Forum: Mariners and Ships

Anyone searching for a letterhead for TEES DOCKYARD, Middlesborough - R CRAGGS & Sons, Shipbuilders & Repairers? There's an example in John Usher's WW1 Service Records, dated August 1909. The signature could be JM ROBERTSON. Anc****y, USH, page 2122

Found a reference to a death on the ship "Stork" ON: 50093 on 13th August 1874. The person was a male surname Campbell who died of "breaking a blood vessel". Can anyone please help. Trying to find which port the ship left and it's destination. Also any clues as to the male Campbell, was he a...

Francis b. as given, emigrates to Australia 14 SEP 1865 marries and raises Family. Rumour has it he fought in the Crimean, might some kind soul trawl for his name regarding please? We have no facts other than his Birth then that sailing. Grateful!

I have the following Navel record for Charles Finney but I can not find what the rating abbreviations mean. Does anyone know? Thanks for your help in advance

I am trying to find more detail about my g-g-grandfather, William GALE (son of William GALE according to his marriage certificate). Based on the census returns for 1861, 71 & 81 he was born about 1830 in Salcombe Devon. The 1861 Census shows his occupation as "Sailor Merchant Service", his marriage...

Hi, Hope anyone can assist. Trying to find information about Frederick Hebe. He was born in 1853 in Stockholme and died in Liverpool, England in 1916. The census shows he was a seaman and I have found out via Find my past that he sailed on the SS Vancouver, ss Sarnia & SS Iowa. I would...

My father Penryn Richard Jones was born in 1900 & I have his Merchant Navy record after the end of WW1 starting with a ship he served on from 20/02/1919. He died when I was young & I found a photo of him in MN uniform dated 1917 on the reverse. An elder cousin advised me that he enlisted in 1917...

i am trying to trace any ships which william gelling served on or captained,thanks to the members on here i got details of his death in 1895 on the sarah anne in the mersey,i would now like to trace his career at sea,so i would appreciate any information on sites to look at,or any information on...

:wub: I can't believe I made a long post and forgot to hit submit when I was interrupted.....:mad5: I am forever thinking about a 3x gr. grandfather, Amos Hutchinson, a master mariner, who disappeared off the face of the earth some time in the 1840's or so. While reading the Kentish Gazette...

One of my ancestors…a Robert Healing, was born on 16 August 1793 in Shoreditch, St Leonards, London. The next reference to him is his marriage in July 1817 to a Mary Ann Stother, and then the birth of their daughter Harriet Ann, on 11 October 1817, where he is described as a Mariner. I can find no...

I am trying to find something about my 2xGreat Grandfather, Henry Russell, born about 1779 probably in Stockton on Tees and married 1806 to Elizabeth Broom. He is said to have died in the East Indies but that's all we know. He may have been a mariner. One of his sonse, also Henry, owned a hotel...

I could not find a death for Hector Dass, then in 'Lost at Sea' found an entry for him February 1908 LOS Flannen Near Uist. Is there any way to find out which trawler he was sailing on?

Hi are there any records of merchant seamen particularly certificates of naval service or foreign going Masters certificates for the period mid 1700s to about 1780? Am trying to trace record of pilot ancestor who would have had to have those qualifications to become a pilot.

I hope someone can help me confirm that William Alexander listed as amongst those passengers who died on the Northfleet in 1873 was my great grandmother's first husband. William Alexander 1847 b. Bacton Suffolk 1867 m. Sarah Jane Webb in Clapham, Lambeth 1871 living in Lambeth Apr 1873...

l found yesterday on FMP in their British Newspapers mention of my GGGrandfather Thomas's brother James Courts, l know nothing much about him other than family details as he died in 1829, so was surprised to find him shown at the time of his marriage in 1815 to be Captain of The Unity of Fowey,...

still finding my way around and I have been given this as one of my starting points. My name is Annette Smith (nee Jeffrey) My grandad was a sailor. He was born on the island of Barbuda in the West Indies and I recently looked at and photographed his sailors log book or 'Continuous Certificate...

At rather short notice, I've just received the notification below of a series of lectures, and an up-coming online database, that may be of interest to anyone with a seaman in the family. If you intend to go, allow time to find the lecture theatre, as from past experience, you need a navigation...

Hi I'm looking for details of the muster roll of HMS Venerable specifically relating to the battle off Camperdown 11 Oct 1797. Looking for George Story possibly listed as a pilot. Can anyone help?

hello,while asking some people to look up some info for me , mutley out of the blue found info of my great great grandfather which i have been looking for, john dorgan rigger h m d accident on the hms achilles £30 given to widow and family by admiralty he died 19th oct 1864, i have asked kent...