Mariner's Certificates of Competency from Queensland, 1877-1939

1877-1939 records of Certificates of Competency issued by the Marine Board of Queensland under the Navigation Act of 1876. The dataset is an index to certificates held at Queensland State Archives, proving recipients passed required examinations. It was published by Queensland State Archives under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Tracking maritime professional qualifications over time based on the certificate issuance dates.
• Analyzing the implementation of the Navigation Act of 1876 based on the described regulatory context.
• Studying historical demographics of seafarers in Queensland based on the certificate recipient information.

Strengths

• Covers a significant 62-year historical period from 1877 to 1939.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.
• Linked to a specific archival series (S6329) at Queensland State Archives for provenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Queensland State Archives

Collection Method

Indexed from archival certificates issued by the Marine Board of Queensland.

Time Range

1877-1939

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04 08 20:42:19.322808; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Queensland, Australia