Aberystwyth Shipping Records.

From the National Library of Wales. www.llgc.org.uk/en/collections/activities/research/nlw-data/aberystwyth-shipping-records-dataset. Crew accounts and agreements (generally known as crew lists), 1856-1914, for vessels registered at the port of Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, Wales, UK.

Transcribed using Python and openpyxl (see also my GitHub repository).

updated (24/01/17)

• Crew lists of all vessels (19MB HTML file), selected information, not all description fields included: aberships_crewlists.html
• Checking consistency of vessel name and registry number within each 'Series': aberships_checkvesselnames.html
• Earliest and latest date recorded for crew members joining or leaving each vessel, and checking for non-parsable dates (ignores certain common text entries into the date fields): aberships_checkdates.html
• Earliest and latest dates for each vessel (as HTML/CSS div elements). The plots showing the dates of every mariner for each vessel are linked to from that page.