The ledgers in our collection provide an insight into Chatham’s role as an operational Royal Dockyard and the workforce that sustained it.
They include Victorian-era lists of hired workmen of all trades , a record of some of the first women working in the Ropery and Sail & Colour Loft, salary lists, accident books, movement logs, post-war ship repairs and a small collection of apprentice lists.
Our transcribed ledgers can be found here:
Apprentices
Dockyard Apprentices June 1975 – Sept 1980
Engine Fitter and Armament Fitter Apprentices, 1878 – August/September 1958
Artificers
Artificers No.14 Description Book 1861
Employee Registers – Captain of the Dockyard
CD DEPT EMPLOYEES. LEDGER 4 1954-55
Employee Registers – Finance
Expense Accounts Department_1940-1980
Employee Registers – General
LEDGER M. C. D. II_1940s-1960s
Salaried Officers, Clerks etc_c.1878
Employee Registers – Hired Lists
Hired List_ 1865_ Register 14A & 14B Ordered Alphabetically
Hired List_ 1865_ Register 14A Part Two
Employee Registers – Officers
D14 Service Register of Officer’s Servants on day pay 1892 – 1950
Salaried Officers Register 1838-1880
Employee Registers – Sail & Colour Loft
Employee Registers – Trades
Dockyard Trades number 42_1881-1920s
Construction Dept. D.192A.M.209A.S.472A Staff.
CANDIDATES FOR RECORDERS 1903-1967
Engineering Dept. Employees 1894-1950
Employee Registers – Works Dept.
REGISTER WORKS DEPT. WORKMEN No 2_1881-1930s
REGISTER OF WORKS DEPT WORKMEN REGISTER No 3_1930-1933
REGISTER OF WORKS DEPT WORKMEN No1_1850s-1920
Index of Workmen to No. 2 Register_no dates
Works Department Workmen no.2 plus mechanics_1921-1926
Hurt Books & Medical
Ledger No.2(1) Medical Staff Etc_1904-1920
Ledger No2 continued Medical Staff
Ships & Stores Ledgers
