Destination unknown: The geography of Baltic shipping and the registration system of the Sound Toll Registers in the eighteenth century

• Pavel Demchenko ^[1]
  1. [1] Higher School of Economics, National Research University

     Higher School of Economics, National Research University

     Rusia

     
• Localización: International journal of maritime history, ISSN 0843-8714, Vol. 32, Nº. 2, 2020, págs. 479-489
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This research note explores the specifics of the Sound Toll Registers as a historical source. It accounts for the shipmasters who sailed into the Baltic but are largely absent from the Sound Toll Registers because they were not attributed to a port. A method of detecting these shipmasters is proposed, together with an explanation as to why this administrative practice developed.