Hello Listers Apparently I had posted this query to the Admin section. Reposting now for the list. My query was in regard to the "Jumping Ship" query but being specific to that ship. My Great Grandfather, according to the family stories, was a Mariner, and we have a photo of his Mariner's "Stick" with its rounded head. He used to sing "sailing ditties" to the family -- I would have thought that he was not just a passenger on a ship, because of this. He was said to have "jumped ship" at the port of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in the mid 1850's to go to the Goldfields to "earn his fortune" -- (this came from a younger brother in a letter from London to William John Horne in NSW in 1885 - the original of which I have). I did find a William Horne on the Creswick Goldfields in the Census March 1856 with his condition to be able to vote being he had a "miners right". William John Horne was born in Regents Park, Middlesex in December 1833 and was married in NSW on 2 May 1861. Thanking you again for any response. I have seen the Wikipedia site and this definitely could be a possibility. Anne