Index of shipping information sheets
The Information Centre publishes a number of information sheets, covering the history of Lloyd's Register, the Register of Shipping, popular maritime subjects and sources for researching areas outside the scope of our records. The information sheets can be accessed by clicking on the title in the index (below).
If you have any suggestions for institutions or sources to include in the information sheets or amendments to details currently listed, please email them to: info@lr.org
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Click on the links below to access the relevant Information sheets in pdf format:
1. Addresses for further research
2. Registry of Shipping
3. Lloyd’s Marine collection
4. Useful addresses for historical research in North America and Canada
5. The History of International Yachting and the America’s Cup
6. Useful addresses for research in Australia and New Zealand
7. The Honourable East India Company
8. Research in Ireland
9. Collections of maritime photographs and plans
10. Lloyd’s Register: sources available to historical researchers
11. Shipwreck and Marine: UK Shipwreck Computer Index
12. Shipwrecks: possible sources of information
13. The Wreck Section of the Hydrographic Department (MOD) and hydrographic offices overseas
14. Useful addresses for passenger lines and freighter travel
15. Major classification societies (and London offices where known)
16. Edward Lloyd and his coffee house
17. Collections of the Lloyd’s Register of Ships and associated publications in UK and Ireland
18. Titanic
19. Maritime, antiquarian and specialist booksellers
20. Major maritime museums in Europe
21. Maritime educational and training establishments
22. Fishermen’s associations
23. Sources for schools
24. Useful sources for genealogists
25. 64 shares
26. Useful addresses for research in South Africa
27. Useful addresses for research into Scandinavian ancestry
28. Lloyd’s Register’s Coat of Arms
29. Passenger Lists
30. Modern ship size definitions
31. Lloyd’s Register
32. History of Lloyd’s Register’s Classification Committee
33. Who was that lady?
34. Researching the earliest Registers
35. Classification
36. The Maltese Cross
37. Diesel engine design and manufacture - a history
38. Useful sources for information on immigration and emigration
39. The slave trade
40. Turret ships
41. The meaning of ‘Maru’
43. Mercantile Navy List
44. Making a search using the Lloyd’s Register of Ships
45. Lloyd’s Register/International Maritime Organization (IMO) numbers
46. Collections of the Lloyd’s Register of Ships and associated publications overseas
47. Sources for maritime statistics
49. Online sources for the location of archival collections
52. Sources for offshore industry
53. The IMarEST collection at Lloyd's Register