cargo carried. A net profit or loss for each voyage is recorded. The first volume for each ship contains details of ship's "first cost" and the ship's particulars at the front. Annual entries have been made detailing the "General account", "Insurance account", "Charges account" and "Owner's account" throughout each volume.

  For ships and time periods:

  • Cramond, 1919-1920;
  • Cronstadt, 1907-1922;
  • Czar, 1879-1898;
  • Kara, 1921-1922;
  • Ladoga, 1914-1918;
  • Moscow I, 1881-1890;
  • Moscow II, 1891-1918;
  • Onega II, 1920-1922;
  • Petersburg I, 1878-1890;
  • Petersburg II / Petrograd, 1891-1922;
  • Reval, 1898-1922;
  • Stirling, 1878-1881;
  • Twilight / Onega II, 1918-1919.

• Arrangement

  Arranged alphabetically by ship name within record series.