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I'm trying to trace a death at sea, in 1910/11. Could anyone advise where I might find this information? I have looked at the FMP overseas deaths, but I am not sure how comprehensive this set of records is. Also, I may need to look at merchant navy deaths.

Any advice very welcome.
Suzy

It should be on FMP in Marine deaths and it will give you the name of the vessel which you will need if you want to locate the Ships Log which may be a Kew .but not available online.
My grandfather was lost in 1911 from a Merchant Navy vessel and I got his death Record and was able to order it through the GRO .in comes as a copy from the Marine Registers. Not many merchant Navy records survive but as this was a loss overboard then you may be lucky like I was. Having found the name of the vessel i was able to get a copy of the Ships Log .

Thanks PigletsPal for your suggestion.
I did see Amanda Redman, but, unfortunately can't remember anything about her Uncle.

And thank you Shirley. I will try FMP again. Perhaps I have been looking in the wrong place.

There are records of deaths at sea at The National Archives at Kew. They are held as original documents (in the series BT 334) The indexes are also original documents in the same series. It is possible to find which one by browsing through the entries in their "Catalogue". They are held by year.

The information held is: name of ship, official number, port of registry, date of death, place, name of deceased, sex. age, rating (for merchant seamen) cause of death etc.

It would only mean looking at two sets of documents if you are not sure whether ity is 1910 or 1911. There are also some microfilm records at Kew which cross reference marine deaths. These are held in the normal reading room.

I would offer to have a look but am not going there until January.