Hello again, Edie,   Now that you have given the actual date of the Bristol Mercury citation, I have had another look. The only thing I find is the first death entry in the BMD's.   Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries . The Bristol Mercury (Bristol, England), Saturday, October 7, 1865; Issue 3940   "October 5, 1864, Captain Robert Evans, of the ship Colombo, of the port of Liverpool, which was lost in the cyclone at Calcutta on the above date."   But where do you get the information about the carpenter and two seamen?   The timing of the death notice, almost exactly to the one year anniversary, suggests two possibilities: 1) The family had finally accepted that he was probably dead and inserted the notice intimating that, or ... 2) A survivor from COLOMBO who had subsequently shipped from Calcutta on a long voyage had finally returned to England and, not knowing where the family was to inform them, had inserted the notice out of respect for his late captain.   I've looked in Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1863, 1864, 1865 but can't find her, at least not a COLOMBO of 932 tons as reported on page 144 of this Google Book: Report on the Calcutta cyclone of the 5th October 1864 - Page 144 James Eardley Gastrell, Henry Francis Blanford - 1866 - 150 pages - Full view The banks of the river at Cossipore were for weeks subsequent to the Cyclone thickly strewn with masses of jute beneath and among the ... 454 „ Colombo . . . . .. 932 » India . , .. 450 „ Vespasian .. 919 AJ Kerr .. 444. Baron Seufrew . ... books.google.co.uk - More   There's a Maritime Museum in Hull, but I didn't get any hits there. http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/museumcollections   Also one in Liverpool, but ditto. http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/search/sitesearch.aspx   If COLOMBO was registered at Liverpool, there should be mentions of her in the Liverpool Mercury (home port newspaper). I looked at every occurence of "Colombo" in the business news from January to November, 1864. These are the only hits for a ship of that name, and as you see, she can't be the 'right' COLOMBO.   7 January, 1864, a COLOMBO, master Belcher, left Liverpool for Bombay.   2 March, 1864, COLOMBO [no master's name given], hence for Bombay, spoken 21 S., 20 W. [that's latitude, longitude] [reported 8 April]   31 August, 1864, COLOMBO from Colombo [no master's name given] arrived at Deal [reported 1 September]   16 November, 1864, COLOMBO, from London for Colombo, passed Deal [reported 17 November]   Regards, Adi   --- On Tue, 7/19/11, Edie McArthur <ediemc@bigpond.com> wrote: .... in fact it wiped out Calcutta.  The news article about the Cyclone mentioning Robert Evans was in The Bristol Mercury, of Saturday, October 7th, 1865. Cyclone happened 1864.  However, it would appear that this was reproted in many newspapers worldwide including Australia this is where the information about Hull and surname of Evans is reported.  Does anyone in Hull have any news reports about this ship please, they all seem to differ and I am trying to gather all of the bits and peices up.  It appeared in the Scottish newspapers as well. .....

Hello again, Edie,   Further to my last,   1) there is a Robert William Evans, Master's Certificate #2772, born Portsmouth, 1814. In 1859 he was master of the P. and O. steamer ALMA, but chances are the word "steamer" would have appeared in the newspaper accounts of the cyclone, if he were the 'right' Robert Evans. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-ukNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA364&dq=%22Evans,+Robert%22+Alma&hl=en&ei=qLglTuu7HKifsQLer9GODA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22Evans%2C%20Robert%22%20Alma&f=false   2) However, there are plenty more Robert Evans' for you to eliminate in the online indices to Lloyd's Captains Registers:  http://www.history.ac.uk/gh/capintro.htm   Scroll to the bottom of that page and click on the letter "E".   Regards, Adi

Hi Adi The extra informtion came from an earlier account, ie There is an earlier account which may be the same ship but that gives a date of 24 Feb 1865 ( I assume) and which says that the captain, carpenter and two seamen were washed overboard in a cyclone. That account said that the ship had stayed afloat, just but had lost just about everything on its deck and was close to sinking. This would work in as it would have taken about a month for the news to get to Bristol from Calcutta. Cyclone happened October 1864. Thanks Edie ----- Original Message ----- From: Mme_N_Carmichael To: YORKSGEN@rootsweb.com ; Edie McArthur Cc: mariners-l@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:02 PM Subject: Re: Ship "Colombo" sank in Calcutta Cyclone 5th October 1864, on way to Hull, Captain Robert Evans