SNIPPET: Check out the Merseyside Maritime Museum website for details (images of) maritime books, documents and artificacts spanning three centuries, and of particular interest to Irish researchers in that Liverpool was most often their ancestors' first (or last) destination. Google the title Merseyside Maritime Museum or http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/ History of the Albert Dock Only known surviving first class ticket for the White Star liner, Titanic, built in Belfast. Pamphlet - "Practical Hints for Emigrants To Our Australian Colonies," Liverpool 1858 Passenger's Contract Ticket for passage to New York, 1857, issued by Henry BOYD, 82 Dublin Street, & 27, Waterloo Road Plans for new Floating Palaces gallery exploring sinking of "Empress of Ireland" (on which two of my FORD great-uncles were passengers from Liverpool to America shortly before the sinking!), the Titanic and Lusitania Instructions to Surgeons Superintendents of Government Emigrant Ships (Dietary Scale) March 1866) listing food allotments for men, women and children: "Full rations, according to the following scale, are to be issued during the voyage, and until disembarkation, to each male and female passenger of twelve years of age and upwards, and half rations to children of four years and under twelve years of age. Children between one and four years old will receive half rations, with the substitutions mentions below. The water and all articles of food are to be of the best quality, and in a sweet and good condition when issued for the use of the passengers." Builder's Model of SS Oceanic, Gift of the White Star Line, 1934. "Oceanic' was the pioneer and 'name ship' of TH Ismay's Oceanic Steam Navigation Company Limited of Liverpool, better known as the White Star Line. She was built by Harland and Wolff shipbuilders of Belfast. From this partnership some sixty ships resulted, many of them outstanding for their advanced design, passenger facilities, speed and size." Top Ten Books Top Ten Archive Treasures Jean