Richard Not anyone!! It depends when and on what ship - merchant or royal navy, and when. I assume that you are thinking about passengers or seamen on British merchant vessels - if so, the PRO has produced a leaflet on births, marriages and deaths at sea at http://catalogue.pro.gov.uk/ExternalRequest.asp?RequestReference=ri2168. I notice that it doesn't include Royal Navy deaths. If you are thinking about deaths of indentured labourers on route to the West Indies there are the occasional reports in the land and emigration department files (CO 384 and CO 386) especially in the surgeon's reports. It is possible that the British Library will have more. Guy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Allicock" <richwyn@idirect.com> To: <CARIBBEAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 11:39 PM Subject: Ships to the West Indies / Lost at sea > Hi Guy, > > On a related matter - would there be records for any-one lost at sea in the PRO? Thanks. > > Richard > > > ==== CARIBBEAN Mailing List ==== > Before posting a query, check to see if the question has already been asked on the List. All messages posted to CARIBBEAN-L are archived by date or thread at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/CARIBBEAN. You can search the archives at http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=CARIBBEAN. > >