Hello David,   Now that is v-e-e-e-r-r-r-y interesting, especially the second last line "William Henry Belcher, Cork, master mariner, with 8/64ths." because in an earlier post of mine, I had discounted the Colombo with Belcher as Master as being the 'wrong' one.   She left Liverpool for Bombay on 7 January, 1864, was spoken 21 S., 20 W., on 2 March, 1864 arrived Bombay 4 June, 1864   and was apparently back at Deal, from Colombo on 31 August 1864 and outward bound from Deal again for Colombo 16 November 1864.   Now it looks as if those last two citations were for a different COLOMBO, but the first three are for the 'right' one. So when did the change of master occur - from Belcher to Evans?   It is frustrating that the Bombay Arrivals and Departures on FIBIS don't go up to 1864: http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=29&s_id=108   Regards, Adi --- On Thu, 7/28/11, David Asprey <dasprey@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: Today I had a chance to look out the original registration papers of ON 37096 in the National Archives.  These are the contemporary copies from the register books in Quebec and Liverpool which were sent to the Registrar General (who was also the compiler of the Mercantile Navy List).  We were reminded earlier today that no documentary source can be assumed to be completely error free - but this is what I found: The Quebec registration [ref BT 108/290 & 109/912] was clearly in the name BUDGET - the name appears twice on the register transcript as well as on some other papers:  933 tons  170.0 x 35.2 x 21.0ft  ship rigged completed 8/5/1861 in Quebec (wood) [in the 1860s the builder was not shown on the transcripts] 4/6/1861 registered at Quebec (No 15/1861) in name of Hyppolite Dubord, Quebec, shipowner 24/12/1863 sold at Liverpool to a foreign subject (after a mortgage had been discharged on 18/12/1863) 11/1/1864 register closed as "sold to foreigner" The Liverpool registration [ref BT 108/81 & 109/78,86] gives her previous name as BUDGET [that is what I would expect, as the Quebec registration certificate would probably have been produced in Liverpool]: [technical description as above] ex-foreign as COLOMBO and previously BUDGET (Quebec) "sold foreign 5/5/1862 [this date looks odd] by Matthew J Wilson, attorney for H Dubord, under certificate of sale of 13/6/1861" 24/12/1863 registered at Liverpool (No 520/1863) in names of William Thompson Dixon and Edward Williams Wynne, both Liverpool merchants, with 28/64ths each, and William Henry Belcher, Cork, master mariner, with 8/64ths. 4/1/1866 register closed as "lost at Calcutta in October 1864"