[BITList] More - Finding Merchant Seamen - resources 2

[John Feltham]

from another List...


Here are some more resources - hope I am not overloading you, and apologies
if some of these should have been on the first page,
Chris

Crew Lists, Agreements etc.
http://www.angelfire.com/de/BobSanders/CREW.html

CLIP:
http://www.crewlist.org.uk/findingonindexes.html

Deaths at Sea:
http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/UKDeathsAtSea.html


I National Archives guide to the history of registration of British ships is
useful background knowledge:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/research-guides/merchant-shipping
-registration-1786-1994.htm


International list of maritime museums:
http://www.bb62museum.org/wrldnmus.html
http://www.maritimemuseums.net/
 Australasia:
 http://www.anmm.gov.au/site/page.cfm
 http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au/shipdate.htm  
 http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/staterecords/

UK - list too long, ask me for specific ports or google.  The principle one
is Greenwich which also offers a fine set of downloadable guides:
http://www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/library/
http://www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/library/research-guides/
http://www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/library/research-guides/the-merchant-navy/t
racing-people-master-mariners-mates-engineers
http://www1.rmg.co.uk/

Some local port museums and libraries, and county records offices often
retained original material.
http://www.ukmcs.org.uk/

Southampton has some records of wrecks and investigations:
http://www.plimsoll.org/

Customs Registration:
http://www.plimsoll.org/RegistersAndRecords/OfficialSources/HistoryCustomReg
isters/default.asp#2

Sailing Ships:
http://www.geocities.com/mppraetorius/

Various:
http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz/
this includes Australian, HEIC and International  shipping and crew info:
http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=67524917&map=0&page=0&ics=1
http://rmhh.co.uk/mariners.html

East India Co. 1601-1832:
http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/EICsuttonIntro.htm

Royal Naval Reserve:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/royalnavalrese
rve.htm

Master Mariners:
http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/UKMasters.html
http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/capreg.htm
http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/capreg.htm
http://www.crewlist.org.uk/data/masters.php
http://www.mariners-l.co.uk/UKMasters.html


Rootsweb marine sites include 'Mariners'
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Occupations/MARINERS.html
the more specific 'British Mariners'
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Occupations/BRITISH-MARINERS.
html
the surprisingly useful  'Shipwrecks',  
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Miscellaneous/SHIPWRECK.html
and the 'Immiration Ships List'
http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Immigration/TheShipsList.html


this includes Australian and International  shipping and crew info:
http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=67524917&map=0&page=0&ics=1


ooroo



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