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How to work out who was the ships captain?

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DaveatHove

DaveatHove Report 12 Mar 2010 21:43

I was at The National Archives today and checked out Hotspurs out of interest. There seemed to be too many. I found one that went to Oz with a captain Gustave Millins? The voyage was from June 1857 to July 1858.

David

Researching:
Faulks (South Wales) plus Picken and Stewart in Scotland

AmazingGrace08

AmazingGrace08 Report 11 Mar 2010 21:40

Thanks everyone, you are all so helpful, I'l check out the links now.

Thanks Aunty Sherlock, I was curious why I could find a family but not the husband who was (family heresay) the captain on this ship and in return his family got the passage tickets to Australia.

Cheers

Rachelle

AuntySherlock

AuntySherlock Report 11 Mar 2010 10:48

http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/1857-1858.htm#victoria

You might also like to do a search on this site. It will give you the dates of the voyage and also the name of the surgeon superintendent who was in charge of the well being of the passengers (I think).

AuntySherlock

AuntySherlock Report 11 Mar 2010 10:40

HOTSPUR - 1856-1857
Master: Captain R. Scott
Rigging: Ship; sheathed in yellow metal in 1855; partly fastened with iron bolts
Tonnage: 1,508 tons using old measurements and 1,670 tons using new measurements
Construction: 1853 in New Brunswick, using Spruce, Birch, Pine & Oak
Owners: J. Wilson
Port of registry: Liverpool
Port of survey: Liverpool
Voyage: sailed for Australia


Does this make any sense???

I'll give you the link, you will need to scroll down, down, down.

http://www.reach.net/~sc001198/ShipsH1.htm

Christine

Christine Report 11 Mar 2010 09:33

The National Archives at Kew hold the ships muster books - all men were entered into the book on boarding the ship, as were details of their pay and deductions throughout the voyage. Some of them also contain physical decriptions of the men. I believe the books had to be signed off by the captain. It is possible to track people from ship to ship through their career.

Researching:
Hill, Jewell - Cornwall. Langley-Shropshire,Cole, Neate -Wiltshire,Lott, Ewell- Kent.Punter, Gadd, Wapshott, White, Weston - Surrey. To say nothing of the other half's family!

AmazingGrace08

AmazingGrace08 Report 11 Mar 2010 03:38

Hi all,

Does anyone know a way to check who the captain of a ship was on a particular journey?

I am trying to establish who was the Captain of the Hotspur in it's journey from England to Australia, arriving into Victoria, October 1857.

The internet advises that there were 4 ships each subsequently named the Hotspur. The one that matches my time period is described as: The second Hotspur was a 46-gun fifth-rate launched in 1828, a chapel hulk after 1859, renamed Monmouth in 1868, and sold in 1902.

I can locate the passengers arriving, but not who captained the ship.

Any help would be appreciated.

Kind regards

Rachelle