Guide to the Index to Royal Navy ships, Janet D. Hine (as filmed by the AJCP), 1955-1956

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Summary

Collection number:

M417

Creator:

Hine, Janet Dora

Extent:

1 item

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-987654321)

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Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Index of Royal Navy ships, 1698-1861, compiled in 1955-56.

In 1955 the National Library of Australia and the Mitchell Library, the AJCP partners, considered the question of microfilming Admiralty records at the Public Record Office in London. While records of the famous exploring voyages were easily located, there was no easy way of identifying all the Royal Navy ships that visited Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Janet Hine therefore undertook the formidable task of examining the huge collection of ships' logs in the Public Record Office and noting down the routes of the voyages or the stations or ports where the ships were based. Her index contains entries for all the ships that she examined, and not just the ships that actually came within the scope of the AJCP.

Biographical / Historical:

Janet Dora Hine (1923-2012) was born in Sydney and educated at North Sydney Girls High School and the University of Sydney, graduating with a BA (Hons) in 1947. She joined the Public Library of New South Wales in 1941 and worked for about ten years in the Mitchell Library, before moving to the cataloguing department. In 1954 she was appointed the Library's first liaison officer in London, based at the office of the New South Wales Agent-General. She travelled widely in Britain, acquiring many valuable records for the Mitchell Library. In addition, she worked closely with the National Library's liaison officer in London identifying records that might be filmed by the Australian Joint Copying Project. In particular, she spent a great deal of time examining Admiralty records at the Public Record office in Chancery Lane. She later wrote about her experiences in her article 'The Public Record Office', Archives and Manuscripts, no. 6, Nov. 1959, pp 1-9.

Hine returned to the Public Library of New South Wales in 1957 and was succeeded in London by Phyllis Mander-Jones (later the first Australian Joint Copying Project Officer). From 1958 to 1964 she was in charge of the Dixson Library and was the William Dixson Foundation Officer. She returned to the cataloguing department in 1964 and in 1968 succeeded Jean Arnot as the Head Cataloguer. She was active in the Library Association of Australia and was well-known as an indexer. She retired in 1982.

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:: Available for access.
Conditions Governing Use:: Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.