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Salty

Salty Report 6 Jul 2006 19:10

Are they at kew. Rod

Cynthia

Cynthia Report 6 Jul 2006 19:31

Hi..you can try.. http://www.nationalarchives(.)gov.uk/ http://www.genuki(.)org(.)uk/big/ http://www(.)bbc.co.uk/history/war/wwone/archives_06.shtml or google the name of the ship's name lots of suff out there Cynthia

Cynthia

Cynthia Report 6 Jul 2006 19:32

sorry BBC one didn't do properly http://www(.)bbc(.)co(.)uk/history/war/wwone/archives_06.shtml

Salty

Salty Report 6 Jul 2006 19:35

Thanks Cynthia. Rod

Phoenix

Phoenix Report 7 Jul 2006 01:09

Be prepared to spend weeks there, Rod. Captains' logs, masters' logs, muster books..... There are sometimes as many as four differnet types of record surviving for a ship. You can find out what the weather was, where the ship was, who got punished, how much sugar was taken on board, how much meat they got from slaughtering cattle onboard ship, when the men were taken on, their ages, where they were born, often physical descriptions, how much their tobacco cost, what happened when they left. Endless hours of fun!

Salty

Salty Report 7 Jul 2006 08:48

Pheonix, I live in Farnborough so not too far away, I,ve a Grandfather served 25years royal navy (they all got in trouble starting as a boy) he was always in trouble until the age of 32 even served a year in Lewes jail I have his service record but not the juicy bits. thanks Rod

GypsyJoe

GypsyJoe Report 7 Sep 2008 14:04

I was wondering about ships logs too - as far as where to find them.

I'm looking at the jouneys my grandparents took going to Australia in 1922, 1949 and 1950.

So the best place is the National Archives right?

Gypsyjoe

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