Catalogue

Minute book of meetings of the Directors of Sir R. Ropner and Company (London) Limited, 30 September 1950 - 28 March 1967

Accounts ledger of the following companies: The Pool Shipping Company Limited; Sir R. Ropner and Company Limited; The Ropner Shipping Company Limited; and of the voyages of individual ships; July 1942 - March 1967 The ships named are as follows: Ashby; Ainderby; Empire Arnold; Bridgepool; Empire Chapman; Empire Clarion; Clearpool; Cragpool; Criton; Empire Cabot; Daleby; Danby; Domby; Drakepool; Empire Dryden; Empire Elgar; Fishpool; Fort George; Fort Pelly; Fort Brule; Fort Coulonge; Fort Finlay; Fort Rampart; Fort Stager; Fort Cadotte; Fort Wellington; Empire Friendship; Fort de Douamont; Fort Miami; Fort Henley; Fort Toulouse; Fort Beausejour; Empire Grenfell; Gullpool; Empire Grange; Empire Hythe; Ivan; Ivan Topic; Empire Johnson; Karmen; Empire Kingsley; Kersten Miles (renamed Empire Lark); Kingpool; Empire Kittiwake; Kong Sverre; Lackenby; Ljubica Matkovic; Empire Lark; Empire Lorenzo; Empire Lionel; Manespool; Marie Bakke; Empire Merlin; Moorby; Empire Moonbeam; Empire Moonrise; Empire Mouflon; Nikolina Matkovic; Norfolk; Olga Topic; Ocean Vengeance; Otterpool; Empire Outpost; Empire Oykell; Empire Pagoda; Empire Ptarmigan; Empire Purcell; Empire Rainbow; Reedpool; Rockpool; Romanby; Roxby; Rudby; Rushpool; S.S. Samsuva; Samsylarna; Empire Salmonpool; Seapool; Somersby; Empire Soar; Stagpool; Stonepool; Swiftpool; Swainby; Stirlingville; Empire Sunbeam; Sedgepool; Thirlby; Empire Trent; Trepca; Troutpool; Empire Tide; Ullapool; Vest; Vis; Wearpool; Empire Weaver; Empire Woodcock; Yearby

Account book of the voyages of individual ships, June 1946 - July 1971 The ships named are as follows: Yearby; Domby; Moorby; Danby; Swainby; Thirlby; Bellerby; Fort Henley; Fort Coulonge; Ingleby; Oakby; Firby; Hurworth; Rudby; Daleby; Massel Bay; Walvis Bay; Somersby; Thornaby; Romanby; Wandby; Barlby; Norse Viking

Account ledger of the voyages of individual ships, as follows: Bridgepool; Rushpool; Stonepool; Willowpool, May 1965 - January 1968

Account ledger of the voyages of individual ships, as follows: Bridgepool; Stonepool; Wandby, February 1971 - February 1976

Account book of the Rudby, 1 November 1977 - 23 June 1980

Charter Party contract, between R. Ropner and Company and the Austro-Hungarian Lloyd's Steam Navigation Company, for the transport of coal to Constantinople, Turkey, on board the steamship, Gledholt, 17 March 1885

Charter Party contract, between Messrs. Jackson Brothers and Messrs. Lambert Brothers, to transport coal to Malta on board the Alverton, 1 February 1886

Charter Party contract, between R. Ropner and Company and La Cie. Des Charbons Et Usines A' Briquettes De L'Quest, to transport coal to Sables d'Orlonne, France, on board the Hardwick, 17 December 1886

Charter Book, containing contracts and correspondence, 2 June 1887 - 3 September 1889

Charter Party contracts for the following ships: Haxby, Brookby, Ormsby, and Ironopolis, 3 September 1889 - 31 October 1911

Charter Book, Number 6, containing contracts and correspondence, 28 February 1948 - 19 October 1955

Charter Book, Number 28, containing contracts and correspondence, 9 May 1962 - 30 March 1967

File of Charter Party contracts and correspondence, 9 October 1963 - 18 July 1968

Ledger of ships' fuel consumption, giving details of voyages, 3 June 1945 - 25 September 1966 The ships named are as follows: Bellerby, Bridgepool, Cedarpool, Clearpool, Cragpool, Danby, Domby, Daleby, Deerpool, Darlby, Empire Ely, Gullpool, Fort Brule, Ford Coulonge, Fort Finlay, Fort George, Fort Henley, Firby, Golden Comet, Heronspool, Hurworth, Ingleby, Lake Atlin, Levenpool, Oakby, Moorby, Mussel Bay, Pikepool, Preston, Romanby, Rudby, Rushpool, Salmonpool, Seapool, Sedgepool, Silver Comet, Somersby, Stagpool, Swainsby, Swiftpool, Thirlby, Thornaby, Walvis Bay, Wandby, Wearpool, Wellington, Willowpool, and Yearby

Register of voyages of the Appleby, Ravenscraig, Farland, Rudby, Salmonpool, Stonepool, Barlby, Golden Comet, Silver Comet, Lake Atlin, and Romanby, 2 January 1965 - 26 September 1987

Survey report on the Seaton, 23 May 1871

Survey report on the Wave, 3 May 1887

Insurance account book of individual ships, 1 March 1938 - March 1946

Correspondence concerning ships' insurance, 14 February 1940 - 26 October 1945

Average Adjusters' report, by William Richardson and Sons, on the Deerpool, 20 May 1963

Picture of Major Ropner, n.d., [c.1870]

Picture of Robert Ropner, signed Yours faithfully, R. Ropner, n.d., [c.1870]

Photograph of Sir Robert Ropner, n.d.

Photograph of the Ropner family and guests, at the launching of the Wearpool, taken at Sunderland, 9 June 1936

Photograph of Miss Rosemary Stroyan and an unidentified man, at the launching of the Hawnby, taken at West Hartlepool, 19 June 1936

Photographs of guests, including Miss Rosemary Stroyan [holding a bouquet of flowers], at the launching of the Hawnby, taken at West Hartlepool, 19 June 1936

Photographs of guests at an official dinner [possibly at the Chamber of Shipping], n.d.

Photograph of guests at a Chamber of Shipping dinner, taken in London, 1950 Top table: W.A. Souter; Lord Ammon; Sir E.H. Murrant; Sir E. St. John Bamford; Sir F.V. Thomson, The High Commissioner for South Africa; Major A.H. Bibby, The Danish Ambassador; Lord Rotherwick; Sir Charles R.R. Romer; Sir C.S. Anderson; The Lord Bishop of London, Basil Sanderson; The Marquess of Reading; C.E. Wurtzburg; Viscount Montgomery of Alamein; Sir W.G. Ropner; The High Commissioner for New Zealand; Sir Gilmore Jenkins; Lord Leathers; The Belgian Ambassador; C.D. Storrs; Sir G. St. C. Pilcher; Sir A.G. Anderson; Lord Hurcomb; Sir William Currie; Hersleb Vogt; Sir Philip Haldin; The Resident Minister for Australia; Sir George Christopher; Sir John Anderson

Photograph of guests at an official dinner [possibly of the Chamber of Shipping], c.1950s

Photograph of the members of the Tramp Shipping Administrative Committee, January 1935 - December 1937

Certificate certifying William Guy David Ropner as an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, 22 October 1953