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Muster roll (reverse)

Muster roll (reverse)

Description:

From ships’ muster roll book, September 1773 – September 1774; Society of Merchant Venturers’ archive.
Muster roll no: 60.
Reverse of muster roll for the ship, The Britannia , from Africa and Jamaica, 1772. This was the ship’s first voyage. Three of the crew seem to have drowned on 20th January 1773, in Jamaica.

The muster roll is a list of all crew signed on for all or part of a voyage, which was used to calculate the money each man should pay to the Sailors Hospital Fund (insurance).

The Society of Merchant Venturers is a Bristol-based organisation, which was formed in 1552 as an elite body of merchants involved in overseas trade. The Society still exists today.

Date: 1772

Copyright: Copyright The Society of Merchant Venturers

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