The owners of British ships were required by law to register their vessels with the customs officers in a port that was designated as a port of registry. They were then issued with a Certificate of Registry, bearing the vessel's unique Offical Number, and a copy of the certificate was sent to the Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen. On this certificate all subsquent changes in ownership of the notional 64 shares (which represented 100% ownership of the vessel) were to be recorded. Applications for registration had to supply full details of the dimensions, tonnage and engine power of the vessel and the names of the owners. These deatils do not presiely match those given in the records of Harland and Wolff, showing the danger of taking even offical records at face value. Dimensions and tonnage figures were sometimes re-interpruted by owners in order to minimise harbour dues and the way in which the Board of Trade required its measurements differed from those used by the builders.
The Titanic was registered in Liverpool, a port of registry, where the head office of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Compnay Limited was based. The orginal certificate of registry went down with the vessel. This is the registrar-general's copy.
25th March 1912 PRO reference BT 110/426
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| Page One | Page Two |
The Making of History
| Register for Transmission to Registrar-General
of Shipping and Seamen | The Report of
Survey of An Emigrant Ship |
| Titanic's boilers |
Leaving for the New World
| Certificate for Clearance |
Boarding Card | Luggage Stickers |
Steerage - the Aks family |
On Board
| Passenger List | Music
Booklet | Notes for First-Class Passengers
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| 1st Class Dinner Plate |
| First-Class Lunch Menu | The
"Last Dinner" Menu |
Disaster
| Telegraph transcripts from Titanic intercepted
By SS Birma |
Lifeboats and Carpathia
| Photograph of a Survivor climbing aboard
SS Carpathia | Landing Card |
Aftermath
| Correspondence from the White Star Line
to the Board of Trade concerning loss of Titanic |
| Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Worker's
Union |
| The politician's responce | Commemorative
Medal |
British and American Inquiries
| Sub-committee of the Committee on Commerce
of the United States Senate | A
Report on the Loss of the "Titanic" (S.S) |
| Report on the Senate Committee enquiry
report into the loss of the Titanic |