Example of a very early entry in a Board of Trade Register for 1st class Engineers’ Certificates of Service

Source: TNA: PRO: BT 142/1

James Adams Cert no: 3

Born at Gullane in the County of Haddington 1838

Certified as 1^st Class Engineer at Leith on 4^th April 1863

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1863	1864	1865
28.757 1E DWINA 27.6 -9 - 60 27.7.60 Stettin 11.1.64 Dantzig 64	22940 1E TEMORA 1.2.60 Baltic 14.3 Dantzig 64 6341 1E OSSIAN 14.5 ?Costellia? 1.6 Stettin 64 6.6 Drontheim 7.6 (undecypherable) 16.3 - 13.5	6341 1E OSSIAN 5.1 - 24.1

‘Received Certificate of Competency No 7106’

All three of the above steamships were Leith registered. Whilst the movements and place names are not entirely clear from the original document (the writing being absolutely tiny), these anomalies could be easily sorted out either by tracing their movements from newspaper reports, or more likely by locating the crew-lists and agreements.

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