Southampton Civic centre have an archive department in the basement which has records of merchant seamen. They are in the form of filing cards for each individual & some have passport size photos on. Also the library upstairs has a local history section that specialises in Merchant shipping. Penny Courtney Hampshire UK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Newell" <bob.newell@ntlworld.com> To: "Hampshire@Rootsweb.Com" <hampshire@rootsweb.com>; "Eng-Ham-Portsmouth-Gosport@Rootsweb.Com" <eng-ham-portsmouth-gosport@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 2:15 PM Subject: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] Merchant Navy records > Can anyone tell me if there are any records kept of Merchant seamen for > the period 1881 onwards.