John Many thanks to you (and Lauretta and Dai) for your replies. I was hoping there might be an alternative to leafing through images of 5 volumes of de Ruvingy, which I suspect would be a very time consuming undertaking - with no guarantee of there being anything there to find at the end of the day. Nick On 01/05/2016 12:46, John Hanson wrote: > Nick > The roll is digitised, indexed and the images are available on findmypast. > It doesn't appear as though they have indexed all the text but you can page > through the images. > > Hope this helps > > Regards > John Hanson > Researcher, The Halsted Trust > Website - www.halstedresearch.org.uk > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Nicholas Spence via > Sent: 29 April 2016 15:15 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [G] Training ship Stork > > Can any one help me? > > HMS Stork was decommissioned in 1913 and renamed TS Stork (TS=Training > Ship). It was then moored in the Thames just above Hammersmith and served as > a training ship for adolescent boys from March 1913 until after World War > II. While on board, the boys were in the spiritual care of the Vicar of > Holy Innocents church, in Ravenscourt Park Hammersmith. > Probably most of these boys will have later served in the armed forces > (mainly Royal Navy) and some will have been killed in action. > > Holy Innocents has a memorial to those who died in WW1 and a friend of mine > is trying to write mini-biographies of those whose names appear on the > memorial and if possible to explain their connection with the church. She > has found one boy who died at the Battle of Jutland who is written up in De > Ruvigny's Roll of Honour, and whose entry there mentions that he trained on > the Stork. She wonders whether there might be entries in Ruvigny for other > young men whose training on the Stork are similarly mentioned. > > It has occurred to me that if the De Ruvigny volumes have been OCR-ed, a > search for the word 'Stork' might throw up some other names. Does anybody > know how I might carry out such a search? > > Nick Member 4108 , Chesson and Variants >