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For centuries Hull has been heavily involved in trade with the Baltic and Northern Europe. Vessels from Hull would sail back and forth, carrying goods, products, and people. Manufactured goods from Britain's industrial north and Midlands would make their way via the Humber and its tributaries to Hull. From here they were loaded on to vessels at the port before being sent to the Baltic, Northern Europe and beyond. The return journey would see raw materials such as flax, hemp, timber and linseed come from the Baltic and other Northern European ports.

These merchant log books record this trade, and sailings from the port of Hull. Details include weather conditions, goods carried together with quantities, incidents onboard such as illness and failure to carry out duties. Also recorded is time in port, including the loading and unloading of goods and ship maintenance.

It appears from these log books, some which cover the Napoleonic Wars, that vessels sailed as part of a larger convoy, under the command of a Commadore, possibly with an armed escort.

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These log books were deposited with Hull's Local Studies Library in Central Library on Albion Street where they were kept in safes before transferring across to the Hull History Centre when the Local Studies Library relocated in 2010.