Trish Most certainly some large library in OZ must have the many volumes of Lloyds Register, the definitive record of all ships put out by the insurance companies. That's so if a shipowner purchased a damage insurance policy in London but his ship was wrecked in Tasmania, the insurance companies there would have the record of what the "Mary Jeanne" looked like when the policy was purchased. Like with all things in contracts, the purpose was to prevent fraud. But from the genealogists' point of view Lloyd's Register gives details of size, construction, capacity, when and where built, improvements/changes made since original construction, etc. My relatives sailed across from Europe to New York in 1872 in a sailing vessel with 350 passengers in 1872. 444 might not have been all that big. You could cram a lot of passengers into steerage in those days. Ray -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Trish Jensen Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 8:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Shipping in to USA Just looked at that Ancestry site and scrolled through a number of ships One Ship "Roscuis" has 444 people all from Ireland 1850 at time of Famine Trish in OZ