Hi Mark, May I suggest you subscribe to the rootsweb mariners list where I think you will get answers to your questions -----Original Message----- From: Mark Ware [mailto:ware1973@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: 15 July 2005 10:09 To: ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] HMS Osborne I have just discovered that my maternal gg grandfather served on board the royal yacht HMS Osborne in 1881 as Rigger. Does anybody know of a website that can tell me both about the ship and about riggers? I have put it into google but can only find pictures of the ship. Many thanks Mark ==== ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT Mailing List ==== Spring clean your tree and see if you can dust off some new rellies ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta rgetid=5429 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.15/49 - Release Date: 14/07/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.15/49 - Release Date: 14/07/2005

Hi Mark And if you don't wish to subscribe to the Mariners' List there was a thread on the subject of Riggers, both those serving onboard and those working in the dockyard, back in May - see: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/Mariners/2005-05 British Royal Yachts by Tony Dalton is quite interesting and has some good pictures - might be available on ILL. If you want to know what this yacht was doing around this period and you've got plenty of spare time and access to the Times on-line or on micro-film, her movements etc. are usually well documented in the almost daily Naval and Military Intelligence articles contained in that paper, but that said, ISTR this yacht spent little time going anywhere except between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, but I could be wrong. Regards Paul On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 10:52:31 +0100, "Sally Harnett" <sally.harnett@homecall.co.uk> wrote: >Hi Mark, May I suggest you subscribe to the rootsweb mariners list where I >think you will get answers to your questions > >-----Original Message----- >From: Mark Ware [mailto:ware1973@tiscali.co.uk] >Sent: 15 July 2005 10:09 >To: ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] HMS Osborne > > >I have just discovered that my maternal gg grandfather served on board >the royal yacht HMS Osborne in 1881 as Rigger. Does anybody know of a >website that can tell me both about the ship and about riggers? I have >put it into google but can only find pictures of the ship. > >Many thanks >Mark > > >==== ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT Mailing List ==== >Spring clean your tree and see if you can dust off some new rellies > >============================== >New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors >at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: >http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta >rgetid=5429 > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.15/49 - Release Date: 14/07/2005 > >-- >No virus found in this outgoing message. >Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. >Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.15/49 - Release Date: 14/07/2005 > > >==== ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT Mailing List ==== >Are they called brickwalls because there is always MORTAR find? > >============================== >Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the >areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. >Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx 50.33.50N 02.26.70W http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html

Search the archives first - as I was given a description from Leith's - but can't cut and paste it! Rita ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally Harnett" <sally.harnett@homecall.co.uk> To: <ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 10:52 AM Subject: RE: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] HMS Osborne > Hi Mark, May I suggest you subscribe to the rootsweb mariners list where I > think you will get answers to your questions > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Ware [mailto:ware1973@tiscali.co.uk] > Sent: 15 July 2005 10:09 > To: ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT] HMS Osborne > > > I have just discovered that my maternal gg grandfather served on board > the royal yacht HMS Osborne in 1881 as Rigger. Does anybody know of a > website that can tell me both about the ship and about riggers? I have > put it into google but can only find pictures of the ship. > > Many thanks > Mark > > > ==== ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT Mailing List ==== > Spring clean your tree and see if you can dust off some new rellies > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors > at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta > rgetid=5429 > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.15/49 - Release Date: 14/07/2005 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.15/49 - Release Date: 14/07/2005 > > > ==== ENG-HAM-PORTSMOUTH-GOSPORT Mailing List ==== > Are they called brickwalls because there is always MORTAR find? > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >