Hi Eleanor Yes, you have the right vessel, a little more detail concerning which can be seen at :- http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/SPSearch.cfm?ID=955252 Some 27 years earlier - in 1856, in New York - my great-grandfather William EVANS (b1830 New Brighton) joined an American-built, American-owned vessel called the GLENBURN as first mate :- http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/SPSearch.cfm?ID=4306 This ship tramped the world (Burma, Australia, Cuba, Italy, Spain, France, Brazil & Uruguay) for almost seven years without ever returning to America, until she was arrested & sold by the Admiratly Marshall in Liverpool in April 1863 following a petition by the crew for non-payment of wages (and presumably lack of holidays!). She was sold to a firm in Llanelli, South Wales, and re-named GLAN MOR under the British flag :- http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/SPSearch.cfm?ID=632038 The GLAN MOR was lost in the River St Lawrence, near Quebec, on 28 April 1869. Although I have no documentary evidence whatsoever to prove it, my grandfather Edward Glenburn EVANS is known to have been born on board this vessel in 1861, somewhere between Cadiz (Spain) and Montevideo (Uruguay). I had to purchase my pics of the BLYTHSWOOD (at not inconsiderable expense) from the Maritime Museum in London, but by a stroke of luck was able to download a pic of grandad's birthplace for free when a painting of the GLENBURN came up for auction in the USA some 11 years ago :- http://www.artnet.com/artist/558930/michele-renault.html My collection of 'snippets' isn't just down to good fortune, by the way. It's taken my family (mostly two of my younger brothers plus kind cousins such as Yvonne and Pam) over 30 years of hard graft to get where we are today. :-) Regards Gordon From: <Preulet@aol.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2011 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] HANCOCK, Thomas's son of Jane PARR >Hi Gordon, >What a very interesting piece of family history. You are fortunate to be >able to collect these snippets to add to your family's history. Is the >Blythswood ship you mention - the one built 1875 Robert Duncan & Co Port >Glasgow, Yard No 90 owner C.E. Wolf? I was trying to see if there was a >photo >online but no. >Regards >Eleanor