Maritime Archive and Library

Top ten archive treasures

These are some of the highlights of our archive collection, and are available to consult at the Maritime Archives and Library.

Please note that as some of these are our rarest or oldest items we are unable to provide access to the original items without special arrangement. However you can follow the links below to see images of them, where available, on this website.

• The only known surviving first class ticket for the White Star liner Titanic
• Log of the Unity for a slaving voyage, 1769
• Practical Hints for Emigrants to our Australian Colonies, 1858
• Panoramic view of Liverpool
• Telegram sent by JB Ismay, managing director of the White Star Line, informing the company's New York office of the Titanic disaster
• Diary of Walter Shairp, relating experiences in the Liverpool Blues, 1754
• Passenger's contract ticket for passage to New York, 1857 issued by Henry Boyd
• Wage book from the Davenport Collection
• Discharge certificate of Robert Blythyn, a waiter on the Lusitania when she was sunk during the First World War in 1915
• 'Sketch of the Commercial Life of HE. Stripe', 1886