Mariners
and Ships in Australian Waters by M Warner
lists the names of passengers and crew arriving in Sydney (1845-1922 with gaps).
(See Online Indexes and Passenger Lists for details).
Index to the Captains
Registers of Lloyd’s of London (Guildhall Library Ms 18567).
This online index covers 1869 (retrospective to 1851 for masters and mates still
sailing in 1869) to 1911.
Genseek's
Mariner and Crew Records includes a
captains index plus a wide variety of other indexes.
Hall Genealogy Website - UK Mariners Page. This extensive gateway site offers links to a wide variety of resources for researching UK mariners. It is a must to visit.
Maritime History Archive, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada holds 70% of the records of the Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen known as Agreements and Account of Crew of British Empire vessels. They hold 1863-1938 plus the majority of the records for 1951-1976.Register of Ships by G Provost and P Joicey has transcriptions from Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping (1764-2003). Ships are listed alphabetically with registration details such as rigging, tonnage, dimensions, propulsion, owners and master available. Updated
Palmer
List of Merchant Vessels Online by Michael
Palmer contains extensive information and includes ships' pictures where
available. The focus is on ships to the US but it includes ships that came to
Australia.
Voyager New Zealand Maritime Museum, New Zealand Maritime Index allows you to search for vessels, organisations, subjects, and people, mentioned in a number of publications currently being indexed by the Museum.
The
Maritime History Virtual Archives by Lars Brussels.
This great site has information and links covering all aspects of maritime
history and includes ships' pictures.
Emigrants is an online aid for
those seeking emigrant passenger lists. It is designed to allow family
historians to make contact with others with a shared interested in emigrant
passenger lists. The searchable database, compiled from public submissions, has
been available since 1997 but has recently been upgraded to include many new
features.
SS Asturias. This amazing site
has been created to provide a central place to gather information about the
SS Asturias II. This ship made 23 trips to Australia between 1946 and 1952,
carrying more than 25,000 migrants. These included migrants from Poland,
Malta plus ten pound poms and child migrants. Includes passenger lists, passenger stories,
extensive photo gallery, crew lists, ships logs plus much more.
Ships'
Movements Lists
Ozships:
Australian Shipping 1788-1968. This
site lists shipping arrivals and departures. It also includes 92,000+ passenger
list entries which can be browsed alphabetically.
Passenger
Ships arriving in Australasian Ports. Includes arrivals (not all listed) to New
South Wales (1837-1899), Queensland (1840-1915), South Australia (1836-1860), Victoria (1837-1899), Western
Australia (1829-1889), New Zealand (1839-1905) and convict transports (1788-1868).
Index to vessels arriving in Sydney 1837-1925 by Mary-Anne Warner. This index to 120,133 records lists the name and type of vessel plus date of arrival in Sydney. This index is useful for checking or confirming the date of arrival once you know the name of the ship.
The Pioneers Association of South Australia. This site contains a List of Ships to South Australia 1836-1845. It lists name of the ship; departure port and date, arrival port and date, other information such as ship type and tonnage plus details of the number of passengers.
Royal Australian Navy - Navy Publications. This site
has several online publications of interest to family history researchers
including:
• World War II
merchant ship movement records for Australia. Scans of the original
documents are available as PDF files. They are arranged alphabetically by ship
name. New
Ships'
Pictures
See also Pictorial
Databases
Simplon Postcards - The Passenger Ship
Website is building a reference archive of image galleries, showing
postcards and photographs of ocean liners, cruise ships, ferries and excursion
vessels. Currently, there are over 2000 separate pages with 60,000+ images
online. New
Norway Heritage -
Hands Across the Sea. This extensive
site is a great place to search for historical details and images of ships.
Searches can be made by ship name or owner/operator such as Cunard Line or White
Star Line. Detailed histories are available on various steamship companies plus
images of the ships, advertisements and ships' postcards (where
available).
National
Maritime Museum Picture
Library (Greenwich UK) holds almost three million items. The collection
includes historical photography, ship plans, prints, oil paintings, astronomical and navigational instruments,
and ship models.
National Maritime Museum (Greenwich UK). Research guide G3: Passengers: Ships sailing to Australia & New Zealand (images). This guide lists some of the National Maritime Museum's photographic material (original photos, or photographs of plans, pictures or models) showing ships that have sailed to Australia and New Zealand.
Wikimedia
Commons
is a database of freely usable media. Currently there are 12.7+
million+ media files available. Use the search box and enter Category:Ships. There are 61 ship categories returned
including ships by name (17,000+).
Australian War Memorial collection databases include photographs. The photograph collection contains almost one million images. Use this database to locate photographs of troopships, hospital ships or naval ships. Note that many of the hospital and troopships were immigrant ships before and after war service.
Australian National Maritime Museum Go to the Quick Links at the bottom of the page and click on Research Guides then Pictures of ships in the Australian trade guide for access to the Vaughan Evans Maritime Illustration Indexes from the Illustrated Sydney News (1853-1889), the Illustrated London News (1842-1891) and the Australasian Sketcher (1873-1889). These newspapers are available online. There is also an Index to Ship Pictures compiled from books in the Museum Library collection. The wide range of titles covers the sailing ship era up to current day cruise ships, illustrated newspapers and maritime art books. Once you have located a reference then you will need to locate the image in the relevant book at your local library or contact the Museum librarian who can arrange a photocopy. This guide also details online sources for locating images of ships.
The
New Zealand Maritime Record maintained by the
NZ National Maritime Museum offers access to The Maritime Histories -Ship
Index which includes 1,500+ images and details of migrant liners in the
Antipodean service, historic New Zealand vessels, preserved New Zealand ships of
historic interest, alpine lake steamers, wrecks and hulks of Lyttelton Harbour,
New Zealand maritime disasters, distinguished ocean liners plus links to other
sites about ships with a specific NZ connection.
www.findboatpics.net
Picture Gallery
of sailing ships in the passenger trade to Australia and New Zealand from the
1840s to the 1890s. Currently this site has 500+ images of ships from the 1840s
to 1850s. New
Passenger and
Emigrant ships to Australia and New Zealand. A list of ships and where to find
pictures of them. It lists 700+ sailing ships for the period up to 1880 and
500 steamers for the period 1880-1914.
Steam and motor
ships that carried passengers to Australia and New Zealand from 1918 to the
1970s. This site also lists the
transports that carried troops to the Middle East, Singapore and New Guinea in
World War II. There is detailed information for each ship plus a picture if
available or information where a picture can be found.
Richard McKenna Memorial Pictorial Shipping Database. This Australian collection comprises library books, shipping registers, ship's photographs, maps and charts, shipping memorabilia, ship's plans and other maritime paraphernalia. The online database is currently being re-developed.
State Library of South Australia. H A Godson Collection of
River Murray Shipping contains
16,000+ photographs of paddle steamers and other vessels and river
ports, as well as historical River Murray scenes. For access use the South Australiana Database
and enter Godson
as a search term under the
Collection of Pictorial Material option or do a Keywords search by
ship's name.
State Library of South Australia. The A D Edwardes Collection
of 8,000+ Photographs of Sailing Ships from around
the world, taken between 1865-1920. For access to 2,280+ of these
images use the South
Australiana Database and enter A D Edwardes as a
search term under the Collection
of Pictorial Material option or do a Keywords search by
ship's name.
Art School Online by Roger Elliott. This interesting site has online lessons in drawing sailing ships. There is detailed explanations on the type of ships and rigs etc.
Ships' Journals and DiariesConvict Ships – Medical Journals 1816-1867. This index
by Graham Thom is designed to help you access medical journals that were kept by
surgeons on convict ships, 1816-1856 (mostly to Australia) and on emigrant ships
1825-1853 bound for Australia and New Zealand. The original records are held by
the National Archives (Kew) at Admiralty 101 and Ministry of Transport 32. They
are available on film through the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP). For
details of the AJCP and how to access these records see www.nla.gov.au/collect/ajcp.html . For further details
see the following site. There are 671 journals for, mostly convict ship,
voyages to Australia available on Ancestry.com (see below).
Surgeons at Sea - Royal Navy Medical Officers' Journals (ADM 101). This project is indexing all the names mentioned in the journals and diaries compiled by Royal Navy surgeons and assistant surgeons who served on HM ships, hospitals, naval brigades, shore parties and on emigrant and convict ships 1793 to 1880. Digital copies of some of the journals are available online (free) and include these convict ships to New South Wales: Albion 1828, Eliza 1822, John Barry 1821 Ocean 1817/1818 and Juliana 1838/1839 (emigrant ship). There are 671 journals for, mostly convict ship, voyages to Australia available on Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com has two
collections of Ship's Medical
Journals available. Both contain
indexed images of the original journals and there are a variety of subscription
options available to access these images.
• UK Royal Navy Medical
Journals, 1817-1857 (ADM 101). There are 671 journals for mostly
convict ship voyages to Australia 1817-1857. Ships' medical officers were
required to keep a record of patients, treatments and outcomes during a voyage.
These journals include the names of patients, other passengers and crew plus
varying amounts of other details. This collection includes 29 journals for
emigrant ships 1825-1853.
• UK Surgeon Superintendents' Journals of
Convict Ships, 1858-1867 (MT32). There are 11 journals covering convict
ship voyages to Western Australia 1858-1867. The information varies from journal
to journal but can include name, age, crime convicted of, length of sentence,
point of embarkation, native country, education, death date, cause of death,
sick lists, lists of ship's stores, and day-to-day happenings aboard ship. There
may also be lists of convicts, punishments or prisoners who exhibited good
conduct. Crew members may also be mentioned. Note: You will
find an index to these ships on Graham Thom's site listed
above.
Shipwrecks
Environment Australia National
Shipwreck Database of all known
shipwrecks in Australian waters.
Encyclopedia of Australian Shipwrecks by Peter Stone. This site, based on material collected by Jack Loney, lists 8,000+ entries. There is an entry for each vessel shipwrecked with relevant physical details and details of her loss. This is followed by a code to a published reference work.
Ships' Graveyards of South Australia. This site provides comprehensive information about deliberately abandoned vessels in South Australian waters. It includes location map and descriptions of 19 identified sites; facts sheets, with histories and photographs, for all known graveyard vessels. It also provides access information if you wish to visit the sites.
Western Australian Maritime Museum Western Australian Shipwrecks Database.
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