Four
examples of Great War ‘Confidential Circulars’
Source: GL: uncatalogued: Lloyd’s Captains Register Confidential
Circulars
Headed as ‘LLOYD’S
CAPTAINS’ REGISTER - CONFIDENTIAL Report from Registrar General of Seamen’ with
a date and a page number
13th December 1915 573
|
Name of Officer and No. of Certificate |
Report |
|
WILLIAM MATTISAT 036040 (A naturalised British subject of German
birth who made use of words contrary to the spirit of his oath of allegiance) |
Convicted at South Shields Police Court
under the Defence of the Realm Regulations on the 10th November,
1915, and fined £25 or 2 months’ imprisonment in default. The Board of Trade cancelled his
Certificate as Master, Number 036040 on the 18th November, 1915,
under the provisions of Sec.469, Merchant Shipping Act, 1894. |
24th January 1917 582
|
Name of Officer and No. of Certificate |
Report |
|
EVAN FRANCIS THOMAS O.C. 025,742 (Error of judgment (sic), not taking
soundings and prematurely abandoning vessel) |
By the Official Report, dated the 25th
October, 1916, of a Court of Inquiry held at Westminster into the
circumstances attending the loss of the S.S. "QUEBRA", O.N.
132,673, off Great Blasket Island on the 23rd
August, 1916, the Court found the Master, Evan Francis Thomas, in default and
suspended his Certificate as Master, No. 025,742, for a period of 6 Months. |
14th November 1917 584
|
Name of Officer and No. of Certificate |
Report |
|
THOMAS JONES O.C. 039,081 Assault on 3 seamen. |
Convicted at Woolwich Police Court on
6.2.17 of offences and sentenced to three terms of 2 calendar months
imprisonment with H.L. the terms to run consecutively. Cert. cancelled by the Board of Trade
12.3.17 |
14th November 1917 587
|
Name of Officer and No. of Certificate |
Report |
|
JAMES RICHARDSON O.C. 010,283 (Drunkeness on
high seas) |
Convicted at Devonport on 10.9.1917, of an
offence and sentence (sic) to 3 months imprisonment and to pay a fine of £50.
Cert. as Master, No. 010,283, cancelled by
the Board of Trade 3.10.1917. |
On some entries in
the main captains’ register and the card index systems the page numbers are
often quoted, but not always. On some entries, such as in the case of Evan
Francis Thomas there are other and better sources quoted on the L.C.R. entries
and elsewhere. However, in others, such as William Mattisat,
the ‘Confidential Circular’ gives a fuller account.
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