WASC resources: maritime history

WW1 censorship report 1914-1919
Extracts from the National Archives, courtesy of the Civil Censorship Study Group, 10pp covering arrangements for the censorship of mail from British West Africa (Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra leone, The Gambia). An appendix (14pp) covers censorship of cable traffic and includes the telegramme relay station on Ascension.

The Triangular Route
The following links are for the text of and the tables accompanying the article "Slave Trading: the Triangular Route, 1799-1800" written by John Knight, which appears in Cameo whole number 68 (June 2006). Text; notes on tables; shipping movements; ships.

The Wreck of SS Jebba
At this link !WASC members only you can find the Appendices - particularly contemporary newspaper reports and postcards - of the book drafted by Martin Evans and edited by Rob May, of which the first section is published in printed form by WASC (see our publications page)

Elder Dempster
Maps of routes for 1906 and 1928 drawn by Peter Wingent and copies of timetables for those years by courtesy also of Peter. All are in PDF format.