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Crew list 'Port Sydney'

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CuriousFish

CuriousFish Report 27 Jun 2014 12:46

I'm just about at the end of the trail, and I wonder if any of the clever 'genies' out there can help.
Search as I might I cannot find the location of the crew list for the Port Sydney. Official number 136660, National archives have a log dating from 1939, but I cannot finds anything earlier. This Port Sydney was scrapped in 1948
Short history
Herbert Henry Hall was my grandfather born London 2 Oct 1879, identity cert number 446608 He was a merchant seaman. The earliest known maritime record of him is with the sinking of the Port Kembla off the cost of NZ in 1917, It is very likely that he then signed on the collier Ngahere owned by the Blackball Coal company(.I'm looking at that record at National Archives, Kew, this weekend) before being able to return to England.
His children were born in 1906, 1913, and 1921 respectively, which give me approximate dates for him being at home in London, but his whereabouts inbetweentimes is yet to be determined, he was not at home on census night 1911 either. But that is another search altogether.
I've located the crew lists for the other ships listed on his CR10 by their official number. Dated 1922 - 1924, There is an entry on a separate page of the CR10 'Pt Sydney 9/8/19', which makes me wonder if this was the ship he returned to England on.
Sorry to ramble a bit, but I wanted to provide as much information as possible.
:-S

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 27 Jun 2014 13:17

The ship started life as the Star of England, and was renamed in 1916 - if that makes any difference to your search?!

Vessel Name: STAR OF ENGLAND
Vessel ID: 1136660
Official No: 136660
Vessel Type: Motor vessel
Tonnage: 9,129 gross
Built: 1914
Date of Fate: 19 Dec 1948
Vessel Abstract:
Renamed PORT SYDNEY-1916.
Visited Auckland as PORT SYDNEY 8 times between 26 Nov 1926 and 16 Jul 1943

Source: Auckland Shipping Movements ( Reference ID 10100000 )
Article Title: Port of Auckland - ship arrivals and departures

From:
http://www.nzmaritimeindex.org.nz

Researching:
Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

CuriousFish

CuriousFish Report 27 Jun 2014 16:34

Thank ArgyllGran, yes I already knew that. The information I am looking for is date specific to August 1919.
It's a long shot, but I'm not one to give up

MargaretM

MargaretM Report 27 Jun 2014 19:34

A newspaper article here about troops returning on the "Port Sydney" 13 Nov, 1919.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4655589

Researching:
Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)

CuriousFish

CuriousFish Report 27 Jun 2014 21:57

Hmmm, so that put the ship in Australia in September 1919.
Food for thought. Thanks Margee