Forum: Mariners and Ships

Hi, This is probably an impossible question. Anyone able to identify the uniform of this individual? I suspect its simply merchant navy, but, it may be military. I have no other photograph and this is the highest resolution I can make this photo. I realise this is probably almost impossible,...

Trying to find parents/birth details of George Freeman, occ: Seaman, born Whitehaven Cumberland abt 1829. 1861 marriage provided these details above. Listed on NSW Australia unassisted immigrant list 1826-1922 as a crew member of ship "Chimboras" ex London arr Sydney Aug 1880. Crew list...

A friend of mine has found a baptism on Ancestry of Margaret & Thomazin, daughter of John BROADY & Thomazin on 29 Nov 1806 at (and this is the question) where is Sprusom's Island ? Googling it finds Prusom's Island and some references to other baptisms of other families in the same area. ...

Hi, I'm chasing a father and son, both named Alderman William Plummer and both master mariners. The elder b. abt Jan 1797 marries Eliz Moore/More at Stratford Le Bow August 1824. Have found 4 sons thru baptisms and then a marriage of the 5th, the 2nd Alderman Wm Plummer in 1851, Tower Hamlets...

Hello, forum members interested in Maritime History: I am involved with a historical project involving French maritime documents from the 1690s (Louis XIV period). The ships are warships, also "vaisseaux" and "fregates" used in interfering with the Dutch and English whaling, fishing, and...

Hi all, I'm trying to find a picture of the ship 'F.B. Cutting' that sailed from Liverpool to New York, USA 7 April 1864. Does anyone here know which website etc that I can visit? Thanks, Lynn

I came across this lloy'd List marine news 1793-1816 Here's an important link for those of you who have been using the City of London's Guildhall Library Lloyd's List database * www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lloydslist * In the UK my friend and colleague Michael Dun has scanned the Marine News...

Would anyone know where I would look for information on my ancestor who was apparently a Master Mariner. His name is Thomas Bowhill, born around 1780 probably in Scotland (Kelso) but was living in Sunderland in 1815 I would love to find info regarding his life as a Master Mariner. Regards ...

I have a relative who was a boy seaman on this ship when the census for 1891 was taken. It lists him, along with the crew in Whitehaven, Cumberland The reference - care if TNA - is RG12, piece 4314, folio 150, page 1 He was enumerated as Charles Ahlstedt - a crew member Any information this...

I believe my grandfather served on the River Clyde at Gallipoli I believe he may have been in the Royal Artillery but am not absolutely sure of that ,and I do not have his service records,his name was Thomas John Bloomfield,any assistance in finding out if this was so would be appreciated.

1776 George Wood (fisherman) married Ruth Pumphrey 12 June 1776 St Clement's, Hastings children baptised; Mary 7.9.1777 George 27.8.1780 Ruth 9.3.1785 1784 Dec 30 - Hastings fisherman George Wood was shot dead by a soldier while trying to escape on his boat from revenue officers. The...

Would appreciate some help with my GGF who left abruptly shortly after the 1911 Census and headed out to, family lore has it, Sydney. I have just found a likely candidate on the NSW Unassisted Passenger Lists, giving a J Jones, born Bromley (true - Bow, London), age given 36 ( DOB 14 April 1873...

Hi I have been searching for my Grandfathers Merchant Seaman record, as he travelled out to Australian in about 1914, and then joined the Australian Army, well I have some awful news for people who are looking for the same info. I have enlisted the help of one of the guys who works with me, I...

In 1966 and 67 four of us cadets sailed together on Silver Line ships. Then we went our separate ways. i came back from 37 years in Canada to find that one of us, Jim Drummond, had died in a 'tank-diving' accident in a chemical tanker on the River Elbe in 1975. I have his death certificate, which...

The illustrious Coromandel has helped me greatly in my search for my G Grandfather, George Sidney Gibson of Great Yarmouth. He found a newspaper reference to a George Gibson, a master of a smack, having been fined £2 at Yarmouth County Court in May 1888. This was for assaulting a court bailiff...

Hi all Hope I have posted in the correct area. What I would like to know is - were merchant seamen called upon during the Battle of Trafalgar and would this have happened automatically in sea conflicts at this time as I have a merchant seaman ancestor around at this time and I wondered if he...

The Guild hall library London has put online an index to Lloyd’s List , Marine News, link is on my site. To complement this I’ve scanned in the Marine News for the years 1812-1816 so taking the date of the issue you want from the index and using my dropdown menu will give you the scanned page. ...

Hello, Iam new to this site so not sure if i have found the correct forum!!!! I am seeking to find the record for a death at sea for Timothy Joseph Mccarthy b 1825c he married in Liverpool Uk in 1851 and the following year 1852 got his Captains Licence,have records of him travelling...

Does anyone have access to or a copy of Defence of the Realm index SEA FENCIBLES 1803-1810? I am particularly interested in the NORFOLK/SUFFOLK coast. Looking particularly at Yarmouth/Gorleston For BALLS/MARTINS/CALF(and spelling variants)/WATERS

My Gt Grandfather was a master fisherman out of Gt Yarmouth and we know a bit about him but I have just discovered he volounteered in WW1 , he as born 1858 so would have been 57 in 1915 He is on a list of Temporary skippers but no vessel name is alongside him. Does anyone know where I could...