2nd go. Hi Peter No all of which is or may be useful and thank you for it If its the same man, and it looks like it probably is , he is still calling himself a Master Mariner in 1871 Many thanks for your help Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) The ship's name appears to have been Haidee. According to the MNL, Kellow's certificate was number 526, as a 2nd class master, examined at London. Kellow was said to have been born in 1817, and gained his cert. on the 29 Dec. 1847, then of the barque Earl of Ripon of London. Curiously, the certificate was only finally removed in the 1861 MNL, and then there is merely a blank rather than it being annotated as cancelled. A Robert Kellow died at East Stonehouse, Plymouth, in the June quarter of 1882 at the age of 64, which might possibly be him. All of which is probably not a great deal of good to you! Regards, PK