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Acc. 3743
Ref: MUS/463 Reference: [GB 0212] MUS/463
Date(s): 1870-1906
Level: Fonds
Extent: 72 items
Scope and content: Papers relating to the life and career of David Lewis, including discharge certificates, letters of reference etc.
MUS/463/1-58. Certificates of discharge (unless stated otherwise), and letters of referenceMUS/463/1.
Warrior of P & Island, 497 tons: Swansea, 21 August 1869 - foreign - Swansea, 2 February 1870: bosun
MUS/463/2.
Golden City of South Shields, 1,347 tons: South Shields, 15 November 1871 - Mediterranean - London, 2 September 1872: mate
MUS/463/3. Letter of reference certifying that D. Lewis had served as 2nd officer on the ship
Golden City, David Jones, master
MUS/463/4.
Admiral Fitzroy of Swansea, 377 tons: Swansea, 2 May 1873 - San Francisco - Plymouth, 19 May 1874: 2nd mate
MUS/463/5. Letter of reference certifying that D. Lewis had served as 2nd mate on the barque
Admiral Fitzroy, G.J. Prance master, on a voyage to San Francisco, at Plymouth, 19 May 1874: note in pencil, 'Dreaming on Friday night the 26 of May 1876 that my dear wife and myself were parting forever in this world'
MUS/463/6.
Island Belle of P & Island, 313 tons: Swansea, 17 August 1874 - River Plate and Iquique - Leith, 20 August 1875: mate
MUS/463/7. Letter of reference certifying that D. Lewis had served as mate on the barque
Island Belle, David Thomas master, in foreign trade, at Plymouth, 30 October 1875
MUS/463/8.
Windsor Castle of London, 613 tons: Swansea, 6 May 1876 - foreign - Liverpool 5 March 1877: mate
MUS/463/9. Letter of reference certifying that D. Lewis had served as chief officer on the barque
Windsor Castle, Henry Rowlands master, for 12 months around the West coast, 30 March 1877
MUS/463/10.
Robert Hine of Liverpool, 327 tons: Swansea, 13 July 1877 - Chile - Swansea, 27 December 1878: mate
MUS/463/11.
Robert Hine of Liverpool, 327 tons: London, 24 February 1879 - foreign - Hamburg, 12 April 1880: mate
MUS/463/12. Letter of reference certifying that D. Lewis had served as chief officer on the barque
Robert Hine, Edward Hall master, on two lengthy voyages to the South Pacific Ocean, at Liverpool, 12 April 1880
MUS/463/13. Letter of reference from Hine Brothers, Ship Owners of Maryport, certifying that D. Lewis had served as mate on the barque
Robert Hine for three years and regretting that they were unable to offer him the master's situation of which he was considered worthy, 16 August 1880
MUS/463/14.
Camelot of Caernarvon, 369 tons: Glasgow, 10 September 1881 - Rio Grande - Liverpool, 26 May 1882: mate
MUS/463/15.
Glen Holme of Maryport, 532 tons, 96hp: Workington, 2 February 1883 - foreign - Maryport, 27 July 1883: mate
MUS/463/16.
Camelot of Caernarvon, 380 tons: Cardiff, 3 August 1882 - foreign - Adelaide, 13 December 1883: mate
MUS/463/17.
Aldergrove of Glasgow, 1,271 tons: Walleroo, 19 January 1884 - Cork, 12 June 1884: 2nd mate
MUS/463/18. Letter of reference certifying that D. Lewis had served as second mate on the ship
Aldergrove, Joseph Briggs, master, on her voyage from South Australia to Falmouth and thence to Cork, at Cork, 14 June 1884
MUS/463/19.
Glen Holme of Maryport, 532 tons, 96hp: Liverpool, 24 December 1894 - (running agreement) - Workington, 31 January 1885: mate
MUS/463/20.
Glen Holme of Maryport, 532 tons, 96hp: Maryport, 27 July 1885 - (foreign running agreement - Greenock, 17 January 1886: mate
MUS/463/21.
Glen Holme of Maryport, 532 tons, 96hp: Greenock, 18 January 1886 - (running agreement) - Workington, 29 June 1886: mate
MUS/463/22.
Glen Holme of Maryport, 532 tons, 96hp: Workington, 29 June 1886 - ?Windan - Liverpool, 6 August 1886: mate
MUS/463/23.
Glen Holme of Maryport, 532 tons, 96hp: Workington, 18 August 1886 - (run agreement) - Swansea, 24 December 1886: mate
MUS/463/24.
Glen Holme of Maryport, 532 tons, 96hp: Workington, 9 April 1887 - (run agreement) - Newport, 30 June 1887: mate
MUS/463/25.
Glen Holme of Maryport, 532 tons, 96hp: Newport, 30 June 1887 - foreign - Maryport, 2 August 1887: mate
MUS/463/26.
Glen Holme of Maryport, 532 tons, 96hp: Maryport, 5 August 1887 - foreign running agreement - Greenock, 19 December 1887: mate
MUS/463/27.
Glen Holme of Maryport, 532 tons, 96hp: Greenock, 17 January 1888 - running agreement - Greenock, 1 July 1888: mate
MUS/463/28.
Glen Holme of Maryport, 532 tons, 96hp: Greenock, 2 July 1888 - Mediterranean - Lyon, 9 November 1888: mate
MUS/463/29. Letter of reference certifying that D. Lewis had served as chief officer on the SS
Glen Holme for nearly four years, at King's Lynn, 8 November 1888
MUS/463/30. Letter of reference from Hine Brothers, Ship Owners of Maryport, certifying that D. Lewis had served as mate on the SS
Glen Holme for nearly four years, 16 January 1889
[
Glen Holme was lost after being in collision with the
Margaret Banks off Islay, 28 May 1893]
MUS/463/31.
John Stevenson of Whitby, 598 tons, 144hp: Cardiff, 5 April 1889 - Constantinople - Newport, Monmouth, 12 June 1889: mate
MUS/463/32. Letter of reference certifying that D. Lewis had served as an officer on the barque
John Stevenson, C.G. Clark, master, at Newport, 13 June 1879
MUS/463/33.
Kate B. Jones of Cardiff, 1,285 tons, 180hp: Cardiff, 19 June 1889 - Mediterranean - Leith, 3 August 1889: 2nd mate
MUS/463/34.
Kate B. Jones of Cardiff, 1,285 tons, 180hp: Leith, 15 August 1889 - Savona - Cardiff, 15 January 1890: 2nd mate
MUS/463/35. ?
Lesreaube of Cardiff, 862 tons, 99hp: Newport, 28 January 1890 - trading - Cardiff, 5 July 1890: 2nd mate
MUS/463/36.
Ebbw Vale of Cardiff, 870 tons, 99hp: Cardiff, 5 July 1890 - trading - vessel wrecked, 9 January 1891: mate
MUS/463/37. Letter of reference certifying that D. Lewis had served as mate on the SS
Ebbw Vale, James Tippert, master, at Cardiff, 23 January 1891
MUS/463/38.
Gwentland of Cardiff, 984 tons, 120hp: Cardiff, 20 February 1891 - trading foreign - Newport, 13 July 1891: mate
MUS/463/39.
Gwentland of Cardiff, 984 tons, 120hp: Newport, 13 July 1891 - ?Mediterranean - Glasgow, 9 March 1892: 1st mate
MUS/463/40.
Gwentland of Cardiff, 984 tons, 120hp: Glasgow, 14 March 1892 - foreign - Antwerp, 5 August 1892: chief mate
MUS/463/41. Letter of reference certifying that D. Lewis had served as chief officer on the SS
Gwentland and had left through sickness, at Antwerp, 5 August 1892
MUS/463/42.
Collivaud of Cardiff, 949 tons, 132hp: Cardiff, 12 January 1893 - trading - Sharpness, 9 June 1893: mate
MUS/463/43.
Collivaud of Cardiff, 949 tons, 132hp: Sharpness, 6 July 1893 - trade - Cardiff, 15 January 1894: mate
[Built at Bute Docks in 1886, the
Collivaud was renamed
Balham and in 1938-9 was the Istanbul registered
Suat]
MUS/463/44.
Merthyr of Cardiff, 1,353 tons, 99hp: Cardiff, 15 February 1894 - Huelva - Glasgow, 1 July 1894: mate
MUS/463/45.
Merthyr of Cardiff, 879 tons, 99hp: Glasgow, 13 July 1894 - trading - Cardiff, 10 November 1894
MUS/463/46.
Merthyr of Cardiff, 879 tons, 99hp: Cardiff, 27 November 1894 - trading - Cardiff, 10 January 1895: mate
MUS/463/47.
Merthyr of Cardiff, 879 tons, 99hp: Cardiff, 15 January 1895 - trading - Cardiff, 14 February 1895: mate
MUS/463/48.
Merthyr of Cardiff, 879 tons, 99hp: Cardiff, 27 February 1895 - trading - Cardiff, 27 June 1895: mate
MUS/463/49.
Merthyr of Cardiff, 879 tons, 99hp: Cardiff, 2 July 1895 - trading - Cardiff, 21 September 1895: mate
MUS/463/50. Letter of reference certifying that D. Lewis had served as chief officer on the SS
Merthyr, P. ?Hannon, master, at Cardiff, 22 September 1895
MUS/463/51.
Merthyr of Cardiff, 879 tons, 99hp: Cardiff, 28 October 1895 - trading - Cardiff, 23 December 1895: mate
MUS/463/52.
Dowlais of Cardiff, 758 tons, 99hp: Newport, 10 June 1896 - trading - Cardiff, 2 July 1896: mate
MUS/463/53.
Dowlais of Cardiff, 758 tons, 99hp: Cardiff, 6 July 1896 - trading - Cardiff, 19 January 1897: mate
MUS/463/54. Letter of reference certifying that D. Lewis had served as mate on the SS
Dowlais, W. Mills, master, at Cardiff, 18 November 1896
MUS/463/55.
Dowlais of Cardiff, 758 tons, 99hp: Cardiff, 26 January 1897 - running agreement, foreign - Cardiff, 26 June 1897: mate
MUS/463/56.
Dowlais of Cardiff, 758 tons, 99hp: Cardiff, 30 June 1897 - trading - Newport, 30 December 1897: mate
MUS/463/57. Letter of reference certifying that D. Lewis had served on the SS
Dowlais, at Cardiff, 11 December 1897
MUS/463/58.
Dowlais of Cardiff, 758 tons, 99hp: Newport, 31 December 1897 - running agreement, foreign - Newport, 18 January 1898: mate
MUS/463/59. Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade Certificate of Competency as Master, made out to David Lewis, 15 Pontyleifon, Cardigan, issued at Plymouth.
3 December 1875
MUS/463/60. The Shipping Federation (Limited) Benefit Fund Benefit Certificate in leather wallet: issued from Clyde District to David Lewis of Godrerhycer, Cardiganshire, b. 1843, height 5' 7", fair complexioned with greyish hair, hazel eyes and a scar under left ear, 15 March 1892. List following service in Federation:
* First mate,
Gwentland, January 1891 - 5 August 1892
* First mate,
Collivaud 12 January 1893 - 15 January 1894
* First mate,
Merthyr, 13 March 1894 - 13 July 1894; 13 July - 10 November 1894; 27 November 1894 - 10 January 1895
* Mate,
Merthyr, 6 February 1895 - ; 21 January 1896 -
* Mate,
Dowlais, 10 June 1896 -
MUS/463/61. Manuscript, list of instructions for use of compass in determining a vessel's true course.
1 July 1894
MUS/463/62. Shipping Federation Registration Ticket issued to David Lewis as master. With renewal stamps up to 28 February 1897
15 March 1892
MUS/463/63. Testimony of sale of plot measuring 2 feet square in the field of Temple Bar farm called Castilemesarffordd to David Lewis, master mariner, of Pencestill, parish of Penbryn, by Samuel Evans of Newport, for £2 10s.
26 May 1900
MUS/463/64. J. Benjamin Griffiths, tenant of messuage, garden and land called Soarfach, at £2 10s p/a from 29 September 1900, from Captain Lewis of Pencestill, Penbryn, Griffiths by mark, witness, D. Davies, Solicitor, Cardigan.
1900
MUS/463/65. Receipt submitted to Mr David Lewis, Troedyrhiw, in respect of Mary Anne Lewis, deceased, by George & Son & Davies, Cardigan.
28 January 1898; 14 February 1898
MUS/463/66. Carriage license, Capt. Lewis, Penycestyll.
5 January 1904
MUS/463/67. Receipt, suit of clothes bought by Capt. Lewis of David James' Clothing Establishment, Priory Street, Cardigan, £2 4s.
23 August 1904
MUS/463/68. Receipt, for sum of £7 from Capt. David Lewis, Pencestyll, for preparing and completing conveyance and mortgage of fields formerly part of Sychpant Farm, Penbryn, George & Son & Davies, Cardigan
22 December 1905
MUS/463/69. District Council notice of a public nuisance under the Local Government Acts to Capt. Lewis, namely the unsatisfactory state of the deep well at Sychbant, and requiring that the wall about it be built up another nine inches.
20 December 1906
MUS/463/70-71. Stamp receipts for payments of £3 10s, half year's interest due on £200 mortgage to Messrs. T. Lloyd and others of Newquay, from Capt. D. Lewis.
9 January 1907 and 11 May 1906
MUS/463/72. Unused 6d stamp paper