Records of Lloyd's Register comprising:
General Committee minutes, 1833-1969 (closed from 1939 onwards); Surveyors Committee reports and minutes 1838-1899; Visitation Committee reports and minutes, 1867-1875 (Visitation committee records for other years are part of the Surveyors Committee records);
Lloyd's Register list of officers, 1834-1950 (closed from 1939 onwards);
copy letter books, of John Cummings, surveyor of Greenock, 1834-1840;
copy letter book of Bernard Weymouth, Secretary to Lloyd's Register, c.1880s;
minutes of overseas committees, 1914-present (incomplete); surveyors technical papers, 1880s-present; personnel records, 1920-1960s (closed); some photographs 1970s-present, a number of glass plate negatives;
research papers [1914-1940s] of Sir Westcott Abell, (1877-1961) naval architect and surveyor, employed by Lloyd's Register, 1914-1928; and research papers [1930s-1970s] of Dr Simon Archer (1907-1997) employed by Lloyd's Register, 1936-1974.
Publications including:
Annual Reports, 1907-1998 (incomplete);
Register of Ships, 1764-present; Lloyd's Register of Yachts, 1878-1980; Lloyd's Register of Classed Yachts, 1981-2000; Lloyd's Register of American Yachts, 1904-1977; British Corporation Register 1893-1947; Underwriters' Register for Iron Vessels, 1862-1884; (World) Shipbuilding Returns 1888-present; Statistical Tables (World Fleet Statistics) 1878-present; and Casualty Returns, 1890-present.
Register Society , 1760-1834 Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping , 1834-1914 Lloyd's Register of Shipping , 1914-2003 Lloyd's Register , 2003-