Doug Lacy wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but this web site seems to list only commercial > ships, not Royal Navy (i.e., military) vessels. > > I was looking for a possible ancestor of mine who *may* be somebody shown on > the HMS Alexandra in the 1881 British Census, but the web site shows that > the "Alexandra" that it knows about was built in 1897 (i.e., after the > census). I suppose that a ship for the wives of naval personnel might not be > a Royal Navy one (i.e., it may be the "HMS Crocodile" that Pam's after and > is shown on TheShips-L in your link), or the web site may have "gaps" or > errors. > > A very interesting and useful site all the same. Thanks for the link! > > Doug - Toronto > There are basically two places to look for ships in the 1881 census on Ancestry: 1) having selected the 1881 census to search, browse down the page to the list of counties; one of these is "Royal Navy" and selecting this gives a list of the naval ships in the census. 2) in each county there is a district "Vessels"; this lists the commercial vessels in that county at the census Cheers, Ian