One of the more unusual collections that we have inherited from Bill Lind is a collection of letterheads from various businesses, mainly shipbuilders but lots of smaller assorted businesses are included. Delaine has gone through and organised them all into alphabetical order by business name. We now need to decide what to do with them, whether they will make a collection that an...
The last of the Barons for the last photo post in March is Baron Forbes. Baron Forbes Originally uploaded by ballasttrust There were two Baron Forbes owned by H Hogarth & Co. This is the first one which was built in 1915 in Hamburg for the Oldenburg Portuguese Line and it came to the UK in 1919 as war reparations. The second Baron...
I'm very pleased to announce that the Ballast Trust has been awarded archive pace setter status* for our project to create electronic catalogues using the Archvists' Toolkit. I posted earlier in the week here a little bit about our approach to cataloguing at the Ballast Trust and the role that the Archivists' Toolkit would play in this. This is something that is completely...
As the Ballast Trust carries out work for several different repositories finding cataloguing software that would suit everyone was never going to be possible. Instead we have opted to install and use the Archivists' Toolkit which will allow us to output catalogues as EAD xml files. This should mean that for those repositories using CALM or uploading their catalogues to the Archives Hub they will be...
Another photo from the baron series, this time of the Baron Inchcape. There were two Baron Inchcapes built on the Clyde, the first in 1917 and the second in 1956 by Lithgows. This image is of the 1956 Baron Inchcape. As with the Baron Haig and Baron Vernon, it was built for H Hogarth & Sons of Ardrossan. Specification details are available on...
In my batch upload of the "Bs" the other week there were a few baron pictures. I've featured the Baron Vernon before on the blog. Today is the turn of the Baron Haig. The ship was built for H Hogarth & Co. who were a shipping line registered to Ardrossan Harbour. The majority of their steamships were named 'Baron ...', although they also had...
A lovely row of barges. In order they are: Liverpool, Rebecca, Mary and the Gartshennie. They are sitting in front of the Corinaldo and the Norwegian is across the way. ...
The National Maritime Museum has recently added films to its Flickr pages. They are collected in a set for films which can be browsed here. My particular favourite is this film of weekend steamship cruising from the 1930s and the shots of people playing cricket at sea on board the SS Vienna. ...
At the end of last year, I wrote a post about the article on the Ballast Trust that I'd done for the Italian online journal Culture e Impresa. At that time, the article was only available in Italian but now the english translation is available here. This means that you can all read my article but it also means that the other articles in the...
